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DELL 04114 NOVEMBER, 1983 • $2.95
YOU'LL SHAKE. QUAKE RID SHUDDER WITH SCARY GAMES VIDEO BALL FLIPS-OUTU T! GOODIES FOR GAMERS HALL OF FAME ADDS TWO! ware pipeline filled for their ers of this remarkable unit. an absolutely dizzying effect. line computers. Also available system. Though their earlier Web Wars is among the Fortress of Narzod is a tank vs are musical peripherals and a titles were either very well- finest arcade blast-up con- tank battle requiring a healthy game creation package known coin-op adaptations tests ever to drive a gamer knowledge of angles and de- featuring a light pen that is (Scramble, Rip Off) or clones into paroxyms of excitement. flection. capable of bending lines like of existing games, the last six Hyperchase is a sort of Turbo Finally, Vectrex is adding rubber bands and then spin- months have brought a trea- with elements of high speed even more exciting software, ning them in three dimension- sury of vector finery for own- vertigo introduced to produce more in line with top-of-the- al simulation. VMATEVER HAPPENED 10... CHANNEL F, ULTRAVISION AND THE ARCADIA 2001?
Zircon, who have released less man, challenge the comput- Well, after the price drop- than five new titles since tak- er world. The system prom- ped lower than a spider's ing ownership several years ised 64K of resident memory, navel, the Emerson Arcadia ago. hi-fi audio and its own color 2001 moved into the unique Still, there are some in- monitor. position of becoming a pro- teresting, unduplicated soft- Oh yes, it was also sup- ware titles available for the posed to be 2600 compatible. Zircon Channel F, particularly If this all sounds a bit too Whizball, with its still-un- good to be true, evidently the 0 0 0 -' 41 0 copied and totally compulsive manufacturers agreed. After Vo Vo play-mechanic. the unit was sold at least once, 'ay m: ~~'W~ :~: .: the project remains in limbo, -50. DEMISE OF where it will probably stay. THE ULTIMATE Ultravision's sole legacy, in • ARCADE? fact, is a VCS game, Condor It was billed as every Attack, a shoddy variation on DID SOMEBODY arcader's dream machine. Demon Attack. TURN OFF Lounging in a chair that CHANNEL F? would make Captain Kirk's WHITHER THE Fairchild's Channel F was command throne look like a ARCADIA 2001? one of the earliest program- Salvation Army sofa, the sub- So what about Emerson's mable machines. This unit ject would don powerful was a total of 10 minutes earphones, little system GALAXIAN FOR THE ARCADIA 2001 ahead of its time. Utilizing a and armed with the crude, graphics mapping with the most terrible joy- motionally priced item. technique, the system could sophisticated sticks but Whether used as a loss leader not stand up under the weapons con- the mem- or given away as a bonus with heavier technological punch trollers ever ory of a the purchase of a toaster, the of the competing program- conceived by personal Emerson is still available in de- mables. computer? partment stores across Fairchild soon realized this the U.S. and sold off their entire It's doubtful inventory to the that any California- further based software will be added to the cata- log, but it may be a system worth looking at for the price. G
ARCADIA 2001 SYSTEM 82 Electronic Games Whatever Happened to... Channel F, Ultravision and the Arcadia 2001? Electronic Games November 1983, Page 82
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Whither the Arcadia 2001?
So what about the Emerson's powerful little system with the terrible joysticks but the memory of a personal computer? Well, after the price dropped lower than a spider's navel, the Emerson Arcadia 2001 moved into the unique position of becoming a promotionally priced item. Whether used as a loss leader or given away as a bonus with the purchase of a toaster, the Emerson is still available in department stores across the U.S. It's doubtful that any further software will be added to the catalog, but it may be a system worth looking at for the price. 1 T :FROM FILM TO GAME...AND BACK! RIC
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