It can run games, but as with many microcomputers, it's quickly apparent it wasn't specifically designed with them in mind. But they had to make an exception for Hideo Kojima's Snatcher because the PC88 was simply where adventure games lived.įirst and foremost, the PC88 is an all-purpose terminal intended for a variety of practical uses, from writing music to managing finances. When it came to computers, Konami generally stuck to the MSX. This seems to be the point where the PC-8800 series began to pull ahead of the pack and become the hardcore enthusiast's computer of choice-especially when it came to games. Besides being a mouthful, this revision included a Yamaha sound chip called the OPN that was capable of FM synthesis-a great improvement over the three-channel PSG sound of previous models. For several years, this trinity seemed to enjoy more or less even success, but all that changed with 1985's PC-8801mkIISR. NEC had plenty of competition by the early '80s, particularly from Fujitsu and Sharp, whose FM-7 and X1 series shared many of the PC88's specs. They couldn't have known it at the time, but with the latter, NEC entered not only computing history but the history of gaming. With an early lead on the domestic market, the 8001's success was followed up in 1981 with the PC-6001 and the PC-8801. In 1979, two years after Commodore and Apple kicked off the age of "appliance computers" with the PET and Apple II, NEC introduced the PC-8001, one of the first "Made in Japan" microcomputers. One member of this group was NEC, a telephone company founded at the end of the nineteenth century which had branched out into advanced electronics in the years following World War Two. At the same time, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (the predecessor to today's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, or METI) gathered six electronics companies to work together toward bolstering Japan's computer industry, going directly up against IBM in the West. I love pixel art and old games in general! Please send inquiries to 1970s, the falling costs of microprocessors began to bring mass-market personal computers into the realm of possibility. Contributing author and lifelong Mega Driver.
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