Coleco Telstar Arcade Cartridges

The Telstar was a video game console produced by Coleco which first went on sale in 1976. Originally a pong clone, there were later several versions of the Telstar:

1. Telstar - Three games (hockey, handball, tennis)
2. Telstar Classic - same as the Telstar, woodgrain case
3. Telstar Alpha - Four games (hockey, handball, tennis, jai alai)
4. Telstar Colormatic - same as the Telstar Alpha but color picture and separate controllers
5. Telstar Regent - same as the Telstar Colormatic but no color
6. Telstar Sportsman - Came with a light gun and two separate paddles
7. Telstar Combat - Joystick based system that played variations on Kee Games' "Tank"
8. Telstar Colortron - Four games, in color, built in sound
9. Telstar Marksman - came with alight gun, 2 gun games, and 4 regular games, in color
10. Telstar Galaxy - came with joysticks and paddles
11. Telstar Gemini - Like the Marksman but with pinball instead of Pong
12. Telstar Arcade - cartridge-based, light gun, steering wheel, paddles

The large product lineup and the impending fading out of the Pong machines lead Coleco to face near-bankruptcy in 1980.