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![]() TurboExpress handheld | |
Manufacturer | NEC Home Electronics |
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Type | Handheld game console |
Generation | Fourth |
Release date | |
Introductory price | $249.99, ¥44,800 |
Discontinued | |
Units sold | 1.5 million units |
Media | HuCard |
CPU | HuC6280 @ 7.16 MHz or 1.79 MHz |
Memory | 8KB RAM |
Display | 336×221 pixels (RGB counted separately) |
Graphics | 512 color palette, 481 colors on-screen |
Sound | 6-channel wavetable synthesis |
Connectivity | TurboLink |
Power | 6 AA batteries or 6 volt AC adapter |
Related articles | TurboGrafx-16 |
The TurboExpress is an 8-bit handheld game console by NEC Home Electronics, released in late 1990 in Japan and the United States, branded as the PC Engine GT in Japan and TurboExpress Handheld Entertainment System in the U.S. It is essentially a portable version of the TurboGrafx-16 home console that came two to three years earlier. Its launch price in Japan was ¥44,800 and $249.99 in the U.S.
The TurboExpress was technically advanced for the time, able to play all the TurboGrafx‑16's HuCard games, featuring a TV tuner and a backlit, active-matrix color LCD screen.[3]
The TurboExpress primarily competed with Nintendo's Game Boy, Sega's Game Gear, and the Atari Lynx. However, with 1.5 million units sold, far behind its two main competitors, NEC failed to gain significant sales or market share in the handheld market.[4]
Other sources[]
- The Electronic Gaming Monthly 1991 Video Game Buyers Guide.
Fourth-generation video game consoles (1987–1995) | ||
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Home | Commodore CDTV • Neo Geo • Neo Geo CD • Philips CD-i LaserActive • Sega Genesis • Sega Pico • Super A'Can • Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNS-101) • TurboGrafx-16 | |
Handheld | Game Boy family (Game Boy) • Atari Lynx • Game Gear • TurboExpress • Gamate • Watara Supervision • Mega Duck/Cougar Boy • Game Master |
Handheld game consoles | ||
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Anbernic | RG351 • RG552 • RG35XXSP | |
Bandai | LCD Solarpower • Digi Casse • Design Master Senshi • WonderSwan | |
Entex | Select-A-Game • Adventure Vision | |
Epoch | Epoch Game Pocket Computer • Barcode Battler | |
GamePad Digital | GPD XD • GPD Win • GPD Win 2 | |
Game Park/Holdings | GP32 • GP2X • XGP • GP2X Wiz • CAANOO | |
LeapFrog | Didj • Leapster • Leapster Explorer | |
Nintendo | Game Boy family (Game Boy • Color) • Game Boy Advance family (Advance • Advance SP • Micro) • Virtual Boy • Pokémon Pikachu • Pokémon Mini • Nintendo DS family (Nintendo DS • Lite • DSi) • Nintendo 3DS (2DS • New 3DS • New 2DS XL) • Switch (Switch Lite) | |
Nokia | N-Gage • N-Gage QD | |
Sega | Game Gear • Nomad | |
SNK | Neo Geo Pocket • Neo Geo Pocket Color • Neo Geo X | |
Sony | PlayStation Portable • Xperia Play • PlayStation Vita | |
Tiger | R-Zone • Game.com | |
VTech | 3D Gamate • Variety • V.Smile Pocket | |
Other handhelds | 1970s | Microvision |
1980s | Children's Discovery System • Palmtex Portable Videogame System / Super Micro • Romtec Colorvision • Nelsonic Industries • Electronika • Atari Lynx | |
1990s | TurboExpress • Game Master • Gamate • Watara Supervision • Mega Duck | |
2000s | Tapwave Zodiac • GameKing • GPANG service • Gizmondo • Coleco Sonic • Dingoo | |
2010s | JXD devices • Pandora • DragonBox Pyra • Shield Portable • GCW Zero | |
2020s | Analogue Pocket • Ayn Odin • Evercade • Playdate • Retroid Pocket 2 • Thumby • Steam Deck | |
Related | Early units • List • Comparison |
- ↑ "PC-Engine". 23 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-06-23. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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: - ↑ "TurboGrafx-16 TurboExpress - Overview - allgame". 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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: - ↑ Lachel, Cyril (February 22, 2012). "The TurboExpress Has won the War". Defunct Games. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018.
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: - ↑ Snow, Blake (July 30, 2007). "The 10 Worst-Selling Handhelds of All Time". GamePro. http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/domestic/games/features/125748.shtml. Retrieved January 17, 2008.