Bandai RX-78
PLATFORM» RX78» July 1983
The Bandai RX-78 is a home computer that was released in July 1983 in Japan for ¥59,800.


Overview

The Bandai RX-78 (also known as RX-78 Gundam) was a personal computer released in Japan by Bandai Electronics in 1983. It was primarily marketed as a gaming device, with 20 pure gaming titles and 4 edutainment games, as well as a number of non-gaming application cartridges. The RX-78's physical media was delivered on both cartridge and cassette. The RX-78 is obviously named after the RX-78 Gundam, and in fact most of the marketing materials, including box art, states the machine's name as "Personal Computer RX-78 Gundam".