Casio Loopy Japan Game Console
Released on October 19, 1995 in Japan, the Casio Loopy is a game console unlike any other you’ve seen before. It was priced at 25,000¥, ($391 USD in 2024) and marketed specially towards female gamers, mainly due to its built-in thermal color printer that could be used to create stickers from game screenshots.



Hardware wise, it packed a Hitachi SH7021 SuperH 32-bit RISC CPU running at 16MHz, a single controller port, 1MB of RAM and 2MB of ROM, enabling the Loopy to display 512-color graphics as well as play 4 channels of 12-bit PCM audio. Unfortunately, Casio ended software development in November 1996, while production ceased at the end of 1998

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Honestly, the concept of printing stickers from scenes in your game seems neat. If Casio made it a third party device on a main console with specific games it works with, it [might have] been more popular,” said one cmomenter.

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