Quote Originally Posted by y-bot View Post
This makes sense to me. If a game was available for purchase in store or mail-order it's a "retail" release. If there was no way to buy it when it was released it's not. So to me something that was available as a rental only is not a "retail" release. Back to Bingo, I just don't get how something made by a major manufacturer has only turned up once. Those one only Atari 2600 games were made by tiny companies who probably only made 20-200 games to begin with. If there was a story about how Bingo was recalled and destroyed but a few got out or something that would make sense. A company like RCA wouldn't manufacture something in quantities of less than thousands. I did see Bingo on a list for one of those Studio II clones though so who knows.

y-bot
At the end of a product life-cycle, RCA was known to release very small quantities of the final software titles. A perfect example of this is some of the release numbers on the last RCA CED videodiscs. The pressing numbers I have seen for some of them are miniscule (under 500 in some cases). Given that there are only a very limited number of RCA Studio II collectors and who knows how many original owners, I would not be surprised if RCA pressed very small quantities of this particular game.