TV Tennis Electrotennis
The TV Tennis Electrotennis (Japanese: テレビテニス, Hepburn romanization: Terebitenisu, meaning Television Tennis, commonly abbreviated as TV Tennis or Electrotennis) is a dedicated first-generation home video game console that was developed and released by Epoch Co. On September 12, 1975, for 19,000 Japanese yen only in Japan. It was the first video game console released in Japan.
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The TV Tennis Electrotennis (Japanese: テレビテニス, Hepburn romanization: Terebitenisu, meaning Television Tennis, commonly abbreviated as TV Tennis or Electrotennis) is a dedicated first-generation home video game console that was developed and released by Epoch Co. On September 12, 1975, for 19,000 Japanese yen only in Japan. It was the first video game console released in Japan.
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It was released several months before the release of Home Pong in North America. One unique feature of the TV Tennis Electrotennis is that the console is connected wirelessly to a TV, functioning through an UHF antenna. Depending on the source, it sold about 10,000, 20,000 or 3 million units in its lifetime, including about 5,000 units in the first year.
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• Name — TV Tennis Electrotennis • Aka — * TV Tennis • Electrotennis (abbreviations) • Manufacturer — Epoch Co. • Type — Dedicated home video game console • Generation — First generation • Release Date — September 12, 1975 • Price — 19,000 Japanese yen • Units Sold — Not clear; around 10,000, 20,000 or 3 million • Successor — TV Game System 10
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The successor of the TV Tennis Electrotennis is the TV Game System 10 from 1977. It includes as a light gun a plastic replica of a Mauser C96; the C96 replica was also usable with its next console, the Epoch Cassette Vision, created in 1981. The wireless broadcast functionality of the TV Tennis Electrotennis got Nintendo designer Masayuki Uemura to consider adding that capability to the Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System), though he ultimately did not pursue it to keep system costs low.
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- 1.Retro-Gaming: Die allererste japanische Videospielkonsole feiert 40. Jubiläum. 2019-01-22.
- 2.toarcade. Japan's 1st Video Game Console was released 40 Years ago!. Toarcade. September 12, 2015.
- 3.エポック社沿革. epoch.jp.
- 4.Martin Picard, The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games, International Journal of Computer Game Research, 2013
- 5.藤田, 直樹. 「ファミコン」登場前の日本ビデオ・ゲーム産業 ―現代ビデオ・ゲーム産業の形成過程(2)―. 經濟論叢. 163. 3. 59–76. March 1999. 0013-0273.
- 6.Epoch TV Game System 10. Centre for Computing History UK.
- 7.The Forgotten Epic: Epoch TV Game System 10. TheGameScholar.com. 10 June 2020.
- 8.Epoch and the Cassette Vision – 1997 Developer Interview with hardware engineer/designer Masayuki Horie. ShmupLations.com.
- 9.Feature: NES Creator Masayuki Uemura On Building The Console That Made Nintendo A Household Name. Nintendo Life. 3 March 2020.
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