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Game ID: 33110
Console / System: Arcadia 2001
Title: Controller, External Joysticks
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Scarcity (complete): 0
Value in USD (complete): 0
Publisher: Emerson
Section: 6
Description: Unconfirmed hardware device. Emerson console user manual has a diagram showing the console's parts. The manual points to two small hardware items on the console's rear, calling them "left and right auxiliary controller jacks". It says they are "for future games" but it included no other details. (Manual is full of broken English, and admits it was printed in Hong Kong.) Internally the jacks are only two wires, wired into the existing controller ports. This means it would simply be impossible for these jacks to support anything more sophisticated than a raw paddle controller. By that I mean JUST a paddle, without even a fire button! Given a number of other manufacturing shortcuts taken to cut costs, and the near total absence of any mention of these ports in print, it seems unlikely they were added to be able to say it was an "expandable console"? There were probably plans to use them for something at one point. Perhaps it was for backwards compatibility with the games originally made for the Interton VC-4000 console? As with everything else for this console group, their plans often changed.
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