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Entex Adventure Vision

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in either August or October 1982. The launch price of the system was $ 79.95. The monitor, game controls, and computer hardware are all contained within a single portable unit. The LED monitor can only display red pixels. Four games were released, all of which are arcade ports. Approximately 10,000
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demoparty, the first-ever homebrew/demo ROM for the system was demonstrated by MEGA - Museum of Electronic Games & Art. MEGA also released the source code for the demo as well as all development tools.
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and two sets of four buttons, one on each side of the joystick, for ease of play by both left- and right-handed players. Rather than using an
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Because of the moving parts used by the system, many units no longer work, with an estimated 100 known operational units left.
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set like other systems of the time, the Adventure Vision uses a single vertical line of 40 red
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inside the casing. This allows for an effective screen resolution of 150 × 40 
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Dimensions: 13.25 by 10 by 9 inches (337 mm × 254 mm × 229 mm)
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A similar display technique combining red LEDs with a moving mirror was used by
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Input: 4 direction joystick, 4 buttons duplicated on each side of the joystick
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Entex released four Adventure Vision games, all of them ported from arcades:
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ROM: 1K (internal to 8048), 512 bytes (internal to COP411L), 4K (cartridge)
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13.25 by 10 by 9 inches (337 mm × 254 mm × 229 mm)
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The encyclopedia of consoles, handhelds & home computers 1972 - 2005
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Adventure Vision was Entex's second-generation system following the
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Information about the first Adventure Vision demo and the making-of
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AdViEmulator, a specialized Open Source Adventure Vision emulator
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Picture and some information about Entex Adventure Vision
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Index

Adventure Vision


Entex Industries
Video game console
Second generation
ROM cartridge
CPU
Intel 8048
kHz
Entex Select-A-Game
video game console
Entex Industries
Entex Select-A-Game
joystick
LCD
television
LEDs
spinning mirror
pixels
batteries
AC
Defender
Williams Electronics
Super Cobra
Konami
Turtles
Venture Line
Asteroids
Intel 8048

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