(Time Extension) This 'In The Hunt' Tech Demo "Shows Us What The 16-bit Generation Lost" When NEC's SuperGrafx Bombed

[Le Reposteur]

"Beautiful parallax effects, detailed scenarios and huge sprites".

Picture the scene: it's 1988, and Sega has just launched the Mega Drive in Japan, a system that poses a serious technical threat to the ageing Nintendo Famicom and the relatively new PC Engine, which had arrived the previous year.

NEC and Hudson Soft, the two companies behind the PC Engine (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America), decided to take action in order to protect their considerable market share in Japan. The end result was the SuperGrafx, which was initially pitched as a successor system to the existing PC Engine.

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