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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / PC Engine GT - Turbo Express article]

the VG&CE article on the PC Engine GT / Turbo Express

this one:

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / prototype code names for TurboExpress / PC Engine GT]

There were alot of code names for the TurboExpress / PC Engine GT before it got it's final release consumer name. some of which, I am unaware of.

the names I do know of for the TurboExpress are:

P.C. Engine 3
774
Handy-Grafx
Game Tank


(P.C. Engine 3 name came from Quarterman, EGM  #8, page 26.  the P.C. Engine 2 is the SuperGrafx in FYI)

(project name 774 is mentioned in EGM #9 page 39)

(Handy-Grafx and Game Tank is mentioned in Quarterman, EGM #12 page 20. the Game Tank name stuck,  as PC Engine GT is Game Tank)

IIRC, and my memory on this is very hazy, a 1990 issue of VG&CE (Video Games & Computer Entertainment) had a full feature on the Turbo Express / PC Engine GT.
(picture of the cover)


I believe the name Game Tank is mentioned, and perhaps also Handy-Grafx as well.    btw "Handy" was the original name of the Atari Lynx. the Lynx was developed by Epyx
from 1985 to 1987 under the code name 'Handy' before Ataru bought the rights to it in 1988 and released it as the Lynx in late 1989.

I like the name Handy-Grafx the most as it fits with the rest of NEC-Hudson's line. TurboGrafx, SuperGrafx, CoreGrafx, HandyGrafx

Any other known names for TurboExpress that I haven't mentioned?

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: Ironman/PC-FX mentioned in 1990????]

I've seen the info & picture of the Iron Man FX/Tatsujin board on pcengine-fx.com (very cool btw) but I haven't looked at the magazine article sections for several months, so haven't seen if you made any additions.  I'm going to look though.

hot stuff!



Edited by: AM2forever at: 11/27/02 7:28:52 pm

[PC-FX Discussion / Ironman/PC-FX mentioned in 1990????]

Is it possible that what would -eventually- become the PC-FX was reported on as far back as 1990?  I think so.  If you look at Electronic Gaming Monthy number 10, the one with Konami's Super C for the NES on the cover, in Gaming Gossip page 28, Quarterman (Steve Harris) writes the following in the 2nd paragraph:
 
"I've also learned that NEC's advanced game machine was not the Super Grafx but instead will be a 32-Bit with enough power to drill all existing systems into the ground. The machine is still rumored to be in the development stages, but evidentally NEC wants it to happen."

I believe what he is talking about here was the (early) Ironman  (or Iron Man FX)  that would be shown two years later--I'm pretty sure the Ironman was the Hudson 32-bit board with 5 large chips and morphing capabilities, also seen in EGM. 

That same board, I believe, was also shown in Video Games & Computer Entertainment, October 1992, (News Bits section) page 24. Although here it was called the HuC62! The HuC62 seen in VG&CE is clearly the same, or similar to, the Ironman board. Two years later in 1994, and four years after EGM's report, the PC-FX is launched in Japan. From what I understand, many of the major elements of the Ironman/IronmanFX (the chipset) was used in the PC-FX.  Does this sound about right to you guys?   

Btw, I know that Ironman/Ironman FX was also known as Project Tetsujin but I only saw this name used in GameFan, not EGM or VG&CE.

Can anyone come up with a quote eariler than EGM's number 10, which was from May 1990, that rumored an NEC 32-bit system?  It's interesting to see just how far back the first reports of a console go.

some links:

EGM number 10, showing its from May 1990: wayback://nestral.topcities.com/gallery/egm1990.htm

Ironman/Tetsujin 32-Bit chipset/board: https://faberp.tripod.com/IronMan.htm (by brizio)



Hudson's own website, linking HUC62 chipset (Ironman?) to PC-FX: lost link

Edited by: AM2forever at: 11/15/02 3:28:04 pm