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The Epoch Cassette Vision: Has Games

Oops, that last Cassette Vision post was supposed to be a review of some games for it. This is a fairly historically important console, but not a huge seller...

With its traditional Japanese theme, Yosaku did not see any release outside of Japan, and at the time SNK was an exceedingly small Osaka firm, so something that wasn’t a mega hit was easily possible to get lost under the rug. Tetsuji Oguchi’s site claims the firmware for Big Sports 12 is the same as for the unreleased Super 10 console that was supposed to start the µPD777 line, in which case, Epoch probably just released it because it was already done, and their slow development process meant they needed all the titles they could get. (Technology moved fast then) Arguably this is pretty similar to the situation the Atari 2600 was facing in America at the same time, but the Cassette Vision’s µPD777 architecture was less flexible and Epoch’s game development process too constrained.

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