The StudyBox

The StudyBox is a tape drive edutainment system for the Famicom released only in Japan. There isn’t too much information about this device online, and most of it is only in Japanese (Wikipedia).

StudyBox plugged into a Famicom

There are a bunch of programs for the StudyBox that were released over a few years. These can be divided into two main sets of programs:

  • Enjoy English
  • Newton Land Math & Science

All of the tapes are aimed at children between third and fifth grade age. Each tape comes with a workbook that is meant to be followed along in during the playthrough of each program. I only have the workbooks from the Enjoy English series, however I am missing two workbooks.

One thing to note is there are likely far more tapes that were released than the community has been able to recover. I would not be surprised if the tapes we have only make up a small part of the total library of programs released.

I’ve been putting off working on writeups for a long while. It’s far too daunting to wait for completion before posting anything about the StudyBox, so in the mean time I’ll be updating this little by little instead of all at once. Below will eventually contain links to all kinds of information, but for now I’ve only got some tape summaries.

The Tech

The Tapes

links

I do computer things, i guess