Any X68000 owners here?

I was looking into this neat old computer, and it seems like something I would be interested in. Tons of great games that were better than the console ports came out on this thing, including many arcade ports of Sega, Namco and Konami games.

They are a little pricey and hard to acquire, so I was wondering what actual system owners thought. Are they durable? Are they easy to work with interface wise? My biggest concern would be the operating system. I know the keyboard is in both English and Japanese, but is the OS easy to navigate?

This system rocked do to the fact...



nuff said...plus Gradius, Parodius, Gradius 2, Nemesis 90'..ah god face it, Konami loved this computer

Now you know why I want one! There's a complete setup on ebay right now, but it's going to go for quite a bit more than I can afford right now.

last time I saw one about a year ago, it went for nearly $6,000, good luck trying to get one man, it's so worth it for the shooters I hear

Complete setup on ebay right now, even includes the monitor and some games. It's only at $280 with 6 days to go.

Yo I am not an owner, ive always fancied to be but never had the bottle to get one, Yahoo Japan is your best bet...

I just stick tto anal levels of emulation, here is my little shrine

X68000 Xtreme

For information, you can do a lot worse than http://www.jcec.co.uk/

Enjoy

Baseley09 said:

Yo I am not an owner, ive always fancied to be but never had the bottle to get one, Yahoo Japan is your best bet...

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He speaks the truth... especially when most of the units on ebay are coming from Japan anyways.

Still, I figure if I can use the original games on my PC through an emulator, there's no pressing reason to buy an older PC/monitor to take up space I don't have...

Good luck, though! I've just started getting into FM Towns/X6800/MSX stuff in the last couple weeks too. Lots of cool stuff out there.

Bump! No X68k owners here that could feed me some input?