The RCA Studio II, Doomed to Fail!

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@gabriellelopes802 Жыл бұрын

I find those pieces of tech history so interesting. It did made sense to have a novelty on their consoles as a selling point, but at the time, considering the arcades, and their competitor Atari, there was a good precedent to figure removing the joystick to replace it with a numberpad wasn't a great move 😅 kids wanted to feel like playing arcades at home, but this looks like an answering machine lol I thought at first glance that was a knockoff of the intellivision, but it actually was released a year later, in 79. I guess they learnt some of the mistakes of this one and actually had a controller with a weird disk d-pad and the numberpad again, which looked just as uncomfortable to use.

@BadDogElectronics Жыл бұрын

I agree, a joystick would have probably made this a great seller. Being one of the "first" to implement a cartridge was pretty novel. Too bad they didn't have the whole package. I remember the intellivision "joystick". It was a bit awkward, but still a way better idea than, like you said, playing on your "answering machine". That's pretty funny!

@senorverde09 2 ай бұрын

Filling in the gaps: RCA passed on the opportunity to buy the rights to the Odyssey and were thoroughly salty that Magnavox (then a competitor, especially in TV sales) was having success. So they set to work creating something similar using their in-house developed microprocessor and video IC. The clunky switchbox was in response to the FCC shooting down an earlier market release due to excessive RF leakage.

@BadDogElectronics 2 ай бұрын

Wow. cool bit of history! Thanks for sharing!

@Tapp-Mourningwood 11 ай бұрын

If this will help, you'll need a "tv female coaxial push on adapter" that will fit your modern tv if it has a coaxial rf input. It also has two screws to connect the switchbox prongs to. If your modern tv doesn't have a coaxial, you'll need an rf to hdmi converter.

@BadDogElectronics 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it! I no longer have this unit, but will keep it in mind for the future. Maybe someone who doesn't know will see your comment and be helped out as well.