RCA Studio II
The RCA Studio II is a home video game console made by RCA that debuted in January 1977. The graphics of Studio II games were black and white and resembled those of earlier Pong consoles and their clones. The Studio II also did not have joysticks or similar game controllers but instead used two ten-button keypads that were built into the console itself. The console was capable of making simple beep sounds with slight variations in tone and length. The Studio II included five built-in games.
22 titles0 with a game pageBrowse these games with filters
22 · page 1 of 1
| Cover | Title | Cartridge | Released | Mpt | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addition | Built-in | February 1977 | A competition to sum three numbers faster than an opponent. | ||
| Bowling | Built-in | February 1977 | MG-200 | A sports game, based on a simplified version of bowling. | |
| Doodle | Built-in | February 1977 | MG-200 | A basic drawing program. | |
| Freeway | Built-in | February 1977 | A top-down racing game where players drive up screen while avoiding other cars. | ||
| Patterns | Built-in | February 1977 | MG-200 | An graphics program that turns keypad input into visual patterns. | |
| Space War | TV Arcade I, (18V400) | February 1977 | MG-212 | A space themed shooting gallery with two modes. Single-player "Horizontal Interceptor" mode, where guided missiles are shot at passing UFOs, and two-player "Vertical Intercept" mode where cannons fire ricocheting bullets at ascending UFOs. | |
| Fun with Numbers | TV Arcade II, (18V401) | February 1977 | MG-208 | Two simple puzzle games, "Guess the Number", a one or two-player game similar to Mastermind, and "Reverse" where a series of numbers must be arranged in order by reversing groups. | |
| Computer Quiz | TV School House I, (18V500) | February 1977 | MG-209 | A trivia game, where players compete to answer social studies and mathematics questions quickly. Codes appear which are used to reference the full question in the manual. | |
| Tennis | TV Arcade III, (18V402) | June 1977 | MG-207 | A version of Pong with three different paddle sizes and ball speeds. | |
| Squash | TV Arcade III, (18V402) | June 1977 | MG-207 | A single-player version of Pong played against a wall. | |
| Baseball | TV Arcade IV, (18V403) | June 1977 | MG-210 | A sports game, based on baseball, with batters, pitchers, and three outfielders. | |
| Gunfighter | TV Arcade Series, (18V405) | September 1977 | MG-213 | An wild west shoot-out, similar to Midway's Gun Fight. | |
| Moonship Battle | TV Arcade Series, (18V405) | September 1977 | MG-213 | A two-player space game where players attempt to shoot each others spaceships down. Conceptually similar to Spacewar! | |
| Math Fun | TV School House II, (18V501) | September 1977 | MG-204 | A math game where players challenge a computer to solve arithmetic problems. | |
| Blackjack | TV Casino I, (18V600) | September 1977 | MG-200 | A version of the card game blackjack. | |
| Speedway | TV Arcade Series, (18V404) | November 1977 | MG-211 | A competitive racing game where two players race each other around a track. | |
| Tag | TV Arcade Series, (18V404) | November 1977 | MG-211 | A game of tag where players take turns chasing each other. | |
| Biorhythm | TV Mystic Series, (18V700) | November 1977 | MG-206 | A biorhythm calculator, based on a pseudoscientific form of fortune telling. | |
| TV Bingo | TV Casino Series, (18V601) | 1978 | MG-201 | A version of bingo, the computer presents numbers which can be used to fill out physical bingo cards. | |
| Concentration Match | Studio III Only | 1978 | MG-202 | A version of the memorization based card game concentration. | |
| Pinball | Studio III Only | 1978 | MG-205 | A version of pinball with Pong-like ball physics. | |
| Star Wars | Studio III Only | 1978 | MG-203 | A first-person space shoot 'em up where players aim a reticle at ships resembling TIE fighters. It was not officially licensed by the Star Wars franchise. |
Table data adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.