FPGA-powered Emotion Engine.
While Sega and Nintendo dominate the accepted narrative of the 1990s console war, that wasn’t the case in every part of the world. In Japan, Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis was pushed into third place by NEC’s PC Engine line of systems, which launched when the NES / Famicom was the dominant force and managed to keep pace with the SNES / Super Famicom in its homeland thanks to a range of innovative upgrades and hardware refreshes.
Granted, the PC Engine’s Western version – known as the TurboGrafx-16 – failed dismally against the combined might of the SNES and Genesis / Mega Drive, but there’s no denying that it has gained a solid and passionate following over the years, as evidenced by the release of the PC Engine / TG-16 Mini a few years ago.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
FPGA-powered Emotion Engine.
While Sega and Nintendo dominate the accepted narrative of the 1990s console war, that wasn’t the case in every part of the world. In Japan, Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis was pushed into third place by NEC’s PC Engine line of systems, which launched when the NES / Famicom was the dominant force and managed to keep pace with the SNES / Super Famicom in its homeland thanks to a range of innovative upgrades and hardware refreshes.
Granted, the PC Engine’s Western version – known as the TurboGrafx-16 – failed dismally against the combined might of the SNES and Genesis / Mega Drive, but there’s no denying that it has gained a solid and passionate following over the years, as evidenced by the release of the PC Engine / TG-16 Mini a few years ago.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
