Another product using this technique was produced by Nintendo in the mid 1990s – the Virtual Boy – another product which, while technically ahead of its time like the Adventure Vision, was doomed to failure in the open market.ĭrawbacks to the Adventure Vision are its monochrome (red) screen as well as the mirror motor, which draws a great deal of power from the batteries. This allows for a screen resolution of 150 x 40 pixels. One particular feature of the Adventure Vision is its "monitor." Rather than using an LCD screen or an external television set like other systems of the time, the Adventure Vision uses a single vertical line of 40 red LEDs combined with a spinning mirror inside the casing. The Adventure Vision is a self-contained cartridge-based video game console released by Entex Industries in 1982.Ĭontrol is through a single multi-position joystick and two sets of four buttons, one on each side of the joystick, for ease of play by both left and right handed players. The Colecovision's main competitor in the next-generation console space was the arguably more advanced but less commercially successful Atari 5200. While Atari's fortune had risen on the popularity of Space Invaders, Colecovision was the first console to feature the hit Donkey Kong, by Nintendo.
The ColecoVision introduced two new concepts to the home video game industry - the ability to expand the hardware system, and the ability to play other video game system games.īy Christmas of 1982, Coleco had sold 500,000 units, mainly on the strength of its bundled games.
The majority of titles in its catalog were conversions from coin-operated arcade games. The controller was a flat joystick, two side buttons, and a number-pad, which allowed the user to put inserts for customized buttons. All told, approximately 170 titles were released on plug-in cartridges during its lifetime. It offered arcade-like graphics and controllers, and an initial catalog of 12 titles, with 10 more promised titles on the way. The Colecovision is Coleco's third generation video game console, released in August 1982. The Emerson Arcadia 2001 died after only a year and a half with 35 game releases. The release of the Colecovision months later sealed the Arcadia's fate. The system didn't grasp much attention, and soon found it's way to the bargain bin at the cost of $99. Similar to other consoles before it, they were forced to release home versions of arcade games. Unfortunately they fell prey to complete lack of third party development, and the lack of Arcade game titles. They released the Arcadia 2001, a small cartridge-based system.The Arcadia 2001 controllers are similar in design to the Intellivison or Colecovision, with a numeric keypad, a joystick, and two side buttons.Įmerson Arcadia 2001 was supposed to be the Atari 2600 killer. In 1982, the computer electronics company, Emerson, jumped into the gaming world.
Ziembicki: "All we saw at our booth were Atari people with their mouths dropping open, saying, How can you do that for $595?" The answer, as it turned out, was vertical integration thanks to Commodore's ownership of MOS Technology's semiconductor fabrication facilities, each C64 had an estimated production cost of only $135. The C64 made an impressive debut at the January 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, as recalled by Production Engineer David A. This project was eventually cancelled after just a few machines were manufactured for the Japanese market. Design work for the chips, named MOS Technology VIC-II (graphics) and MOS Technology SID (audio), was completed in November 1981.Ī game console project was then initiated by Commodore that would use the new chips-called the Ultimax or alternatively the Commodore MAX Machine, engineered by Yash Terakura from Commodore Japan. In January 1981, MOS Technology, Inc., Commodore's integrated circuit design subsidiary, initiated a project to design the graphic and audio chips for a next generation video game console.
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