DCEmu Asks - FM Towns Marty a History & Whats Your Favourite Game

[MetaFox]

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

The FM-Towns had the best version of this game over any other platform.

[____anders____]

never heard of it either (and i've heard a lot of sh*t )...

but the games could still be fun though

[sappo]

Ultima 6 with voices... Great!

[Joe88]

what the heck is this thing
Ive never seen or heard of it ...

[geise69]

Really the only people that are mainly going to know about this system are people that imported most of their games back in the day or read Die Hard Gamefan. I'm pretty sure that was the only magazine that gave this system some respect that it deserved. I don't believe EGM NextGen, or haha Gamepro ever reviewing this. Next Generation magazine might have though.

[paladinja]

Firstly, not going to simultaneously praise my own gaming knowledge AND admit I've never seen this before.

Secondly, I've never seen this before. But if I had, I would've called it "Peter Frampton".

Thirdly, 'Next generation' magazine was awesome.

That is all.

[geise69]

NextGen was an awesome magazine. I loved the CD's they always added with the magazine. I was sad to see them go. Same with Gamefan, but at least a few of the "good" editors started Hardcore Gamer Mag. NextGen was great and them adding Christmas Nights was the best thing ever. I still have my copy of it. Anyways for anyone wanting to play some FM-TOWNS or FM-TOWNS MARTY there is an emulator called UNZ.

[redsyrup]

FM Towns Marty was a dream system for me back when I was reading DieHard Magazine at the newstand of my local video tape rental store... way before netflix and block buster.

Testujin and Rtype are the only games I remember seeing images for, but Diehard Magazine made those pics look unforgetable.

Later I settled for Rtype on TurboGrafx, and that was a good choice.

[murak]

There are some good games for the FM Towns, mainly (I think anyway) ports with upgraded gfx and music. Shadow of the Beast anyone?

[Starscream]

The Marty is basically the console version of the FM-Towns computer. There are a number of arcade ports (Samurai Showdown, Afterburner, Super Street Fighter etc.) as well as ports from the NEC PC98 (Adventures, RPGS etc.)
It's emulated via Unz (not xm7 as posted before).