/vr/ - Retro Games

because you pee sea engines then walk away

>>10261872
Lol funny. Seriously though, could anyone give more serious answer? NEC was making PCs at that time but this... is not a PC at all. Or maybe it's just Japanese being Japanese, cobbling two random English words or acronyms and calling it a day.

Cause it's a Pretty Cool Engine

>>10261880
Family Computer is also not a computer. Make of that what you will

>>10261880
it's a very modular system, with the CD-addons and the different RAM upgrades, among other things

there's also a shitload of pc engine models out there

>>10262049
What exactly do you think "computer" means?

>>10261872
why the fuck did i laugh at this

>>10261880
Brand recognition from their PC-88 and PC-98 products

>>10262054
Maybe something with an actual keyboard for starters lol

When I think of retro computers I think of MSX, PC-98, C64, Speccy, Sharp X68000 etc etc

>>10262062
This is the correct answer I think, had nothing to do with being an actual PC

>>10262056
It’s a twist on the old Xbox 360 joke

>>10262063
That's a personal computer. Every console is a computer.

>>10262083
If you say sooo...~

>>10261868
Because it has a 2011 Ford Sigma EcoBoost 1.6l engine with 1,596 cc displacement, duh

>>10262180
>2011
The PC Engine was ahead of its time...

>>10261868
It was actually originally called the Pedophile Communication Engine for pedophiles to communicate about the latest pedophile news. But during focus testing they found the children liked the technology more than the pedophiles so they rebranded it to PC Engine and made it play video games instead

>>10261868
NEC for their lineup of PC-88s, and Hudson Soft because they like locomotive engine trains.

Seriously.

>>10261872
Based beyond all reason

>>10261868
Because NEC almost run out of numbers with the PC-98

>>10262083
You mean gonculator

>>10262303
kek. But you could have made that a lot funnier if you'd known where the name relly came from and the massive library of literal CP for the product line.

>>10261868
>>10261880
"Console-zero-RE-no-X-no" was already taken

>>10262306
Sounds legit for me. But can you give sauce on this one or something?

>>10262049
There are cartridges for basic programming, you know

>>10262729
>Any sauce on NEC naming their stuff PC?
NTA, but aside from the millions of documents on the internet, and whatever print stuff that hasn't been scanned I can't think of anything.

>>10262049
>has a keyboard
>has fami basic
>uses a monitor
uhhhh anon i

>>10261872
Can confirm and just shidded the propeller

>>10262049
Can’t forget the Atari video computer system

>>10261868
japs have basically no consumer PC products so game consoles were treated as the replacement.
There are "games" for the SNES or PS1 that are no nonsense business software, tax calculation software, or home tour FMVs that apartment complexes or home sellers would give out.

>>10261872
fugg

>>10263080
>le youtube told me it was a computer cope
I'm disappointed kiddo. I expected this much earlier itt. Apply yourself.

@10263080
TJ alert
>le youtube told me it was a computer cope
>I'm disappointed kiddo. I expected this much earlier itt. Apply yourself.

>>10261868
well it was a souped up 8-bit machines so PC engine was fitting

>>10262049
>Family Computer is also not a computer
Famicom was very much a computer. It had a keyboard and you could run basic on it.

>>10263712
>japs have basically no consumer PC products
Are you fucking retarded?
The NEC PCs had tons of office software. Infact until the mid 90s all of japan basically used NEC or sharp PC systems with the proper software too from accounting to CAD, it's just that what's most documented in the West is videogames, because almost nobody here is that much into mid 80s japanese word processors.
The kind of weird low IQ recess tales that get spun over such a easily researchable topic are baffling.

>>10261868
Real answer:
NEC planned the PC engine to be the core of a modular low price consumer PC system. It's just that other than the CD addon not much ever came of this.

>>10264432
Don't even bother reasoning with people in this thread, apparently the NES is a computer now

>>10264460
How is it not a computer if you can officially write software in BASIC with a keyboard on it?

>>10264432
>NEC planned the PC engine to be the core of a modular low price consumer PC system
Really? Interesting if true

ITT people who have never been to /g/

Because it doesn't misgender people

Well this looks more like a PC.

>>10264556
Imagine fooling people like this.

>>10261868
How did they go from being 2nd place in the JP market with the PC Engine, and doing alright in US with the TurboGrafx-16, to pretty much not being all that relevant in the following console generation at all?

>>10264965
PSX happened. And their answer was >>10264556.

>>10262103
Do you really not know what a computer is? How old are you?

>>10264412
>That kid who plugged his USB keyboard into the cats ass to prove the cat was a computer

>>10264965
>being 2nd place in the JP market with the PC Engine

it was a distant 2nd place. the best selling games on pce had similar sales to the best selling megadrive games
>doing alright in US with turbografx
it completely bombed in the US. NEC blew money on manufacturing over marketing, and they burned bridges with devs over royalities. this meant NEC ended up self-publishing every single turbografx game

>>10264412
Did anybody EVER made ANY game on that thing or it was just placeboware just to waste time toying around?

>>10264965
>launch system in only major US cities like Japan did, forgetting the US is larger and no one was going to take a trip from Ohio to New York to buy a console
>did so shitily by 1991 they needed a new shell company to sell it
>by 1993 games were mail order only
>completely pass up the chance for a timed exclusive for Mortal Kombat

>doing alright in US with the TurboGrafx-16
Are you retarded?

>>10266662
Lode Runner lets you save to tape if you have it plugged in but no games can actually use the keyboard unless they were made in Family Basic. There were also magazines with source code in them that you could type to get games.

>>10266728
also Zanac apparently has a debug mode that can use it.

>>10261872
/thread

>>10261872
I don't get it

>designated "I bought this for Castlevania: Rondo of Blood" console

>>10261868
Because the PC-Genjin, PC Caveman, joke wouldn't have anything else going for it.

>>10261868
It's ironic because my pc engine is a console and my cp engine is a pc.

>>10266662
Nobody of any real importance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89_FhHQ5n-g

>>10264432
Hey retard try looking up what the word CONSUMER means in relation to sales markets

>>10265152
I must be way too tired because I laughed at this for like a minute straight

>>10267076
I thought you were being sarcastic but then I saw Sakurai on the video

>>10266662
I really don't even know why he brought that up, it's still nowhere near the same category as C64, Speccy, Amiga, MSX, PC-98, X68000, FM Towns, or any of the other actual computers. This is like calling the Genesis an arcade board akin to CPS-2 because the Mega Play exists. Interesting that none of these anons are in the actual computer thread we have going right now

>>10261868
What name would you have preferred?

>>10262063
The Famicom does have a keyboard. You could write programs and games in BASIC and you could save that code to cassette tapes just like other PC's at the time.

>>10262729
Just from the wiki page but no reference.

Hudson Soft's R&D location in Hokkaido had a miniature train track that ran through the building.

>>10266662
Nah. It was just a silly toy. Something to allow copers to say "b-b-but it is a computer"
>>10268072
>just like other PC's at the time.
No. It was a toy that was outclassed by entry level models of 70's home computers.

this is now a pc engine discussion thread

>>10264412
Kind of crazy to think that nintendo out of all companies allowed something that would technically let anyone release games on their system without going through them

>>10268758
And yet, PCs were incapable of making games that scroll properly. Just admit that you're wrong.

>>10267601

>>10269662
>and yes, strawman cope just admit that you're wrong.
lol. Cry harder little nintoddler

>>10266662
You were wrong so take the L.

>>10269105
to be fair SmileBasic also exists on DSi,

>>10270545
IT FUCKSING POSTED BEFORE I WAS ODNE

*DSi, 3DS, Wii U (in japan), and Switch.

>>10261868
NEC made several personal computers, the range included "PC". PC-8800, PC98, PC98-NX, etc.
So the term "PC" had brand recognition for them in Japan. This was back in the days before the west had decided that "PC" would only apply to IBM PCs.

So when they made a new console, they stuck to their branding, PC. Why "Engine"? No idea, maybe because it was the "engine" pulling along the games.

Obviously in the west PC had started to become clearly linked to IBM compatibles, so they changed the name for the western market and stuck 16 on the end because of the bit wars.

>>10262049
A computer is anything - or indeed, anyone - that computes. All electronic games consoles fall comfortably into this category.

>>10262049
Setting aside the fact that it is a computer because all consoles are computers

> not a computer
Family Computer Network System existed. With dial up early internet to live stock trades, horse race bets, weather forecasts, banking programs etc.

Family BASIC existed, with a keyboard, allowing BASIC programming

It's a games-oriented computer.