Color TV-Game
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 The Color TV Game 6, released in 1977 | |
| Manufacturer | Nintendo |
|---|---|
| Type | Dedicated console |
| Generation | First generation |
| Lifespan | 1977-1979[1] |
| Successor | Nintendo Entertainment System |
The Color TV Game (カラー テレビゲーム) series is a series of home dedicated consoles created by Nintendo. There were five different home consoles in the series developed and released only in Japan.
History
The series debuted in Template:Vgy with the Color TV Game 6 (カラー テレビゲーム6).[1][2] It contained 6 variations of "Light Tennis" (or Pong). The players controlled their paddles with dials attached directly to the machine. Additionally, as an alternative to the standard version, a white-colored C Battery powered model of the Color TV Game 6 was introduced. With a limited run of only a few hundred units, these white colored units are largely considered to be the most prized by serious collectors.
In Template:Vgy, Nintendo released the Color TV Game 15 (カラー テレビゲーム15). With the two controllers now on cables (making for much more comfortable play) and 15 slightly different versions of Light Tennis, the CTG 15 sold over a million units. Two models of the CTG 15 were released, the only difference between the two being a slight color tint change. The lighter orange version is considered significantly more difficult to find by collectors, while the dark orange version is somewhat more common. In the same year, Nintendo released the Color TV Racing 112 (カラー テレビレーシング112), a bird's-eye-view racing game that implemented a steering wheel and gearshift. Alternatively, two smaller controllers could be used for multiplayer.
The Color TV Game Block Kuzushi (カラー テレビゲーム ブロック崩し, lit. "Color TV Game Block Fever") was released in Template:Vgy; the 1-player console ran a ported version of Block Kuzushi (ブロック崩し, lit. "Block Fever"), one of Nintendo's arcade games based on Breakout. Like the Color TV Game 6, the in-game paddle was controlled by a dial attached to the system. The system's external design was one of Shigeru Miyamoto's first video-game projects after joining Nintendo in 1977.
The final console in the series was the Computer TV Game (コンピュータ テレビゲーム). Like other consoles in the Color TV Game series, it was distributed only in Japan. One of the games in this console was a port of Nintendo's first arcade game, Computer Othello.
Related releases
Over two decades after their release, Nintendo would feature Color TV Games in their WarioWare series. WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003, includes a microgame version of Color TV Racing 112, as part of 9-Volt's collection of old Nintendo games. Color TV Game 6 also became a microgame: it was one of 9-Volt and 18-Volt's Nintendo games in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, released for the Wii in 2006.
References
- ^ a b DeMaria, Rusel; Wilson, Johnny L. (2003), High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games (2 ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 363, 378, ISBN 978-0-07-223172-4
- ^ Fleming, Dan (1996), Powerplay, Manchester University Press ND, p. 180, ISBN 978-0-7190-4717-6
Further reading
- Sheff, David; Eddy, Andy (1999), Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World, GamePress, pp. 15, 27–28, 32, ISBN 978-0-9669617-0-6
