The following comes from Pong-Story.com

The Telstar Colortron was released in 1978. It is one of the only systems based around the AY-3-8510 game chip, a derivate of the AY-3-8500. The system offers 4 games instead of 6, but the picture is in color, which is much better. Sound is not unpleasant like on most of the other systems, since it comes from a little piezzo beeper which produces a very discrete sound. The game selection is done using a push-button rather than a switch (easier to use and more robust). Curiously, the system requires two 9V batteries: one for the "video" (the games), and one for the "sound" (maybe the internal circuitry of the piezzo beeper).

Coleco Telstar Colortron: a small and very simple system...



The box of the system.

Does it still work?

I've never seen half the shit you're posting

kudos and stuff

Well the difference between you and I my friend is that I'm old enough where I've actually played these systems when they came out.  No need to go back and see what it was like.  I was there.  I know what it was like when they were new, and it was so exciting to own one you'd piss your pants with glee.  Except my family never owned one, since they though video games were satanic or something.  But to this very day, I can name all my neghbors on the three adjacent streets where we lived, and I could tell you what game systems they owned.  We had one family down the street whose daughter was my step-brother's age.  Her family had an Odyssey 2 (The only one on the block) and somehow, (I have no idea how) we were let inside to play Demon Attack on it.  It was great.