The More You Know Gaming: Epoch Cassette Vision! The #1 Game Machine In Japan Before Nintendo
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Did you know that the Nintendo Family Computer wasn’t the first home video game system to be sold in Japan? Well its not! Even though the history and worldview of gaming has been written around July 15, 1983 and the success of Nintendo, who, to their credit took over the industry and smoothed it out and kept things in order, but they way that THEY saw fit, there was a piece of hardware before that, that should get the credit as the first popular mainstream console. Cassette Vision!!
Yeah, back in the pre-Nintendo antediluvian gaming world The Cassette Vision, made by Epoch, was the market leader. Epoch and Nintendo were actually in a rivalry as heated at any console war past or present, and in the 70s and 80 were constantly one upping each other. That’s back when one up meant something else. Epoch started operations in Japan in 1958 producing toys and mechanical games. In the 1970s Epoch took to the emerging market of handheld LCD games, releasing the first original Japanese made game in 1975 and from there, becoming the most popular maker.
In 1970s Epoch got in on the home Pong clone craze and even imported the Atari 2600 to Japan for a little while. They also put out a dedicated Space Invaders clone as well. On July 30, 1981 Epoch debuted the Cassette Vision to a receptive Japanese audience. The sticker pice was 13,500 yen. About 50$ in 1981 and not a lot of money for a county in an economic boom. The Cassette Vision really is a product of its time. An evolutionary link in the chain from a home Pong, to what we know today. There are a lot of switches on the console face and the controllers are built in. The controllers are a little odd as they have buttons and dials and switches that work differently with each game. Each game also housed the Ram and certain processors. Meaning that the Cassette Vision doesn’t have much going on inside.
11 games were released between 1981 and 1983! That’s it! 11! And those 11 games; Yosaku, Baseball, Galaxian, Big Sports Juu-ni, Battle Vader, PakPak Monster, New Baseball, Monster Mansion, Astro Command, Monster Block and Elevator Panic carried the Cassette Vision
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaNbvyCluDw