RCA Studio II (1976)

RCA couldn't accept the truth that they let the Odyssey mistake through their fingers (Ralph Baer the designer of Odyssey approached RCA with the deal 1st), and into the hands of their TV rival Magnavox. The RCA Studio II is their answer for the Magnavox Odyssey. Releasing in 1976 a few months after the release of the Fairchild Channel F, it may have been the first programmable video game system (Fairchild beat them to the release gate).

The console was doomed from the start. The lack of a color and command paddles made this unit old and dated. With only 8 games, the Studio II suffered the same destiny as Channel F. Overshadowing and rendered obsolete by the Atari VCS / 2600

The RCA Studio II should have been an colour console, a few games were intended for color, but the video output of the console was black & white. A Studio II clone released in the UK called The Sheen M1200 released in 1978, and produced PAL colour with RCA Studio II games and was a more success unit.