NEC PC Engine Duo
| 4th Generation Competitors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neo Geo CD | Megadrive | Super NES | Neo Geo AES | CDTV | Philips CDI |
| Region | Release Date | Discontinued | Lifetime Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 21st Sep 1991 | 1995 | |
| North America | 10th Oct 1992 | 1995 | |
| Europe | NA | NA | NA |
Whilst the SuperGrafx was largely failing in the market, NEC kept pushing the PC Engine platform. One of it’s various versions (and my personal favourite) was the PC Engine Duo.
The Duo took the PC Engine and combined it, in one sleek package, with the SuperCD addon. It was certainly successful in terms of hardware, the unit was far more convenient than the previous add on units had been and was very reliable.
The Duo was also released in North America as the TurboDuo but never made it to Europe.
Specs |
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|---|---|
| Processor | 8 Bit HuC6280A @ 1.79 or 7.16 MHz |
| RAM | 8K Work Ram, 64K Video Ram, 192K CD Cache |
| ROM | 16K |
| Custom Chips | 1 x HuC6270A 16 bit video chips |
| Video | 9 bits 482 colours on screen from a palette of 512 |
| Audio | 6 x PSG Channels |
| Removable storage | Single Speed CD Rom |
