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Fun fact: Coleco Canada is what lead to the creation Coleco's gaming industry.

They manufactured tabletop hockey games throughout the 1970s and when the pong/tennis/racquet sport video game craze hit Coleco relized there would be a niche market for electronic hockey.

The Coleco Telestar launched as the original Chel station because hockey was the featured game. This is the reason the telestar did so well in Canada over the other pong clones. The coleco name was already well known and it was a Christmas tradition to play tabetop hockey after unwrapping the presnents.