TurboExpress
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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 out one to three years earlier. Its launch price in Japan was ¥44,800 and in the U.S.
Key facts
- Information appliance.name
- TurboExpress/PC Engine GT
- Information appliance.logo
- 230px150px
- Information appliance.image
- NEC-TurboExpress-Upright-FL.jpg
- Information appliance.image_size
- 230px
- Information appliance.caption
- TurboExpress handheld
- Information appliance.manufacturer
- NEC Home Electronics
- Information appliance.type
- Handheld game console
- Information appliance.aka
- HES-EXP-01
- Information appliance.generation
- Fourth
- Information appliance.price
- $249.99, ¥44,800
- Information appliance.units_sold
- 1.5 million units
- Information appliance.media
- HuCard
- Information appliance.power
- 6 AA batteries or 6 volt AC adapter
- Information appliance.cpu
- HuC6280
- Information appliance.cpu_speed
- 7.16 MHz or 1.79 MHz
- Information appliance.memory
- 8 KB RAM64 KB VRAM
- Information appliance.display
- 2.6 in. TFT active matrix backlit LCD, 336×221 pixels, 512 color palette, 481 colors on-screen
- Information appliance.graphics
- 2x HuC6270A VDC
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- NEC-TurboExpress-Upright-FL.jpg
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- Commons category
- PC Engine GT/TurboExpress
- publication date
- 1990-12-01
- units sold
- 1500000
- clock frequency
- 7.16
- discontinuation date
- 1994-00-00
- price
- 249.99
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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 out one to three years earlier. Its launch price in Japan was ¥44,800 and in the U.S.
The TurboExpress was technically advanced for the time, able to play all the TurboGrafx16's HuCard games, featuring a backlit, active-matrix color LCD screen, and optional TV tuner.