1977- Coleco Telstar Arcade

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1977- Coleco Telstar Arcade

Coleco Telstar Arcade
Developer: Coleco
Year Released: 1977
Generation: 1st

One of the strangest systems to be released, it was housed in a triangular case. One side resembling the original Telstar with two paddles to play Pong games, one side had a steering wheel and throttle to play driving games called ‘Road Race’ and one side had a holster for a gun to play shooting games called ‘Quick Draw’. The system was cartridge based and had no built in games. A cartridge containing tennis, quick draw and road race was included with the system. An additional three cartridges were release. The second cartridge had hockey, tennis, handball and target. Tennis and Hockey could be played by two or four players. The third cartridge had bonus Pingball, Shooting Gallery, Shoot the Bear, and Deluxe Pingball. The final and fourth cartridge had Naval Battle, Speed Ball and Blast Away.