PC-9800 series

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The PC-9800 series,[a] known as the PC-98[b] for short, is a line of personal computers released by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC) from 1982 until 2000, succeeding the earlier PC-8800 series. From 1992, higher-end models were marketed as part of the PC-9821 series, and from 1995 until 2000 all new PC-9800 models produced were of the PC-9821 series. In 1997, it was succeeded by the PC98-NX series, which, despite the similar name, is not part of the PC-9800 series. The PC-9800 series was officially discontinued in 2003.

The PC-9800 series initially used 16-bit x86 processors, though later models used 32-bit processors. From 1983 onward, the PC-9800 series ran using modified versions of the MS-DOS operating system which were adapted to support the Japanese language; this operating system cannot run IBM-compatible software.

The first and only Megami Tensei game released on the platform was Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation, which released on April 4, 1997.

Megami Tensei games available for the PC-9800 series

Title Release Notes
Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Japan April 4, 1997
Minimum requirements of i486 33 MHz processor and 8 MB of RAM

Notes

  1. Japanese: PC-9800シリーズ, romanized Pīshī kyūsen happyaku shirīzu
  2. Japanese: PC-98, romanized Pīshī kyūhachi

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