The is a home video game console made by Epoch Co. and released in Japan on July 17, 1984, and in Europe, specifically France, later in 1984. A successor to the Cassette Vision, it competed with Nintendo's Family Computer and Sega's SG-1000 line in Japan.
History Epoch's original Cassette Vision was introduced in Japan by Epoch in 1981, which had steady sales and took over 70% of the Japanese home console market at the time, with around 400,000 units sold. However, the introduction of next-generation systems from Nintendo, Casio and Sega quickly pushed back the original Cassette Vision, leading Epoch to quickly develop a successor.
The Super Cassette Vision was released in 1984 with a price of ¥14,800, featuring an 8-bit processor and better performance more in line with its competitors. It was later released in France by ITMC under the Yeno brand. At least sixteen games were brought over from Japan for a European release.
A version of the system targeting the young female market was released in 1985 as the with a price of ¥19,300. This console came packed in a pink carrying case, alongside the game Milky Princess. The system did not take off, and was unable to match the massive popularity of the Nintendo Famicom, leading Epoch to drop out of the console market by 1987.
Technical specifications The Super Cassette Vision had the following hardware specifications: CPU: 8-bit NEC μPD7801G microcontroller @ 4 MHz RAM: 128 bytes (internal to CPU) ROM: 4 KB (internal to CPU) Video processor: EPOCH TV-1 VDC @ 14 MHz VRAM: 4 KB (2 × μPD4016C-2) + 2 KB (EPOCH TV-1 internal) Colors: 16 Sprites: 128 monochrome sprites, 20 per line Display: Sound processor: μPD1771C @ 6 MHz Sound: produced by NEC μPD1771C running a permanently burnt-in program with three modes - monophonic preset wave mode, polyphonic (4-channel) square wave and noise mode and ADPCM codec mode Controllers: 2 × hard-wired joysticks
Games 1. Astro Wars - Invaders from Space 2. Astro Wars II - Battle in Galaxy 3. Super Golf 4. Super Mahjong 5. Super Base Ball Giants Hara Tatsunori no Super Base Ball 6. Punch Boy 7. Elevator Fight 8. Lupin III 9. Nebula 10. Wheelie Racer 11. Boulder Dash 12. Miner 2049er 13. Super Soccer 14. Comic Circus 15. Milky Princess 16. Pop and Chips 17. Nekketsu Kung-Fu Road 18. Star Speeder 19 TonTon Ball 20. Super Sansu-Puter 21. Shogi Nyuumon 22. Doraemon 23. BASIC Nyuumon (included four basic games) 24. Dragon Slayer 25. Rantou Pro-Wrestling 26. WaiWai(Y2) Monster Land 27. Dragon Ball: The Great Unexplored Dragon Region 28. Mappy 29. Sky Kid 30. Pole Position II
Unreleased games Black Hole Super Derby Super Rugby
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