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[tearsofash]

The Casio Loopy was created in late 1995 and was released in Japan only. Its demographic was primarily for 8-12 year old girls. It came with a thermal printer so you could print stickers of your in game screenshots. A mouse was available for those who wanted more finesse, as well as an accessory called Magical Shoppe that let you hook up A/V cables so you could pretty up video screenshots and print them out as well.

I had purchased one of these consoles in either 2008 or 2009, but sold it in 2015 when I had moved to a much smaller space. I was thinking about it today about how much I missed doodling on it.

Most of the games were Otome games, dating sims, or creative studio suites. I owned copies of Anime Land, WanWan Aijo Monogatari, Dream Change: Kokin-chan's Fashion Party, Lupiton's Wonder Pallete, and HARIHARI Seal Paradise.

Screenshots from Anime Land (forgive the obsenity, I thought there was some irony in cute anime girls saying lewd things)

Screenshot from WanWan Aijo Monogatari

Here is a full games list I pulled from Wikipedia.

Anime Land (あにめらんど Animerando)
Bow-wow Puppy Love Story (わんわん愛情物語 Wanwan Aijō Monogatari)
Dream Change: Kokin-chan's Fashion Party (ドリームチェンジ 小金ちゃんのファッションパーティー Dorīmuchenji Kokinchanno Fasshonpāt&#299
HARIHARI Seal Paradise (HARIHARIシールパラダイス HARIHARI Shīru Paradaisu)
I Want a Room in Loopy Town! (ルーピータウンのおへやがほしい! Rūpī Taun no O-heya ga Hoshii!)
Little Romance (リトルロマンス Ritoru Romansu)
Lupiton's Wonder Palette (ルピトンのワンダーパレット Rupiton no Wandāparetto)
Chakra-kun's Charm Paradise (チャクラくんのおまじないパラダイス Chakurakun no Omajinai Paradaisu)
Caricature Artist (似顔絵アーティスト Nigaoe Ātisuto)
PC Collection (パソコン・コレクション Pasokon Korekushon)
Magical Shop (マジカルショップ Majikaru Shoppu)

Weird to think that this thing had the same processor as the 32x. Does anyone else own one of these systems? Would be nice to see more screenshots from games since they are pretty rare. Also, if anyone ever owned Magical Shop, I'd be really interested in how that actually works in function.

 

[disappeared]

lol

 

[Uzukii]

Great thread! You should have saved this for April Fool's though. XD

 

[tearsofash]

Great thread! You should have saved this for April Fool's though. XD

Is this funny to you? The Casio Loopy is great.

 

[Plus1Attack]

This is a thread I never knew I needed

 

[CJCW]

And people say the Vita had no games.

 

[Cody_D165]

those screenshots man what the fuck

 

[Toad.T]

Sorry to the both of you that wanted to seriously discuss the Casio Loopy

so where's the other one

Spoiler

Owning this is one of my dream goals. Just to say that I own one.

 

[tearsofash]

And people say the Vita had no games.

If you want a system with no games, go for the Hyperscan. (which i also owned)

 

[sixteen-bit]

blast from the past

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=727678

 

[Iolo]

Why did I just watch a bunch of Casio Loopy videos

 

[Fat4all]

Instead of making a new thread:

Ashens Reviews the Casio Loopy

Such a strange little console.

 

[closer013]

Great thread. I had no idea this existed!

 

[jett]

Instead of making a new thread:

Ashens Reviews the Casio Loopy

Such a strange little console.

What a strange console indeed. Casio, you so crazy.

 

[Flying Toaster]

Shit... I need to find one of these now.

 

[Fat4all]

Having an accessory that let you capture screenshots from TV shows and turn them into stickers is so 90's Japan.

 

[Majine]

Bless you, Dr. Ashens

 

[s_mirage]

Weird to think that this thing had the same processor as the 32x.

It didn't. Wikipedia seems to be wrong and Ashens made the same mistake. By all accounts the Loopy was powered by an SH-1, the 32x by twin SH-2s.

The machine looks like an interesting curio but too niche for me to think about buying, especially since shipping prices from Japan are a killer.

 

[ponpo]

Pretty bad library. And this is pretty popular online lately, not sure why. Bandai Playdia thread in a couple of months.

See them in hardoff sometimes

 

[wedca]

Why is WanWan in jail?

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Is there a homebrew community for the Loopy? I want to see if it could run Street Fighter 2.

 

[Englebert3rd]

Is there a homebrew community for the Loopy? I want to see if it could run Street Fighter 2.

And Doom. Don't forget about Doom.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

And Doom. Don't forget about Doom.

Well, it's powered by a 32X CPU so it probably could run Doom without too much work.

 

[Piichan]

What does BFM mean?

 

[Robin64]

What does BFM mean?

British Furniture Manufacturers.

 

[PantsuJo]

Cool thread, OP.

I only read about it on retrogaming websites but never seen/tried one

 

[Celine]

First time realizing the two hearts in the console box cover are actually an L and a P.
Mind blown.

However if I really wanted a "useless" console I would go for a PC-FX (which actually have a few interesting games albeit all in japanese).

 

[Springy]

However if I really wanted a "useless" console I would go for a PC-FX (which actually have a few interesting games albeit all in japanese).

Not useless, then.

 

[Celine]

Not useless, then.

"useless" isn't the right term (maybe "disposable").
I mean a console you really don't need but want because of its exotic aura.

EDIT:
Oh and usually these exotic consoles and especially the games aren't cheap to buy so the incentive is even lower.

 

[Sho Nuff]

I saw one of these at the Portland Retro Game Expo, it was boss as fuck

Don't remember seeing any of these during my old shopping days living in Japan, but maybe I wasn't aware of something as amazing as a sticker console

 

[natsuyasumi]

those screenshots man what the fuck

didn't you know rape is humorous

 

[gingerbeardman]

those screenshots man what the fuck

Yeah they really need to be removed