An obscure Japanese
games console made by
Fujitsu. One of the
transition era consoles. Featured a
CD-ROM drive and a huge number of hardware sprites, although these had to be displayed within a window narrower than the screen. Reviews of
arcade perfect conversions by
Ving of
Tatsujin 2 and
Splatter House appeared in
Edge in 1993, and the console was one of the main targets for
Psygnosis'
Microcosm, and its follow up
Scavenger 4 (though this is not something to be proud of). Although going the way of the other transition period consoles such as the
Jaguar or
3DO, it none the less served as a showcase for CD-ROM technology, and played a small but significant part in the move to
32-bit.
Specs lifted from issue 2 of Edge:
- CPU: 80386DX @ 16 MHz (A later version was made using a 486SX)
- Colours: 32 768 (256 onscreen)
- Resolution: 352 x 232
- Sprites: 1024 onscreen
- CD transfer: 150 k/sec
- Sound: 6 channel FM, 8 channel PCM