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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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Tiny Dracula's Castle for MSX

Topple Zip for MSX2

Thunderbolt for MSX

Hydlide for PC-8801

Planet Wars for Pasopia
Random entries
My heart won't listen to my brain's rules, so now I have a PC-8001mkIISR. I had originally decided that I don't need this machine because I have a PC-8001 already. Sure, the mkIISR is fancier and more featureful, but it's bigger and it starts to encroach on some of the PC-8801FH's territory. continued ⇒
Some games that run at 15kHz (Syvalion is the only one that comes to mind right now; most 15kHz games didn’t have this problem) were too wide on my monitor. The edges of the game were not visible. I thought I would just adjust the horizontal size, but of the kajillion buttons under the front panel, not one of them adjusts horizontal size. So I took it apart (something I loathe doing with CRTs because of the risk of death if you’re not careful, and frankly I’m not always careful, although I suspect I’m more careful than usual with an open CRT) and looked for the horizontal size pot on the inside. continued ⇒
One cool and useful item that came with my NEC PC-6001 is this RAM/ROM expansion cartridge. It plugs into the side of the 6001 and doubles the memory to 32KB, and it also has two LIF (low insertion force) sockets for ROM expansion. continued ⇒
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