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

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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

Category:1982 establishments
Category:1984 disestablishments
Category:Video game consoles