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​NEC

PC-FX      PC ENGINE

REVIEWS | NEC PC ENGINE; TURBOGRAFX-16 & CD & SUPERGRAFX

Fourth generation | 1987-1994 | HuCard & CD-ROM
Games: 678 (combined); 284; 389 (CD); 5 (SG) | Units sold: > 6.59m

The PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16 in North America) was notable as the first entrant in the 16-bit console market, and for having the first (and perhaps only truly successful) CD-ROM add-on. It’s diminutive form and attractive, fast games proved a hit on the import scene of the late eighties. A CD-ROM add-on released in 1988 in an attempt to keep pace with the superior power of the Mega Drive and SNES, and despite the reduced install base and complicated compatibility (3 tiers of games required different hardware variants), it would host nearly 400 additional games. The PCE required a multitap for 2-player gameplay. Outselling the Mega Drive in Japan, it was known for its numerous hardware revisions. These included the portable PC Engine GT (or Turbo Express), a chipset change in the guise of CoreGrafx, and 1989's ill-fated SuperGrafx, intended initially as a successor to the PCE and possessing four times the RAM of the original model, it saw only five games take advantage of it.
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Winning Shot *
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Road Spirits [CD] *
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Devil's Crush *
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Blazing Lazers *
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Genpei Toma Den *
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Gate of Thunder [CD] *
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Alien Crush *
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R-Type *
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Fighting Street [CD] *
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Splatterhouse *


​NEC

PC-FX      PC ENGINE

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