Can't believe that no-one else has commented! Another well researched video - I remember reading the ACE issue that showcased the FM Towns and its outstanding arcade conversions. A Crying shame that it never received a UK release along with several other Jpn only machines. As for Commodore and the CD32 - I stopped talking them seriously after reading Pleasance's monthly column in Amiga Format. It's a wonder the company lasted that long.
I got lucky with my Marty, I got it in a "broken" joblot box from Japan that also came with a 3DO FZ-10, a virtual boy, an Epoch console and four orange gamecubes, £50 the lot too!
@@TheLairdsLair Thanks, all that was missing were the leads and controllers (and the legs on the virtual boy), bought them and they all worked perfectly!
I recommend FM TOWNS emulator is Tsugaru at the moment. it can direct iso image mount , can enable FPU, and unz have graphics glitches on ALLTYNEX but tsugaru no have problem.
I recently read a magazine article about the FM Towns which briefly touched on the Marty (but focused more on Tsugaru and how to get it running on your PC), so this video made for a nice accompaniment - while I've heard of this console before, I legit had zero clue the Car Marty existed!
Yeah the Car Marty is a pretty amazing but incredibly obscure piece of kit, would have loved something like that for long car journeys back in the day!
Here's a non-interesting Marty fact, I really really wanted one! I love the look of the thing, it's like the superduo has a twin brother who was dropped on it's head at birth and now lives in the basement
The car marty was really ahead of it’s time and for the marty itself,eventrough it only has a 16bit data bus but ghat shouldn’t mean that it only could run 16bit games,it should be able to run 32bit games as well,maybe a bit slower then usual but not that slow as a crawd, so i believe that theres still a huge potential in that console,look what a developers have done on the gameboy advance,so why not.
Oh neat; I even got a shout-out. Thanks for that and thanks for the interesting video on the 5th Gen system I know probably the least about. As for my favourite fact, that would be the fact that the FM Towns Marty had a floppy disk drive on the side. You certainly don't see that being shown off too often.
Yeah the FM Towns was an obscure console not well known outside Japan... Well, we can say the same for the Amiga CD32. Outside of Europe, the Amiga CD32 was relatively unknown.
ISn't there also a thing that the start and select buttons are just up and down, and left and right pressed at the same time. Something impossible to do on the d-pad.
I didn't know about that and it certainly didn't come up in my research, I guess that's a bit like the Jaguar Pro Controller where the extra buttons are just keypad buttons repeated.
15:30 OMG! That’s Ana Paula Arósio, a high profile model here in Brazil in the 1990s that became actress. How the hell is she in a Japanese Fujitsu commercial?!
The one thing that strikes out at me about this is this: why was it called the _FM Towns Marty_ anyway? I wonder if Fujitsu named it after Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox's character in the 1985 film Back to the Future)?
A lot of people assume that and it's never been properly explained from what I understand. But most people agree it comes from Martin "Marty" Ryle, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 1974, keeping in line with Fujitsu's naming convention.
A case could be made for the CD-i being the first 32-bit CD console, and the CDTV being the second. The first questionable part being if the 68000 having 32-bit registers & a 32-bit instruction set, are enough to declare them 32 bit. The second question being if they really count as consoles.
Philips advertised it as 16-bit, it used the same CPU as the Atari ST and that was always advertised as 16-bit too. Nobody ever called 68000 based machines 32-bit.
@@TheLairdsLair The 68000 has a 32-bit instruction set and a 16-bit data bus. The 68EC000 could even switch to using a 8-bit data bus. Motorola skirted the issue by calling it "8-/16-/32-Bit". The internal 32-bit processing was the reason the 68000 performed so much better than the 80286, but the 16-bit data bus was why it performed so poorly when compared to the 80386. Similar splits between register and data bus bitness could be found in the 8088 and 65816, where they are considered 16-bit because of having 16-bit instruction sets, even though their external data bus was 8-bit.
Cool video I always wanted a fm town's Marty ever since I saw ads from mailorder in EGM it was the Japanese pc was nec 98 vs x68000 and fm towns Marty for me instantly was because of back to the future even w a 386sx it was the first 32bit console and aside for the car Marty r the rarest systems I never owned w the console it was expensive even in the late 90s and early 2000s God I wanted splatterhouse marty the cd32 has the ugliest console I ever owned still would love one fan from Australia 🇦🇺 great video
Very interesting, video learned a lot! Who was that kid at our school who was always banging on about this, reconed he had ordered one on import or some such shit.
So, the Marty used a crocodile as a mascot? How original, I'm sure no one ever thought of that before! Especially not the British 10 years prior! Why such a creative marketing campaign failed is beyond me! Cool video, but what about those links to the emulators in the description below?
Sega should have released a 4meg version of this hardware as the Sega CD in late 1993 instead of what they did. Pack it in with Virtua Racing 2 and a six button controller. If they would have done this they would still be in the console hardware game today. Piggybacking everything to the Genesis was a huge mistake.
Took the family from mass to Nevada by van with. Fm car marty installed in he back and sure enough the two 9 year old twins were grounded from playing it for a whole state everytime they ticked mom and dad off, but then again the states they couldnt use it in they forgot to turn he switches volumes down....so sure enough mom has a super mario bros fetish now, and then we started arguing iver it cuz she leaves it on the dashboard in the sun
I am so confused...the Towns Marty emulator being built needs a powerful PC? That doesn't make sense seeing as it was just a 386. It must have some really bad optimization. Also why would you need to emulate X86 when a PC is an X86 platform? So strange...
