TurboGrafx 16

For information on the Japanese version of this console, see PC Engine

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The TurboGrafx 16 is a video game console released by NEC in 1989, for the North American market. The system also saw a very limited release in the UK in 1990 as "Turbografx" (sans the "16" in the title). TurboGrafx-16 was the North American (European) version of NEC's popular PC Engine video game console.

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Video game console - NEC - 1989 - North America - UK - 1990 - PC Engine

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The TurboGrafx-16 was an eight-bit system with a 16-bit graphics chip, capable of displaying 512 colors at once. The TurboGrafx-16, unusually, used a thin memory card storage medium called a HuCard (also referred to as "TurboChip" in North America), instead of the then-standard cartridge format. "HuCard" (Hudson + Card) was derived from Hudson Soft, who co-developed the system with NEC. The cards were the size of a credit card (but slightly thicker) and thus were somewhat similar to the card format used by the Sega Master System for budget games. Unlike the Sega Master System, however, the TurboGrafx-16 used the cards exclusively.

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Cartridge - Sega Master System

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