TV Tennis Electrotennis

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{{short description|First Japanese video game console}}

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| manufacturer = Epoch Co.
(developed with Magnavox)

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| type = Dedicated home video game console

| generation = First generation

| release date = Japan: September 12, 1975

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| price = 19,000 Japanese yen

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| units sold = Not clear; around 10,000, 20,000 or 3 million

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| successor = TV Game System 10

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The TV Tennis Electrotennis (Japanese: テレビテニス,{{Cite web|date=2019-01-22|title=Retro-Gaming: Die allererste japanische Videospielkonsole feiert 40. Jubiläum|url=http://www.gamona.de/games/retro-gaming,die-allererste-japanische-videospielkonsole-feiert-40:news.html|access-date=2020-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122044225/http://www.gamona.de/games/retro-gaming,die-allererste-japanische-videospielkonsole-feiert-40:news.html|archive-date=January 22, 2019}} Hepburn romanzination: Terebitenisu, meaning Television Tennis,{{Cite web|url=https://toarcade.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/japans-1st-video-game-console-was-released-40-years-ago/|title=Japan's 1st Video Game Console was released 40 Years ago!|last=toarcade|date=September 12, 2015|website=Toarcade|access-date=13 March 2019}} commonly abbreviated as TV Tennis or Electrotennis) is a dedicated first-generation home video game console that was released by Epoch Co. (developed in cooperation with Magnavox){{Cite web|url=https://epoch.jp/info/ep02.html|title=エポック社沿革|website=epoch.jp|access-date=2020-03-14|lang=ja|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011082525/epoch.jp/info/ep02.html|archive-date=2007-10-11}} on September 12, 1975, for 19,000 Japanese yen only in Japan. It was the first video game console released in Japan.

It was released several months before the release of Home Pong in North America. One unique feature of the TV Tennis Electrotennis is that the console is connected wirelessly to a TV, functioning through an UHF antenna.Martin Picard, [http://gamestudies.org/1302/articles/picard The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games], International Journal of Computer Game Research, 2013 Depending on the source, it sold about 10,000, 20,000{{Cite journal|last=藤田|first=直樹|date=March 1999|title=「ファミコン」登場前の日本ビデオ・ゲーム産業 ―現代ビデオ・ゲーム産業の形成過程(2)―|url=https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2433/45271|journal=經濟論叢|volume=163|issue=3|pages=59–76|doi=10.14989/45271|issn=0013-0273}} or 3 million units in its lifetime, including about 5,000 units in the first year.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}