Manufactured by Entex
Released in 1982
Original suggested retail price: $79.99
The Entex Adventure Vision was one of the first portable video game systems that used cartridges. It was a battery powered tabletop console that ran on four D batteries.
According to Handheld Museum, "It created a display by using a single vertical column of 40 LEDs, and a spinning mirror to simulate 150 vertical rows (thus basically making it 150x40 resolution). Only four games were ever made for it, all based on arcade games: Defender (by Williams) (pack-in game), Turtles (by Stern/Konami) (#6076), Super Cobra (by Konami) (#6077) and Space Force (an Asteroids clone by Venture Line) (#6078). The cartridges are simply 2532 EPROMs with the pins wrapped around a plastic Molex connector to fit into the cartridge slot (which is just the other half of the same Molex connector)."
Apparently, the system was very rare (only 10,000 made, although Bit Museum said 50,000) and was very fragile.
Here's a Bit Museum video covering the Adventure Vision -
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