The history of the TurboGrafx-16 system is basically a tale of two countries. Electronics giant NEC and game developer Hudson joined forces in 1987 to design and release the PC Engine game console to ...

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NEC was poised to capture a significant share of the emerging North American video game market with the release of the TurboGrafx-16, but corporate indifference doomed the console to obscurity, an ...

Thirty years ago, on August 29, 1989, during the height of Nintendo mania in the United States, electronics giant NEC launched its own American home video game console called the TurboGrafx-16. With ...

Twenty years ago today, NEC attempted and failed at what Sony and Microsoft would succeed at in future generations: it took on the established order of the videogame industry. The 16-bit generation ...

The newest threat to Nintendo`s dominance of the American dedicated game machine market is NEC`s Turbografx-16 system, which like the Sega Genesis far outshines the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) ...

When Kanye West tweeted about a new album releasing in the summer of 2016, the title was revealed as “Turbo Grafx 16 for now,” the name of a rare household gaming console from the late ‘80s. Since the ...

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Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. The underdog of the 16-bit console wars, NEC’s TurboGrafx-16, ...

Analogue has slowly been working its way through the '80s and '90s video game vault, recreating classic console after classic console. After starting with various pieces of Neo-Geo hardware, the ...