July 17, 1984 · Computer or hardware
Super Cassette Vision (1984)
Epoch's 8-bit successor, unable to beat the Famicom.
A Super Lady Cassette Vision variant targeted girls in 1985. Epoch left the console market by 1987.
See 1984 in the interactive timeline
Facts
- Date
- July 17, 1984
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Home console
- Maker or publisher
- Epoch
- CPU
- NEC uPD7801G @ 4 MHz
- RAM
- 128 bytes + 4 KB VRAM
- Graphics
- 309x246, 16 colors
- Units sold
- about 300,000
- Generation
- 3rd
- First sold in
- Japan
- Media
- ROM cartridge
- Notable games
- Astro Wars; Super Golf; Boulder Dash; Miner 2049er
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Related
- Cassette Vision (predecessor, 1981)
- Nintendo Famicom (Japan) (rival, 1983)
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