The TurboGrafx-16 Turns 20

1up takes a look back at the NES challenger the NEC TurboGrafx-16.

Thus was born the PC Engine, renamed the TurboGrafx-16 for its US launch in the summer of 1989. A demure white box in Japan turned sleek black rectangle for America, the TG-16 made good on NEC's promise of a NES-beating experience. It was the first system of the post-NES era, and in contrast to Nintendo's toy company approach to their 8-bit console

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Video Game Scans

Nintendo in the Sears Catalog

Heres a nice collection of scans from catalogs and ads from magazines. Includes Atari, CD-i,  Nintendo,  Sega and TurboGrafx-16 systems. The quality is pretty high so you can actually read how much everything cost when it was new.

Find more great scans at www.huguesjohnson.com

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