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Arcadia 2001
“35 games, 18 months, endless clones — the Arcadia lived on in everyone else's living room.”
“A hearing aid maker taught Europe to play. It heard the call, then bowed out in 1983.”
The Interton VC 4000 was an 8-bit, cartridge-based second-generation console launched in 1978 by Interton, a German company better known for making hearing aids. Sold for 298DM across Germany, England, France, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands and Australia, it paired a Signetics 2650 CPU with controllers featuring a 12-button keypad, two fire buttons, and a joystick. It was quite obscure outside Germany, but at home i
The VC 4000, successor to the Interton Video 3001, was quietly discontinued in 1983 after a respectable run. Whether Interton designed it outright or licensed the rights remains unknown, a fitting bit of mystery for a console that lived modestly and left behind a family of compatible systems scattered across Europe.
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“35 games, 18 months, endless clones — the Arcadia lived on in everyone else's living room.”
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