Teletenis Multijuegos (which translates as TV Tennis Multi-Games) is a nice example of an early spanish video game system. Released in 1976, this analog system used discrete components and was inspired from the Interton Video 2000 (Germany, 1975). As a matter of fact, it uses almost the same cartridges and plays very similar games. However, the internal circuits of the system were slightly changed (for example, the central line of the Tennis game was originally drawn by additional circuits into the cartridge, but TeleTenis included these circuits as they were required by several games). Due to these small modifications, some games differed slightly from their Interton 2000 equivalents.

The cartridges contain discrete components and one or a few chips. The system contains the common circuits used by every game (ball, paddle, sync and sound generators) while the cartridge circuits set the game rules and graphics aspects (sizes, collision management, etc).

Eight games were announced for this system, although only six really existed: classic PONG variants that most other analog systems played (Squash for one or two players, Pelota, Tennis with or without boundaries, Football).

Car Racing and Submarine War, the last two games, would have been the most interesting if they were released. As a matter of fact, no other analog system ever played them. Interton announced them for the Video 2000, so they were quickly announced for TeleTenis. However, they never reached the market, so TeleTenis really had six games cartridges. It is unknown why these two games were never released, but we can believe that they would have used much more complex analog circuits than those of the other cartridges, thus increasing the retail price. Another possibility is that the game circuits did not fit the cartridge case. Or they were just imagined but purely impossible to design using discrete components technology. Whatsoever, these two games would have been the best examples of what video games systems could have played with discrete components and no processor or special video game chips.


Fronton Simple (Squash for one player): the simplest circuit. No chips, just a few components

Fronton Doble (Squash for two players): one chip and a few other components

Tenis (Tennis): same circuit as Fronton Doble but with a different configuration

Futbal (Football): more components are required for drawing the goals