Building a PSU for the Casio PV-2000, will we blow it up?
The PV-1000: When Casio missed the bandwagon
Composite modding a Casio PV-1000
Lets Play: PC Collection on the Casio Loopy
Casio Loopy
Casio Loopy
5th Generation Competitors | |||||||||
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3DO | Jaguar | Saturn | Playstation | Nintendo 64 | FM Towns Marty | PC-FX | Pippin | Playdia | CD32 |
Region | Release Date | Discontinued | Lifetime Sales |
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Japan | 19th Oct 1995 | Nov 1995 | |
North America | NA | NA | NA |
Europe | NA | NA | NA |
The Loopy was an interesting concept, Casio decided that girls needed their own console and designed it with an in-built colour thermal printer. Because it was a girls console all the games revolved around dressing up characters, with the ability to print the result to the printer.
Casio found out, within weeks, of the release that girls did in fact play consoles, they played the same ones the boys did and weren’t interested in a console that didn’t have the same games as mainstream ones.
The Loopy was discontinued almost immediately. 11 games in total were released in cartridge format. You could also buy a mouse to use instead of the included game pad (which is quite nice btw).
An accessory called Magic Shop was available. This was, in essence, a capture device that allowed you to use captured video to make stickers.