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First post, by dinth

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Hi.
Im thinking about adding one of the Japanese-made PC-like computers (X86000, FM-Towns, PC98, etc) to my collection. I couldnt find much content about those platforms on Youtube - sure, there are some "showing my Japanese games collection" videos, but there is no English-language video that would compare those platforms from the western customer perspective.
The main reason i want to buy one of them is to play games which i loved on DOS, but with better graphics, etc. Unfortunately, i don't know Japanese, so i would be stuck with the chunk of the game library which was translated to English.
Seems that the original (big) FM Towns is probably the best choice, although one more factor i need to consider is the computer's size, so Marty would be a better choice, unfortunately many FM Towns games dont work on it. I literally dont know anything about the other two platforms - X86000 and PC98.

Any advice please?