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Coleco Telstar Alpha - Model #6030	Pongs	U.S.A.	1977	GI AY-3-8500	name image company company_name specs tabs photos emulators links comments related oc_id source Telstar Alpha - Model #6030 /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar_alpha.jpg /companies/coleco Coleco label value NAME Telstar Alpha - Model #6030 label value MANUFACTURER Coleco label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1977 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE 1 - Tennis (2 players)\ 2 - Hockey (2 players)\ 3 - Handball (1 players)\ 4 - Jai-Alai (2 player) label value KEYBOARD 2 paddles built-in the console label value CPU GI AY-3-8500 label value SPEED Reset label value CO-PROCESSOR ON/OFF, Difficulty Beginner/Intermediate/Pro label value RAM On screen label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in beeper, 3 different sounds label value I/O PORTS TV RF video output label value OS 6 label value POWER SUPPLY 9v DC label value PERIPHERALS No photos emulators links title subtitle text image COLECO TELSTAR ALPHA /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar_alpha_2.jpg title subtitle text image REAR /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar_alpha_rear.jpg title subtitle text image UPSIDE DOWN /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar_alpha_under.jpg title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar_alpha_box.jpg title subtitle text image BOX #2 /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar_alpha_box_2.jpg title subtitle text image BACK OF THE BOX /media/museum/photos/coleco_telstar-alpha_box-back_2.jpg title url platform text www.pong-story.com http://www.pong-story.com/pcpong.htm Multiplatform Several pong emulators (simulators) presented here title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com author date text Edward Jackson (Missouri, USA) Thursday 17th April 2014 Heh! I got one of these for a Christmas present. It worked fine, but got real boring, real quick. author date text hiroshi (memphis, tn) Friday 16th July 2004 I think you are confused about the 3 difficulty switches... you stated "beginner : slow ball, big paddles / advanced : fast ball, big paddles / expert : fast ball, small paddles" however it's really:\ (beginner : slow ball, big paddles / INTERMEDIATE : SLOW BALL, SMALL PADDLES / PRO : fast ball, BIG PADDLES) this is what I get from my Telstar Alpha unit. the unit I have I've hacked so that it's directly connected via RF (as opposed to using a metal sliding switch box). I soldered a slightly modified NES RF box. I recommend doing this on your unit, as it gets much better video results (crystal clear!). I wonder if RCA jacks can be made from it.. it would be more convenient\ http://www.pong-story.com/pics/gi/ay38500.gif /museum/a10-telespiel-9010 /museum/alex-video-spiel-tg-621 /museum/apf-match /museum/apf-tv-fun-model-401 /museum/audiosonic-pp-800 /museum/bentley-compu-vision /museum/blaupunkt-tv-action /museum/conic-tv-sports-tg-621 /museum/conic-tvg-209 /museum/dms-telesports-mini /museum/grandstand-t-v-game-model-3000 /museum/hanimex-666 /museum/hanimex-7771 /museum/hanimex-t-338 /museum/intel-germany-super-tele-sport-d-688-36 /museum/interton-video-2400 /museum/jostykit-multi-tv-game-hf-344 /museum/magiclick-teleclick /museum/match-sd-01c /museum/mbo-tele-ball /museum/mbo-tele-ball-ii /museum/mbo-tele-ball-iii /museum/mentor-sport-tg-20 /museum/novoton-tj-141 /museum/novoton-video-sports /museum/playtech-telesport /museum/polistil-v-g-2 /museum/r-f-t-bss-01-bildschirmspiel-01 /museum/radofin-electronics-limited-tele-sports /museum/riva-t-800c /museum/roberts-paddle-iv /museum/roberts-rally-iv /museum/sands-3000 /museum/societe-occitane-d-electronique-oc-4 /museum/sonolor-telematch /museum/sportron-101u /museum/superlectron-tv-challenger-series-3000-tvc-3000 /museum/tele-flip-paris-video-sport-fy-707 /museum/thomson-jv1t /museum/ultrasound-tele-sports /museum/ultrasound-tv-9010 /museum/universum-tv-multi-spiel-handheld /museum/universum-tv-spiel-1004 666 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230613001109/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=666 2023-06-13

After the release of the Telstar (the first "dedicated-chip" pong system) in 1976 which was a big success, Coleco conceived a whole range of pongs for release at Christmas 1977. The Telstar Alpha is one of the simplest system of the range. It offers only four games and has built-in controllers. That's cool if you want to play 2 players games alone ! The only difference between the original Telstar and the alpha is that there is one more game on the Alpha (Jai-Alai).

There's a 3 positions switch that controls difficulty (BEGINNER : slow ball, big paddles / INTERMEDIATE : slow ball, small paddles / PRO : fast ball, big paddles). If this is common to the first Telstars, this is quite different from most of the other pong systems which offer individual settings.