vintagegamecrazy
10-22-2004, 03:28 AM
This for all 2 Studio II collectors out there (I'm probably one of the two) I was doing some searching on yahoo and found some info that will help clear up some of the non us stuff.
1) The US Studio II is the only console in the family that is not in color, all Euro consoles are color and if a US cart is played in a Euro console it will code it into two colors, different consoles will code the game in a few different colors.
2) The Visicom is by far the nicest of the Studio II consoles, Toshiba was the main distributer of the console in Japan, but might not necessarily be the producer (can anyone verify this?) it had keypads built into the top of the console plus removable corded joysticks and a power button (the only one to have a power button instead of the rf switch to power on or off) boy didn't we Americans get jipped with such a lame console.
The Soundic MPT 02 Victory had removable corded keypads that could be replaced by a joystick for some of the games if desired, the rest of the consoles were the same as the Studio II albeit cosmetic differences, and carts came in a variety of colors but any cart will play on any console in the family even on the US studio II.
There probably isn't anyone who cares but I wanted to verify these things because in the book not all of it was verified, and I at least enjoy collecting for this console. I also wonder how this console would have faired if it had all of the improvements that the others had.
Heres some info for Ultravision Atari 2600 games. There is a much rarer cart style for Karate that doesn't have the T bar at the top, I have only heard of one or two of these and Atariage does have a pic of this one, There just was an auction for Condor Attack on Ebay and the Cart had some form of Oriental writing on it, could this be some form of pal release?
Also Commodore released a dedicated console in the us here is the link with a pic. I wanted to post this stuff so everyone can keep an eye out and the proper editers can update these entries when suited.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=676
I found this at Old-computers.com this is a great site and you should check this out when you get a chance.
1) The US Studio II is the only console in the family that is not in color, all Euro consoles are color and if a US cart is played in a Euro console it will code it into two colors, different consoles will code the game in a few different colors.
2) The Visicom is by far the nicest of the Studio II consoles, Toshiba was the main distributer of the console in Japan, but might not necessarily be the producer (can anyone verify this?) it had keypads built into the top of the console plus removable corded joysticks and a power button (the only one to have a power button instead of the rf switch to power on or off) boy didn't we Americans get jipped with such a lame console.
The Soundic MPT 02 Victory had removable corded keypads that could be replaced by a joystick for some of the games if desired, the rest of the consoles were the same as the Studio II albeit cosmetic differences, and carts came in a variety of colors but any cart will play on any console in the family even on the US studio II.
There probably isn't anyone who cares but I wanted to verify these things because in the book not all of it was verified, and I at least enjoy collecting for this console. I also wonder how this console would have faired if it had all of the improvements that the others had.
Heres some info for Ultravision Atari 2600 games. There is a much rarer cart style for Karate that doesn't have the T bar at the top, I have only heard of one or two of these and Atariage does have a pic of this one, There just was an auction for Condor Attack on Ebay and the Cart had some form of Oriental writing on it, could this be some form of pal release?
Also Commodore released a dedicated console in the us here is the link with a pic. I wanted to post this stuff so everyone can keep an eye out and the proper editers can update these entries when suited.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=676
I found this at Old-computers.com this is a great site and you should check this out when you get a chance.