A Brief History of Home Video Games

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RCA Studio II

RCA executives had been kicking themselves ever since they let Ralph Baer's system slip through their fingers and into the hands of Magnavox. Because of this, RCA was busy trying to catch up with the video game console explosion of the late seventies.

The RCA Studio II was styled very much after the Pong units of the time, with one glaring exception; it had a cartridge port similar to the Fairchild Channel F. Another less important difference was that the Studio II had numeric keypads for controllers instead of the paddles that were standard among the Pong games of the era.

Both the RCA Studio II and Fairchild Channel F were doomed to failure because of the looming presence of the Second Generation Atari VCS/2600 on the horizon.