


Most notably, they produced for it a unique Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo licensed Hudson Soft to port some of Nintendo's Famicom titles for the system, including Excitebike, Balloon Fight, Tennis (NES), Donkey Kong 3, Golf (NES) and Ice Climber, as well as unusual ports of Mario Bros. Many popular series first appeared on this computer, including Snatcher, Thexder, Dragon Slayer, RPG Maker and Ys. Certain games produced for the PC-8801 found shared release with the MSX platform, such as those produced by Game Arts and Konami. It also had a software / hardware switch to turn it into PC-8001 mode.Ĭompanies that produced exclusive software for this platform include Enix, Square, Sega, Bandai Soft, Hal Laboratory, Pony. The N-Basic would natively boot on the system without disk, just like the PC-8001. It ran in three bootable modes: CPM, MS-Dos, and N88-Basic. Its sound-producing capabilities were also more advanced than other machines of the time. For its time, the PC-8801 offered a high display resolution, although it could only display 8 out of 512 colors simultaneously and the 640×400 mode was monochrome only. It was one of the first, if not the first color CPM computer. It was the successor of PC-8001, and offered fine color graphics. The PC-88, as it is informally called, became very popular in Japan but did not see release in other markets. The PC-8801 was a computer system introduced by the NEC Corporation in 1981 and was an early Zilog Z80-based computer. The NEC PC-8801 is the first computer in an 8 year long series of computers of similar model names.
