Arcadia 2001

The **Arcadia 2001** is a second-generation 8-bit home video game console released by Emerson Radio in May 1982, but it was discontinued 18 month later, several months after the realease of the Atari 5200 and the ColecoVision, 35 games were realeased for the system. Emerson licensed the 2001 to Bandai to distribute it on Japan. There are 30 clones of the Arcadia 2001. Despite the Arcadia 2001 being a failure

## Description

The 2001 is much smaller than it's competitors, it was powered in a 12 volt power supply for funnily enough... To be used in a boat or vehicle. It uses 2 headphone jacks on the left and right sides of the back

The system came with two Intellivision-joystick and keypad controllers with 2 FIRE buttons at the side. The disc controllers have an unscrewable joystick. Games included BoPET overlays that could be put on the keypad controllers. The console system has 5 buttons which are... 1. POWER 2. START 3. RESET 4. OPTION and 5. SELECT

There are at least three different cartridge case styles and artwork, with variations on each. Emerson's cartridges come in different variations as short and long of black plastic cases

## Technical specifications of the Arcadia 2001 system

- Central Processing Unit: Signetics 2650 CPU
- RAM: 1 KB
- Video display: 128x208x8/128x104x8
- Graphics Processing Unit: Signetics 2637
- Sound: Internal speaker/beeper
- Sprites: 4 sprites of a color
- Controllers: 4 ways
- Keypads: 2 × 12 buttons on controllers ==Bandai Arcadia==

In 1982, the **Bandai Arcadia**, a variant of the Emerson Arcadia 2001, was licensed and distributed to Japan by Bandai for a price of 19,800 yen. But had only 4 exclusive Japan games published by Arcadia

- _Doraemon_
- _Dr. Slump_
- _Mobile Suit Gundam_
- _Super Dimension Fortress Macross_

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 competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements. Early marketing showed popular arcade games, but they were later released as clones, due to Atari having rights to a lot of arcade games. For instance, the Arcadia 2001 game _Space Raiders_ is a clone of _Defender_, and _Breakaway_ is a clone of _Breakout_.

There are 47 games known to have been released for the Arcadia 2001 and clones, most of these games were clones of popular arcade games, as Atari had license to a bunch of games

- Video Game Console Library entry on the Arcadia 2001
- TheGameConsole.com  entry on the Arcadia 2001
- The Dot Eaters entry on the Arcadia 2001
- www.old-computers.com Emerson Arcadia 2001 museum entry
- www.old-computers.com Article about Arcadia 2001 and clones
- Arcadia 2001 retrospective at IGN

## Infobox (information appliance)

- **image**: Emerson-Arcadia-2001.jpg
- **caption**: An Arcadia 2001
- **manufacturer**: Emerson Radio
- **type**: Home video game console
- **generation**: Second generation of video game consoles, Second generation
- **lifespan**: 18 months
- **baseprice**: US$99
- **discontinued**: 1984
- **media**: ROM cartridge
- **power**: 12 volt
- **cpu**: Signetics 2650
- **memory**: 1 kilobyte, KB random access memory, RAM
- **display**: TV; 128 × 208 / 128 × 104, 8 Colours
- **graphics**: Signetics 2637 UVI
- **sound**: 2 channels (Beeper and Noise)
- **controllers**: 2 x Intellivision-style game controller, controller (12 button keypad and 'fire' buttons on the sides)


## Infobox (information appliance)

- **name**: Bandai Arcadia
- **logo**:
- **manufacturer**: Bandai
- **type**: Video game console
- **generation**: Second generation of video game consoles, Second generation
- **release date**: 1982
- **cpu**: Signetics 2650 @ 3.58 MHz
- **media**: ROM cartridge
- **predecessor**: Bandai Super Vision 8000
- **successor**: Bandai RX-78