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“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“First of its kind, gone by New Year's Eve — Marty left the party early.”
The FM Towns Marty arrived in 1993 as Fujitsu's home video game console for Japan, built on the FM Towns computer system from 1989 and even backward-compatible with its games. Under the hood it ran an AMD 386SX — 32-bit inside, 16-bit out — with a built-in CD-ROM drive and disk drive. It was ambitious, early, and unapologetically its own thing.
The end came swiftly: Fujitsu discontinued the Marty on December 31, 1993, less than a year after it debuted. A Marty 2 followed in 1994 with a darker shell and a lower ¥66,000 price, but none of the rumored upgrades fans hoped for. There was even a Car Marty, with navigation guidance, that could come inside and play at home — a console that truly never stopped moving.
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“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“Fifteen years, one joystick, and a cartridge slot that never said die.”
“A CD player that dreamed of being a computer, a decade too polite to say so.”