History of video games/Platforms/Halcyon

thumb|The Halcyon uses Laserdisks an early optical medium which can be seen on the left. A DVD for comparison can be seen on the right. History Do you believe in magic? You will. Halcyon advertising slogan RDI marketing flyerAllison Fraser Carter Marcus Gibbs Martin Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games Games and Culture March 2020 15 2 91–113 10.1177/1555412017746305 19 March 2022 RDI was a small company based out of Carlsbad, California. The company was headed by Rick Dyer, and had prior experience in the industry, most notably producing Don Bluth's milestone laserdisk arcade game Dragon's Lair.10 Crazy Things You Never Knew About Dragon's Lair https://www.thegamer.com/crazy-things-never-knew-dragons-lair/ 29 May 2021 TheGamer 2020-04-20RDI Video Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDI_Video_Systems Wikipedia 28 May 2021 en 2021-04-08 The Halcyon was set to release in 1985 with the voice controlled console costing either $2,500,Rochefort Simone de More than a machine: The history of Halcyon https://www.polygon.com/videos/2018/3/1/17063348/halcyon-rare-console-history 28 October 2020 Polygon 1 March 2018 en or $2,100 and the non-voice enabled console costing $1,800.After the prototype PlayStation: six more obscure games consoles https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/07/prototype-nintendo-playstation-obscure-games-consoles-snes-cd 5 February 2021 the Guardian 7 July 2015 en Though the produced consoles were never sold at retail, up to ten Halcyon consoles exist from kits sent to investors.MGs Game Take: The True Holy Grails of Video Game Hardware - "The Majors" - Beyond the Mind's Eye - Thoughts & Insights from Marriott_Guy https://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/marriott_guy/The-True-Holy-Grails-of-Video-Game-Hardware-The-Majors-1412.php www.rfgeneration.com 28 October 2020 RDI projected their own first year sales to be 25,000 units sold,Television Digest, with Consumer Electronics Television Digest, Incorporated https://www.google.com/books/edition/Television_Digest_with_Consumer_Electron/kWk9AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=RDI+Halcyon&dq=RDI+Halcyon&printsec=frontcover 3 December 2020 en though it is impossible to say if this would have actually occurred had the console actually launched. Technology The Halcyon used an 8-bit Z80B CPU clocked at 6 megahertz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM.Home Page https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg80-rdi.htm#page=specs Video Game Console Library 28 October 2020 The Halcyon could interpret 200 words.Corporation Bonnier Popular Science Bonnier Corporation https://books.google.com/books?id=iwAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA108&dq=RDI+Halcyon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw_IS68LHtAhVuh-AKHZm0BG0Q6AEwCXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=RDI%20Halcyon&f=false 3 December 2020 en Released games Thayer's Quest NFL Football LA Raiders vs SD ChargersHalcyon (console) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon_(console) Wikipedia 28 April 2021 en 6 March 2021 External Resources Halcyon (console) Video Game Kraken - Halcyon by RDI video systems page. Handheld Museum - RDI Halcyon page. References 2100%__NOTOC__