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The Color TV Game (カラー テレビゲーム, Karā
Terebi Gēmu
?) series is a series of home dedicated
consoles created by Nintendo. There were five different consoles
in the series developed and released only in Japan.
History
The series debuted in 1977 with the Color TV Game
6 (カラー
テレビゲーム6, Karā Terebi Gēmu Roku
?).[1][2]
It contained 6 variations of "Light Tennis" (or Pong). The players controlled their paddles with
dials attached directly to the machine. Additionally, as an
alternative to the standard version, a white-colored C Battery
powered model of the Color TV Game 6 was introduced. With a limited run of only a few
hundred units, these white colored units are largely considered to
be the most prized by serious collectors.
Screenshot of one of the games in
Color TV Game 15 and
Color TV Game 6.
In 1978, Nintendo released the
Color TV Game 15 (カラーテレビゲーム15, Karā Terebi Gēmu Jū Go
?). With the two controllers now on
cables (making for much more comfortable play) and 15 slightly
different versions of Light Tennis, the CTG 15 sold over a million
units. Two models of the CTG 15 were released, the only difference
between the two being a slight color tint change. The lighter
orange version is considered significantly more difficult to find
by collectors, while the dark orange version is somewhat more
common. In the same year, Nintendo released the Color TV Racing
112 (カラーテレビレーシング112, Karā Terebi Gēmu Hyaku Jū
Ni
?), a bird's-eye-view racing game that
implemented a steering wheel and gearshift. Alternatively, two
smaller controllers could be used for multiplayer.
The "Color TV Game Block Breaker" (カラーテレビゲームブロック崩し, Karā
Terebi Gēmu Burokku Kuzushi
?) was released in 1979;
the 1-player console ran a ported version of "Block Breaker" (ブロック崩し, Burokku Kuzushi
?), one of Nintendo's arcade games based
on Breakout. Like the Color TV Game 6,
the in-game paddle was controlled by a dial attached to the system.
The system's external design was one of Shigeru Miyamoto's first video-game
projects after joining Nintendo in 1977.
The final console in the series was the Computer TV
Game (コンピューターテレビゲーム, Konpyūtā Terebi Gēmu
?), and it was released in 1980.
Like other consoles in the Color TV Game series, it was distributed
only in Japan. One of the games in this console was a port of
Nintendo's first arcade game, Computer Othello.
Related
releases
Over two decades after their release, Nintendo would feature
Color TV Games in their WarioWare series. WarioWare,
Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, released for the Game Boy
Advance in 2003, includes a microgame version of Color TV
Racing 112, as part of 9-Volt's collection of old Nintendo
games. Color TV Game 6 also became a microgame: it was one
of 9-Volt and 18-Volt's Nintendo games in WarioWare: Smooth
Moves, released for the Wii in
2006.
References
- ^ a
b
DeMaria,
Rusel; Wilson, Johnny L. (2003), High Score!: The Illustrated
History of Electronic Games (2 ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 363, 378, ISBN
978-0-07-223172-4
- ^ Fleming, Dan (1996),
Powerplay, Manchester University Press
ND, p. 180, ISBN
978-0-7190-4717-6
Further
reading
- Sheff, David;
Eddy, Andy (1999), Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the
World, GamePress, pp. 15, 27–28, 32, ISBN
978-0-9669617-0-6
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