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Interton Video 2400

Pong home console

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ66085321 ↗
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The Interton Video 2400 is a dedicated first-generation home video game console that was released in 1975 by Interton. It is the successor of the Interton Video 2000 and the predecessor of the Interton Video 2501. It could output only black and white. The console uses the AY-3-8500 chipset. The sound is played through an internal speaker, rather than the TV set.

The console was also released in France by Thomson under the name JV1T and by Continental Edison under the name JV-2701.

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The public source identifies “Interton Video 2400” as pong home console. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Interton, Video and Pong.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Interton, Video and Pong providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Interton Video 2400” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.