In the UK, we had the Nintendo Entertainment System. But over in Japan, there were a few different systems released. One of these was made by Sharp and was the Twin Famicom. It took the normal Famicom cartridges but also included the Famicom Disk System which was an add on drive which allowed games to be played from a proprietary floppy disk.
I can’t resist things with floppy disks, so when one of these came up for sale on one of the retro Facebook groups with a bunch of cartridge games and some floppy disk games, I had to get it.
I have now also obtained a Famicom Everdrive style SD cartridge for the unit and also an FDS Key which I will do a seperate write up about soon. It’s essentially a floppy drive emulator, but with it you can also transfer downloaded FDS games onto the original floppy disks, which I thought was kind of neat.
You might wonder why I would want to overwrite original games, but these disks were designed to be written too. Over in Japan you could take your disk into a store, purchase a game and then using a special kiosk it would write the game to the disk and you would take it home and play it. Pretty neat concept for it’s time.
I look forward with having a play around with this system to see what it offers over the standard NES that we got in the UK.
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