Entex Select-a-Game

Entex Select-a-Game Specifications

The Entex Select-a-Game is a handheld game system released in 1981 by Entex Industries. Entex released six games for the device before they dropped support in 1982 in favor of the Entex Adventure Vision.

Each game featured a different type of gameplay, such as arcade-style shooting, maze navigation, or puzzle-solving. The games were designed to be portable and easy to play, with simple controls and colorful graphics. Some popular games in the Entex Select-a-Game series included Pac-Man 2, Frogger, and Space Invader 2. While they may be considered primitive by today's standards, these games were popular for their time and paved the way for the electronic gaming industry we know today.

The Select-a-Game uses a 7 x 16 vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) array of large dots as the main display. It can display two colors, red and blue. These are combined with static overlays for each game. Together they make up the display. The system is basically a display and controller for the games with no built-in processor power. Each game cartridge contains a microprocessor programmed with the appropriate game code in it. In this respect, it is very similar to the concept of Milton Bradley's Microvision system released a few years earlier.

The system can be powered by four C batteries, or by an external A/C power supply. The power supply was only available by mail-order.