Pachicom

Pachicom
Cover art (MSX)
Developer(s)Shouei System
Bear's[1]
Publisher(s)Toemiland
Platform(s)MSX
Family Computer
PC-88
Famicom Disk System
ReleaseMSX
Family Computer
  • JP: November 21, 1985
PC-88
Famicom Disk System
  • JP: October 4, 1988
Genre(s)Parlor game (Gambling)
Mode(s)Single-player
Multiplayer

Pachicom (パチコン, Pachikon) is a parlor video game released for multiple platforms that is themed around pachinko. It was released in 1985 exclusively to the Japanese market.[2]

The game of pachinko is hugely popular in Japan, since it involves playing pinball with an element of slot machines mixed in along with gambling. There are four different gameplay modes to choose from (two of them assign a player with a pachinko machine while the other two allow players to choose their own machine).

  1. ^ Bear's at Game Developer Research Institute
  2. ^ "Nintendo Family Computer cartridge information". NESCartDB. Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2012-01-19.