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RCA Studio 2

 

RCA Studio 2

RCA executives had been kicking themselves ever since they let Ralph Baer's system slip through their fingers and into the hands of Magnavox. Because of this, RCA was busy trying to catch up with the video game console explosion of the late seventies.

The RCA Studio II was styled very much after the Pong units of the time, with one glaring exception; it had a cartridge port similar to the Fairchild Channel F. Another less important difference was that the Studio II had numeric keypads for controllers instead of the paddles that were standard among the Pong games of the era.

Both the RCA Studio II and Fairchild Channel F were doomed to failure because of the looming presence of the Second Generation Atari VCS/2600 on the horizon.




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The RCA Studio II is a videogame console made by RCA that debuted in January 1977. The graphics of Studio II games were black and white and resembled those of earlier Pong consoles and their clones. The Studio II also did not have joysticks or similar game controllers but instead used two keypads that were built into the console itself. The console was capable of making simple beep sounds with slight variations in length.

One distinct feature of the Studio II was its five built-in games. Also unique to the Studio II was its use of a switchbox that relayed both the modulated RF signal of the console's video to the television set while powering the console with DC power. This type of hookup would not be seen again (or thereafter) until the Atari 5200 used a similar video signal and power connection method.

The Studio II was not a successful product; it was already obsolete by the time it hit the market when compared to the previously released Fairchild Channel F, and had its "final nail in the coffin" when the superior (to both) Atari 2600 console was released only 10 months later. It was discontinued in 1979.