Eastern Western games originating before 1980
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(1976??)
FM-7
(first released for North Star computers in 1978, more broadly rereleased in 1980)
FM-7 [1982, CSK Software Products]
PC-6001 [1982, CSK Software Products]
(1978 @ North Star computers, 1980 @ elsewhere)
FM-7 [1982, CSK Software Products]
PC-6001 [1983, CSK Software Products]
(1978, North Star computers; 1980, not North Star computers)
FM-7 [1982, CSK Software Products]
PC-6001 [1982, Kiya Overseas Industry?]
(1978)
Actually, let me insert a dark and haunting confession here: the Scott Adams adventures listed seem to be based on the Graphic Adventures (or SAGA) versions, which were released in 1982. So I might end up moving them there. But then FM-7 Tanktics would be so lonely. But...does it really exist? Hmm.
FM-7 [1984, StarCraft]
PC-88 [1984.07, Starcraft]
PC-98 [1984.07, Starcraft]
(1978?)
FM-7
PC-88 [1984.09, Starcraft]
PC-98
(1978?)
FM-7 (1984, Starcraft, as "Mission Impossible")
PC-88 [1984.08, Starcraft, ditto]
(1978?)
FM-7 [1984, Starcraft]
PC-88 [1984.11, Starcraft]
(1979)
Note that, unlike the other Scott Adams games here, the graphics in the Japanese conversions were created exclusively(?) for those releases!
FM-7
PC-88 [1985.05, Starcraft, as "Fun House Mystery"?]
X1
(1979)
FM-7 [1985, Starcraft --> what is 1983 "Transylvania"?]]
PC-88 [1984.01, Starcraft, as "Transylvania"]
PC-98
(1979)
FM-7 [1984, Starcraft]
PC-88
PC-98
(came out as "Galactic Empires" in 1979, modified/renamed/rereleased in 1981)
FM-7 [1983, CSK Software Products]