vedder (70974) on 5/7/2021 10:15 AM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the Interact Model One, a computer released in late 1978 to the US market. Marketed as a games machine the computer was also used by stores to have visual displays. The original manufacturer went bankrupt within a year, but the computer was successfully marketed by various other companies including as the Lambda Victor in France. Aside from the one game collection I already added there were about 40 games released for it between 1979 and 1983.

vedder (70974) on 5/7/2021 1:07 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've investigated the UCSD p-System. The only games I could find for it are President's Choice and the first couple Wizardry games which we already cover under different platforms (PC Booter, Apple II, Commodore 64/128, etc.). It looks like that in spite of the virtual machine games still required specific implementations for different platforms depending on their capabilities. So for now I don't think there's a reason to create a new platform for it and a tech-spec might be more useful. Unless someone finds a game that can run on any platform that runs the p-System OS.

Foxhack (32099) on 5/7/2021 3:54 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I mentioned this on Discord, but we might need a separate platform for UMD Games (PSP). These are basically DVD Games, but released in the PSP's UMD format. These are not native PSP executables, they didn't have to go through Sony to get approved, companies could just port their DVD games to the PSP this way without getting Sony certified (and the ones I've looked at had no CERO rating at all.)

These were released in the PSP's native UMD discs, but again, they were not UMD games. They functioned like a DVD game.

As you can imagine, most if not all of these games were adult visual novels. VNDB (adult content warning) knows of 55 releases for the platform. (They're subtitled UMD-PG, and the PG stands for "Players Game", which is what Japanese companies call DVD/Bluray set top games, weirdly enough.)

vedder (70974) on 5/15/2021 6:10 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Added Sharp MZ-5500/6500 to the list of missing platforms, as I found some games released for it: http://retropc.net/ohishi/museum/mz5500.htm

vedder (70974) on 5/16/2021 5:42 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

The Bandai Super Vision 8000 console (aka TV Jack Micro Computer System) has been added to the database. It has a total of 7 games, the first is already pending and I'll add the rest later.

firefang9212 (81837) on 6/3/2021 2:29 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

One thing that could be added to the list is the Epson HX-20/HC-20, a portable computer from 1982. There's at least one known game for it, Jumping Pawn by Programmers-3.

BdR (7206) on 6/5/2021 11:51 AM · Reply · Permalink · Report

[Q --start vedder wrote--] Videotron Videoway (1989, Quebec) [/Q --end vedder wrote--] I've never heard of this one, but looking at this page it's kind of interesting. It's a Canadian system and it has official ports of Digger (renamed "Taupe") and Styx by Canadian based Windmill Software.

vedder (70974) on 7/4/2021 6:25 PM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the Unisonic Champion 2711. All games are pending. More info on the system can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190430151714/http://www.ccjvq.com/slydc/index/faq/2711/index.htm

Also the Versatile, an obsucre late 70s early 80s microcomputer marketed for its versatility.

Koterminus (251865) on 7/5/2021 5:35 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Although it's nowhere near as interesting as the other suggestions in this thread, a new streaming service called OOParts that can stream visual novels to Windows, Macs, and smartphones has recently started operation in Japan (website here, more information here and here). If we are going to have separate platforms for streaming services like Antstream, Gloud, Stadia, etc. then I guess it would make sense to add OOParts to the missing platform list too (assuming that someone will eventually want to document its games).

vedder (70974) on 9/10/2021 1:03 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the Cybervision, a second generation console exclusively sold at Montgomery Ward department stores in 1978/1979. Information is very scarce. There definitely was a 2001 model, possibly a 3001 model and a 4001 model was shown at an electronics convention but never released. There were about 10 games released on tape. I'm in the progress of adding entries for them.

Hipolito Pichardo (43140) on 12/29/2021 12:26 AM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I'd suggest adding the platforms below:

Famicom Disk System / Atari Jaguar CD - FDS games are currently bundled in with the NES, and Jaguar CD games with Jaguar. I'd argue that since Sega CD & 32X are listed as separate platforms (both of which hooked into the base Genesis/Mega Drive unit), the same consideration merits a separate platform for FDS, which also took separate physical media in the form of floppy disks. Same holds true for the Jaguar CD vs. Jaguar.

Atari XEGS / Commodore 64GS / Amstrad GX4000 / Fujitsu FM Towns Marty / Daewoo Zemmix - On the Discord, I was told these are excluded from Moby because they are effectively consolized version of the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, FM Towns, and MSX computers, respectively. However, my understanding is the Amiga CD32 -- which is a Moby platform -- is effectively a consolized Amiga, so curious why these other platforms wouldn't also be included. They all had specific releases that were packaged & marketed specifically for the consoles.

VTech Socrates - An educational console from the late 80s, sold in both North America and Europe. About 9 games were released for it, and it must have sold decently well, because you can often find many units and games for it on Ebay.

Tomy Video Challenger - Another VHS, light-gun based system similar to the Action Max, it had about 8 games released for it.

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gbcat (13233) on 1/28/2022 1:48 AM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

Please add G-cluster, a Japanese cloud game provider.

Here is the official website: https://gcluster.jp/

It started to provide cloud service of games since 2005. https://www.4gamer.net/script/search/index.php?mode=article&G002478&page=2

It also released a dedicated device for its service in 2013. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00CXJPJUC/

twitek (13973) on 1/28/2022 7:10 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Please add the Platform "Sky Gamemaster / Sky Games".

Sky Gamestar was a game service on your TV. It had 142 games.

Currently its (two) entries on Mobygames are under the platform "Terminal".

More information: https://sky-gamestar.fandom.com/wiki/Sky_Gamestar_Wiki

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vedder (70974) on 9/2/2022 7:50 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added Casio Programmable Calculator as a catch-all platform for all games made for various Casio calculators, similar as we already had TI, HP and Compucorp Programmable Calculator platforms.

vedder (70974) on 10/3/2022 6:48 PM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

Added JR Series. Has some games: http://www.amstereo.org/files/jr200u.htm

Terok Nor (42228) on 12/4/2022 9:10 AM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Two machines from New Zealand:

• Aaamber Pegasus
• Poly-1

A handful of games seem to exist for both.

vedder (70974) on 12/9/2022 8:47 PM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the Research Machines 380Z. A British micro from 1977. I've one game pending for it and one more on my todo list.

vedder (70974) on 12/10/2022 6:54 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the Triton by Transam. A British micro from 1978. I've a couple games pending for it.

vedder (70974) on 12/16/2022 2:57 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Meritum, a 80s Polish computer has been added. No games added yet, but Karsa Orlong is planning to add the full known games library.

vedder (70974) on 3/11/2023 9:36 AM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the TRS-80 Model 100, a TRS-branded but otherwise incompatible laptop from 1983. At least 2 games are known to exist, Hoeksmas is planning to add them.

davep_75 (2495) on 3/19/2023 4:03 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Hi Vedder. Could you add the Mega65 computer to the list, please? It's another FPGA solution designed to recreate the cancelled Commodore C65. It also has backward compatibility with the C64. There are at least 59 games currently available for it. Thanks. Home page - https://mega65.org/ Software available - https://files.mega65.org/html/main.php

vedder (70974) on 4/17/2023 5:40 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Pseudo mentioned in the other necro'd thread:

Further to the NABU's filing under "online services", it's been big in vintage computing circles lately since I understand someone cracked open a shipping container full of them and they've hit ebay as a kind of unexplored frontier of lost 8-bit computers. While reading about it as the native platform for B.C. Quest for Fire, I gathered that it wasn't a terminal so much as a micro with built in digital distribution of software. https://retro365.blog/2023/02/12/bits-from-my-personal-collection-b-c-s-quest-for-tires-an-obscure-futuristic-origin/ ... this might be a good time to open support for it given the timely upswell of interest in them.

I mean to say basically that I think the machine is running the games locally, not just being fed i/o from a central hub, hence the current interest in "what can be done with these" vs. "nothing can be done with these, the mothership has gone dead"

Arthur (1) on 5/2/2023 9:18 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Hello

Can you add the Hanimex HMG 7900 Console in the database

Thank you

Lampbane (22065) on 6/6/2023 6:04 PM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

Has there been discussion of adding Discord as a platform? I'm looking at the app directory now and there are (at the moment I type this) 1,159 apps categorized as games.

Examples:

Truth or Dare Gartic Epic RPG VirtualFisher Taco Shack Piggy Rumble Royale

pinklessence (523) on 6/7/2023 10:18 AM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Is there anything I can do to assist in adding KaiOS as a platform? It is a fork of Firefox OS but it received a few ports of Gameloft games, as well as its own versions of Doodle Jump and Jetpack Joyride among the better known games. I would love to add these ports to MobyGames if only I had the chance to.

vedder (70974) on 8/8/2023 9:13 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added "Intel 8086 / 8088" as a new platform for the rare few games running on kits with those processors without being IBM PC Compatible or requiring DOS. It complements the Intel 8008 and Intel 8080 platforms we already had.

vedder (70974) on 8/13/2023 8:49 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I added the Swedish ABC 80 computer. There's one game pending.

vedder (70974) on 2/13/2024 9:12 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added UCSD p-System as a tech spec for a bunch of platforms.

vedder (70974) on 2/13/2024 9:37 PM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

HP Series 80, a series of portable computer models, has been added. The two game packages I could find for it are pending.

Elliot Washington (3085) on 2/13/2024 11:25 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Hello, I'm going to give you information about the Pasopia-7, Mitsubishi Multi-8, Hitachi Basic Master Level 3 Mark 5, and Sharp Mz-5500 Pasopia-7 Infromation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Pasopia_7

Mitsubishi Multi-8 Information: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/MULTI8

Hitachi Basic Master Level 3 Mark 5 Information: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC#%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A2

Sharp Mz-5500 Information: https://original.sharpmz.org/mz-5600/mztdata.htm

Casio Fp-1100 Information: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-1000#cite_ref-7

National Jr-200 Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_JR-200

Pasopia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Pasopia

vedder (70974) on 2/15/2024 8:53 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

New platform added: Philips P2000, a 8-bit microcomputer mainly popular in the Netherlands, released in 1980.

vedder (70974) on 3/17/2024 8:17 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've removed GEnie from the list. I added it as a tech spec for the Terminal platform.

DJKaito (2344) on 4/3/2024 6:27 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

DVD-Kids / DVD Kids Interactive (2001 US / 2004 EU) a DVD based console that uses a DVD Player/PS2/Xbox as a Discdrive. Games did not work without the console itself.

Trixter (8952) on 4/23/2024 11:48 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I'd like to nominate the Commander X16, The 8-Bit Guy's dream homebrew system. It's getting several ports of classic games (officially licensed and newly-ported), and I think the ports are interesting from the historical standpoint of seeing how many systems a game can be ported to. There are also some high-quality homebrew ports to it, like Attack of the PETSCII Robots. https://www.commanderx16.com/ should have relevant info.

vedder (70974) on 4/24/2024 3:47 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

I've added the Hitachi Basic Master Level 3. Another Japanese Micro from the 80s. There's also a Basic Master Level 1 and 2, but they are incompatible and while likely it had homebrew games, I couldn't find any.

Patrick Bregger (302821) on 4/30/2024 4:41 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report

Vektor-06C (USSR) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-06C

Or do we have this platform already covered? I have not found anything.

lilliputian (997) on 5/3/2024 2:06 AM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report

I see that "Mac OS X" was added as a missing platform, but this is an operating system, not physical hardware (not to mention the fact that Apple dropped the "X" some years ago now, rendering it, for a time, "Mac OS", and now "macOS").

While there are some games and software that, at the time, genuinely required Mac OS X in order to run and would not run at all in Mac OS 9 or earlier (WarCraft III comes to mind, iirc), many games and software programs of that period could in fact be run in both environments, so-called "carbonized" applications (marketed at the time as "Universal"). Plus, Mac OS X included for awhile the "Classic" environment, which allowed non-carbonized applications and games to still be run in Mac OS X. But those are all software concerns, not the computer itself.

So, while Mac OS X should be added as an operating system, I'm not sure I agree that it's a "platform", if we define "platform" to mean the hardware used to run the games/software.

Mac hardware can be broadly divided by the CPU architecture they had at release, namely: Motorola 680x0 ("68k"), PowerPC ("PPC"), Intel, and now a variant of ARM ("Apple Silicon").

While Moby Games currently has selections for both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel processors, the others are notably absent. It should also be possible to select more than one if the game runs natively in either one (so-called "FAT binaries" for 68k + PPC, "Rosetta" for PPC + Intel, and "Rosetta 2" for Intel + Apple Silicon).

How this would all be implemented would be up the admins, but obviously having the only choices be Intel 32/64-bit is currently inadequate, in my opinion.

(Also, we should probably add a hardware requirement for "Metal"-compatible GPUs, but that's a separate thing altogether.)