Hey List,
remember all that talk of a PAL Turbo? recently, i got a PAL chip
(which was basically the same as the north american one of Chew Man
Fu). anyway, a few days after getting it, i found this out on hudson's
site:
"The Turbo Grafx was never officially released in Europe. It was
however, given distribution as a "gray market" item through the
Guillemot brothers (now owners of Ubisoft). The sold around 50,000
units and it made them a lot of money. They basically took the PC
Engine and put PAL conversion units onto them and enabled them to play
US games.
As stated, the Turbo Grafx was a gray market item, therefore there was
no advertising, official Hudson marketing, or other aspects involved in
the process - though we gave Guillemot a lot of support. NEC handled
the distribution of games in Europe which were basically the American
titles you all know and love. The system could be found on store
shelves throughout Europe and received a lot of press coverage as well
from the various magazines there. "