History of video games/Platforms/Sportronic Electronic TV Sport

History Background thumb|Downtown Auckland in 1975. Bob Kerridge, son of the Christchurch New Zealand theater tycoon Sir. Robert James Carridge, would found two two media companies involved in the production of the Sportstronic.Games console https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Games_console_(AM_2017.92.11-7).jpg 8 September 2021 11 October 2017Kerridge, Bob, 1938- https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22536879?search%5Bi%5D%5Bcentury%5D=1900&search%5Bpath%5D=related_topics&search%5Brecord_type%5D=0&search%5Btext%5D=New+Zealand+Woman%27s+Weekly Kerridge, Bob, 1938- Items National Library of New Zealand National Library of New Zealand 8 September 2021 en 1 January 1938 The first was the parent Spectrum Group of Companies, which was founded in 1966. The second was a division of the former in Sportronic Television Ltd, founded in either 1977, or the 30th of August, 1976.SPORTRONIC TELEVISION LTD - New Zealand Company https://newzealand-company.com/co/sportronic-television-ltd newzealand-company.com 8 September 2021 Development The Spectrum Group of Companies was located at 82 Symonds Street in Auckland New Zealand at the time of manufacturing. Actual manufacturing of the console was done in New Zealand by Osborne Professional Electronics Ltd. Marketing Sportronic The games people play. Common slogan for the Sportronic Sportronic PosterObscure Pixels https://web.archive.org/web/20030604082851/https://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~pinwhiz/sportn.htm web.archive.org 8 September 2021 4 June 2003Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20030612093729/http://www.retrogames.co.nz/ web.archive.org 8 September 2021 12 June 2003 Introducing the Third TV Channel. Marketing for the Sportronic console Sportronic Poster Marketing materials for the Sportronic featured a nuclear family, with a mother and father watching their daughter and son playing the console. This marketing material is fairly egalitarian, which was common in 1970's game marketing materials.Hess Amanda A History of Sexist Video Game Marketing https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/12/female-gamers-and-masculine-marketers-polygon-s-history-of-the-sexist-selling-of-video-games.html 8 September 2021 Slate Magazine 4 December 2013 en Shoot your TV! Marketing for the Sportronic console and light gun Sportronic Poster Interestingly, advertising for the light gun shows gameplay for a pong like game. Launch The console is said to have been released in 1977.TV Sport for Dedicated console (1977) https://www.mobygames.com/game/tv-sport MobyGames 8 September 2021 The Sportronic 6 console with light gun included retailed for $135.20 New Zealand Dollars. Legacy Sportronic TV Ltd was removed from government listings in September of 2002. Technology The Sportronic was a dedicated console with all of it's games built in to the system.Forward To The Past – Engaging With New Zealand’s Early Computer Games – Gauge https://ngataonga.org.nz/blog/nz-history/nz-early-computer-games/ 8 September 2021 The Sportronic was able to keep an on screen score. The "Sportronic Phaser Gun" light gun for the Sportronic was fairly aggressively styled for the time, featuring a look similar to a submachine gun. Similar to other consoles of the era, the Sportronic was battery powered.Obscure Pixels https://web.archive.org/web/20040221082512/http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~pinwhiz/sportn.htm web.archive.org 8 September 2021 21 February 2004 There were at least two models of the Sportronic with different trims, the Sportronic 4 without rifle games, and the Sportronic 6 with rifle games.Brown Russell Sportronic in Beige • Hard News • Public Address https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/sportronic-in-beige/ 8 September 2021 publicaddress.net September 22nd, 2003 en Games Games were built in and could be selected with a dial on top of the console. Games were all themed around sports, as the name implies. The built in games were as follows: Solo Games console https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Games_console_(AM_2017.92.11-2).jpg 8 September 2021 11 October 2017 Squash Soccer Tennis Rifle 1 Rifle 2 Gallery References 250%__NOTOC__