The day the Famicom Disk System was released. The 500 yen rewriting service was cheap and convenient [What day is it today? ]
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Sentence: Wahman The yellow-looking magnetic media "disk card" appeared 36 years ago, February 21, 1986 (Showa 61) was the day when the Family Computer Disk System was released. See [Article images (10)] His disk system is one of the peripherals for family computers. Place the Famicom main unit on the disk system main unit, and set the "RAM adapter" instead of the cassette to use. The game could be played by inserting the "disk card", which is a dedicated magnetic disk media, into the disk system and reading the recorded data. The capacity of the disk card is about three times that of a general cassette at that time. There are A and B sides on the front and back, and depending on the game, it was necessary to remove the disk card in the middle and turn it over to read it again. Nowadays, loading games is commonplace and I don't feel anything at all, but at that time most users experienced "Now Loading" for the first time on a disk system, so I think many people were annoyed by the waiting time. In addition, a save function is installed as standard. Not only did he continue to play the game, but he also showed off his high score to his friends, making it a great communication tool. And the biggest selling point of the disk system is the "rewriting" of the game. As the phrase "from the era of buying software to the era of rewriting!", You could rewrite the contents of the disk card to another game by using the "disc writer" installed at toy stores nationwide. .. The rewriting fee was as low as 500 yen, which was a great help to the author who was a kid at the time (the disc card game itself was about half the price of a ROM cassette, which was great). If it's a game with a small capacity, I could write different games on side A and side B and enjoy it, so I remember using it frequently. The release date of the software and the start date of rewriting were not necessarily the same, but I was really grateful that it was not sold out as long as the rewriting started. The highlight of the launch title is "The Legend of Zelda". The memorable first installment of the series, which is still world-famous, was released on this disk system. Other existing titles such as "Super Mario Bros.", "Golf", "Tennis", "Baseball", "Soccer", and "Mahjong" are available. Initially, "The Mysterious Murasame Castle" was also scheduled to be launched, but it was postponed twice and released in April. Every time I went to a toy store to buy it, I was frustrated, so I still remember it strongly (laughs). In the first place, the disk system was postponed once ... (omitted). In addition, data such as scores recorded on a blue disc card with a shutter was sent to Nintendo by "disc fax", and epoch-making attempts such as participating in game competitions were made as a pioneer of online competition. Was there. Corresponding software includes "Golf JAPAN Course" and "Famicom Grand Prix F1 Race", and "Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School" was a variant. Since then, the disk system has released many masterpiece series such as "Metroid", "Akumajo Dracula", "Detective Jinguji Saburo", and "Famicom Detective Club". * This article is a re-edited version of the article uploaded on February 21, 2020.
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