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    One thing that has really surprised me is that there doesn't appear to be a comprehensive list of Gen 1 consoles. Everything that I've found online is incomplete and a few places are actually incorrect due to people misunderstanding what generation a particular console is. It also doesn't help that based on what wikipedia page that you're looking at the number of consoles varies considerably.

    Thankfully, someone turned me on to a book on Video Games written in the 1970's that has a fairly decent list. Between that I've come up with the following list. I'd appreciate that anyone who knows of any errors or omissions in this list would comment, so that I can create a comprehensive list.

    Domestic:

    APF:
    TV Fun Model 402
    TV Fun Model 405
    TV Fun Model 406
    TV Fun Model 442
    TV Fun Model 444
    TV Fun Model 500

    Atari:
    Pong
    Pong Doubles
    Sears Pong IV
    Super Pong
    Super Pong Ten
    Ultra Pong
    Ultra Pong Doubles
    Stunt Cycle
    Video Pinball
    Sears Speedway
    Sears Speedway IV

    Calfax:
    Bag-a-Tel

    Coleco:
    Telstar
    Telstar Classic
    Telstar Deluxe
    Telstar Ranger
    Telstar Alpha
    Telstar Colormatic
    Telstar Regent
    Telstar Sportsman
    Telstar Combat!
    Telstar Colortron
    Telstar Marksman
    Telstar Galaxy
    Telstar Gemini
    Telstar Arcade

    Conic International:
    TVG 101-4
    TVG 102-4

    Concept 2000:
    Nose T' Nose
    Four-Way Video Game

    Entex:
    Tele-Pong

    Executive Games:
    Face-Off Hockey/Soccer

    Fantasia:
    Fantasia 101

    Federal Transistor Co:
    Video Sport

    General Home Products:
    Gulliver Triple Challenge
    Wonder Wizard
    Wonder Wizard Bull's Eye
    Wonder Wizard Sharp Shooter
    Wonder Wizard Scoreboard
    Wonder Wizard (May have had a name but unknown?) Model 7709

    Heath Co:
    Heathkit

    Intercon Marketing Corporation:
    Colorgame

    Lafayette:
    Tournament 2000

    Lloyd's:
    TV Sports 801
    TV Sports 802
    TV Sports 813

    Magnavox:
    Odyssey
    Odyssey 100
    Odyssey 200
    Odyssey 300
    Odyssey 400
    Odyssey 500
    Odyssey 2000
    Odyssey 3000
    Odyssey 4000
    4305 (Ok, this is a TV, but the console was built in, so I think it counts.)

    National Semiconductor:
    Adversary

    Olympus Electronics:
    TV Sports 77

    Quadtronics:
    Quadtronics Model Q376
    Quadtronics Model Q476

    Radio Shack:
    TV Scoreboard

    Richochet Electronics (Other reference says Microelectronics Systems):
    Color TV Game
    Super Pro
    Challenger
    Champion
    Formula 500
    Richochet 8

    Santron:
    Gorilla Game Model TG-101
    Gorilla Game Model TG-201

    Tele-match:
    3300R
    4400
    6600
    7700

    Unisonic:
    Sportsman T101
    Tournament 100
    Tournament 102
    Tournament 150
    Tournament 200
    Tournament 1000
    Tournament 2000
    Tournament 2501
    Olympian 2600

    Universal Research Labs:
    Video Action
    Video Action II
    Video Action III
    Video Action IV (Indy 500)

    Venture Electronics:
    Video Sports VS-1
    Video Sports VS-5
    Video Sports VS-7

    Foreign:

    Binatone:
    TV Master MK IV

    Commodore:
    TV Game 2000K
    TV Game 3000H
    Colorsport VIII

    Epoch Co:
    TV Tennis Electrotennis

    Granada:
    Colorsport VIII

    Interton:
    Video 2000
    Video 2400
    Video 2501
    Video 2800
    Video 3000

    MBO:
    Tele-Ball
    Tele-Ball II
    Tele-Ball III
    Tele-Ball IV
    Tele-Ball V
    Tele-Ball VI
    Tele-Ball VII
    Tele-Ball VIII
    Tele-Ball IX

    Nintendo:
    Color TV Game 6
    Color TV Game 15
    Color TV Game 112
    Color TV Game Block Breaker
    Computer TV Game

    Philco Ford:
    Telejogo
    Telejogo II

    Philips:
    Tele-Spiel ES2203
    Tele-Spiel ES2204
    Tele-Spiel ES2218
    Tele-Spiel ES2208
    N30
    Odyssey 2001
    Odyssey 2100

    VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt:
    BSS 01

    Videomaster:
    Strika
    Strika 2
    Colourscore
    Colourscore 2
    SuperScore
    Sportsworld
    VisionScore
    ColourShot

    Videoton:
    TV jatek

    Zanussi:
    Ping-o-Tronic
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    Cool list! Does the Bentley Compu-Vision count? I know it was released around the time of the second Video Game Crash, but it uses the standard GI AY-3-8500 'Pong-on-a-chip' IC, and is basically a first-gen system released about seven years too late..........
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    Wow, 138 Gen 1 consoles. It's interesting to see some future big names in video gaming in there (Atari, Nintendo, Commodore, Coleco to a lesser extent) and so many companies I've never heard of.

    Also the majority of these consoles popped up in just a couple years (~1975-1977). It's easy to see why the PONG market was saturated by 1977. By 1979, the Atari 2600 (then VCS) would clear this PONG craze away.

    AVGN once made an episode about PONG consoles, he said, and I quote "That's why they made a home PONG console, so you could play it at home. And then, there was another one. And another one. And another one. AND ANOTHER ONE! AND ANOTHER ONE! AND ANOTHER ONE! There was like 9 million fuckin' PONG consoles!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by AdamAnt316 View Post
    Cool list! Does the Bentley Compu-Vision count? I know it was released around the time of the second Video Game Crash, but it uses the standard GI AY-3-8500 'Pong-on-a-chip' IC, and is basically a first-gen system released about seven years too late..........
    -Adam
    From everything that I see, it appears that the date that the system was made is what counts for generation, even if the tech is old tech. That's why the Atari Flashbacks are considered part of later generations even though they are dedicated console systems, which should put them in GEN 1. That's an interesting philosophical point, though, and one which I need to think about.

    Quote Originally Posted by WelcomeToTheNextLevel View Post
    Wow, 138 Gen 1 consoles. It's interesting to see some future big names in video gaming in there (Atari, Nintendo, Commodore, Coleco to a lesser extent) and so many companies I've never heard of.

    Also the majority of these consoles popped up in just a couple years (~1975-1977). It's easy to see why the PONG market was saturated by 1977. By 1979, the Atari 2600 (then VCS) would clear this PONG craze away.

    AVGN once made an episode about PONG consoles, he said, and I quote "That's why they made a home PONG console, so you could play it at home. And then, there was another one. And another one. And another one. AND ANOTHER ONE! AND ANOTHER ONE! AND ANOTHER ONE! There was like 9 million fuckin' PONG consoles!"
    Yeah, I'm kind of amazed by how many there are myself. Someone on Atariage has added a few more as well, although I'm going to wait a bit before re-releasing the list to see if I get any more.

    The funny thing is that the original Odyssey did a lot more than play Pong. They really tried to create system that did a lot of things from shooting games to educational games to maze games to gambling games. Yeah probably a third of them were Pong-style games, but at least it did more. It's just that most of what followed after it were far cheaper systems that only played Pong. Towards the end of Gen 1 you see some interesting things like shooting games coming back and you see some racing game or tank war style games, but it was mostly Pong clones until the Channel F and the 2600 came by.
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    Update:

    I've discovered a better reference here. I find the Pong Story website difficult to navigate. It's not incredibly user friendly, but it looks like David Winter has created his own comprehensive list, which shows me how little we all know about Gen 1.

    http://www.pong-story.com/mypongs.htm
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