View Full Version : what the hell is this [Arcadia 2]
udisi
01-15-2003, 04:14 PM
I saw a cart today for the life of me I couldn't identify. on the label it Arcadia 2..now I don't remember an arcadia 2, but anyway the cart was hot orange and the game was something like battle Attack and was a skeet shooting game....the cart was slightly smaller than an atari 2600 cart, but by the design and color on the label it looked like something from the early 90's....any suggestions?
ManekiNeko
01-15-2003, 04:18 PM
Yeah, my brother's kid has one of those. It's a target practice game that projects images on the wall. You earn points by shooting them with the gun that's included with the system.
JR
udisi
01-15-2003, 04:23 PM
that sounds eactly like it, so is this something new?...I saw arcadia and thinking, how the hell have I never heard of this.
Arcade Antics
01-15-2003, 04:26 PM
that sounds eactly like it, so is this something new?...I saw arcadia and thinking, how the hell have I never heard of this.
So is it safe to infer that you don't know about the Emerson Arcadia? 8-)
udisi
01-15-2003, 04:49 PM
yea I've heard of Arcadia, I was saying I never heard of Arcadia 2
xertcev
01-15-2003, 06:14 PM
It looks like if you find one that's not orange, it might burn your house down...
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml00/00091.html
ManekiNeko
01-15-2003, 06:57 PM
Yeah, the system is fairly recent (and I really wouldn't even consider it a game system, but that's open to debate). It didn't work too well for me, but my nephew seemed to enjoy it.
JR
GENESISNES
01-15-2003, 07:00 PM
There are other things like it, such as Play TV Baseball, and i think either football and soccer. Is Arcadia the one where you shoot the ducks on the wall?
ManekiNeko
01-15-2003, 07:04 PM
Yep, that's the one.
JR
You could also buy additional cartridges and overlays for shooting Asteroids or Jet Planes.
FRED
slapdash
01-16-2003, 01:04 PM
There are other things like it, such as Play TV Baseball, and i think either football and soccer. Is Arcadia the one where you shoot the ducks on the wall?
They're not really that similar, as the Play TV games actually use the TV, not projected light.
There are a bunch of Play TV units:
Baseball
Opus
Buckmasters
Baseball 2
Soccer
Card Night
Snowboarding
Construction Jr [more like a toy/simulator?]
(Bass?) Fishing
There are more of them in Japan, and cooler ones too -- there's a gun one, a samurai sword one, and a hammer one. There's even a pachinko one I think.
You could also buy additional cartridges and overlays for shooting Asteroids or Jet Planes.
Anyone got a source for these? Toys R Us doesn't have any, though they have systems...
ventrra
01-16-2003, 01:38 PM
The cart for shooting meteors (and a space shuttle and space station) is called Meteor Attack. I have one boxed, but I don't yet have the system.
BTW. There are two cartridge type objects in the box: One is the piece that holds the images that project onto the wall and one that really does look more like a traditional game cartridge which I think is used for the "game" logic.