EMMA 02

RCA Video Coin Arcade Game Console

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General Information

Most information I have on the RCA Video Coin Arcade console is based on Andy Modla's work as documented on his github page: RCA Studio II and Studio III Home TV Programmer.

As Andy mentions on his page: 

The RCA Video Coin Arcade console games preceded the Studio 2 and were built around June 1975 based on dated circuit schematics from the Hagley Library. A RCA internal correspondence document, "COSMAC Coin Machine - Status Report" dated 26 December, 1974 from Joe Weisbecker and Phillip Baltzer describes staged plans for a Video Coin Arcade machine (Hagley Library Acc 2464, Box 919, Folder 4). The Hagley library has photos of the Arcade game consoles. The consoles were placed in a shopping mall to evaluate the marketability of the game systems. 

Technical specifications

CPU: RCA CDP 1801
Clock: 1.6 MHz
Memory: 512 Bytes RAM and 2 KB ROM
Video: 64x32 pixels, similar to the CDP1861 
Sound: similar to the CDP1864 sound
Keyboard: Two keypads both with 4 driection keys and a fire key 

Screen shot

Swords game, similar to the Curses Foiled Again on the VIP and FRED 2. 

Links

Other information about the RCA Video Coin Arcade:

  • Andy Modla’s RCA Studio II and Studio III Home TV Programmer Emulator
  • Herb Johnson’s COSMAC arcade, Studio prototypes
Swords

Main Features RCA Video Coin Arcade Emulator

  • Adjustable speed, boosting the speed of the RCA Video Coin Arcade beyond 1.6 MHz!
  • Support for RCA Coin Arcade video with zoom and full screen option by pressing F3
  • Sound support
  • Video screen dump to a file (BMP, JPEG, PNG or PCX image)
  • Key definition and settings are defined in XML files, default key definition as below and additional 'C' is mapped to the 'coin detector'.

    PC keys for player A mapping:

    arrow up
    arrow left
    space
    arrow right
    arrow down

    PC keys for player B mapping:

    W
    A
    TAB
    S
    Z