Adventure Vision ©1982, 2008

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The Adventure Vision is a cartridge based, electronic hand held video game that was manufactured in 1982 by Entex Industries, Inc. The system measures about 13 1/4" X 10" X 9" and uses one vertical strip of 40 red LEDs and a spinning mirror to produce an apparent screen resolution of 150X40(drawn at 15 frames/sec). While there are only four cartridges for this system, those four games are all arcade classics, Defender, Turtles, Super Cobra, and an Asteroids clone, Space Force.

FOR SALE:
(as of 08-02-2008)
**Boxed AV system with Defender only: --sold-- (pictures are here and here)
(see note below about the Boxed AV system)

Boxed Turtles cartridge: --sold-- (pictures are here)
Boxed Super Cobra cartridge: --sold-- (pictures are here)
Boxed Space Force cartridge: --sold-- (pictures are here)

Loose non-working AV system: --sold-- (pictures are here)
Loose Defender Cartridge: $100
Loose Turtles Cartrides: --both sold--
Loose Space Force Cartridge: $90

Loose Space Force Cartridge(ROM was replaced with EPROM because of
pin damage, original ROM included & still works): $65

Loose Super Cobra Cartridge(shell very damaged by dog, ROM missing
plastic spacer & one pin short, ROM still works): --on eBay--

Loose Original Defender ROM only: --sold--

Loose Original Space Force ROM only: $15

Turtles EPROM(non-original): $8

Space Force EPROM(non-original): $8

Prices are for reference only(some pretty firm, some not so firm). I will take pictures of individual items upon request. All items were just verified working in the system. I will not seperate the boxed system and boxed cartridges for a few weeks. If there are no offers for them as a entire lot, then I will sell the individual boxed items on a first come, first served basis.

**Boxed AV system has just started to have a display trouble with two of its 40 LEDs. Sometimes they work 100% fine while other times they will not turn on during the game. This seems like a classic case of "ribbon cable" trouble. (see Tech Section for details on this problem)

Therefore the price has been reducted by 1/3. Someone with decent enough soldering skills will probably be able to fix this in no time. I am tempted to do it myself but I just don't have the time anymore. My loss is your gain.

UPDATE: (04-30-2008) There are some pictures here and a couple videos here. The system box is not in the best of shape, I was thinking of another box I had a few years ago when I wrote the description below. If you would like any other pictures, let me know. I also have a loose system that DOES NOT WORK that I will be selling along with a bunch of loose cartridges.

UPDATE: (04-19-2008) I'm selling a boxed system with all three boxed cartridges(basically the entire AdventureVision line). The system box is in decent shape, but it does show it's age. The boxes for the cartridges are in nice shape without much wear. I will be posting some pictures later this week of everything. The systems and all cartridges work 100%.

Price is (see above). I can take a video of the system working as I package it up for shipment, but no guarantees will be made because of how old these systems are getting. Postal Money Orders are preferred, but PayPal is also accepted(50/50 fees). If you are picking the system up in person, then cash will work out just fine also.

If you have any questions, please e-mail me.

WANTED: I'm looking for magazine articles, instruction manuals, warrantee cards, prototype games/systems, ex-Entex employee system notes, ANYTHING!!!

If you have any of the above items, please e-mail me.

I have recently had a few requests for system schematics to help in repairs. If you have any schematics for this system, PLEASE let me know. I'd be interested in a photocopy or the originals. Thanks.

AdventureVision Emulation: MESS for DOS/Mac/Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP updates can be found at http://www.mess.org

The Adventure Vision binary files needed for MESS can be found by clicking on the "System Info" button to the left and then the "All kinds of technical information." link from there.