Gaming Bits: Famicom Data Recorder and Family BASIC...

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I honestly don't know if I can dedicate a whole segment to this thing, but I said I'd do this because right as I post a new gaming bits, I have to stick with the next segment idea until it gets written, and only then do Ideas come to my head, after that once I write a segment, My mind crashes, burns, and goes blank, so I'm forced to write stupid crap like this, here it's not stupid so much as it's not the best. Then again I dedicated a whole third of a year on a bunch of the most interesting consoles of the late 90s... Ah well, here's the Famicom data recorder...

Gaming Bits: A SuperNerd's Guide to Japanese Computers: Part 3: The Fujitsu FM-7/FM-77/FM-77AV/FM Towns (56k Warning)

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PREVIOUSLY ON GAMING BITS...

ARCADE PORTS!!!!!

Now onto the final part of this miniseries.

Gaming Bits: A SuperNerd's Guide to Japanese Computers: Part 2:The Sharp X1/X1 Turbo/X68000 (56k Warning)

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PREVIOUSLY ON GAMING BITS...

GAMES WITH BOOBIES, BUTTS, BRAS, PANTIES, BIKINIS, and, oh, Games with a massive language barrier you're better off playing elsewhe...

A. Yoshi: GET LOST, YOU STUPID CREEP!!!!!

Joe Tokugawa: Shut up, You're no better as evident by you're likes, favorites on several so...

AY: SHUT UP, UGLY NERD!!!!!

JT: And don't let me get started on your relationship with...

AY: F**K YOU, YOU'RE SO DEAD!!!!!

*Joe disappears with a popping sound effect and without moving*

DAMMIT!! WHERE DID YOU GO?!

Gaming Bits: A SuperNerd's Guide to Japanese Computers: Part 1: The NEC PC-8801/9801/9821 (56k Warning)

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ATATATATA!!!!!! 2-HIT COMBO!!!!!!
READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

If you look at how many Japanese Game Companies started out making computer games, the list is actually pretty astonishing. Square, Enix, Koei, HAL Laboratory, ASCII, T&E Soft, Compile, Hudson, Micro Cabin, Bothtec, Nihon Falcom, Game Arts, among others, some of who I'm going to have top dedicate a whole Gaming Bits Series on. Heck Nintendo Initially marketed the Famicom in Japan as a sort of Computer, even Sega Converted the SG-1000 as a Computer with accessories to boot. I already talked about the MSX (which I have to revisit someday), but this computer dominice wouldn't have been a thing without computers like the NEC PC Series.

Gaming Bits: Windows 9x, A New Era of PC Gaming (56k WARNING)

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I DISCUSS A LOT OF TECHNICAL TERMS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THIS AND DO SHOW M RATED GAMES DURING THE SECOND HALF!

The time is mid-1995, the Sony Playstation is about to wow any and all gamers as it did in Japan the previous year, Developers were still learning the Sega Saturn, Nintendo's 64 was almost ready to come out, and The oldest surviving gaming platform was about to show what it was really made of. an easy to use Universal Operating System for IBM PC and Compatibles (which were in of themselves becoming cheaper and more accessible to to the home user) has came out appealing to businessmen, power users, gamers, and your typical Average Joe who wanted a simple non-clunky OS for IBM PC and Compatibles. That OS came to be known as...

Gaming Bits: The MSX

In the early 1980s, Microsoft Japan was working on a universal standard for Japanese computers. You see Japan for the longest time had proprietary PC Standards, Like the NEC's PC-88/PC-98 series, Sharp's X68000, and Fujitsu's FM Towns, but that's an post or two on it's own. Kazuhiku Nishi commissioned the MSX standard to Microsoft, But what came of it? What's the rest of it's history? What made it a liable gaming platform? What impact did it have today? Well...