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Color TV-Game 6 (original)

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Color TV-Game 6 (original)

original · CTG-6S · Nintendo · 1977

Released1977-06-01
RegionJP
RarityJapan only
WhyIt was released only in Japan; it’s rare in our markets, so we don’t set a rarity level. model rated as Rare - variant no lower than. Estimate: exact units produced unknown.

The Color TV-Game is the first video game system ever made by Nintendo. The system was released as a series of five dedicated home video game consoles between 1977 and 1980 in Japan only. Nintendo sold three million units of the first four models: one million units of each of the first two models, Color TV-Game 6 and 15; and half a million units of each of the next two models, Block Breaker and Racing 112. The Color TV-Game series has the highest sales figures of all the first generation of video game consoles. Nintendo released a successor, the Family Computer, on July 15, 1983, ceasing production of the Color TV-Game series.

For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

How to tell them apart

Six game switches; controllers attached; has AC adapter jack.

Details from sources

Case colour of the first version not stated consistently in sources (Sharp's version is described as 'dark orange'; WarioWare depicts a 'late-type orange').

Data source: en.wikipedia.org

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