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Coleco Telstar series
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The Coleco Telstar is a series of dedicated first-generation home video game consoles produced, released and marketed by Coleco from 1976 to 1978. Starting with Coleco Telstar's Pong clone-based video game console on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 chip in 1976,[1] there were 14 consoles released in the Coleco Telstar series. About one million units of the first model, called Coleco Telstar, were sold.[2]

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Coleco sold over a million units at the price of $50 in 1976. Coleco was unaffected by a chip shortage that year, as their early orders meant it was entirely supplied.[3] The large product lineup and the impending fading out of the Pong machines led Coleco to face near-bankruptcy in 1980.[4]

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