October 1983 · Computer or hardware
Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy (1983)
A budget console launched months after the Famicom and SG-1000.
It had six official games at JPY 3,800 and was obsolete on arrival; its games were ROM dumped only in January 2024.
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Facts
- Date
- October 1983
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Home console
- Maker or publisher
- Gakken
- CPU
- Motorola MC6801 @ 4 MHz
- RAM
- 2 KB
- Graphics
- MC6847, 128x192
- Generation
- 3rd
- First sold in
- Japan
- Media
- Cartridge
- Notable games
- Excite Invader; Mr. Bomb; Frogger
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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- Nintendo Famicom (Japan) (rival, 1983)
- SG-1000 (rival, 1983)
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