The Coleco Telstar brand is a series of dedicated first-generation home video game consoles produced, released and marketed by Coleco from 1976 to 1978.

Starting with Coleco Telstar Pong clone based video game console on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 chip in 1976,[1] there were 14 consoles released in the Coleco Telstar series.

About one million units of the first model called Coleco Telstar were sold.

Coleco was unaffected by a chip shortage that year as their early orders meant it was entirely supplied.

[3] The large product lineup and the impending fading out of the Pong machines led Coleco to face near-bankruptcy in 1980.