History of video games/Platforms/FM Towns

History
The FM Towns was a Fujitsu computer that excelled at gaming and released in Japan in February 1989 for 338,000 yen.

The Towns part of the name is said to be a reference to Charles Hard Townes, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964. As Charles Hard Townes invented the laser , the name is perhaps appropriate for the CD-ROM based computer, which uses a laser to read optical media.

Compute
The FM Towns is powered by a 32 bit Intel 80386dx processor clocked at 16 megahertz, with a 80387 coprocessor.

The FM Towns contained between 1 and 6 megabytes of RAM depending on the configuration.

Hardware
The FM Towns contained a built in CD-ROM drive standard.

Software
The FM Towns ran the custom Towns OS made by Fujitsu.