COLECO TELSTAR PONG GAME CLASSIC COMMERCIALS TV SHOWS NEWSREELS on DVDS at TVDAYS.com

[XTera22]

oops a goal! XD

[LadyGreenEyes964]

"It's the most exciting thing you'll ever see on your TV!" - BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! So classic! Have to say, though, I remember when Pong was COOL.

[darknoobie1]

@LadyGreenEyes964 When pong was COOL? haha pong is by far the coolest game ever!!! I challenge anyone to a game and not get hooked!!

[LadyGreenEyes964]

@darknoobie1 - Always was FUN! These days, too many think "cool" means tons of bells and whistles. Sometimes, simple and basic is better! Better way to phrase that might be, when Pong was WOW! Simply because we hadn't seen anything like it. A game on a computer was something totally new. Course, the one my dad worked with took up an entire floor of an office building then, too, lol!

[funkyfreshbboy]

yes kids be for ps3 and  x box 360 this is what we had growing up LOL

[Erilis666]

In what universe would the woman be having more fun at this game than the guy? lol

[WorseThanGunboats]

i found one of these in my granparents atic and now it is mine

[PowerL1N3]

Ok unlike the odyssey I didn't twitch with this one cause it actually had to do with the tv and a joy stick not a light and an extra screen on tv and you controlling it with a knob that turns o.O

[Luigistudios45]

Bit. Trip Beat and Bit. Trip Flux wouldn`t exist without this game...

[metalmaiden999]

i saw one of these at a flea market complete in its original box for 15 bucks

[kpreston69]

I got this, a glow in the dark sword and a Darth Vader mask and cape for Christmas.

My brother got a KISS album and some wacky packages. I remember because he also got this K-Tel/Ronco record cleaner thingy and my Sister got some kind of Stud-bedazle whatever.

Star Wars just came out that year, damn I miss those days.

Pong was the coolest and me and my bro would play for hours on end. Simpler times where we also played outside and were skinny instead of siting for days playing Fallout NV.

[mAwdedMetalGear]

Id rather play halo than this piece of shit

[chris061290]

@mAwdedMetalGear hey i got a coleco telstar arcade from 1977. if it wasnt for these older game consoles u would not have halo.

[kpreston69]

@mAwdedMetalGear Halo is a piece of shit.

[mAwdedMetalGear]

@kpreston69 Fuck you cock sucker, halo kicks pongs ass a thousand fold

[kpreston69]

@mAwdedMetalGear Jeeze, your mom didn't call me a cock sucker the other night when I was fucking her in the ass so I have no idea where you learn that language.

Also, 20 years from now your going to defend Halo to some little dipshit like yourself when they are playing Holo-deck 3000 fighter eaters... or whatever stupid game they play in the future.

Either way asswhipe, there's more to life than the internet and halo so get a life.

[mAwdedMetalGear]

@kpreston69 Thank you....this changed my life

[MrSaturn33]

This system is awesome but you have to admit, calling it the most exciting game you will ever see on your television is kind of exaggerated, as I'm pretty sure the video game industry was expected to move on since Pong.

[lysolflamethrower]

I found one of these at my grandparents house. It used to belong to my dad! Its so ironic that he yells at me for playing video games for hours at a time, he used to be a gamer himself :) !

[chris061290]

@ZzoldpeopleburningzZ fuck that

[LucasJodoKast]

i remember dreaming of games like we have today back then, we knew the grpahics sucked at the time but the games were still fun & some are still fun by todays standards (pong being one of them)

[Striker6901]

@ZzoldpeopleburningzZ 30 years from now ppl gonna laugh at us and say we should bring them our system

[WebVMan]

My T.V. and Telstar got hitched in Vegas without even inviting me. SOB.

[MrSaturn33]

The most exciting game you will ever see on your TV Set? EVER? Wow, they really predicted the future. At least it's awesome...

[zazelby]

I love the hyperbole. "The most exciting game you will ever see on your TV set!"

That wasn't even true THEN, let alone when compared to the intervening decades. (The various Odyssey systems were already experimenting with color and even "paddles" that looked like real people)

Even Coleco topped themselves easily a year later with various upgrades of the Telstar - Telstar Alpha, Telstar Colormatic, Telstar Ranger, etc. Most had at least four games, and the Telstar Ranger had six.

[eyeh8nbc]

These were HELLA boring with only one player. I got the Telstar Colortron around 1980- same games but in color with a green background.

[marmar3291]

"Oops! A goal!" hahaha

[edmoil12]

I just found this exact same console in it's original dusty box! BTW, does anyone know how to hook this up to an HDTV?

[eyeh8nbc]

@edmoil12 If it has an analog TV tuner, just hook it up to the antenna input- you may have to do a channel scan after turning the game on. If they ever stop including analog tuners in new TVs, you could use a VCR's tuner and hook that up with the A/V inputs.

[landsurfer66]

Dang! Now that's a flashback! My buddy got this for Christmas and we played it endlessly.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Thank you, Ira Gallen, for preserving this amazing piece of history. Please, keep searching for more.

[Spyker54]

Video games and consoles sure have come along way huh?

[vashthestampede96]

i found this in my grandmas basement!

[TheGringoLoco]

This is the thing I would play with for about 20 min's back in 1977 after I got bored playing with the Vertibird helicopter. lol

[wingnut4427]

lol & sometimes play hand ball By myself ! lol

[TrueCourse]

Could get callouses one does it too long too often, nudge nudge... wink wink. :)

[wingnut4427]

or swollen wrists :\

[wingnut4427]

that is the most exciting game I will ever see on My tv set ? 0_o I guess Coleco didn't think too far ahead in time. Could be why they are out of the business now. ( Home consoles that is )

[MHMemeDoubleYourFun]

@wingnut4427 When they said "game", they were acting like they were watching a sports event. Back then, most people associated the word "game" with sports, board games, card games, and other kinds of games than video games.

[Lumotaku]

the perfection of pong?

[RetroVGamer]

I had the Coleco Telstar Arcade from 1977. It was triangle shaped and each side had a specific type of controller. One side had a gun holster for a light gun. The other a Steering Wheel and two nobs for Pong. That's the earliest console I remember playing preAtari.

[snofrogg89]

I've got one of these.

[bottle2lip]

this is about as retro as you can get with gaming...crazy. I thought my 2600 was old

[Love4SK]

$150 ?? are you on crack. fools are asking that much , but none are selling. This particular (common) pong is worth around 20 complete. The rarest of pong systems could go as high as 120 to 150 . complete. I have about 30 systems and i have never paid over 40 per system

[rodorvh]

What was the size of one of those games from the kb, mb, gb point of view?

[WULFY1993]

my tvs old not a whore! >8(

[MrCooganO]

When attaching one of these to a newer model TV, you may experience a distorted image. This is normal. The Telstar is working properly. You must use a TV (older model) that has a manual horizontal hold adjustment control. Most newer tv's don't have this anymore. You must also use the older style RF box (game/tv) that attaches to the tv's 75 or 300 ohm VHF antenna/coax connection. The Telstar will not work with modern composite video connections, even though the RF cable will plug into it.

[MrCooganO]

These were made in Amsterdam, NY. The factory closed down in the late 1980's. Sad to say, manufacturing has not returned to the area. Neither have the jobs.

[MisterQuebec]

I had mine in 1977! Jaleous kids in my neigborhood followed suit.

[Love4SK]

this is not going to impress some jagoff who whacks off to his precious ps3

[mariae71]

"You are watching the most exiting game you will ever see on your TV set!"

*lol!* This is ridiculous, it's almost as stupid as when Bill Gates claimed that 640K ought to be enough for everyone, forever.

Great game though.

[DRIVERX51]

Welcome to technology. I think that was the best part too.

[tcbkp77]

haha i still have it and it works!

[MrCooganO]

Hang on to that Telstar if you still have one! They are selling for $150 and up right now on Ebay!

[SouthFloridaFusion]

I had one of these when i was a kid, around 1980's. But, i had the version with the built in gun to shoot bouncing squares..

[CheapyD]

That's the Telstar Ranger!

[MisterQuebec]

Never heard of that!

[dbrodbeck]

I had one of these back in 77. Great to see the ad again.

[xakup]

wow! i think it was really fun!

[600SELV12]

I had this one handed down to me in 1981.

[love2register2]

I can't in good faith say it's the most exciting game I will ever see on my tv set, but it's without question the most exciting game I will ever see on my computer monitor. In fact, that assertion is the only thing for which I would wager my life.

[whattheheck1000]

the most exciting game you will ever see on your tv set, huh? this was impressive in 1976 but now we have xbox 360s, HD games, ect ect

[st1ka]

lol the 3 games are really just PONG variations. still... Pure Genious cause now you could say "well... we have 3 games"

[TVNETWORKS]

remember a pencil

[creddly]

How did we used to be impressed by this shit?

[MarkSamurai5]

well this is a first generation game. If this didn't exist, you wouldn't even have your Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, or Playstation 3.

[katiekawaii]

kids these days have no sense of their roots. tsk tsk.

[MarkSamurai5]

i see someone agrees and understands me

[ZEROEVILDARKCOOL]

SHUT UP OLD GUY! OLD GUY!!

[MarkSamurai5]

old guy? dude I'm 19

[MisterQuebec]

Don't worry about him. I checked his comment sections. So many people seem to hate him. One says he's gay which sounds quite right.

[Love4SK]

Well, YOU didnt used to be impressed. you were a stain on dad's underwear when the rest of us were impressed. If you wernt there, shut yo trap.