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manufactured by

Casio is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. I ...

and released in Japan in 1983. It was discontinued less than a year after release.

History

The PV-1000 was released in October 1983. It was only released in Japan where it sold for 14,800 yen. Casio failed to achieve a significant market share. According to retrogames.co.uk the console was pulled after several weeks due to low sales.

PV-2000

The PV-2000 was released shortly after the PV1000. It is compatible with PV-1000 controllers but not its games, as it features a different architecture. In the same year Casio released two other consoles, the PV-7 and the PV-16 which were MSX computers.

Technical details

The PV-1000 is powered by a

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CPU, with 2 KB RAM, with 1 KB allocated as

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. It also has an additional 1 KB devoted to a character generator. Graphics were provided by a

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, generating a 256x192

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resolution with 8 colours. The console contains a

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Games

Only thirteen games were released for the Casio PV-1000: * #1 ''

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'' * #2 '' Super Cobra'' * #3 ''

Tutankham is a 1982 arcade video game developed and released by Konami and released by Stern in North America. Named after the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the game combines a maze shoot 'em up with light puzzle-solving elements. It debuted at the Eu ...

'' * #4 '' Amidar'' * #5 ''

Dig Dug is a maze arcade game developed by Namco in 1981 and released in 1982, distributed in North America by Atari, Inc. The player controls Dig Dug to defeat all enemies per stage, by either inflating them to bursting or crushing them underneath rock ...

'' * #6 '' Warp & Warp'' * #7 '' Turpin'' * #9 ''Pachinko UFO'' * #10 ''Fighting Bug (also known as Lady Bug)'' * #11 ''

Space Panic is a 1980 arcade game designed by Universal. Predating Nintendo's ''Donkey Kong'', and lacking a jump mechanic, ''Space Panic'' was the first game involving climbing ladders between walkable platforms. The genre was initially labeled as "climbi ...

'' * #12 ''Naughty Boy'' * #14 ''Dirty Chameleon'' * #15 ''Excite Mahjong'' Note: Cartridges #8 and #13 were never released. Often rumored to be ''Galaga'' and ''Front Line'' (which were released on the Casio PV-2000).

References

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History

PV-2000

Technical details

Games

See also

References