The ’90s Console That Became an Accidental Erotic Games Haven
Fujitsu’s FM Towns Marty broke new ground as the first fifth-generation console
The early ’90s was a time of profound change for the video game industry. A dimensional shift was underway, with an increase in computational power making 3D gaming possible, and developers grappled with how to use it. Storage formats such as the CD-ROM (explored in previous console generation projects such as the Sega CD) provided the perfect paring for consoles. The trail-blazer for the fifth-generation came from Japanese tech giant Fujitsu.
A novel approach
Fujitsu released the FM Towns computers in 1989 — one of the first PCs to feature a built-in CD-ROM drive — that, at first, utilized its own graphical user interface. Enthusiasts found the FM Towns appealing because of its ability high quality sound and graphics, thus making it a multimedia home machine. With an increasing number of games going to the system, Fujitsu minds focused on designing a dedicated gaming machine.
The result of Fujitsu’s development, the FM Towns Marty, went onto store shelves…
