The Super Cassette Vision ( Japanese : ス ー パ ー カ セ ッ ト ビ ジ ョ ン, Hepburn : Suupaa Kasetto Bijon) is a stationary game console released by the Japanese console manufacturer Epoch-sha on July 17, 1984 at a price of 14,800 yen in Japan and the successor to the Cassette represents vision . In the same year, the console was also released in France. The system was in Japan as a game console, the third generation to compete with Nintendo 's Family Computer and Sega 's SG-1000 . In total, the device - like its predecessor - was sold around 400,000 times.