![]() The start button on the joypad then activates loading of the selected chapter.Īs my japanese is extremely rusty I havn't been able to make much sense of the one tape I have available to me, but some sweet speech sequences are run and once chapter 3 is reached you, in this specific game, is Once the chapter selection screen appears the Famicom controller is used to select chapter. The device is powered with a tape inside, it will automaticly start reading the tape and present you with a chapter selection screen. As said, games are read off cassette tapes but the Studybox has no play, rewind or any other buttons. The Studybox requires its own power source and the 10V adapter from my SegaCD worked flawlessly. The device sits on top of the Famicom unit and is pretty much just aĬassette tape player, meaning it reads the Famicom games off cassette tapes, kinda like the Commodore64. ![]() The company responsible for the device was Fukutake Publishing, later known as Benesse Corporation, a company that specialized in educational material for schools and such. Little information about the Studybox, such as what it was used for - it doesn't seem like a consumer product. So here we are a few years later and I've decided to dig up a My curiosity persuaded my wallet into purchasing the device. Well fast forward to March 2007, I discovered that a Studybox was being auctioned off on ebay, priced $100. But as he had no tape for the system he had no way of testing it. The story gets even better now, cause I can't even remember how he obtained it So I went back onto Yahoo Auctions, found an awesome 1989 Sony Trinitron 14 inch TV for about ten bucks and picked that up.Way back in 1997 I received a few images of something called a Famicom Studybox found by someone I unfortunately have forgotten all about. I had been using my AV Famicom to play games up until now so I hadn`t noticed that it didn`t take RF until the Atari 2800 just wouldn`t work on it. When we moved we got rid of those and I bought a brand new flat screen. ![]() During all my years in Fukuoka collecting retro games both of the TVs in our house were old-school analogue ones so it never came up. This is probably old news to most people, but I hadn`t realized that new flat screen TVs don`t take RF input. When I got it in the mail a few days ago I was so psyched, but I was in for one big shock when I tried to plug it in. I think they are about as close as you can get to a holy grail of retro Japanese consoles (sadly this fact was reflected in the price I paid for it, but I think it was worth it). Until this one arrived in the mail in all of my years of combing retro game shops I had never seen one with my own eyes before. That, in turn, means that these consoles are extremely hard to find today. That meant it was a total failure in a commercial sense and they only sold a handful of them. They were a bit late to the game with it though, releasing it in 1983 just as the Famicom was about to hit. The Atari 2800 was Atari`s abortive attempt to export a version of the 2600 to Japan. That is correct, Atari 2800 and not Atari 2600. I made a pretty nice pic up on Yahoo Auctions last week: my very own Atari 2800!!!
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