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Amiga CD32
“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“Smallest major console ever, biggest heart in the lineup”
The TurboGrafx-16 — known as the PC Engine everywhere outside North America — was a home console from Hudson Soft and NEC, the first of the fourth generation. It packed an 8-bit CPU with dual 16-bit graphics chips and could put up to 482 colors on screen at once. At 14 by 14 by 3.5 centimeters, the PC Engine remains the smallest major home console ever released, which is frankly impressive for something people loved
It launched in Japan in 1987 to face Nintendo's Family Computer, but the delayed 1989 U.S. debut dropped it into a fight with the Sega Genesis and later the Super NES — and the '16' in its American name drew side-eye for overselling those 8 bits. Games began on HuCards, but the platform kept branching: TurboGrafx-CD, the SuperGrafx variant, even LaserDisc games via Pioneer's LaserActive, with no single configuration
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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.”
“A tower PC in console clothing — polite, upgradable, and thoroughly ignored by polygons.”