![]() Released in Japan in 1987 the diminutive White Console (14x14x3.8cm) was a revelation, quickly surpassing the Famicom as the number one seller. Hudson then approached NEC (Who were eager to get into the Console Market) who in partnership produced a standalone Console using the Dual GPU, along with an 8-bit HuC6280 CPU (A modified WDC 65C02 core with several additional registers and functions including sound generation) and “HuCARD” ROMS that were Credit Card sized. One memorable advertisement quoted Jeff Minter (Famous 80’s Game Programmer) who proclaimed “It’s not an expensive Console, it’s a cheap Arcade Machine! In 1986 Hudson Soft (Of Bomber Man fame) designed a Dual GPU chipset (One 16-bit HuC6260 Video Color Encoder (VCE), and one 16-bit HuC6270A Video Display Controller (VDC), the original concept being an additional Module for the Famicom (NES), which Nintendo rejected. As regular readers of my “Guides” will no doubt have guessed by now, I’m rather fond of the PC Engine, it kick started the “Grey Import” market in the UK and I purchased one myself in 1988 after being “Astonished” witnessing R-Type I running on the little White Marvel.
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