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The HuCard is a ROM cartridge in the form of a card, designed for NEC's PC-Engine and PC Engine SuperGrafx video game consoles, which premiered in 1987 and 1989, respectively. In the United States, where marketed as the TurboGrafx-16, the HuCard is alternately called the TurboChip.

The CD-ROM² is an add-on attachment for the PC Engine that was released in Japan in 1988 and allows the core versions of the console to play PC Engine games in CD-ROM format in addition to standard HuCards. This made the PC Engine the first video game console to use CD-ROMs as a storage media.

[Released: 2020] Dedicated home video game console by Konami modeled on NEC's TurboGrafx-16, which was designed by Hudson Soft and emulates the original console's 16-bit hardware. Half the size of the original, it can support two controllers out of box.

[Released: 1992] The TurboDuo integrates the capabilities of the TurboGrafx-16 and its CD-ROM² drive into a single, redesigned unit with an updated BIOS and 192 KB of additional RAM. TTI also offered the Super System Card, which provided the original TurboGrafx-CD with the 192 KB RAM upgrade.

[Released: 1990] The TurboExpress is a handheld video game console by NEC, released in late 1990 in Japan and the United States. It is essentially a portable version of the TurboGrafx-16 home console that came two to three years earlier, and was released as the PC Engine GT in Japan.

[Releaed: 1989] Four times the amount of working RAM for the main CPU and a second video chip with its own video RAM. Has support for two independently scrolling background layers, as opposed to the PC Engine's single layer.

[Released: 1988] The CD-ROM² is an add-on attachment that allows the core versions of the console to play PC Engine games in CD-ROM format in addition to standard HuCards. This made the PC Engine the first video game console to use CD-ROMs as a storage media.

[Released: 1987] A collaborative effort between Hudson Soft, who created video game software, and NEC, a company which was dominant in the Japanese personal computer market, successfully joined together to develop the system.