{"id":891,"date":"2012-09-17T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2012-09-13T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:50:26","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-tennissquash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/891\/retro-scan-of-the-week-tennissquash","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> RCA Studio II Tennis\/Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/rca_studio2_tennis_squash_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/rca_studio2_tennis_squash_small.jpg\" alt=\"RCA Studio II TV Arcade III Tennis-Squash Box Cover - 1988\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A stunningly realistic RCA Studio II gameplay session.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the box cover of <em>TV Arcade III: Tennis\/Squash<\/em> for the for the RCA Studio II (1977), the world&#8217;s second ROM cartridge-based video game console.<\/p>\n<p>The early console, which featured only two numeric keypads for control, was such a dog that I named it the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/179478\/1_rca_studio_ii.html\" target=\"_blank\">worst video game console of all time<\/a>&#8221; in a 2009 PC World slideshow.  Three years later, I stand by that assessment.<\/p>\n<p>You may be asking yourself why RCA prefaced the game title with &#8220;TV Arcade III.&#8221;  Well, silly, that&#8217;s because it was part of a sequence of &#8220;TV Arcade&#8221; games for the RCA Studio II that started with &#8220;I&#8221; and ended with &#8220;IV.&#8221;  That&#8217;s <em>exactly<\/em>, I might add, how the ancient Romans would have labeled their video games.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From RCA Tennis\/Squash Box, circa 1977, cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever played an RCA Studio II?  What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunningly realistic RCA Studio II gameplay session. Here&#8217;s the box cover of TV Arcade III: Tennis\/Squash for the for the RCA Studio II (1977), the world&#8217;s second ROM cartridge-based video game console. The early console, which featured only two numeric keypads for control, was such a dog that I named it the &#8220;worst video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,9],"tags":[185,184,183,182,60],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retrogaming","tag-185","tag-box-art","tag-rca","tag-rca-studio-ii","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}