The aiwa CSD-GM1, the first, and only? boombox with a built in video game system. Don't bother going over to wikiboombox.com, it isn't there. Released in 1994 this meshed up with the Sega Mega CD Game System. I bet this early stereo TV game system sounded really good.
I have one Aiwa Walkman that works well (almost like new) after replacing the belts a few years ago. Virtually EVERY OTHER Aiwa tape machine I've ever worked on was an unholy concatenation of being hideously difficult to service, unavailable service data and/or lack of aftermarket (or used) parts availability. This may or may not be difficult to work on, but I'm not sure the audio quality "juice" would be worth the time/effort "squeeze". YMMV. I'm not a gamer, although I'm quickly becoming undeniably "vintage". It only took me about $10-15 in 1982 quarters to ascertain that I couldn't afford to become proficient at Asteroids/Star Castles/Galaga or whatever it was. ; - )
Found some more info on the old "Geocities" Hosting Platform 1994 in Japan and Europe, at a price of ¥45,000 Motorola 68000 at 7.67 MHz Zilog Z80 at 3.5 MHz A second Motorola 68000 at 12.5 MHz I don't know the BIOS version it uses for the Mega-CD. RAM 64 KB for the 68000 (a cartridge is mapped to address 0 of the 68000) and 8 KB for the Z80. The Mega CD adds an additional 768 KB. VRAM 64 KB Case Silver stereo system format with MegaCD logos on the CD and cassette covers. Below is the Game Unit, which houses all the console's circuitry, communicating with the CD player via a cable on the back. It has this connector and the mini-DIN A/V connector of the Megadrive 2, a cartridge slot on the front, and a Megadrive joystick port on each side. Display Controlled by a VDP and the Mega CD's ASIC with a resolution of 256 x 192, 64 colors from a palette of 512, 16 simultaneous colors in a tile or sprite. The screen consists of 2 scroll planes. Each plane is made up of tiles. Each tile is an 8x8 pixel square with 4 bits per pixel. Each pixel can have 16 different colors. Each tile uses 1 of 4 color palettes, so there can be 64 colors on the screen at once, but only 16 in a single tile. Each tile requires 32 bytes. Sprites are also composed of tiles (up to 4 x 4 tiles = 32 x 32 pixels, with 16 colors), and there can be up to 80 simultaneous sprites. Sound Controlled by a Yamaha YM 2612 FM synthesizer (FM with 6 voices and 4 operators; very similar to the chip in the Yamaha DX27 and DX100 keyboards) and a TI SN76489 PSG (Programmable Sound Generator), with 3 sound channels and one white noise channel. They have 8 KB of Sound RAM, managed by the Z80. With the Mega CD, these are supplemented by 8 channels of stereo CD audio.
