Tag: PC Engine
PC Engine fans rejoice! Yes, as you have read from the title, the PC Engine is returning! For those of you who are not familiar, the PC Engine (also known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the USA) was a home video console by NEC Home Electronics and was first released in Japan in 1987. 10 million units were sold worldwide. Despite…
The PC Engine has quickly become my favourite gaming console of all time within the brief period that I have been exposed to this great tiny machine that features a large library of quality arcade type games. It was only 12 months ago, I purchased an unmodified CoreGrafx unit with a handful of HuCard games and was immediately hooked with…
The gaming market is awash of retro gaming hardware solutions, providing the ability to play original cartridge games natively up-scaled from their original resolution to allow them to look good on modern HD televisions. Playmaji is looking to take this a step further with the impending launch of POLYMEGA, a modular retro gaming system that supports multiple cartridge based and…
One of the principle reasons why I enjoy retro gaming so much is that it affords the opportunity to indulge in some nostalgic memories from my childhood. Other times, however, it can be out of sheer curiosity more than anything else, which was certainly the case when I decided to review ‘Dragon’s Curse‘ for the TurboGrafx-16. I fear that the…
Developed as collaboration between Red Company and Atlus, ‘Bonk’s Adventure‘ is the first game in a franchise that stars Bonk, the prehistoric cave-boy. Initially appearing on NEC’s PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 console, the series would also receive conversions to the NES, as well as the Commodore Amiga under the moniker of ‘B.C. Kid‘. In this first adventure, the dastardly King Drool has…
The PC Engine Software Bible website has revealed it’s final present this month. HuTOWN is a kind-of-game where you wander around a town, entering buildings to reveal special rooms based on specific PC Engine games. Each room contains icons that, when picked up, give information, opinions and screenshots of the game in question. There are also special animations that can…
Aetherbyte Studios has just released a free game to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of NEC’s PC Engine console (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the US). Nantettatte Engine is a ‘Score Attack’ shoot ’em up, modelled on the classic Astrosmash and is available for download as a free ROM. You can download the game here. Source: Aetherbyte.
Continuing the celebration of the PC Engine’s 30th Anniversary this month, the PC Engine Software Bible website has offered for download a free print & play card game, themed around the characters from the Bonk/Zonk/PC Genjin series of games. The game is based on Koi-Koi, a popular game in Japan played with traditional Hanafuda cards. It also claims to be…
The PC Engine Software Bible website has revealed the next gift to be unlocked in October. This month is the 30th Anniversary of the NEC’s PC Engine console (known in the US as the TurboGrafx-16) and the site is unlocking new presents every week. You can now download free PDFs of two books that were only previously available in print…
October is an important month for fans of the PC Engine. It reaches the grand old age of 30 years on October 30th, being released back in 1987. The PC Engine Software Bible webpage has hinted at several secrets to be unlocked throughout the month, and the first of them is a positively ginormous video of hand picked PC Engine…
