Epoch Cassette Vision

Its full title being the Epoch (Super) Cassette Vision was created by a company named Epoch in Japan on July 30, 1981. You’re probably thinking it uses cassettes; well it actually uses cartridges and was the first programmable console in Japan selling for about 13,500 yen.

Some people say that Sega and SNK made games for the console but no one is for sure. Wouldn’t believe it for a 1981 console but the graphics were less then that of the Atari 2600 which was made years earlier and somewhat like older consoles such as Pong the Epoch Cassette Vision only had 4 knobs which the player would control with.

Having the controllers as knobs build right into the console would sometimes create problems as the system would most likely have to replace as well but the Epoch Cassette Vision had poor sales and soon was discontinued.

Some games released for the console were; Astro Command, Baseball, Battle Vadar, Big Sports 12, Elevator Panic and Galaxian.