The RCA Studio II (also known as RCA Studio 2, Studio II or Studio 2) is a home video game console that was released in January 1977 by RCA. It could only display black and white graphics, similar to earlier Pong consoles.

Games

Build-in games

The RCA Studio II has 5 games that are build in the ROM of the console itself. These were:

RCA Studio II

Addition

Bowling

Doodle

Freeway

Patterns

Cartridge games

The following is a list of all RCA II games that were released on cartridges:

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18V400|TV Arcade I: Space War

18V401|TV Arcade II: Fun with Numbers

18V402|TV Arcade III: Tennis/Squash

18V403|TV Arcade IV: Baseball

18V404|TV Arcade Series: Speedway/Tag

18V405|TV Arcade Series: Gunfighter/Moonship Battle

18V500|TV School House I

18V501|TV School House II: Math Fun

18V600|TV Casino I: Blackjack

18V601|TV Casino Series: TV Bingo (very limited release, only 3 copies are known to exist as of 1/7/2018) 18V700|TV Mystic Series: Biorhythm

RCA Studio II

Technical specifications

CPU: RCA 1802 microprocessor operating at 1.78 MHz

ROM: 2 kilobytes

RAM: 512 bytes

GPU: RCA CDP1861 "Pixie" video chip

Resolution: 64 x 32 pixels

Colors: monochrome (black & white)

Successors

The successor of the RCA Studio II is the RCA Studio III. This console can display color and uses the RCA CDP-1802 as microprocessor.

References

Other websites

Owner manual for the RCA Studio II

Video game consoles