Coleco Telstar (1976)

Telstar, Coleco's was released in 1976 and played only three games with three difficulty levels. It was the first video game system to use GI's AY-3-8500 chip and was a real success because over a million units were sold.

The AY-3-8500 chip played six games with more addition difficulty levels, and the games would also be played in colour. It was obvious that Coleco would release more systems. At least 15 different games were released in two years with the only differences between the "pong" systems being the number of games, the way the difficulty levels were worn, and the kind of pictured.

An amazing design is the way Coleco packed their video game systems, they were sold somewhat assembled. The systems were electronically immediate to play, but the users had to put on the knobs and stick the decorative stickers on the plastic case. only Coleco is known to have released their systems this way. They thought that this was done to save the assembling costs budget.