The FM Towns is a nice Japanese computer made by Fujitsu in 1989, which was compatible with IBM PC's and used CD medium for games. Though it had great potential, it just couldn't compete with the popular PC-98 and it's legion of hentai games. Later on Fujitsu re-released it in console form, named FM Towns Marty, in an attempt to enter the console market, but it just didn't work. One problem is that some games would only work on the regular FM Towns, while others would only work on the Marty.
Almost all of it's games are either PC or Arcade conversions, which are near perfect and many of which were never converted to other systems. You could count on one hand's fingers the number of exclusives, however.
The list
| Box Art | Title | Genre | Description |
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| Alltynex | Shoot'em Up | A really cool doujin shmup where you can turn into a mecha and slice enemy shots. It got two PC sequels and a remake, called Alltynex Second. | |
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SplatterHouse | Side-scrolling | The best port of the arcade classic, where you wear a Jason-like hockey mask and punch the shit of ghouls and other nightmarish creatures. |
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Rayxanber | Shoot'em Up | One of the few FM Towns exclusives, which later received sequels to the TurboGrafx CD. It is a good shmup, though at times it can get boring. At least it is not brutally difficult like the second game. |
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Tatsujin Oh (Truxton II) |
Shoot'em Up | The only home port of Truxton II known to man, and the absolute best FM Towns game. This game is FAST, and it gets pretty chaotic as you advance. |