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As an aside my recent trip to Japan, I hit up all the crazy gaming stores hoping to find an FM Towns or the even more rare FM Towns Marty. They looked at me li
by RajT88 2y ago
As an aside my recent trip to Japan, I hit up all the crazy gaming stores hoping to find an FM Towns or the even more rare FM Towns Marty.
They looked at me like I was a three headed monkey.
- mappu 2y agoI looked around too - Mandarake only had popular consoles; Super Potato in Akihabara and Retro TV Game Revival in Osaka had MSX, but no FM Towns. The store clerk read my enquiry off Google Translate on my phone and gave me a one-word reply: いいえ. It probably takes local expertise to find one in someone's attic. Playing its Lupin III exclusive game might have to remain a MAME job.
- pezezin 2y agoIf you are looking for retrocomputers in Akihabara, the place to visit is BEEP. It is the only shops that specializes in that kind of stuff.
- Tiktaalik 2y agoI did see some old PCs of that sort at Hard-off further afield. I don't recall where. May have been in the burbs around Osaka. In Tokyo the easily accessible source to have a peek at some computers like this is BEEP in Akihabara. Edit: Yep looking through my photos I saw an FM Towns Marty at a Hard Off in Kanazawa. ¥49500. Saw an actual FM Towns at a Hard off in Hachioji. More ¥77000 when you combine the monitor and computer. That last big Eco Town in Hachioji was quite the old PC source. Also had a PC 98 and boxed (!) X68000.
- RajT88 2y ago> ¥49500 At current exchange rate, that is a steal! Kanazawa is... Sadly not typically a place you go if you're on a brief visit of a couple weeks. When I was studying abroad in 2001, I saw an original FM Towns tower case basically in the junk pile. I wanted it even then for how distinctive it was, but had no clue what it was. What might have been!
- Findecanor 2y agoI think a better chance of finding anything vintage would be Yahoo! Auctions and if you're not living there: a proxy-shipping service such as Buyee.jp. BTW. My Holy Grails as a vintage keyboard collector are ergonomic keyboards with columnar layout for the PC88 and PC98 computers ... or a B-TRON keyboard.
- unixhero 2y agoI know where they have one. BEEP in Akihabara. I played some games on it. Definitely great.