Importing an X68000 from Japan!
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Bidding on the Japanese “God Computer” using Yahoo Auctions and Buyee. A first look at the legendary Sharp X68000 SUPER and unboxing a complete system like it was brand new in 1991!
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00:00 Introduction
00:15 Importing from Japan with Buyee
03:09 X68000 Models and Specs
05:27 Unboxing
12:13 First Look and External Features
17:52 The Keyboard
22:41 The Mouse
25:25 Bonus Game and Joypad
28:53 Manuals
30:39 Info Packet
33:07 Conclusion
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Wow! $1400 for a complete boxed & fully serviced unit is an AMAZING price!!
Been trying to find one of these for years for a reasonable price! Game Sack made me want the whole plethora of accessories too lol.
Wish I had been into retro collecting 10 or 15 years ago! I'm going to keep a look out for the matching 15/24/31khz monitor and a MIDI card. Maybe a modern RAM expansion too. Not sure what else is out there that I'd want!
@@retrobitstv Lol well yours came with most everything you could want, aside for a few of the side knick knacks like you said. An original monitor would be nice but not at all necessary.
What a thing of beauty. Truly a design icon. Timeless classic. Will always look cutting edge. Chefs kiss.
I seriously can't get over how good of a deal you got on this!
I think this machine will always be my favourite exotic retro computer. It still looks great today, that design was incredible for the 80s and I have always wanted a modern PC case that closely resembles it.
昔の日本のコンピューターメーカーは独自色があって見ていて飽きないですね
アメリカのシリコングラフィックス社もO2が他にはないデザインでとても良かったと思います
Wow. I can't believe I've never heard of one of these! What a beautiful machine for its time. That thing is sharp!
lol pun intended? 😆
It looks like you bought from Beep. They are a retro computing shop in Akihabara (and a larger, second shop outside of town). They refurbish machines, sell parts, software, and modern repair kits. As for those special keys: Katakana is the simplified characters with more sharp corners and straight lines. Used for foreign words, some names, and onomatopoeia. Hiragana is for Japanese words (and usually starts you on the hunt for the correct kanji). Theres this curious thing about kana: There are several code sets including "half-width" and "full-width" symbols. Its a right pain in the rear figuring out which a particular software or website needs. Online banking for example works a lot with half-width kana. As for those stickers, the sheet says "key-top" so I think you are correct. They are there in the case you wear out the print. I havent seen too many X68K keyboards, but none I have seen had worn off print. Though it must be a thing if someone bothered to make stickers.
That particular mouse, the trackball is quite sought after. Mine is the more typical black lump with 2 gray buttons. Ive seen the trackball mouse go anywhere from $50 to $150... JUST the mouse. So, the part you rotated actually comes off, and then the toggle switch at the bottom flips the ball up into a pocket on the top. No need to flip the mouse over. There is also a mold kit for "re-rubberizing" the ball.
Nice recommendation, tho.
Thank you for all of the clarification! I have managed to convert the mouse now and it works great as a trackball in games like Marble Madness and Arkanoid/Breakout clones!
X68kのキーボードはソフトウェア制御が出来るのでコットンというゲームが起動時に曲に合わせてキーボードLEDを光り輝かせていたよ
@@mitukan11 I noticed that ChaseHQ flashes the keyboard lights along with the police siren!
I'll stick to playing X68000 games on my Mister FPGA lol but the actual hardware always intrigued me... Some years ago (about 15) I almost won an auction for one that ended up selling for $800. But those 2008 prices are a dream now. Great video!
Thanks! Yea, the MiSTer core is a lot of fun to play with and makes it all very accessible. I really wanted to try the real hardware too. I wish I had gotten into retro sooner (10 or 15 years ago) when the prices were still reasonable! Alas.
I've only ever seen the X68000 through emulation. I always thought it was weird that it's such a powerful computer, but it still used 5.25 inch floppies, rather than 3.5 inch ones.
BTW, I recently ordered a new heating element for my oven, and the box was ALMOST as big as that one. Inside, the element was just in a single-layer bubble-wrap bag, loose in the bottom of the box! At least the X68000 was packed well. :)
Sounds like a typical Amazon packing job right there!
That's a great question! I have no idea why Sharp took so long to make the switch to 3.5" disks when Atari ST, Amiga, and Mac had already done it by the time the X came around. Could be something specific to the Japanese market at that time 🤷♂️
Holy Moly! You don't mess around. What a find!!
The most amazing thing is that they kept the box. That's not a small box and would have taken up a lot of space in a typical small home. Someone really had to want to keep it and keep it in good condition rather than used to store something else. Amazing care.
It really is astonishing that the boxes were kept over 30 years given how much space they would have taken up. I will do my best to continue to take good care of this system on behalf of the previous owner who clearly did as well.
Thats a nice overall package. Your seller is one of the highest profile retro computer sellers (BEEP) in Japan. Their shop in Akihabara is really cool to visit. I am fortunate to own a few X68k's, but I got them back when this would not have looked like such a good deal :)
I really wish I had gotten into retro 10 or 15 years ago when prices were more reasonable. I figured it was now or never as the supply will eventually dry up and prices seem to be pushing higher and higher.
I visited Akihabara years ago but wasn't into retro at that point so I missed out on an opportunity. I only learned that this machine came from BEEP after seeing the paperwork that came with it. Buyee obscures the seller's real name in the auction! Next time I get the opportunity to go, I will definitely be checking it out in-person!
@@retrobitstv It'd be neat to track the relative value of these retro machines over time. Is the market just super hot right now, or will it only go up from here?
@@DAndyLord That is the question! Will 80's and 90's kids continue to have nostalgia for this type of stuff as they grow older, enter retirement age, etc? I guess we'll see! I certainly wouldn't make retro hardware part of a serious investment portfolio though :P
27:14 - Since it's 4-panel comics, it's probably just little gag strips based around the characters... But yeah Puyo Puyo does have a bit of a story. Lots of great little bonuses with this purchase! Or maybe this is a "large" bonus? We saw how big it is compared to a VHS tape. In case some of the audience doesn't know how big a VHS tape is it might make sense to show how the size compares to an 8-track or something.
Haha, yea I forgot sometimes that there are people who have never used a rotary phone or a VHS tape! It's what I had right at hand since there were no bananas in the house at the time :P
An x68000 has been on my list of computers to try and get, there was a time long ago those were cheap and the shipping was about the same as what you paid. Ah, what a lovely piece of hardware with a ton of pedigree.
Japanese Satan looks pretty amiable. Nice find, a dream system, can't wait to see what it can do.
Great packing job! That's how it should be done!
Congrats on the X68000 Super! Nice Machine. I believe on that style mouse you rotate the hand rest (like you did in the vid) then gently lift up on the hand rest revealing the top of the 'track ball'. Good luck with the machine, they are a lot of fun!
Cool, thanks! I didn't think to try that before. I just gave it a go but it didn't come up easily and I was afraid of pulling too hard for fear of breaking the old plastic. I will give it another gentle try later so I can test it out in part 2!
That's an incredibly modern looking computer, I mean it either takes a heap of design inspiration from the NEXT or Apple took inspiration from it on the carrying handle cause damn there is some crossover in the design language...
Super Computer, cant wait to see that beauty running.
I really like the design on those X68000s that make it look like 2 small towers connected together, as well as those 5.25” floppy drives with the eject mechanism:)
I love that case design. Someone should make a reproduction for mitx pc's, main board on left side, graphics card on right
Hey congrats on the X68000, the keyboard the stickers is to change the main "Roman" to Japanes character, if you notice the big characters in the stickers are hiragana.
Ah cool, thanks for the clarification!
I live in Japan, I used to have one of these back in 2006-2008s. Those things are built like a tank. Several metal layers inside, weighs a ton.
Great computer, almost a piece of art. But I couldnt find much use out of it so sold it back.
It is kind of tedious to have to deal with 5.25s for all software. Not sure if there is something like a gotek for these machines. (there wasnt back in the day. I remember messing around with the serial port for data transfer which didnt work.)
Yea I installed an HDD emulator that uses sdcards which is great, no more dealing with floppies! I want to explore more non-game software for the system but the language barrier is a problem :/
I just recently picked up an FM Towns. They're SLIGHTLY cheaper than X68000, but they're also less documented as well.
Those have been on my radar a little as well but I haven't been looking in earnest. Enjoy yours!
FYI, those "keyboard stickers", they are indeed to be put on top of the keys (it says "Key Top Label").
Cool, thanks for the clarification!
This machine is just beautiful!
Crazy how modern it looks.... stunning timeless design
Nice. A gentle here at work who has an obscene retro collection has this. Awesome system. His system is much lighter in colour. Very light beige.
Super Cool! Such a nice and great condition whole setup! Looking forward to the next video!
Congrats on the purchase! Looks like you scored. I am looking forward to the rest of this series!!
Thanks! I'm pretty happy with how things turned out so far. There were definitely some setbacks and challenges to getting it working which will be covered in Part 2!
You are living the dream. Always wanted on but could never justify the expense. Can't wait for the next video.
Glad it arrived safely, but part of me has to wonder if they could have helped you get a much better price on shipping had they not quadrupled the size of the packaging. Either way, congratulations on getting such a beautiful machine! It looks absolutely fantastic!
Oh i'm excited to see you fire this bad boy up! I have never seen one in person but I know how amazing it is. Basically its an arcade board with lots of power!!! Near perfect arcade ports and some games for arcade actually developed on the x68000! I have often thought about getting one myself. Cheers for the video, looking forward to the next one
I have never seen one in person before either! Figured it was now or never while they're still available and since prices only keep going up. I'll be starting on part 2 right away!
@@retrobitstv Excellent! I also use the MiSTerFPGA core to play x68000, it is such an amazing machine
Very cool
Here in Europe you didn't see many of them before, but you knew that.
Cool that you have one now, you must have balls to buy it.
Is certainly a nice machine... made in Japan.
Thanks again, couldn't Google Lens the app.
"If the original owner was like me, he never read the manuals..."
A few moments later:
"I have no idea if the disk goes in this way, or this way..." 😊
Just kidding sir, I absolutely love your videos!
This is such a beautiful and amazing machine!
cant wait for part 2 mate !! that was awesome
Thanks! Part 2 is out tomorrow!
i was thinking of doing this when i saw the mini announcement, also buyee is awesome i order stuff from there basically every month, postage is sometimes faster than buying things from local ebay
Congrats on such a find, Matt!
Thanks! I'm both aghast at how much these things cost these days but also happy I found a relative deal in such good shape. I convinced myself by saying that this is an investment and probably won't go down in value in the short to medium term :)
It is funny, you probably missed it on the box. But if I remember correctly, they are all marked with national security warnings that those computers are powerful workstations and are not allowed to be exported from Japan or something like that. I can't remember exactly what, but check the box, I think that you should be able to find it marked somewhere. LOL!
Hah, I'll have to check for that with Google Translate. Thanks for the heads up!
I forgot how fancy and nice Japanese packaging and products look
I hope you do a video of this computer working, I was really wanting to see it runing.
Part 2 comes out tomorrow!
@@retrobitstv thanks man really appreciate it
Can't believe I missed this on release day... You Sir, have found what I've been saving all my nickels for. Congratulations!
Congrats on getting one.
I hope maybe in the future is like a mini version of this old computers since they're so hard to obtain. It was like a mistery to me this and other JP machines.
Looks very modern...I'd build a machine like these with modern hardware
I lived in Japan while I was in the Navy in the early 1990s, and I remember seeing these in computer shops all the time. I would have loved to get one, but since the operating system is almost entirely in Japanese, it would have been nearly impossible for me to use.
The GUI is difficult since it's all in Japanese characters, but I found the command line to be easy enough to use since many the commands are the same as they are in DOS and in English!
20:38 great tech
Google Translate is a real life-saver!
I had the xvi model when 1991 with midi card and roland mt32
The monitor is cz614
With15/24/31khz
I also can connect my sega arcade board system 24 on this monitor
With 24khz to play scramble spirite
X68000 can automatically remove the disk when load complete
Like game teracreste pull on driver 2
Can play moon creste
Need a audio mixer to put x68000 sound and midi sound together
FYI, full-width refers usually to alphanumeric characters, making them all the same width.
Japanese characters are by default full width (although, katakana can come in half-width).
And btw. you'll find those key for switching character sets on windows and mac keyboards as well.
Thanks! I observed the difference when using the full-width key in the included word processor :)
I've always wanted the dual switchable Mhz version. Can't imagine how much they cost now.
I was looking for the XVI model initially, but they seem to carry an extra $1k price penalty. I figure most of the software was written for the lowest common denominator 10mhz models so I should be fine. There's also an 030 model which is even more rare. It's required for a bunch of the emulators I tried (Macintosh, Gameboy, MSX) but possibly less compatible with native games? The SUPER has SCSI which is a nice step-up from SASI at least.
@@retrobitstv I think ya made the right call. SCSI is indeed nice & gives you so many more easy & cheap storage options with adapters and such. Some games will run slower at 10 Mhz, just depends on the game, but for the price you got it for I wouldn't be complaining even for a second. You got a steal of a deal!
mouse had trackball ... it use remove top of mouse cap and bottom switch, not bottom cover . have a fun
Ahh, that makes more sense. Thanks! I fiddled around with it a bit but the top didn't come off and I was afraid to break it. Will get that sorted by part 2!
Great video! I can't wait until you do a new video setting up your Ultimate 64 Elite.
Now that new keycaps are available, there's only one thing I'm waiting for to build my ultimate Ultimate64 and that's an all-new mechanical keyboard. Jim Drew hopes that it will be this year. Fingers crossed!
80s kid here, I have felt more and more recently that it is a big risk when spending anything over $200-300 for aging electronics that are reaching the end of their lifespan beyond repairs. *Especially* for personal computer consoles that use floppy drives, those are ticking time bombs where the floppy drive magnets and information have most likely deteriorated. Spending $2000-3000 for this Sharp x68000 seems particularly nuts, even as a collectible, as it is a huge money sink and each of the games are well into hundreds of dollars per game, minimum. Sad that is where we are at because time will eventually do it's thing and make these consoles and computers useless other than to display on a shelf.
Yea, you can already see it happening with the cheaply made machines like the C64. The chips are just failing left and right. Fortunately, the community keeps making recreations to keep them going. I wonder if the same will happen for such a niche machine as the x68k? I'm happy to report that as of now both drives work and all of the original disks as well. I won't be putting any further wear on them though, as the system now has sd-card based storage.
@@retrobitstv funny you mention the C64, I recently got two and both have bad chips. Sent one out to get fixed by someone who specializes in C64 repairs, and in two days of it working, another chip failed that connects the floppy drive to the C64. Not worth sending back and forth since I can't do repairs at all, so that's about $300 wasted. Even NES and SNES consoles are dying off one by one because their CPU chips are deteriorating.
While cool and all to have real hardware, it's just not a very smart buy anymore. I would actually call it a detriment and a liability at this point if you really just want to play the games as intended. Thank goodness for The Mister and people keeping these games alive, as you said.
I think the stickers go on the blank keyboard command strips (is that what theyre called?).
Whoah, like many others, I also want one of these. But I'll wait for real estate to come down to afford the space for it too...
Jesus.... International shipping is NUTS!
As a northerner: Yep, that seems about right.
I want those Puyo Puyo stickers! Nice! Puyo Puyo is a spin-off game from the RPG "Madou Monogatari."
15:55 - "That's really early to see that feature" (LCD shutter glasses)
Well... Sort of? Both Famicom and Sega Master System had LCD shutter glasses. (And then Vectrex had those weird spinning-disc shutter glasses...)
Ah yea I forgot about the SMS glasses. My first experience with them was with true 3d accelerated games on my TNT2 Ultra. The driver would work with any direct3d game and drive the monitor at a headache-inducing refresh rate but the results were surprisingly good. Playing Thief2 with the glasses was a treat, at least until the eyestrain caused you to give up.
Actually now that I think about it, the first time I ever used LCD shutter glasses was with a 3D CAD demo on the SGI Magic Bus.
that is an amazing machine
It says 'keyboard label' at the top of the sticker set. I'm only guessing here, but I suppose it's probably for people who want the hiragana labels to be bigger than the Roman characters
That was Japanese packaging at its finest.
I have a bunch of these machines sitting under the bench, like two of every model except the SUPER and XVI. I got a couple external SCSI hard drives that I replaced the drive with SD2SCSI and can just hook it up to even to the OG X68k with SXSI. Back in 1999, I wrote my own serial transfer program to transfer FD images to and from my PC to a 1.5 MB RAM drive on my EXPERT and could read/write real floppy discs with. Way back then, there were tons of sites that had X68k freeware and tons of utilities. You can still find some on the wayback machine.
Nice, any homebrew/application/demo/etc. software you recommend that I absolutely have to check out once I get this thing up and running? I downloaded the v4 games image so I should be in good shape there. I have a SCSI2SD that I could use, but I'm going to try the new BlueSCSI first. Not only are they cheaper, but they uses image files instead of native partitions which makes it really simple to use with a PC emulator, downloaded .hds files, etc. I found an English archive of X68K software that mirrors a bunch of old FTP sites and have been crawling through some of it but there's not much documentation on what anything is or how it works! I guess that's half the fun though, just trying stuff out :)
I know the X68000 is often referred to as the "Japanese Amiga", but in so many ways it's a bit of an injustice. This is coming from a life long Amiga fan too :-)
The mouse becomes a trackball when the cover is removed.
Thanks! I figured it out now. The cover was stuck on but I used a tool to pop it off.
Basically a japanese super Amiga
next to the neo geo my favorite machine
What are you going to do for a color monitor that can handle all of the unique frequencies and resolutions that this system uses?
As it turns out, a lot of fiddling and frustration :) It's all documented in part 2! ua-cam.com/video/QdEwjLT2sB8/v-deo.html I'm still on the look out for a multisync CRT that can handle 15 to 31khz without an upscaler.
I wanna get a 1990's vintage japanese pc just for the case and build a sleeper
What's a sleeper?
@@jinxterx on the outside looks old, outdated and simple, in the inside has a lot of performance, you can apply that term to cars with their stock look but a lot of performance mods as well to computers
@@SpikerDragon95 That's a cool idea! 😄
The thought of this makes me very sad, just imaging somebody gutting an X68000, taking power tools to the case, and using it for a Windows 11 PC they use three times before throwing it away and going back to a normal case.
I can only imagine this has happened before. Except, you know, with XP or something.
@@nickwallette6201 I was thinking more of a Marty FM Towns and of course one complete dead, I would never botch a working unit
Rad. Not super familiar to me but it seems like a great platform. Between the higher bit depth in the graphics system and the inclusion of a synthesizer for sound (the lack of which was a severe limitation of the Amiga IMO) it seems like a real step up from the Amigas. I'm curious about the capabilities of the coprocessors - those capabilities are a key defining characteristic of the Amiga so it'd be interesting to see how this platform does in that regard...
Seems a bit strange that they went with 5.25" disks...
Great score, man. I mean, expensive, but that's what it takes I guess. I look forward to seeing what it can do.
I should have been into retro 10-15 years ago to get a good deal. This is by far the most expensive bit of kit I've bought :( I've put the X68000 core through its paces on the MiSTer so I have a pretty fair idea of what to expect. That gives me an idea, maybe for part 2 I will do some A/B comparisons with the Amiga. However, that's not straight up fair because a lot of x68k games are "arcade perfect" and developed by e.g. Capcom instead of 3rd party ports on a shoestring budget. Hrm...
@@retrobitstv To be fair: Jay Miner and the engineers of Amiga took the X68000 as an inspiration for their next Amiga chipset, called Ranger, which should have been released after the A1000 instead of the German A2000. Commodore Management (who else) decided AGAINST Ranger and for the far inferiour Amiga 2000 from Germany and subsequently CLOSED Amiga engineering in Los Gatos with lots of Amiga engineers leaving for other projects. It could have been the Amiga 500 / 2000 line, if only there would have been a decent management at Commodore...
@@retrobitstv Yeah it would have been nice to have collected all this stuff back when it was dirt cheap, but what can ya do? I had about zero interest in 80s-90s computers at that point.. And if I had spent a lot of time playing around with this stuff back then, would I even still care about it now? Who knows...
As far as comparisons go... Yeah that's tough. Maybe comparing to more modern Amiga ports (by hobbyists, etc.) would help getting a "real" comparison of capabilities? Or demo scene stuff, maybe, though I think that's harder to gauge since it tends to be a lot more specialized, a bunch of effects and stuff rather than completed products.
@@tetsujin_144 I haven't found any good demo content for the X. Perhaps there simply wasn't a scene at that time in Japan? Or all the talented coders were busy making Doujin shooter games? I decided to skip making any comparisons in part 2 in favor of just showing off what the machine can do.
@@erischaot That's interesting, I hadn't heard that story so thanks for sharing! Yea, Commodore management sure knew how to shoot themselves in the feet :/
Is it possible to travel to japan, buy one and pack it in a check-in luggage ?
The stickers that seem like they're for the keyboard actually say "Key Top Label," so I guess they are, but I have no idea why you need it. And one of the disks is labeled "Japanese Word Processor," so there is definitely one.
Cool, thanks! I saw a set of those stickers for sale individually just the other day. I still don't know why you'd use them though and the auction description didn't indicate why either. I will check out the included software in part 2!
@@retrobitstv 上のラベルをキートップ前面にはりつけてご使用ください. Stick them to the front of the key tops? If you notice the legends for the key that it references and the sticker have different hiragana. I'm guessing there's an alternative layout for japanese input. Maybe the x86k is a "modern" layout but you can choose a "traditional" layout in some programs and that's what the stick on legends are for? I checked the X1 keyboard but it's the same as the x86k and a cursory google can't find any vintage keyboards with another layout so I'm drawing a blank. It makes sense that it's like a Japanese Dvorak layout or the equivalent of "alphabetical" or something but I can't find any photos of keyboards that match that layout. There are several alternatives, but none that replace たていすかん with かきくけこは. This is going to bug me.
Like I said, it bugged me! Page 11 of the manual refers to them as 五十音順かな配列キー用 which refers to a Japanese syllabary order. I was looking in the wrong place. It's a layout used not by keyboards intended for professional use but seen on electronic pocket dictionaries and the like. So that's what these are for, a simplified layout that mimics the low-skill devices laid out in essentially alphabetical ordering as opposed to what I assume to be a more efficient layout for faster typists. When you google that phrase you also get onscreen android keyboards and such.
@@complexacious It seems like consensus from the comments is that the stickers are just if you want the Japanese characters to appear larger than the Roman characters on your keyboard.
I m green in envy... really... and if see you playing castlevania with some roland sound.... i m gonna cry 😄😄😄
I can't yet, no MIDI card! Those things are expensive too :( Castlevania runs great with external MIDI on the MiSTer x68000 core though, so there's always that :)
I think the cover of mouse will drop off so round cover is removable >tracball mode
Cool, thanks! I just got done fiddling with it a bit but was afraid to break the old plastic so I didn't pull too hard. I will give it a shot and figure it out for part 2!
@@retrobitstv bro your video comes like pope to Vatican. My X68K is waiting in Buyee storage atm :) After many years of dreaming week ago i made my dream true. It might be repair nightmare too :) lets see
@@TheLemminkainen Awesome, congrats on finding one! I hope it all works out for you.
I had a few problems getting mine to display properly and spent a few days chasing my tail with BlueSCSI v1, but it's all sorted now.
Strange that all the decals on the computer are in English since it was only sold in Japan.
Japan is highly bilingual. Due, no doubt, to the Occupation following WW II. Most Japanese learn some English. Plus, Japan's elementary students get about 70 hours a year in mandatory English as a Second Language. Given their school year, that's about 45 minutes to an hour weekly. Enough to grasp the basics. Native English Speakers are imported on 2-4 year contracts with decent pay, but (by US or UK standards) supremely small accommodations.
dang it!! You revealing shopping secrets
Don't look at what happens when you put "buyee" in a UA-cam search then!
fullwidth should shift the kana (katakana and hirigana) and kanji (the 1800 common/2300 allowed standardized ideograms) from the half-width (side to side compressed, ½×1) to full-width (1×1). Furigana don't seem noted, but that would require much software integration... as they're above or beside the words they clarify. I'd be interested to know if the Romaji key affects latin spacing, and in both on and off, it the fullwidth does.
Thanks for the clarification! The key does seem to also impact romaji - even at the command prompt, both the size of the characters and the spacing are affected.
@@retrobitstv Glad to have helped!
25:25 - "Japanese-language word processor" (I imagine you already found that out...)
30:21 - Ah, there ya go
too bad they don't make computers like this anymore.
I used Buyee for Anime Cels
Sweet condition.
14:45 I'm surprised that its ports/controls are labeled (apart from keyboard) only in English. Why???
19:13 Lol, ~3U spacebar!
It's really convenient that all the Human68k commands are the same as MS DOS and in English - makes the machine surprisingly accessible!
Amiga Killer my ass!!!🤣😂Amiga is King.
That game is cool as hell, total collectors item.
Haha, I ♥ the Amiga. I tried to avoid making any direct comparisons in Part 2 (coming out tomorrow) but couldn't stay away from a clickbait-y thumbnail 😅 Each system definitely has some strengths over the other. I will credit Amiga for having a vastly superior library of software and a true multi-tasking OS, just as an example.
13:23 looks like cdrom drives ;)
I've always wondered why, if the X68000 was never sold outside of Japan, the labels on the machine were all in English.
Because in Japan most of the tech stuff is labeled/dubbed in English. Cultural traditions.
In another timeline when the X68000 was sold worldwide, I imagine there would be an even more amazing library of games and software for it!
8800 yen is about $65 at today's exchange rate.
From my notes, 8800 yen was equivalent to 86.12 dollars in 1994 (the date printed on the game). Adjusting that for inflation would be 173 dollars in 2023.
@@retrobitstv Gotcha. Sorry, I misunderstood while watching the video - I thought you made a straight conversion to 2023 dollars. I gotta stay awake when watching videos late at night!
@@franksugino7568 This is me sheepishly admitting I have fallen asleep proofing my own videos too late at night :)
Skip to 6:24 to see him open up the box.
Well natively that keyboard is in English I think those stickers or so that way you just have the Japanese characters on the keyboard
Why did you say this system was rare even in its hey-day? I heard that it was popular. And what is a 'Photo Service Fee'?
Compare the Puyo-Puyo box with other PC game boxes of the day and it isn't that much larger, if at all.
Honestly, these Proxy services need cheaper options for bigger packages. DHL is stupid pricey!
the twin tower case is so over the top design - as though there was a charter to maximize per unit manufacturing cost
looks like a computer designed for the classes - not the masses (and evidently there was never a model comparable to an Amiga 500?)
Can't remember this machine but judging by the specs that was ultimate gaming machine, show us games! ;-)
Definitely will in part 2!
@@retrobitstv Can't wait for it! ;-)
@@deagt3388 LOTS of games to be shown. Part 2 comes out tomorrow!
I'm guessing X6800 is almost as rare as an Amiga 3000/4000.
If only there was a way of interfacing a SCSILVD interface to a SATA/SSD drive then you wouldn't need to use the floppies all the time.
I had good success with a BlueSCSI v2 on this machine, but there are a bunch of other options available for the machine.
I am so old…
On a geological scale we're all young!
8800 yen??? thats about 65 bucks used to be 1:1 with usd at 100 yen for 1 dollar, 173usd is about 18000 yen
I used historical exchange rate data to convert JPY to USD and then used an inflation calculator to adjust the dollar value from 1994 when the game was originally sold.
@@retrobitstv ohhhh I was soooo confused lmao
Not reading manuals? Boy, you are missing out on so many secrets. Such wasted potential.
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Here's a question that always comes to mind when I see products like this. Presumably there was no intention of selling it outside of Japan. Why then, is the text in English?
Because in Japan most of the tech stuff is labeled/dubbed in English. Cultural traditions.
Do collectors have kids in college? Or are they all multi millionaires?
$2800 on ebay for an old 68K god computer makes no good financial sense - even if it appreciates. But hey I guess collecting is a passion, not a business model!
Yea, hobbies and passions are strange like that! I don't have any kids so that does free me up to do stupid things like this from time to time. The x68k was by far the most expensive machine I've ever bought, by far. I've been looking for a long time and finally convinced myself to do it because the supply will eventually dry up and I believe they will continue to get more expensive in the short and medium term so I had nothing to lose if I found a nice enough example at a "reasonable" price, comparatively. We'll see I guess!
@@retrobitstv lol you got a great deal for sure on it. Im kicking myself for not getting a great deal on an A3000 years ago, and not collecting in the early 2000's. oh well.
@@drphilxr Yeah, I wish I had gotten into this particular hobby 10 or 15 years earlier. Alas!
With so much talking, you are wasting out time. Pass
Don't worry, part 2 is twice as long!
TikTok is down the hall and to the left, next to the toilets. I think there's a leak or something because it smells a bit funny down there, but I'm sure you'll fit right in.