TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine

TurboGrafx-16 is a console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC and which was released in 1989 in United States, arrived before in the Japan in 1987 under the name PC-Engine.

It is the first console of the 16-bit era, even though its main processor, the Hudson Soft HuC6280, is 8-bit, the video chip was 16-bit and with graphics far superior to those of the NES and Master System, being its main competitor the Mega Drive that would come out a year later.

It was quite successful in Japan, surpassing the NES, but it didn't do the same in the western market.

Like the Sega Genesis, also had an update with CD support, called PC Engine Duo in Japan and TurboDuo in the United States, and whose most famous game was Dracula X, with a much higher version than the one released for the Super Nintendo.

TurboGrafx-16 sold around 5,800,000 units worldwide.

Release date: October 30, 1987