/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8915684
and by game support do you mean girls of hawaii or actual titles?

It was the mainstream otaku machine. Install base was large enough, coding games with pretty cartoon pictures was cheap, same for pressing compact discs. not many content restrictions from platform holders. If you really needed more power then you had to learn how to program the Saturn or abide by Sony's strict content guidelines.
Also. PC-FX died miserably in a fiery explosion, so supporting PC Engine beyond its expected lifespan was in NEC/Hudson's interests.

>>8915714
If only the PC-FX could run PC Engine games, or at least the PCE CD games.

>>8915684
It's 1996 actually, Dead of the Brain's release might have been attributed to the wrong year since it's the only stated being released in 1999 while in one of the PC FAN magazines it appeared in 1996
https://archive.org/details/pc-engine-fan-february-1996/page/30/mode/1up

>>8915714
>PC-FX died miserably in a fiery explosion
When Konami announced Tokimeki Memorial ports to both PlayStation and Saturn but not PC-FX, we knew it was over

>>8915721
This is some out-of-place artifact stuff. Cool find, I wonder where the 1999 date came about.

I wish I. Had a tg16 and cd really bad. The NEC machine makes me have childhood jealousy

>>8915714
Its not like the Pc-Fx had any chance in hell of being successful considering the competition at the time. Targeting the japanese hentai audience was not a bad idea desu

>>8915684
i mean support pretty much stopped by 96, that's a very loose definition of "late 90s"

>>8915881
based take

>>8915714
Why wasn't the PC-FX redesigned during the several years it got delayed? It could have become something like an Otaku 3DO in terms of graphics and library.

>>8916228
Wasn't the system basically all finished by 1992? Bet they didn't want to spend more money for a redesign when they already dumped so much, and their major quirk as a company was enhancements, add-ons and redesigns for the PC Engine. They were even planning an add-on for 3D graphics and decided not to, since it sold like shit.

They should have made the PC-FX backwards compatible with at least the PCE CD games, for fuck's sake.

>>8915684
Basically a souped up 8 bit machine

>>8916313
And the Intellivsion was 16-bit. Your point?

>>8916327
top kek

>>8916312
It looks like NEC geniunely did not realise that gaming consoles turn obsolete after several years and such they were not prepared for generation shift around 1994. So they grabbed a random prototype from 1992 and pushed it as a new console.

>>8916312
PCE>super card>arcade card was basically the same as if n64 had released a 2nd memory expansion pack down the line, which was reasonable because the system was 8 years old by the time arcade card dropped.
The cd>super cd was just being like if n64 had released the n64dd, and then a second n64dd that had the first memory expansion built in.
The supergrafx was its own system, as retarded as it was, but same could be said about the DSi, the DS having had several revisions, as did the gba, and 3ds which both had 3 I believe?
>>8916312
>They should have made the PC-FX backwards compatible with at least the PCE CD games, for fuck's sake.
I agree, they could have made the pc-fx fit in the cd-rom2 housing easily and saved all that money on the cd-drive. Would have been slower load time but at least you could have made the decision to upgrade vs save money.

>>8916327
Only the CPU was 16-bit.

>>8917473
Good thing someone is doing the math!

It's too bad the best early CD console didn't take off in the west. If Hudson had grabbed some more FMV garbage and PC ports, gone in that 3DO direction in addition to what they already offered, they could have had something here

>>8917495
guess it didn't add up