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Hello all. Browsing stuff for sale in the US evilbay, I found these carts in a VIC auction:



I'm referring to the last three ones. Are they VIC carts at all?

orion70 wrote:I'm referring to the last three ones. Are they VIC carts at all?

Two of their labels refer to the RCA Studio II, so they're most probably not VIC carts.

Edit: All these three carts (TV Arcade III: Tennis/Squash, TV Arcade IV: Baseball, and TV Casino I: Blackjack) are also being referenced to in the article on Wikipedia.

Thanks Mike. No undocumented stuff then
Pins seem to be very similar to the VIC ones!

I had fun playing with an RCA studio II last year. It's a fun system. Years behind the Vic, but fascinating win an Atari 5200 style power via av cable setup. . I would hold onto those carts.


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Back in my cart archiving days (1990s) I'd occasionally run into a bunch of carts for different systems, that had similar looking pinouts (spacing, width, number of pins per side, etc.) but that had nothing to do with the VIC-20 system. Biggest single "mistaken identity, again" factor on that was probably overseas versions of the console that was known in the USA as the Arcadia 2001 by Emerson. (I'm thinking about the MPT-03 system or similar, if memory serves.) See the write-ups about that system or family of systems, in the older-now Digital Press Collector's Guides, for more on that story, if you're interested ...

http://www.digitpress.com/dpg_plug.htm

... but my main point was that the pinout the VIC-20 system used was a fairly common one, back then ... and because the raw parts were available, that "pinout" got used on a lot of (well, a relatively lot of) other game-related systems.