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NEC PC Engine

NEC · 1987

The smallest console of its generation and one of the cleverest: an 8-bit HuC6280 with 16-bit video, on credit-card-sized HuCards, and in Japan it outsold the Famicom for a period. Developed with Hudson Soft. The Western TurboGrafx-16 rebadge failed; the Japanese machine and its shooter library are what collectors want.

As catalogued

Maker
NEC
CPU
Hudson HuC6280-7.16
Memory
8K
Styles
PC Engine (white), CoreGrafx, CoreGrafx II, Shuttle, TurboGrafx-16 (US), PC Engine GT / TurboExpress
Regions
NTSC-J (Japan), NTSC-U (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
console, small white square
OS
HuCard

Chips

3
CPU
Hudson HuC6280, Hudson HuC6280A
VDC
Hudson HuC6270
VCE
Hudson HuC6260

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