Color TV-Game
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| Color TV-Game | |
| Designer | Nintendo R&D2, Mitsubishi Electric |
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| Manufacturer | Mitsubishi Electric, Nintendo |
| CPU | discrete circuitry |
| Graphics | N/A |
| Memory | N/A |
| Media | N/A |
| Released | JP: 1977-1980 |
| Added to Museum | |
The Color TV-Game (カラーテレビゲーム, Karā Terebi-Gēmu) series included four systems which were the first video game consoles released by Nintendo.
Each device contains one or more dedicated games. As part of the first generation of video game consoles, none of the five systems use programmable media.
The Color TV-Game consoles were succeeded by the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Development
The first three systems were developed jointly by Nintendo and Mitsubishi Electric, and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric. The final two releases were based on Nintendo arcade games, and were developed and manufactured by Nintendo.
Shigeru Miyamoto, who would later rise to fame as the creator of Mario and various other Nintendo properties, designed the case for the Color TV-Game Block Breaker.
Color TV-Game consoles
| Image | Title | Release | Added to Museum | Notes |
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Color TV-Game 6 (カラー テレビゲーム6, Karā Terebi-Gēmu 6) |
1977 | Not yet. | Contains tennis, hockey and volleyball, in single and doubles mode. Its two controllers are connected to the unit. |
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Color TV-Game 15 (カラー テレビゲーム15, Karā Terebi-Gēmu 15) |
1977 | Not yet. | Contains two variants of tennis, hockey and volleyball, and two ping pong games, in single and doubles mode. It contains two wired controllers, rather than controllers that connected to the unit. |
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Color TV-Game Racing 112 (カラー テレビゲーム112, Karā Terebi-Gēmu 112) |
1978 | Not yet. | Contains a driving game with switches on the side that allows play of 112 variants of the game. It's playable either with the steering wheel or with two wired controllers for two player games. |
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Color TV-Game Block Breaker (カラーテレビゲームブロック崩し, Karā Terebi-Gēmu Burokku Kuzushi) |
1979 | May 26, 2018 | A home port of Nintendo's arcade game Block Fever, based on Breakout by Atari. |
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Computer TV-Game (コンピューターテレビゲーム, Konpyūtā Terebi-Gēmu) |
1980 | Not yet. | A home port of Nintendo's arcade game Computer Othello. |
