You say you're new to museum curation but it's clear you have a natural understanding of what's important: facilitating learning by telling an engaging story, providing a 'hands on' experience and providing access to more in depth knowledge if people want it. I wish I was closer but I intend to visit soon!
It's exactly this why I love this channel so much. I have seen plenty of other channels and museums. But often it's just a bunch of old stuff dumped in a room. Which is just not as interesting.
Yeah funny that, I'm not a lover of red really at all, but electronics in red I have always like, boom boxes and wlakmans, I believe I had a lovely red Sanyo portable tape player when I was a teen, it was rather expensive, the battery lasted for around a week with a few play throughs and I got it for Christmas, so it was a bit better than average because it was a Christmas present. Thank you for your contribution to retro gaming and your video,,, annnd for reminding me of a fond memory. 😊
I love all of these! They're crazy and zany and impractical and impressive and gorgeous! Had I only the space to house them, or the means to procure them, I'd want one of each.
Have you tried Viewpoint on the FM Towns yet? It's a personal favourite of mine and it blows all the other versions out of the water -- even the arcade. Fabulous game.
I'd love to see the Sharp MZ-800 on display. A lovely Z80 based micro that seems to be completely unknown in the vingate computer community, despite selling outside Japan...
Heber were giving them away to clear out their warehouse so I thought they would make good monitor stands but also give a kind of temporary feel to the “pop up” exhibition space. As if it might be packed away at any time for the next display to arrive.
RTX Area On, RTX Area Off. :p Interesting visual clue on the Virtual Boy to the unusual way it produces pictures, I think. A refresh line going from one corner to the other, instead of the up down we usually see. Mirrors and single pixel width LCD strip.
...and the music! its my favorite FM synth music of all, and most games seem to have composers who really gave it their all on the OST, even the porn games lmao. Not to mention all the different MIDI module options. such a great game system and personal computer!
Thanks for watching, here are lots of links to videos of some of the items seen in more detail which you may enjoy! Neil ● Episode Links Support The Cave at patreon.com/rmcretro Visit The Cave: retrocollective.co.uk Sharp X68000 Pro Review: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OepeiBF5Jnk.html Testing out the Sharp X68000 Expert: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EQWE67jsfOc.html Luxury PC Engine in a Monitor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h3hWEzHDxjo.html PC Engine Trash to Treasure: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0VxAmCYXp_0.html FM Towns Car Marty: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ya5MoNBWZ04.html PCFX Repair: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-srk4bvRWmdM.html Yamaha CX5M Demo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qlu4Lcpq4GM.html Amstrad Mega PC Trash to Treasure: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6dWb-uw27Yg.html Pioneer Laser Active Trash to Treasure: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rvRRCa8Kik.html
Oh! Dog Policeman! Here's a piece of trivia, Dog Police is the tune that's played when you play Frogger, but later versions of the game, such as the Arcade Archives version, had it removed because some Japanese Toy company got the rights to the song, even though technically it began in the public domain. You can think of it a bit like the Japanese version of how "Happy Birthday" got copyrighted by The Summy Company that only just went back to the public domain in 2015 in the US, and 2017 in the EU.
Ah, the MSX. I was never a fan, I admit. But it has a huge following here in Brazil. The MSX users group is so big that they are the ones who actually put together the retrocomputing events here in Rio and I admit the MSX began to grow on me. I've only used it a couple of times back in the day as there were a few machines available at my BASIC course way back when I was twelve years old, but I always preferred to use one of the few PC XT's or even the TRS-80 clones they also had available. Back in those days I had an Apple II clone (a machine I'm still trying to find) and dad had a spanking new 286 clone. MSX's are somewhat easy to find at a decent price over here. Might get one someday. Good ol' days!
Impressive collection indeed, you could have a lookout for the PC-88/98, and computers like the Sharp X1 and Fujitsu FM-7. Those would make it the ultimate collection.
Don't forget Brazil. The MSX was HUGELY popular here, with machines from two local manufacturers (Gradiente and Epcom/Sharp), and a great number of smaller companies producing a wide assortment of accessories, expansion cartridges and even upgrade kits (from MSX 1 to MSX 2 and eventually 2+). Nowadays, we still have many people enjoying, or discovering, the MSX, developing software or manufacturing hardware. Myself included.
The Twin Famicom you have is a later revision. Besides a slight redesign of the outer shell the only substantial difference is the controllers which have turbo switches. Thus the second version is called the Twin Famicom Turbo, though I don't know if that was ever an official name.
No, Sharp never officially made a distinction between the first and second revision FC Twins, other than the model number. Also, leave it to Neil to, not only, have an extremely rare bit of Nintendo kit. But, to, also, have the rarest version of it.
Neil - "Let's not talk of this ever again..... Mark, do you know where I left that Megadrive Joypad?" Mark - "I don't understand, even if I ask a sparrow"
12:50 The Japanese dialogue here is actually "Even if you listen to the crow, you won't understand. Even if you listen to the sparrow, you won't understand" There's something ironically poetic about this...Anyway, you got the "meow meow meow" part right 😂. And wan/wao is the sound a dog makes in Japanese. Japanese OCR translation still has a long way to go
A great tour of a great exhibition. Some real Specials there. As a retro computing geek (which I consider myself) there were a bunch of things I hadn't seen or even heard of, so truly worth a place in a museum. Thank you very much for the interesting and educational tour. Best wishes for you and your Museum and keep up that excellent work.
The Golden Girls footage over the MSX Nemesis Theme song gave me a smile. The Sharp X68000 is the most handsome system, although I also really love the designs with the gray and green colour scheme featured by the Sharp Twin Famicom and Fujitsu FM Towns, very nostalgic for that era to me.
Neil, you are giving William Shantner a run for his money on that famicon karaoke. Must say i really like the japanese console garden ( bad reference to Police Squad joke) i llmy school had the yamaha msx and keyboard back in 1984l3 as well
Dog police man is found in so many games i lost count.....u need to hook up that amp and record cave dwellers singing a rmc video intro song....a pint or two may be necessary
Time Life presents RMC GREATEST HITS! Hear Neil sing all the classics including: * Dog Policeman * That Took A Bit Longer Than I Expected ...and many more! Don't delay - call now! ...but seriously Neil, thank you to you and your team for doing the videos and for The Cave!
@2:47 Orao! Wow, this brings memories, we had that Croatian 8-bit computer in elementary school, programming in Basic on a green CRT monitor, those were the days! I remember how we had an assignment to make a program that draws numbers (using lines, plot, draw and such commands) and the number we reach will be our grade for the assignment (grades in Croatia go from 1 (fail) up to 5 (the best one)). Me and my mate made a program that drew numbers from 1 to 11 (but we only got one 5 grade, unfair, but better than two 5s and one 1, lol). :)
Five-player Bomberman on the PC Engine, what a great idea! Imagine winning a match at The Cave 🤭 In all seriousness, i really enjoyed seeing this part of the cave. Some really intersting Japanese tech on show.
One of my flatmates at college had a Super Wild Card. Must have been 1994 or thereabouts. I'd completely forgotten about that device, was highly popular in the house.
As a game dev myself I have a soft spot for devkits and tech that lets you develop on it, so that Terradrive is right up my alley, super looking forward to more of it. I also love the Net Yaroze, there's just something extra cool about it, I wonder if they've got one in the collection?
I still want you to find a grey Gameboy that someone has drawn art all over. I know I'm not imagining it but can't find any info on it and not really found any old photos. But I remember there was a craze back in the 90s and an article about it (maybe on Bad Influence) about people making their boring grey Gameboys looks cool with artwork all over them. Never seen any of these for sale on eBay.
Neil, that's an amazing Japanese system collection as-is, but I have a soft spot for the Motorola 6809 processor, hence I would love to see a Fujitsu FM77 AV.. Japanese 8-bit system with 4096 colors and a genlock.. Dead-sexy too.
Not a suggestion for a Japanese exhibition, but somewhat related nevertheless: How about a handheld corner - tracing the history of handhelds from the Game & Watch (and Tiger Electronics) and Microvision through the various Gameboys, the Game and and Lynx, and lesser known devices like the Neo Geo Pocket, the Wonderswan or the Sega Nomad? It all could be presented chronologically and end with .... I dunno, a Nintendo Switch? Or Smartphones (which have their own history of games, which will be (and already is) incredibly difficult to preserve) Thanks for all the great content and if I ever make it to the UK and your neck of the woods, I will gladly visit the museum :). Michael
Had a Sega SC-3000H, SF-7000 and plotter which I stupidly sold when the Amiga was released. It was even due to have a modem released for it - not sure if it was. Great video.
Just found the channel and I very glad I have. Such attention to detail and care is put into these videos and it really makes me feel like I got to know these systems.
I hope you take this feedback as trying to help improve an amazing effort and an amazing job, but the background music got a little too loud at times during the tour for me
It seems like a lot of these kinds of Western retro computing channels when they talk about Japanese computers it's often just X68k and FM Towns. Don't get me wrong, those are cool, but the PC-98 was at one point the most popular series of computers in Japan by far, basically their equivalent to how ubiquitous IBM PCs were in the west. I'd say it has plenty historic value, and if part of the reason is because "it only has adult games", well that's just not true. There's plenty of SFW games for it you could show off in a public setting.
The original Famicom is extremely prone to yellowing. It's possible that it was originally cream, especially since that's the lightest color you'll find on one of them today, but there are marketing shots showing it a nearly pure white.
I am missing the rails for my ROM² Amp as well. I was very curious to see if they fit Duo and SuperGrafx the same but my ROM² Amp didn’t have them. They do look like they were designed to fit all three setups.
Sharp X1 is my fav, but I only have a later model pc9821 Also NEC PCFX, which was like the best thing for processing 2D graphics in the PS1 gen, but since all the idiots went for shitty triangular 3D, it flopped
Everytime I watch a video from RMC I just want go out and get the items aswell. But some of these gems are so rare and would collect dust on my shelves. I really appreicate the work you have put into creating this museum. I hope I can pop over some time to visit the cave. Greeting from Sweden
I only ever saw the Yamaha MSX computer in the US because some musical instrument stores sold it since it had a low-end DX synthesizer built-in. The X68000 I find interesting because it was really sold as a PC, but just had great graphics and sound, making it good for games too.
[ It´ s like every things that I only dreamed about in my childhood in one place. I started from Amiga, ZX spectrum with it` s R-Type then was Sega MegaDrive2 with it`s Dune2, Sony PlayStation with 1st Tomb Rider, after I have Pentium2 from Intel and 3Dfx Voodoo2 GraphicsCard then was Riwa TNT then ATI Radeon9650XT and nVidia GeForce4 cards for graphics then a lots different kinds of laptops and so on. Nowdays I playing my nVidia GeForce 1060 RTX & 1070 RTX and graphic cards ]
Well of course you can't go to Japan without Neo-Geo. Also Epoch cassete vision and all the myriad portables (including neo Geo pocket color , and wonderswan as well as all the game Boy stuff)
My parents bought a computer for us to toy around with back in late 1984. They didn't know how it worked, and my sister and I didn't have a clue either. It did come with a manual, thankfully in our native Dutch. Because as a 7 year old I didn't speak English yet. The computer turned out to be a Sony HitBit MSX1. Similar to the one you've shown in the video, but a different model and looked a bit different as well. No hard drive or floppy drive. Everything had to be loaded from a cassette recorder or a cartridge that you could slot on top of the machine. It lasted us till the early 90's when we got our first console. A Super NES. That together with a GameBoy got us finally into the PC age with a 486 in 1995. Good times for sure. P.S. I immediately recognized the Frogger game. And Nemesis as well. Although on my Super NES that one was called R-Type.
No Panasonic JR-100U computer ? Shame on you. (ha ha) Good luck if you want one, they are extremely rare. EDIT : I might, (a very big might), be the omly person in the U.K. with one.
I don't learn much but I still enjoyed the video. You said that you love electronics in red cases, well, I can recommand you to search for a Sharp X1. And with a VHD module, you might be surprise by some FMV games.There's also a Pioneer MSX that can be plug on a laser disc (Pioneer Palcom). And another mindblowing NEC PC Engine part is artist tool (it's a combo of trackpad and printer)
Famicom clones, commonly named "Megason", had great success in Israel during the late 80s and early 90s. They were compatible with Famicom cartridges, and with NES using an adapter. Megasons were still being sold alongside Mega Drive and Super Nintendo systems.
The virtual boy was a neat concept but a MISERABLE thing to use. I couldn't play on one more than 5-10 mins without getting headaches or dizzy from the lenses. I wish they could have sold enough to refine them for future consoles- b/c there's really NEVER been anything like it until the modern VR thing, and even that's not always as well done as a concept.
I love the Japanese design of their computers (both MSX series, X6800 and other Sharp and Sony machines)! They look like badasses from dark corners in compare to Commodore, Spectrum or Atari computers. :D
Looking at the writing on those green controllers, you're actually holding them upside down (confusing, as that's the way they hang up). The switch on the far left is volume loud or soft, the switch next to that (under tennis) is players 1 or 2, the switch on the right (under hockey) switches between TV signal and the console. Guessing you remembered in reverse
Man, I've seen the weirdest shit here in Japan. Walking along small stalls in shopping galleries under the rail tracks in Kobe, with stores selling old laptops of a vintage that I can just not recognize, or my college having a room with old tech that looked straight out of 1971, or desktop computers with a front flap under the main box with a multitude of jumpers directly accessible... Sadly they ended in the dump, the latter ones, because I had no access to them, but wow... They should be in a Museum, Indy!, one would say.
Always wanted a X68k, Wondermega and X'Eye, and so on. But the prices... Also, after the last move (not our last one) being a pain because of our collection, I stopped getting new devices for now. At least I got a PC Engine CD Duo R (recapped and new laser lens) a few years ago but still need a controller extension as controller the cable is sooo short. I still remember seeing the Laseractive in a special mag about upcoming consoles back in the early 90s. I really wanted one and seeing the game here in the video, it must have been the one they were showing off on screenshots. I still remember the pyramid. Setting something up like this kind of hands on museum, I don't want to know what pain setting up the cable management was. Have lots of consoles and computers myself and having many set up at the same time is a cable nightmare. :D
Ah, thanks Neil. Nice to see the Japanese size of the 8 bit machines of the 80s. My friend Wilf had a Toshiba MSX which we'd play JSW ii and a great game where you had to collect the parts of a nuclear bomb. ;)
Somehow I missed this video until today, a week after visiting The Cave. This video certainly is a good companion to seeing the display in person, and I’m glad that I was able to contribute a Famiclone to the display.
