Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy

[1] The system was made to compete with the Epoch Cassette Vision, which had a market dominance of 70% in Japan.

The console was released months after the Nintendo Famicom and Sega SG-1000 which, although more expensive at ¥15,000, were more advanced and had more features as well as bigger games libraries; furthermore, Epoch had just launched the Cassette Vision Jr. revision for ¥5,000.

These factors made the system obsolete from the start, with a high price tag, few and comparably rudimentary games, and a strange form factor, leading to poor sales.

As a result, it is now a rare collector's item among some retro gamers.

[2] There were only six games officially released for the system, each being sold for ¥3,800, and designed for a single player.