Came across this video, 40mins about Hudson Soft, who started in 1973 and survived to 1987. A business of two brothers, programming their games in their computer shop using the computers they had not yet delivered to customers. And you’ll find out the mystery behind the name.
Much later, the company developed an enhanced 6502 in a system-on-chip which went into NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 video game console.
There’s a verilog version these days, fittingly it’s directly derived from a verilog 6502:
They also released Stop the Express, which managed to avoid colour clash completely on the ZX Spectrum. If you watch the game for a bit you can work out how they do it, but the game moves along at a great clip, so you barely notice while playing.
… and it even gets a mention in the video at 24’ 19".
I know that Famicom is this YTer’s deal, but Hudson Soft were all over home computing too.
