Manufactured by Matsushita/Panasonic for Nintendo, the cassette tape drive was released in 1984 only in Japan for . Available to any game developer, it was launched as a peripheral for Nintendo's "Family BASIC" Keyboard to save BASIC programs written by users. In addition to "Family BASIC", this compatible game library is Nintendo's "Programmable Series" with "Excitebike" (1984), "Mach Rider" (1985), and "Wrecking Crew" (1985)and the third party games "Castle Excellent" (1989), "Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh", "Lode Runner" (1984), and "Nuts & Milk".