Zainsoft’s Dios was one of two games released for the PC-8801MC CD-ROM drive.
A long-lost PC-88 game has recently been rediscovered and preserved online, as revealed in a recent video by the YouTube channel Basement Brothers.
Zainsoft’s Dios is a sidescrolling action platformer that was originally released across several Japanese computers in 1989 on floppy disk, including the Sharp X68000, MSX2, the PC-88, and the PC-98. However, those weren’t the only versions marketed at the time, with Zainsoft also advertising a CD-ROM version to be released less than one year later for the PC-8801MC — a model of NEC’s PC-88 line of computers that was compatible with the PC Engine CD-ROM² unit.
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Zainsoft’s Dios was one of two games released for the PC-8801MC CD-ROM drive.
A long-lost PC-88 game has recently been rediscovered and preserved online, as revealed in a recent video by the YouTube channel Basement Brothers.
Zainsoft’s Dios is a sidescrolling action platformer that was originally released across several Japanese computers in 1989 on floppy disk, including the Sharp X68000, MSX2, the PC-88, and the PC-98. However, those weren’t the only versions marketed at the time, with Zainsoft also advertising a CD-ROM version to be released less than one year later for the PC-8801MC — a model of NEC’s PC-88 line of computers that was compatible with the PC Engine CD-ROM² unit.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
