TurboGrafx-CD

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North American model.

The TurboGrafx-CD is a CD-ROM attachment developed by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16 video game console. It was first released in Japan as the CD-ROM² on 1988-12-04, then in North America in November 1989. The peripheral attached to the main console with an interface unit and allowed the TurboGrafx-16 to read data from the CD greatly expanding the console's ROM and also play audio CDs.

The device was upgraded and integrated into the main console a number of times. In 1991, a Japanese-only upgrade was released called the Super CD-ROM². On 1991-09-21, Japan released the PC Engine Duo which combined the PC Engine and Super CD-ROM² into a single unit which was later released in the USA in October 1992 as the TurboDuo. On 1993-03-25, Japan released the PC Engine Duo-R, which was just a cosmetic upgrade of the Dup, then, on 1994-06-25, Japan released the PC Engine Duo-RX which included a new 6-button controller.

Personal

I have never owned or even used a TurboGrafx-CD. I've only ever played games on it through emulators.

Review

I don't know enough about the console to review it.

Games

See all TurboGrafx-CD Games.

Initial Games

The CD-ROM attachment didn't feature a pack-in game in any region. It's launch titles were Fighting Street and Monster Lair

Personal

Although I don't currently aren't any game specific to the console that are important to me, these are the games ported to the system that are important to me on other platforms:

Links

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