Made In Japan - Nintendo.

After doing that My First Video Game pic of Atari Super Pong [link] I wanted to do a first look in Japanese first home Video Games systems by many game companys fro Nintendo to SNK and remember Im only showing there FIRST home game consoles and not any other just to tell thsi story of Made In Japan thing, cuase alot of gamers younger one beleave that the first video games was made in Japan but not so alot of you know that the FIRST was made here in the USA in the late 60s to early 70s with PONG but not what I wanted to start with so here's the first of 5 main first time consoles made from the one you know and love.

Before the DS, before the Gamecube even way before the NES there was Nintando TV-Game 6!

An early pong system from Nintendo offering 6 pong games in colour. This is in fact the first home video game system produced by Nintendo. As they lacked the technology to develop their own microprocessors, they struck a deal with Mitsubishi Electronics and the two companies developed the Color TV Game 6 in 1977. It was a big success in Japan, and sold over a million copies.

The system is fairly simple. Two dial controllers built-in the system, so two players can play simultaneously. Some switches to toggle difficulty, players bat size, service auto/manual... a start button and an on/off switch.

The 6 games are classic ones: handball one and two players, tennis one and two players, hockey one and two players... Score is displayed on screen. Of course it is an NTSC display, using RF channel 1 or 2, all in colour.

Tech Info:

NAME: TV-Game 6 (model CTG-6V)
MANUFACTURER: Nintendo
ORIGIN: Japan
YEAR: 1977
BUILT IN GAMES: 6
CONTROLLERS: Two built-in knobs
CPU: Unknown
BUTTONS: 1
SWITCHES: 6
SCORE: On screen
COLORS: Colour
SOUND: Unknown
I/O PORTS: RF TV video output
BATTERIES: 6 x UM2 (C size) batteries
POWER SUPPLY: External power supply unit (110v -> 9v)
GUN: No