The Emerson Arcadia 2001 is a second-generation 8-bit console released by Emerson Radio Corp in 1982 following the release of ColecoVision. It was discontinued only 18 months later, with a total of 35 games having been released.[2]
Arcadia 2001 is not a product of Arcadia Corporation, manufacturer of the 2600 Supercharger, and was sued by Emerson for trademark infringement. Arcadia Corporation then changed its name to Starpath.[3] Emerson licensed the Arcadia 2001 to Bandai which released it in Japan,[2] and over 30 Arcadia clones exist.
Description
Hanimex HMG-2650
The Arcadia is much smaller than its contemporary competitors and is powered by a standard 12-volt power supply so it can be used in a boat or a vehicle. This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s. It also has two outputs (or inputs) headphone jacks on the back of the unit, on the far left and far right sides.
The system came with two Intellivision-style controllers with a 12 button keypad and 'fire' buttons on the sides. The direction pads have a removable joystick attachment. Most games came with BoPET overlays that could be applied to the controller's keypads. The console itself had five buttons: power, start, reset, option, and select.
There are at least three different types of cartridge case styles and artwork, with variations on each. Emerson-family carts come in two different lengths (short and long) of black plastic cases.
Releases
Intervision 2001
Emerson actually created many popular arcade titles including Pac-Man, Galaxian and Defender for the Arcadia, but never had them manufactured as Atari started to sue its competitors companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements. Early marketing showed popular arcade games, but they were later released as clones. For instance, the Arcadia 2001 game Space Raiders is a clone of Defender, and Breakaway is a clone of Breakout.[4]
Name |
Manufacturer |
Country |
Compatibility family |
Advision Home Arcade | Advision | | Emerson console |
Arcadia | Bandai | | Emerson console |
Arcadia 2001 | Emerson | | Emerson console |
Cosmos | Tele-Computer | | Emerson console |
Dynavision | Morning-Sun Commerce | | MPT-03 console |
Ekusera | P.I.C. | | MPT-03 console |
Hanimex MPT-03 | Hanimex | | MPT-03 console |
HMG-2650 | Hanimex | | Emerson console |
Home Arcade Centre | Hanimex | | Emerson console |
Intelligent Game MPT-03 | Intelligent Game | | MPT-03 console |
Intercord XL 2000 System | Intercord | | Emerson console |
Intervision 2001 | Intervision | | Ormatu console |
ITMC MPT-03 | ITMC | | MPT-03 console |
Leisure-Vision | Leisure-Dynamics | | Emerson console |
Leonardo | GiG Electronics | | Emerson console |
Ormatu 2001 | Ormatu Electronics BV | | Ormatu console |
Palladium Video Computer Game | Neckermann | | Palladium console |
Polybrain Video Computer Game | Polybrain | | Palladium console |
Poppy MPT-03 Tele Computer Spiel | Poppy | | MPT-03 console |
Prestige Video Computer Game MPT-03 | Prestige | | MPT-03 console |
Robdajet MPT-03 | | | MPT-03 console |
Rowtron 2000 | Rowtron | | MPT-03 console |
Schmid TVG-2000 | Schmid | | Emerson console |
Sheen Home Video Centre 2001 | Sheen | | Ormatu console |
Soundic MPT-03 | Soundic | | MPT-03 console |
Tele Brain | Mr. Altus | | Palladium console |
Tele-Fever | Tchibo | | Emerson console |
Tempest MPT-03 | Tempest | | MPT-03 console |
Tobby MPT-03 | Tobby | Tobby | MPT-03 console |
Trakton Computer Video Game | Trakton | | Palladium console |
Tryom Video Game Center | Tryom | | MPT-03 console |
Tunix Home Arcade | Monaco Leisure | | Emerson console |
UVI Compu-Game | Orbit Electronics | | Orbit console |
Video Master | Grandstand | | Orbit console |
Bandai Arcadia
In 1982 the Bandai Arcadia, a variant of the Emerson Arcadia 2001, was released in Japan by Bandai. There were four Japan-exclusive game releases developed by Bandai which were the only known Arcadia titles written by other companies than UA Ltd.
- Doraemon
- Dr. Slump
- Mobile Soldier Gundam
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Technical specifications
- Main Processor: Signetics 2650 CPU running @ 3.58 MHz
- RAM: 512 bytes
- ROM: None
- Video Display: 128 × 208 / 128 × 104, 8 Colours
- Video Display Controller: Signetics 2637 UVI
- Sound: Single Channel "Beeper" + Single Channel "Noise"
- Hardware Sprites: 4 independent, single color
- Controllers: 2 × 2 way
- Keypads: 2 × 12 button (more buttons on some variants)
Games
Many of the games for the Arcadia 2001 are ports of lesser-known arcade games such as Route 16 and Jungler. There are 47 games for this system.
- 3-D Bowling - a Bowling game released for the Arcadia by Emerson Radio Corp. in 1982.
- 3-D Raceway - 3D Raceway
- 3-D Soccer - a Soccer game released by Emerson Radio Corp. for the Arcadia in 1982.
- Alien Invaders - is a Shoot-'Em-Up game released by Emerson Radio Corp. for the Arcadia in 1982.
- Astro Invader
- American Football - is a Football game released by Emerson Radio Corp. for the Arcadia in 1982.
- Baseball
- Brain Quiz
- Breakaway
- Capture
- Cat Trax
- Crazy Gobbler
- Crazy Climber (unreleased)
- Escape
- Funky Fish
- Galaxian
- Grand Prix 3-D
- Grand Slam Tennis
- Hobo
- Home Squadron
- Horse Racing (plays similar to the well-known Intellivision version)
- Jump Bug
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- Jungler
- Kidou Senshi Gundamu (only in Japan)
- Math Logic
- Missile War
- Ocean Battle
- Pleiades
- RD2 Tank
- Red Clash
- Robot Killer (clone of Berzerk)
- Route 16
- Soccer
- Space Attack
- Space Chess
- Space Mission
- Space Raiders
- Space Squadron
- Space Vultures
- Spiders
- Star Chess
- Super Bug
- Super Gobbler
- Tanks A Lot
- The End
- Turtles/Turpin
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