1979 – 1982retired
Bandai Super Vision 8000
“The last TV Jack brought its brains to the family reunion, then retired.”
“Ten thousand proud first years, and a lightgun named Videotraf to prove it.”
The Ameprod Television Game 10 was a dedicated first-generation console built in Poland by Elwro starting in 1978, later handed off to PPZ Ameprod. It came with six built-in games, four of which were playable right out of the box. For the full six, you needed the separately sold lightgun called Videotraf — a name that alone deserves a toast.
About 10,000 consoles sold in the first three years, and by the time production ended in 1984, roughly 100,000 Ameprod TVG-10 units had found homes. That is a slow, steady, dignified run for a machine that asked so little and gave a living room so much. It did not die young; it simply finished its game.
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“The last TV Jack brought its brains to the family reunion, then retired.”
“Six games, three million consoles, and Nintendo was off to the races.”
“A hearing aid maker taught Europe to play. It heard the call, then bowed out in 1983.”