the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

...huh, apparently there was a portable version of the PC-Engine / Turbografx, with a gameboy form factor but a backlit screen and full compatibility with all PC-Engine games

and it came out in 1990

apparently the reason it didn't do well was 1) NEC was really bad at advertising, 2) it was expensive as fuck, and 3) NEC wasn't really a well known game company on the scale of nintendo and sega

(only reason 2) applies to japanese sales though)

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

looks like used ones still demand prices upwards of $350 on ebay too

it's called the TurboExpress incidentally if you want to look it up. it looks really neat

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Violet

@Felthry there was one of these at a museum I went to last month!

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@Violet oh wow, that looks like a neat museum

I think I've seen ashens videos on most of these things

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Violet

@Felthry yeah he's definitely reviewed a few of these

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@Violet I was mostly just surprised at how many I recognised

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