A 1994 Games Console for your Car? The FM Towns Car Marty

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This has to one one of the rarest retro game consoles we've seen on the channel to date, the FM Towns Car Marty. It's a games console designed specifically to go in your car, and it's a bit bonkers.
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@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Big thanks to Mark Fixes Stuff: kzfaq.info and TheGebs24: kzfaq.info for taking part in this episode, if you're not already subscribed why not pay them a visit now and check out their videos. Neil

@BloodBlight Жыл бұрын

Seems like this would have been a good candidate for an ultra sonic cleaning.

@deathstrike Жыл бұрын

Could it be possible to use a disk emulator? Like the ones that emulate a floppy drive, but are usually SD card based? Also, there is a PCMCIA/floppy drive combo system available. I applaud your work in keeping these rare systems. But sometimes we have to find modern solutions to keep these amazing devices to work.

@thejackofeverything7961 Жыл бұрын

I thought the 386DX had an integrated fpu, and the SX did not.

@deathstrike Жыл бұрын

@@thejackofeverything7961 You are correct. The x86 series with an "SX" designation is lacking the coprocessor, the "DX" has it built in. An SX can be made to run akin to a DX with the math coprocessor. But generally the "integrated DX" processor tended to run better.

@cdoublejj Жыл бұрын

in the us we had "conversion vans" it was not uncommon to see smaller full size CRTs in them. in the 2000s i saw one with an n64 in it. (might have been built in the late 90s)

@SmoggyLambGG Жыл бұрын

5:23 🔸 _When transporting the unit, make sure that there is no CD inside the unit to protect the internals, and attach the transport protection screws._ _After removing the screws, store them in the position shown in the figure below._

@hacktheplanet. Жыл бұрын

Close. But well done.

@59withqsb12 Жыл бұрын

Does that basically mean you have to screw in the transport protection screw before you drive anywhere and then take it out for stationary gaming?

@mockier Жыл бұрын

I think the intention is to use it if shipping it overseas.

@RustBunny Жыл бұрын

So, not unlike some record players that had a screw and sometimes an extra plastic piece to restrain the tone arm. I have only seen a transport screw used once before for a CD player before in a bookshelf stereo system, but it does makes sense for something that's meant to be portable like this - perhaps even more so with the Car Marty and other devices at the time that weren't using a caddy for the disk.

@trahan625 Жыл бұрын

Word for Word from Google Translate (Image) 😆 I was going to post it till I seen it :)

@dannymac653 Жыл бұрын

Japan had the coolest retro hardware. We lived in a sea of beige.

@TempoLOOKING Жыл бұрын

Most only wanted them.

@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын

Plenty of beige there too, like the original Famicom. There is a beige FM Towns, the PC Engine, and PC Engine CD-ROM². Heck, the Duo R and Duo RX too.

@valley_robot Жыл бұрын

The uk has invented loads of cool stuff that was very cool and very important to the future of technology , the first sub 100.00 home computer the zx80/81, the first hand held pc that fitted in your pocket, the psion , the arm architecture for processing that is still used today , acorn computers. Nintendo were still making playing cards when the zx80 computer was released

@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын

@@valley_robot He didn’t say the UK didn’t make anything cool. He said Japan had the coolest. As for Nintendo, they were converting bowling alleys into electromechanical light gun arcades and making “Color TV Game” home game consoles before the ZX80.

@dannymac653 Жыл бұрын

@@valley_robot I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention to imply anyone else's hardware was bad. I still think everyone had cool stuff. I feel UK hardware was cooler than the US hardware, for example.

@JonMichaelDeShazer Жыл бұрын

14:42 About 18 years ago I worked in a small Computer store fixing PC's for a living. One day we received a PC that was probably 12-15 years old running on an old 386 CPU. It had been used to control heavy equipment in a machine shop for rebuilding car engines, etc. I still remember cracking open the case and the entire inside was coated with that stuff so high, you couldn't see what was underneath all the filth. It looked like black soot. Only the power supply in it was bad, so we grabbed a new AT power supply. In the rush I forgot the rule of AT power supplies when plugging them into the motherboard (Black to Black, Back to Back) and turned it on. The Power supply was just sitting in the case and not screwed in and it literally kicked into the air about an inch like it was a bucking bronco followed by a puff of smoke. Needless to say, that customer got a free 486 DX2 motherboard and new power supply that day.

@hicknopunk Жыл бұрын

Yikes

@martso9288 Жыл бұрын

😢

@deepee8010 10 ай бұрын

RIP

@dicapriodelorean2888 Жыл бұрын

I keep wanting to call this console the FM Towns Marty McFly

@Dr.D00p Жыл бұрын

The ultimate optional extra for every 90's Tokyo Yakuza Bosses Limo...

@bjornkeizers Жыл бұрын

Fascinating to see how far Japan was ahead of the rest of the world at that time. They had CD-based consoles in 1993... when we'd first see the PlayStation here in Europe in 1995. Same thing with say, the Super Nintendo: 1990 introduction in Japan, we got it in 1992. That'd be pretty unthinkable these days.

@cyo_corner Жыл бұрын

Very good video overall. A few notes. -The Fuse can be replaced with similar fuse as the Super Famicom. Ive used a pickle fuse before as I've popped it over 5 times getting pin out wrong on some HW projects for Car Marty. -the cable for video out is unobtanium. Ive developed and created a card to stick in the back to get composite, audio left and right, mono audio and s-video from the car Marty. If you need one Neil let me know and I'll send you a mail. -I'm still working on an external FDD cable / dongle to stick in the back. I have a working prototype as I identified a modern connector to use but I need to revisit it. The external FDD for Car Marty is extremely unobtanium and hard to find. I've only seen one for sale on Yahoo. On the prototype I was able to successfully boot Columns and then Cameltry from a flash floppy gotek. So works but needs refinement.

@TheAMadMan Жыл бұрын

Those handbrake detection is the first thing bypassed, even today. Last time I had a fancy DVD car stereo installed they did it automatically without even asking...

@imaneagle. Жыл бұрын

It's harder now. You can't just ground it to the frame, it actually looks for a low voltage pulse that the parking brake normally puts out.

@MrJakeTucker Жыл бұрын

I've always been fond of Lucasfilm Games' adventures. It wasn't until ScummVM that I found out about the FM Towns exclusives where Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has a CD audio soundtrack and Zak McKracken is 256 colours.

@cericat Жыл бұрын

Most of the Lucas adventures had good FM Towns releases. I was a little disappointed none of them made an appearance.

@rommix0 Жыл бұрын

ScummVM is such a great emulator isn't it. I was able to run some old Humongous Entertainment games on my smartphone when I ran them on PC/Mac way back in the day. Technology only gets better.

@GreySectoid Жыл бұрын

This computer is insane, thank you for presenting it for us. 13:53 The most beautiful board I've ever seen. No joke. Who designed this were proud of their job.

@TheGebs24 Жыл бұрын

Tremendous episode Neil. Thank you for having me on. I look forward to visiting the cave and having a coffee with you 🎉

@ludekstipal6120 Жыл бұрын

So Mark dragged Datsun AND Mazda upstairs? Real dedication...

@CallousCoder Жыл бұрын

It happened in Knight Rider 1983 I believe where Michael plays an Atari 2600 whilst KITT is driving.

@killerbee2562 Жыл бұрын

Another time he played pac-man.

@davidjames579 Жыл бұрын

Is that the get-out? "It's okay officer, my Car is Self-Driving""

@CallousCoder Жыл бұрын

@@davidjames579 I believe it is indeed that scene yeah!!!

@straightpipediesel Жыл бұрын

Interestingly the manufacturer, Fujitsu Ten, was taken over by Denso in 2017, where they're known as Denso Ten. They currently make a number of car infotainment systems, including for Subaru and GM, a lot of which are Intel Atom/Android based. So this is where it's all descended from.

@Slingersbullseye Жыл бұрын

I like depth knowledge you know your stuff

@fattomandeibu Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean about slot loading seeming futuristic. In '94, any console I'd seen with a CD-ROM would've had either a lid for top loading or a caddy front loader. My own CD-ROM was essentially a portable CD player with an extra attachment to add SCSI sockets to allow it to plug into my A1200 via a Squirrel branded PCMCIA to SCSI adapter. A slot loader probably would've looked like something out of Star Trek to me.

@xKB616 Жыл бұрын

My grandparents had a Conversion Van that had a built in tv/vcr player. It also had a standard US electric outlet. You could put a console in there for vacations. We used to do that all the time.

@Warpedflash Жыл бұрын

I had no idea it was that dirty inside the CD mech! I only ever checked the battery and caps for leakage and all seemed good. I'm glad it's got a full service and been cleaned inside and out, it's a fun albeit weird bit of video game history.

@El-Ritmo Жыл бұрын

What an interesting system, and a real flex for owners at the time, I’m sure - having the money to have that in your car, especially given the surely very limited time anyone was ever likely to spend actually playing on it. What would be great to see (though perhaps beyond your space constraints) is an exhibit built around it: a mock-up of a car with this installed, with an era-appropriate screen. A limited one, of course: get a dashboard, centre console, steering column and seat from a scrappy, but it’d be really fun and give a good sense of the experience 😊 Impractical, I know, but fun, I think.

@Big5mokE719 Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the early/mid 90s my grandpa bought a hi top van that came with a TV in the back and one of the cubby holes had hookups for an snes so I'd bring mine along on road trips. I loved it

@enfieldjohn101 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating video! I don't remember ever seeing one of these before. It's fun to learn new things. I've studied electronics ever since the late 1970's, but I've not seen these Marty systems. It's simply amazing what they'd done with this FM Towns Car Marty! Window cleaner is great stuff! Even better than rubbing alcohol in some cases since it's not as harsh, yet still evaporates quickly. There's also 'contact cleaner' but it usually isn't necessary.

@TheGeoffers08 Жыл бұрын

Another cracking video Neil. For what it's worth , I have am FM Towns, and have never been able to track down an image of Marble Mardness where the music plays (sadly), so it's certainly not your Car Marty having an issue, it's the image.

@WhatAboutZoidberg Жыл бұрын

Fun colaboration, been watching Debs for a few years. FM Town systems are so interesting. Not the best versions of the games mostly, but the music tracks sound amazing apparently.

@raggersragnarsson6255 Жыл бұрын

Upvote for Debs as well.

@SobieRobie Жыл бұрын

It's impressive for 1994. Fully working PC in such small car format. It's a shame (but small) that they didn't deicide to use 386DX/40. BTW very interesting time for PC. What happend to computers in next 4 years in incredible.

@dastroyer6070 Жыл бұрын

I'd really like to know how an FM Towns Car Marty would be set up in... well, a car. Can't find any images from my Google search. Trying to picture it, would an external monitor have been sold to display whatever? How or where would the monitor be mounted? I just want to see it set up in the environment it was originally intended for.

@LusRetroSource Жыл бұрын

Such a cool console! I really enjoy learning about these little known devices.

@snakefriesia6808 Жыл бұрын

as a sort-of retro collector myself i knew there were a few models of Fm Towns, but i never heard of this one. Thanks for this video and i hope to see more interesting ones.

@69uremum Жыл бұрын

I love the design of those Fujitsu products:) It looks like what someone in the late 80's would visualize future technology as looking like. I think they definitely have that cyberpunk aesthetic.

@robertpearce2244 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Oddly for me the most enjoyable part was the strip / clean / assemble section. Awesome soldering skills 😎👊

@neddreadmaynard Жыл бұрын

Dear Sir. Being inspired by your visual feast I decided to surprise my wife by hooking a Vectrex up to the engine of my Cortina. However during a heavy breaking manoeuvre wires came loose and gave my wife a buttock rippling shock. This was hardly the "world of entertainment " we were promised. I feel that a free day pass to the Cave (and the arcade) will make up for my distress, and my wife's twitching, haunted face. Yours Sincerely Sir Curtis Tenderloin Milton Keynes

@GeorgesChannel Жыл бұрын

Great video! The FM-Towns was an awsome series! There were also some models with built in Monitors like the Classic Macintosh.

@CalebSnell Жыл бұрын

I love retro electronics, and it was really fun learning about this piece of history!

@ChrisGripeos Жыл бұрын

That FM Towns Desktop case look AMAZING!

@jbmaru Жыл бұрын

Nice to discover the Marty a little better, and to see an appearance of Gemma!

@raggersragnarsson6255 Жыл бұрын

I remember Splatterhouse when it first appeared in my local arcade as a teen. It was slightly shocking at the time and very difficult, albeit I pumped quite a few 10ps into it and never got very far. I moved on to other games as it just sucked up coins at my skill level for better value. Xybots was my other more fun coin eater for me. Great to see it here and these quite obscure machines as well. Thanks once again Neil. The best as always.

@HappyCodingZX Жыл бұрын

In answer to your question, I have a nice Hitachi HiSaturn, which was a Hitachi licensed version of the Sega console which came with the FMV unit included. However the 'holy grail' of Saturns is the HiSaturn Navi, which is a version of that same Hitachi machine but with a smaller form factor, additional extras such as karaoke ports, a GPS antenna and an LCD screen, all of which would indeed allow you to use it in your car. Add a couple of multitaps, squeeze ten people in your Nissan Micra and let's play Saturn Bomberman on the road!

@paranoidgenius9164 Жыл бұрын

When Gemma was talking, I thought she would make a brilliant Gamesmaster!😃 I like this British videogame retro style of presentation, something that is very rarely seen nowadays & a similar feeling of nostalgia when I watch you're content 😊

@jorge7282 Жыл бұрын

Lovely post with helpful information. This tutorial ha really helped me a lot. I do like and enjoyed this cool video.

@Pressbutan Жыл бұрын

I know a number of minivans had CRT and LCD monitor packages for this kind of thing but very cool and unique outside of the third row road trip niche

@KentuckyRanger Жыл бұрын

When I drove a truck, back in the late 80s, I had a 12" RCA color TV, and Super NES. It got me through many long nights, and layovers, out on the road.

@kenji642 Жыл бұрын

FINALLY! someone is talking about this, ive always wanted one and whenever i told people about it they gave me weird looks, nice to finally see a vid on it

@mattjames6349 Жыл бұрын

Nice and I look forward to the follow up edisode where Neil plays marble madness in a car driving off road! That would be KZfaq gold! :)

@sinistermoon Жыл бұрын

That was so cool! I didn't know this thing even existed. Nice seeing TheGebs24 on here as well.

@caeserromero3013 Жыл бұрын

I was too busy watching movies whilst driving 😂 I only found out about the console whilst on bail for vehicular manslaughter 😂

@arigato7788 Жыл бұрын

I can imagine police cars and taxis having this back then. I totally picture Miyuki's Honda Today patrol car having this set up in the anime You're Under Arrest.

@raccoon681 Жыл бұрын

My first jobs was for cartunes sound and cellular. lots of crazy custom work I remember a dodge viper being modified with a custom n64 molded into the glove box. The screen was in the stereo, It would pop out like a cd deck and flip up. Not to mention the stereo being able to shake the bolts loose on the car.

@cpt_bill366 Жыл бұрын

Growing up American, I can assure you that conversion vans already had standard consoles and CRT TV's in them. Eventually these carried on to SUV's and minivans, but it was there for anyone with the money. It was really nice for long roadtrips.

@DavidWhitley Жыл бұрын

Great Video Neil as always :)

@IzzyMann Жыл бұрын

WOOP WOOP NEW VID :) Great stuff!!!!!

@KieranAPB Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you do a video on the Hitachi HiSaturn Navi. I thought it might be a bit too rare and pricy for RMC, but then I remembered you were able to get your hands on a Pioneer LaserActive, so it could be achievable.

@mountainwolf95 Жыл бұрын

A forward thinking piece of technology IMO, even the implementation looks like something that would have been cutting edge for the time even if the software library wasn't, and quite cool to see in the cave amongst the other gems you have Neil, thanks for showing it to us!

@Ehurst01 Жыл бұрын

I remember visiting the Minnesota State Fair and seeing a Saturn station wagon concept car fitted with a Nintendo and CRT in the back. I wanted that car so badly as a kid. I've never been able to find anything about it online.

@davidjames579 Жыл бұрын

Not containing a Sega Saturn. That was a missed opportunity.

@Colin_Ames Жыл бұрын

Definitely an interesting piece of kit. As for your FM Towns II, you should definitely fix it. That would make a great episode.

@joewinz8181 Жыл бұрын

You are correct about the parking brake on the pin out is exactly correct. Anything with a monitor typically has one.

@danielson9579 Жыл бұрын

Good background music as always 😎

@37Kilo2 Жыл бұрын

Your videos always have the oddest stuff I had never heard of. Very interesting.

@kemi242 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see this installed in a period correct Japanese car with the screen and the one handed controller to see how it would have been used in a car.

@scottcol23 Жыл бұрын

Back in 1992 my parents got a new Van, one that had the fancy lighting and captain's chairs. It had a 13" color tv with a VCR. This would have been amazing. I used to bring my NES and Genisis on long road trips we used to take over the summer.

@amazingdrewH Жыл бұрын

Have you.ever.wanted a games console in your car? Me holding my game boy pocket: Two to three steps ahead of you sir

@RMCRetro Жыл бұрын

Are you from the future?

@A.I-GAMING Жыл бұрын

Very impressive, I was amazed on the amount of chips on that thing.

@dykodesigns Жыл бұрын

That Yamaha chip is the same as the Megadrive’s 2612 FM chip, except this is a CMOS version of it (that’s why the part number is different). The Megadrive 2 has the 3438 core integrated into it’s main ASIC chip. What’s funny is that the 3438 has an improved DAC compared to the 2612, but Sega muntzed the amplifier circuit in the Megadrive 2 making it sound noisier then the Megadrive 1.

@jothain Жыл бұрын

10:30 Yes, handbrake feedback is exactly for that. Almost all ie. DVD video capable units have that function to prevent driver watching movies on the road. Apparently it's tested on annual car MOT on many countries.

@davidjames579 Жыл бұрын

I would have thought it's use would only be in the back. Up-front seem redundant.

@jothain Жыл бұрын

@@davidjames579 Oh there's plenty of units that have ie. out ejecting display. But I get your point fully.

@ddniUK Жыл бұрын

Nice video Neil. You worked hard to NOT make any direct Amiga references 😅. The CDTV and Cd32 comment was close though 😊

@vexxhearts Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid my dad wired a small CRT tv and a NES in our yugo it was the coolest thing ever as a kid. Plus my grandparents had one of those campers style vans that had a tv and vcr in it.

@IsThisReality Жыл бұрын

I spotted a boxed Car Marty today in a retro game shop in Seoul Korea. I tried to buy it but it wasn’t for sale. There was a lot of other rare goodies there too but the really good stuff wasn’t for sale. I can’t say I blame him. Very nice guy!

@darktetsuya Жыл бұрын

for years I honestly had no idea where Fujitsu got 'TOWNS' from, thanks for clearing that up! always been curious about this particular system seems like it had some pretty good arcade ports! ... I did have to laugh at that muscle bomber glitch, that's a new one haha!

@MontegaB Жыл бұрын

Dude that FM Towns PC is badass

@HakuKazamaruView Жыл бұрын

Thank you upload your video! I had see Fujitsu's rare hardware,that i don't known released by Fujitsu to it. I'm sorry, I can't use English, so I use Japanese. 日本人ですが富士通がFM-TOWNシリーズでこんなハードをリリースしていたとは知りませんでした。また、コンソール向けに絞ったハードもリリースしていたんですね。このころの日本ではNECのPC-98シリーズのシェアが多く、ホビーPCはおろかPCと言えばPC-98、国民機と呼ばれるほどでした。色々なメーカーの思考を凝らしたとても貴重なモノを見させて頂きました。

@skeggjoldgunnr3167 Жыл бұрын

When soldering a through-hole connection: to remove the iron at finish of joint soldering - SLIDE the iron up the component lead. This helps prevent a ball sitting on the board blob look, aids in leaving only the PROPER amount of solder on the joint.

@lasskinn474 Жыл бұрын

Well it was nice of them to provide an upgrade path out of towns into pc while having a machine for the changeover period to use your existing sw while you find new sw.

@londongaz2 Жыл бұрын

Love the goofs at the end!

@AmstradExin Жыл бұрын

I heard the reason for that thing was, in Japan, they don't listen to radio much and rather have a TV in their cars. What a weird concept.

@davidjames579 Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's like the American Culture of having TV's on everywhere that no one ever watches.

@SvenQ45 Жыл бұрын

Yes some had TVs in the 90s and 80s you could also listen (just listen) to TV stations in cars!

@jacobbaranowski Жыл бұрын

Proper 1994 in the car. Cool and interesting old school gaming on the go Featuring Jema

@Griffo20022 Жыл бұрын

This makes me wish I still had my Nissan Leopard, would have been the ultimate accessory for that old beast! Love this!

@WizardClipAudio Жыл бұрын

Back in 2008,... I had a touch screen video audio receiver, in my car, with it hooked up to a 2000 watt subwoofer, and a Playstaion 2 slim, installed in the glove box,... I'd sit parked, and play GTA Vice City with the audio cranked,.... and when something, in game, would explode, the whole car would shake and rock around on it's suspension. It was pretty dope.

@udokee7409 Жыл бұрын

Sounds dope

@catriona_drummond Жыл бұрын

I love how the plastics have perfectly the exact same grey as the interior of our 1997 Honda Accord.

@Roxor128 Жыл бұрын

You know, I think perhaps a good open-source project that could benefit the retrocomputing hobby might be to make an open-source CD-ROM drive. Or at least the control board, given that every failed drive I've had has failed electronically rather than mechanically. You could take a modular approach to designing it. From what little I do know about how such a drive works, you could have the following modules: 1. Eject mechanism handling. 2. Spinning the disc, moving the laser, and focussing the laser. 3. Laser power control and return signal strength monitoring. 4. Signal modulation and demodulation. 5. Bitstream encoding and decoding. 6. Error correction coding and decoding. 7. Bus interface (IDE/SCSI/SATA/weird proprietary things on old sound cards). 8. Analogue audio output. 9. Front panel controls not related to the eject mechanism, if any. There might be a need to add an on-drive processing step if you're going to support formats like DVD and BD, which charge the drive with DRM duties, but I don't think CD-ROMs required that, though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

@AustinR9514 Жыл бұрын

Wow that is so impressive!

@adambourne5523 Жыл бұрын

@9:50 "gaming at the front, business at the back" the Anti-Mullet :o

@tomwilliams1181 Жыл бұрын

I bought a Kia Sorrento in 2015 which came with two HD headrest screens with HDMI inputs. For long trips to Lake District and France I used to hook up the Xbox 360 to a car inverter and the kids would just death match and play games the whole journey. Being stuck in traffic jams was no problem and people in other cars would look twice when they saw Halo on those screens. It should come as an option on most family cars I reckon.

@chadwolf3840 Жыл бұрын

Very cool. Thanks.

@klutchcustoms2428 Жыл бұрын

I had one with a mounting tray in an import Toyota a few years ago. The navigation I couldn't work for obvious location reasons and I had no games! Yes the signal from the parking brake is a legal requirement and only allows audio and navigation while moving.

@LetsPlayKeldeo Жыл бұрын

Thats what I was missing ! Beeing able to play games whilst on the auto bahn

@ihateevilbill Жыл бұрын

One of my pals managed to put a micro pc running windows XP in his car. He had a 7" touch screen coming from the dash and he could do anything on it that a normal windows pc could do (obviously). The weird thing is, his brother (who also likes to do projects like that) was called Marty. This was around 2003 (ish, roughly... it was a long time ago XD).

@Nitemare1989 Жыл бұрын

so when i was younger it was '99 or '00 my parents had a Pontiac Transport that had a flip down dvd player for the passenger area that had composite hookups and an external power jack, I was able to get my N64 to play over it lol definitely helped with car trips haha closest i ever had to having a game console in the car lol

@conzmoleman Жыл бұрын

FM Towns Marty has always been the objectively funniest console name. Nothing else comes close.

@vectrex28 Жыл бұрын

Viewpoint is such a great choice! I have the Neo Geo CD version but sadly my NGCD is in storage back home :( - Hence why I've started looking for a CDZ :P

@kristianTV1974 Жыл бұрын

I love Viewpoint, the main reason I got into NeoGeo emu. Was surprised to find an (unreleased?) version of it as a Sega Megadrive ROM.

@crazisaturn2274 Жыл бұрын

As if the FM Towns Marty wasn't already obscure enough.

@MegaManNeo Жыл бұрын

I love the design of this machine. It screams 90's computing.

@Mattfromthepast Жыл бұрын

I think the first part of those instructions means the system can only be plugged into a Japanese western style 60hz NTSC TV, remember they have two different TV systems in Japan depending on which part of the country you live in.

@AmstradExin Жыл бұрын

Mmmmh, they are not that different tho. Both NTSC.

@kFY514 Жыл бұрын

The TV system is the same. They have a different mains frequency in different parts of the country, 50 vs. 60 Hz, but TV has always been 60 Hz (or 59.94 Hz because NTSC is weird) all over Japan. I can't see any kanji for "Japan" or "west" in that red text shown on 5:23, and my Google Translate outputs semi-legible instructions for the transport lock screw when pointed at the screen. So it must have been just a hilarious case of kanji misrecognition.

@googleboughtmee Жыл бұрын

Are you sure about this or are you getting TV refresh rates confused with electricity? I know they have different Hz for electricity but I'd never heard of different TV refresh rates. All Japanese consoles are fixed at 60Hz.

@Mattfromthepast Жыл бұрын

@@googleboughtmee Yeah, I may have been a little mixed up, I thought they had both NTSC and Pal there but now it looks like it is just NTSC. Still I am not sure what else that sentence could be trying to say.

@dpmilligan4487 Жыл бұрын

Really puts a new meaning to a center car console

@imaneagle. Жыл бұрын

I had a ps2, Xbox, GameCube, and vcr in my 2002 Honda Civic as a teen. Miss those days.

@ragdolltech3526 Жыл бұрын

My first car in 2010 i think it was was my great grandmothers Datsun B210!! I so wish I could afford to fix the axle on it.

@TrailBlazer5280 Жыл бұрын

Trapped in cabinets, trapped in cabinets. Will he get out? Can he get out? 🎶🎶

@joemck85 Жыл бұрын

Tip if your translation app is Google Translate: Tap "scan" once you're in the camera mode. Instant translation is done locally on your phone's relatively slow CPU, and is lower quality. Scan mode sends the picture to Google's fast cloud servers to OCR and translate better. I pointed my phone at the computer screen and got this: ・When transporting, make sure there are no CDs inside the main unit to protect the internals, and attach the transport protection screws. ・After removing the screw, store it in the position shown in the figure below.

@icanrunat3200mhz Жыл бұрын

Ooh, imagine the ultimate 90s big baller turbo nerd car kit: the FM Towns Car Marty + Modem PCMCIA card + Carphone for on-road multiplayer. I imagine this in one of those tricks'd up "1000SEL" aftermarket Mercedes-Benz creations with the leather-surrounded CRTs in the center console & dash.

@jamesfloyd6693 Жыл бұрын

Ahhh, the Marty. A solid side kick for any Rick

@madmike8325 Жыл бұрын

I just rocked a 16 bit sega genesis in our vacation van running a 19inch TV/VCR combo and console on a DC converter box. We did have to make a custom mount to hold it all together and in place while in transport but it wasnt anything a sheet of plywood and paint and velcro sticky tape coildnt handle 😂