Tag Archives: 1980s

The European character set of Sharp MZ-700. It had other charsets as well.

German ad for MZ-700. 

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ブリザード † (Blizzard), a game by Takashi Shimizu, published by Enix in the 1980s.

THE 花札. (Hanafuda), a game by ZAT SOFT for MZ-700, 1983.

New York’s LED Billboard from the movie Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, 1982.

EUGEA, a game by Kazuhiro Furuhata for MZ-700, 1989/2003. Image from the online MZ-700 emulator MZ MEMORIES by Takeshi Maruyama, made in Java, Actionscript and Flash, made around 2003, it seems.

Post updated in 2024.

MZ-700 character set, via

Abraham Lincoln’s face with painted styrofoam balls at FACIAL RECOGNITION by Al Jarnow for 3-2-1 Contact (an educational TV show on PBS in the 1980s).
Watch the full animation here.

EDTA (1986-1996) Minitel Micro servers for Amstrad, via