My Holy Grail Console: The Entex Adventure Vision

RT forum member mods recently started a thread about the Holy Grail for a Retro Video Game collector. He mentioned Nintendo's rare World Championships 1990 Gold Cartridge, which would fetch thousands on the open market.

My Holy Grail would be an Entex Adventure Vision with all four game carts. Around 50,000 of them were made in 1981/1982 and I'm ashamed to admit I've never actually seen one running. The electromechanical screen is a 150 x 40 grid of red LEDs created using a spinning mirror that casts a flickering, wobbly image at only 15 frames per second. The games included surprisingly enjoyable ports of Defender, Super Cobra, Space Force and Turtles.

Follow the jump for a few more snapshots taken by Dave at the brilliant Game Over retro gaming shop in Amsterdam.

The console included slots for 4 game cartridges on top. Conveniently, only four titles were released for the platform.

A closeup of the control panel with the Defender cart installed.

The empty cartridge slot.

 Finally, a game of Defender played on the Adventure Vision.