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VTech Creativision
In 1981 Hong Kong based electronic games and toys manufacturer VTech attempted to join the rising home video game market by engineering an original system capable of competing against the hugely popular Atari 2600 VCS and Mattel Intellivision.
Using a 2 Mhz 6502 CPU like the NES, Atari 7800 and Commodore 64, the same video chip as the MSX and a sound chip that was later seen in the Sega Master System it had impressive specs for the time. Despite being released worldwide, the system only achieved moderate success in a few regions. Most notably in Australia and New Zealand, where it was most amusingly re-named the Dick Smith Wizzard, and also in Italy where it was marketed by well-known washing machine manufacturer Zanussi.
Around a year or later a computer version of the machine was also released, called the VTech Laser 2001, as well as a kit to turn your CreatiVision into a fully-fledged computer. The console was finally discontinued in 1986 with only 15 games ever released for it.
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