From Kris Barratt <xxxxxx@squareonepublishing.co.uk>
Date
Apparently...Originally the PC Engine was going to be a kind of "digital
hub" as Apple would say and you'd be able to do basic computing stuff with
add ons that were to be released later. But it didn't do so well at first so
NEC ditched the home computing angle and concentrated on the games market.
Or so I heard. So it was meant to me the "engine" of some new home PC /
entertainment thing. Companies try it every few years don't they? They're
kind of trying to do it with the PS2 and stuuf at the moment. + you get
those tv/computer type affairs. This is what I read somewhere anyway.
Cheers
Kris
on 31/1/02 3:03 pm, Eagan Rackley at xxxxxx@earthlink.net wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Here is a question. I remember back when I was still buying games at my
> Local Target for my good ol' white NES box, I had heard about a thing called
> a PC Engine being a really amazing new console in Japan. The first thing
> that came to mind was the PC Jr. that I did basic programming on at
> school...
>
> It wasn't until years later when I joined this list that I realized that my
> belived Turbo Duo and Turbo Grafx was the same console as that PC Engine I
> had heard about so many years before;).
>
> So, my question is, what is the PC in PC engine all about? Does it stand for
> anything, or did some NEC / Hudson marketing reps just think it sounded
> dandy?
>
> Thanks;)
>
> -Eagan
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