The PV-1000 was released in October 1983. It was only released in Japan where it sold for 14,800 yen.[1] Casio failed to achieve a significant market share. According to retrogames.co.uk the console was pulled after several weeks due to low sales.[2]
PV-2000
The PV-2000 was released shortly after the PV1000. It's intended as a home computer and features an integrated keyboard. It is compatible with PV-1000 controllers but not its games, as it features a different architecture.[1]
In the same year Casio released two other consoles, the PV-7 and the PV-16 which were MSX computers.
Technical details
The PV-1000 is powered by a Zilog Z80 CPU, with 2 KB RAM,[1] with 1 KB allocated as VRAM.[citation needed] It also has an additional 1 KB devoted to a character generator.[1] The console contains a NEC D65010G031 chip used to output video and sound. It can generate 256×192 pixels with 8 colours.[1] It had three square wave voices with 6 bits to control the period.[3]
PV-1000 games
Only thirteen games were released for the Casio PV-1000:
