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Japanese Vintage Computer Collection


Game introductions have well surpassed 100! Take a look under the "games" menu.

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I picked up a bulk lot of eight cartridges on Mercari a while back. Among the games were four titles by Habit Soft. They are somewhat simple but quite fun games. I'll expand on the gameplay and screenshots a bit in the future when each gets their own game introduction, but here is a brief overview of the games. continued ⇒
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Thexder for FM-7

Shanghai for J3100

Tiny Dracula's Castle for MSX

Topple Zip for MSX2

Thunderbolt for MSX
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This was one of my earliest Japanese vintage PCs, before I had the idea to start blogging about them. I found a couple of photos of it and decided to make a mini-entry about it. continued ⇒
Dubbed the “Super Computer”, the MZ-2500 commands a fairly high price, so I had to wait for just the right circumstances. I found a junk one at a somewhat reasonable price, and it worked just well enough to give me a flavor of what it has to offer… enough to confirm that I wanted a fully-working one. I grabbed another one that was also junk, and between the two, I was able to get a fully working one, which my friend has since recapped and helped to future-proof. continued ⇒
I picked up a Tomy Pyuta mkII on Mercari recently. This is a follow-up to the original Pyuta, similar to how the Commodore 64C followed the Commodore 64. Except while the Commodore 64C was a cost-saving implementation of the Commodore 64, this one looked like it provided a minor upgrade. From the outside, at a glance, it looks like they just swapped out the keyboard, offering a short-travel plastic keyboard, which was much more usable than the rubber chiclet keyboard that the original sported. continued ⇒
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