page_title: List of first generation home video game consoles
section_title: Light Gun Functionality
hierarchical_section_title: List of first generation home video game consoles / Repetition and similarities / Light Gun Functionality
caption_attribution_description: The light gun for the APF TV Fun (model 402C), a Pong console released by APF Electronics in 1976.
context_page_description: The first generation of video game consoles lasted approximately 12 years. The first console of the generation was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, and the final one was the 1978 Elwro Television Game 10, later sold by PPZ Ameprod from 1981 until 1984. The last new console release of the generation was most likely the Compu-Vision 440 by radio manufacturer Bentley in 1983, although other systems were also released in that year. The first console generation overlaps with the second and third generations, which comprise more advanced consoles than the first generation and lasted from 1976–1992 and 1983–2003.
  Due to the sheer number of different consoles produced, it is hard to determine how many were made, however, they outnumber every other video game console, both home and handheld combined, hardware revisions included. For that reason, they've been separated from the rest of the generations.
context_section_description: Some consoles had light gun style games included in the system alongside the other sports games modes. While supported, some consoles included the accessory in the box, while others needed to be purchased separately. The first Light Gun, the shotgun that worked with the Odyssey and came with the game Shooting Gallery was an optional game. Some were later included with the console in a bundle.
  Some guns, like the one on the Coleco Telstar Marksman, came with a removable stock and barrel parts to attach to the gun depending on play style.
  Light Guns of this era have realistic proportions, shape and color, due to the fact that during the 70's and 80's there were no laws against the depiction of realistic weapons in children's toys. While some manufacturers later chose to use bright colors and more sci-fi designs, the prohibition of such designs in the US only came in 1992.
caption: Light Gun that came included with the APF TV Fun Model 402c.
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