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Amiga CD32
“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“A tower PC in console clothing — polite, upgradable, and thoroughly ignored by polygons.”
The PC-FX was a 32-bit home video game console co-developed by NEC and Hudson Soft, released in December 1994 as the successor to the beloved PC Engine (known overseas as the TurboGrafx-16). Built on the NEC V810 CPU and CD-ROM, it sported a tower PC form factor meant to be upgradeable like a proper computer. Unlike its predecessor, it only ever saw release in Japan.
The marketplace was unmoved: no 3D polygon-based graphics chip, a high price, and thin developer support made it a commercial failure, and it was discontinued in February 1998. NEC subsequently exited the home video game console business entirely. A quiet retirement for a machine that tried something a little different.
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“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“A CD player that dreamed of being a computer, a decade too polite to say so.”
“Smallest major console ever, biggest heart in the lineup”