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 ===== Audiosonic 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System =====
+Horrible name aside, the 1292 was a simple cartridge-based early game console, featuring a Signetics 2560AI. It featured many console variations which mostly altered it's physical appearance, although some variations prevented playing games from other regions in the system. It died off in the 1983 video games crash.
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1292_Advanced_Programmable_Video_System
 === Operating Systems (Signetics 2650AI) ===
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 ===== Bally Astrocade =====
+One of the more interesting "Forgotten" consoles of this era, releasing in April 1978. Featuring a Zilog Z80, 4-64K of RAM, 8KB of ROM, and 320x204 (with RAM expansion) or 160x102 resolution with 4 or 8 colors, the Astrocade is now remembered for it's surprisingly powerful graphics capability of the time, despite the difficulty in accessing this power. Nowadays, it is one of the few "obscure" names of this era to have a surviving homebrew/hobbyist community.
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade
 === Operating Systems (Zilog Z80) ===
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 ===== VTech CreatiVision =====
+A rare non-children's oriented VTech product, back when that wasn't their thing. Releasing in 1982 for Hong Kong, the CreatiVision featured a "Rockwell" MOS 6502 CPU, 1 Kb of RAM, and a resolution of 256x192 at 16 colors, the system was enough to keep VTech going, with them eventually pivoting into the holy grail of sales known as targeting children.
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech_CreatiVision
 === Operating Systems (“Rockwell” MOS 6502) ===