That's not a PC Engine!
THIS is a PC Engine in all its awesome glory
The original console is so tiny and the game cards just blew everyone's minds back in the late 80's. I have one, had it when it was still supported and it's a great console.
That's what grey importing is lol. I just looked it up and they were grey importers. Unofficial. You cannot release a Japanese product as-is at retail in another country. The Turbografx was the only official PAL release.
Wouldn't they have to change the power outlet too?
Buying Japanese retail systems and selling them in another country is grey importing. It's not illegal, but is not an official release, even if NEC allowed it or even sold them directly to this company (which I doubt since there was an official PAL Turbografx release). Them needing modding makes it even less official.
They changed everything needed tonuse the systems in France (video output, AC adapters, documentation in French, etc) and were the sole distributors of systems and games in France (which is why you could go to any Fnac and purchase one, unlike every other imported good where you had to go through specialized shops like Ultima Games, Score Games or Stock Games way back then).
Systems were supplied by NEC who never released the TG16 outside of the UK anyway. But whatever I'll trust the history I have with Sodipeng over some random english internet website.
Dunno sounds pretty cool to me, never heard about this before but since the PC-Engine is THE console I'd always loved to have, so it woul be great if I ever found one in the wild. I find French MSX stuff in the francophone part of Switzerland sometimes.
Not going to say that the PC-Engine is not a good machine, but the Bomberman 94 Genesis port has maybe less than 32 colours on screen. The console is able to manage 64 at once.
I appreciate that you took the time to explain.
Concerning Lords of Thunder, I always thought that the Sega-CD port was actually very close to the original. Care to point out on some differences ?No worries at all, games is my thing! Love talking about them, and the hardware is all wrapped up in that
Ok, I understand. I knew that the PC-Engine could display pretty much its entire palette at once if it wanted (which is the same palette as the Genesis in fact) and that it could not handle several parallax backgrounds (only one background in fact).
Just picked one up today, never had one before (although have dabbled on friends' over the years).
I'm heading to Tokyo in a few months. Barring Super Potato and the usual tourist traps in Akiba, where's a good place in town to get HuCard games (hopefully for relatively cheap)?
As SheepyGuy says, Amazon.jp, or eBay for used HuCards if you really want to collect...
Just picked one up today, never had one before (although have dabbled on friends' over the years).
I'm heading to Tokyo in a few months. Barring Super Potato and the usual tourist traps in Akiba, where's a good place in town to get HuCard games (hopefully for relatively cheap)?
For all the non Japanese readers/speakers out there a translation project has appeared for Emerald Dragon.
Yeah it can be a bit confusing. Whereas in the States we had a couple of models (TurboGrafx-16 and then TurboDuo), the PC-Engine was released in quite a few different configs/upgrades - Original PC-Engine, CoreGrafx, SuperGrafx, ShuttleGrafx - and then the CD-rom add-on with the various System Cards. Add to that the portable versions (TurboExpress/GameTank, Laptop "LT") To the uninitiated it's probably a bunch of gobbledygook best left largely forgotten for that reason. To be fair they weren't alone in this, there were different versions of the Japanese NES (Famicom) and early Sega 8-bit systems as well. Anyway what you see when you run a Google search (little white box with a gamepad attached) is the generally-accepted barebones unit in question..
