The TurboGrafx-16, also know as the PC Engine was released in 1989 in the US and 1987 in Japan. The TurboGrafx was collaboration between Hudson Soft and NEC, which brought an 8-bit system with a 16-bit graphics chip capable of displaying up to 512 colors.
Marketed as a direct competitor of the Nintendo NES and the Sega Genesis, the Turbo Grafx had an early advantage with superior graphics and sounds with games such as Solider Blade, Bonk’s Adventure, Exile, Cotton, Blazing Lazers, China Warrior, Vigilante, Alien Crush, and the pack-in game, Keith Courage in Alpha Zone.
The TurboGrafx-16 also has a CD-Rom add on known as the Turbo CD and the Turbo Express, a handheld version of the TubroGrafix-16.
In 1992 Turbo Technologies Inc, the US extension of NEC and Hudson, released the Turbo Duo, a combination of the TurboGrafx-16 and the Turbo CD, plus a Super System BIOS+ extra 192k RAM built into the motherboard. The Turbo Duo brought amazing new games such as: Vasteel, Lords of Thunder, Super Air Zonk, Ys Book I and II, and possibly the best Castlevania game ever released, Dracula X: Rondo of the Blood.
