The FM Towns marty was a strange machine as it effectively is a PC in a console (see Xbox) with some custom hardware to display sprites. It was based on the Japanese FM Towns computer which had a nice CD tray which wouldn't hold a cup of Java even if you balanced it. Still at the time it was the most impressive console of it's time, with games that were a near arcade perfect as you were going to get before the Saturn was released. Sadly though as it was a PC in a console it still had a PC like price and unless you were that rich kid at high school that seemed to have all the new stuff as soon as it left the factory or you managed to find someone to buy a kidney it was sadly out of reach to frank gamer even if you could afford the console the games were a different matter altogether and sadly there is no market for transplant tonsils. Still you could have saved some cash by buying a Neo Geo...
However now the console is slightly more affordable and now you could play those arcade perfect games, well sadly no again. It seemed that most Marty owners when they orginally bought the machine bought a time share in one game, so they could play it every 3rd week in March and now all the rich, ferrari driving collectors have bought most of the games that were made, at times it does feel like there were only 5 copies of Rainbow Islands released in Japan and unless you want to live on a kidney dialisis machine or you drive a ferrari you'll have to look towards cheaper methods of gaming. For example you could buy Viewpoint, a Neo Geo CD, a blow and still have change to have a few beers down the local bar (and maybe all at the same time too) for the same price Viewpoint would cost you on the Marty and it'll probably be easier to find too. Even Splatterhouse is probably easier and not much more expensive to buy as an Arcade board then the Marty version is.
Still you could say you have a large collection by buying the fairly cheap Hentai games that seemed to be the really reason the Marty wash created, as this simple equation shows
PC=Porn
Console=!porn
FM Towns Marty=PC therefore Marty = Porn
FM Towns Marty=Console therefore Marty = Playable games that don't involve moving tanks across France to blow za Engvish up.
As DOS/V, the PC-9801 and the FM Towns Marty all used the same processer and a very similar bios a few companies just made hentai games that would work on all three machines.
So raise your jugs and toast the FM Towns Marty, making the Neo Geo look like a Sega 32X to collect games for and to play dodgy games with tenticles and pixelated parts that the wife won't suspect you are playing late at night.
However now the console is slightly more affordable and now you could play those arcade perfect games, well sadly no again. It seemed that most Marty owners when they orginally bought the machine bought a time share in one game, so they could play it every 3rd week in March and now all the rich, ferrari driving collectors have bought most of the games that were made, at times it does feel like there were only 5 copies of Rainbow Islands released in Japan and unless you want to live on a kidney dialisis machine or you drive a ferrari you'll have to look towards cheaper methods of gaming. For example you could buy Viewpoint, a Neo Geo CD, a blow and still have change to have a few beers down the local bar (and maybe all at the same time too) for the same price Viewpoint would cost you on the Marty and it'll probably be easier to find too. Even Splatterhouse is probably easier and not much more expensive to buy as an Arcade board then the Marty version is.
Still you could say you have a large collection by buying the fairly cheap Hentai games that seemed to be the really reason the Marty wash created, as this simple equation shows
PC=Porn
Console=!porn
FM Towns Marty=PC therefore Marty = Porn
FM Towns Marty=Console therefore Marty = Playable games that don't involve moving tanks across France to blow za Engvish up.
As DOS/V, the PC-9801 and the FM Towns Marty all used the same processer and a very similar bios a few companies just made hentai games that would work on all three machines.
So raise your jugs and toast the FM Towns Marty, making the Neo Geo look like a Sega 32X to collect games for and to play dodgy games with tenticles and pixelated parts that the wife won't suspect you are playing late at night.
There is a game for the system called ' Dead Of The Brain '
This is a very impressive shooter! 
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