Arcadia 2001

Hanimex HMG 2650 is a gaming console, originally from 1982 by Emerson Arcadia 2001, was later marketed worldwide by different companies. It belongs to the " second generation" of game consoles, but came too late for this generation on the market and has not been commercially very successful.

Low-cost production was made possible by the advanced and unusual in the 1970s, Signetics 2650 CPU. This chip was, for example, also been used in five pinball machines of the Italian manufacturer " Zaccaria " and for the 1978 Interton VC4000 sold from German production. The Hanimex device was indeed more powerful than the Interton console, as well as the Atari 2600 from 1977, but was with the Intellivision from 1980 and not keep the ColecoVision from 1982 in image display and sound ( audio visual ).

The controllers are firmly connected to the console. The controls of a controller consisting of a disk-shaped directional key, laterally arranged fire buttons and a keypad with 12 fields, which gives the possibility to insert one for each game matching overlay. The controller thus is similar to the Intellivision. In the disk for directional control, a small rod screwed and these are converted into a mini- joystick.

Game modules

A total of 30 modules published.

The Galaxian clone Space Attack has been programmed in Hong Kong by Andrew Choi, who had previously written for the German Interton games console.

Some of the games were unlicensed versions to successful arcade games: Cat Trax built on the gameplay of Pac -Man on: The player controls a cat who is being chased by dogs. Alien Invaders Space Invaders resembled, Space Vultures based on Phoenix.

Eight arcade conversions were published with license, including: Red Clash and Pleaides of Tehkan (later Tecmo ), Happy Bug (aka Jump Bug ) by Sega as well as Turpin and Jungler by Konami

Japanese developments made ​​it possible for for Hanimex - created games to the popular Japanese media franchises - in contrast to ColecoVision and Intellivision: This included the manga Doraemon and Dr. Slump or the anime Gundam and Macross.

Variants

The Hanimax HMG 2650 has been taken by many suppliers to the program and offered on all three major video game markets of the time. Among the more than 20 designs were:

Specifications

  • Year of publication: 1982
  • CPU Type: Signetics 2650
  • Clock Frequency: 3.58 MHz
  • Storage (in bytes) RAM: 1 K
  • Video RAM: n.d. Expandable: No
  • Other media: no
  • Graphic Chip: Signetics 2637 N
  • Resolution: 262 × 192
  • Colors: 9 Range: 9
  • Resolution: 8 × 8
  • Sound Chip: Signetics 2637 N
  • Channels PSG: 1
  • Noise: -
  • FM: -
  • Digital / PCM: -
  • Pitch: n.d.
  • Volume: n.d.

Literature and References

  • Emerson Arcadia 2001 In: Kevin Baker: The Ultimate Guide to Classic Game Consoles EBook, 2013 p.36. . ASIN: B00CY8LMVM.
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