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Dartz · 04-20-2008, 02:56 PM

It was a 32-bit system released in (HOLY SHAM) 1991, and was marketed exclusively in Japan for a whopping 66,000 yen, roughly 650 dollars. It had a 640x480 resolution and 256 colors, amazing for the time.

Despite being an amazingly powerful system, the complexness and high price was it's downfall.

Tommy · 05-01-2008, 07:50 AM

I hadn't heard about this either until I saw this thread. Then I looked it up, and the first thing I thought was, hey, this looks like a 1991-era Xbox

The interesting thing is that anyone can build one now. Companies like Via sell small motherboards. Add a hard disk, a DVD-R/RW drive and you'd have an FM Towns

scribesunlimited · 05-01-2008, 10:12 AM

Good! Someone hurry up and build an all-purpose game console already that can play any DVD games.

I'm waiting! I can't hold out for GTA:4 forever, you know!

Tommy · 05-15-2008, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by scribesunlimited

Good! Someone hurry up and build an all-purpose game console already that can play any DVD games.

I'm waiting! I can't hold out for GTA:4 forever, you know!

It won't be that simple

the hardware itself is pretty open, and I suppose you could clean-room it somehow, but most of it will have to be implemented in software emulation mode, and it will be a whole lot slower than on an actual console

digitaljohn · 05-15-2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Dartz

It was a 32-bit system released in (HOLY SHAM) 1991, and was marketed exclusively in Japan for a whopping 66,000 yen, roughly 650 dollars. It had a 640x480 resolution and 256 colors, amazing for the time.

Despite being an amazingly powerful system, the complexness and high price was it's downfall.

Sounds like a great system, but not very well thought out. It was probably impossible to develop for and never got any decent games.

...Or maybe it was a Dreamcast-like flop.

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Tommy Status: Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 105	I hadn't heard about this either until I saw this thread. Then I looked it up, and the first thing I thought was, hey, this looks like a 1991-era Xbox The interesting thing is that anyone can build one now. Companies like Via sell small motherboards. Add a hard disk, a DVD-R/RW drive and you'd have an FM Towns Last edited by Tommy; 05-01-2008 at 01:20 PM.

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The Video Game Forum Wii, PS3, Xbox 360

I never even heard of this, so I looked it up.