There was a never-appearently released PC compatable that had a Nintendo inside (like and Amstrad MegaPC, or an IBM Terradrive, except Nintendo instead of Sega). At least one magazine had an article about. I can't remember the name now (and therefore have no idea what to search for). Not a Dev unit or the Doctor PCjr either. BTW, anyone found one of these?
Is this a white machine that has a 3 1/2 disc drive on the right side of the keyboard? If so, I saw one some 5 years ago in a local store where stuff is so expensive it takes ten years for it to sell. Didn't have a box or anything - and I'm not really sure it DID have a Nintendo inside. But it did say "computer, word processor AND nintendo" somewhere on the handwritten sign above it. It was, prohibitively expensive, though. I don't remember the name OR make of the machine. All videogames are called "nintendo" down here, though, so it could have been a computer that played games without being a nintendo. Is this any help?
The only computers I've seen with Famis in them are Famiclones. There was one that Bung was trying to get into Chinese schools. From what I remember it did very basic word processing and stuff, and had some rediculous number of inbuilt games too. But it was a full computer system.
StarWolf: what you are talking about is the Dr.PCJr. (http://www.zyx.com/chrisc/drpcjr/) I did hear, maybe in a book like Game Over, that one company had designed a PC with an NES in it, but it wasn't official, and didn't get a release. But I have no hard data on it, so good luck searching.
Bit Corporation? As far as I remember Bit Corporation, a Korean company mada a PC with a built-in NES clone. Bit Corporation was the company responsible for the Dina system, a Colecovision/SG-1000 clone (aka Telegames Personal Arcade) and for the Gamate handheld system. They also built two PC systems: PC-60 (with a built-in Atari 2600 clone) and PC-90 (with a built-in Colevision clone). Back several years ago (1986 maybe?) in a US magazine there was an article about Bit Corporation: in that magazine they mentioned the Gamate game system, a never released Color Gamate system and the above mentioned PC with built-in NES clone. If I remember well, there were at least two models planned. Regards, Fabrizio
Here's a pic of the BIT-90: and another: and one of the BIT-60 (From http://www.old-computers.com) And another of the BIT-60: Found at http://www.machine-room.org/images/pictures/hires/160/2/alexios_BIT_90.jpg The BIT-60 appears to be little more than a 2600 clone with a keyboard attached, the BIT-90 is more complex.
That is pretty neat, and is close to what I'm thinking of. (not sure if the article had a pic or not) What I was looking for was definately a NES computer though. I remember the article saying something aobut the computer having TV out, which was appearently a un-common feature then. I can't remember if I saw a scan online, or an article in a magazine I have... "Famicom Home Computer No more than a intel 286 combined with an NES. Never had a big following in Japan, but there are some out there. Came standard with a disk drive, NES drive, 20 meg internal HD pre-installed with a bunch of MSDOS games." -- http://www.snakepeople.net/spnes.html which also had the pic.
