However, because of an inferior marketing plan the TurboGrafx-16 never really took off in America the way that the people behind this videogame console expected and more than 50% of the games created for this console never saw action in the US at all. When the TurboGrafx-16 landed in America it had already been selling in Japan for almost 2 years, building up a pretty significant library of games in the anticipated launch for the US.

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Only the SNES released shortly after the TurboGrafx-16 came to the US was able to compete graphically. The TurboGrafx-16 was originally launched in Japan all the way back in October 1987 and then was later introduced to the United States in August 1989, this videogame console was first intended to go toe to toe against the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).īut because it was a little bit 'late to the party' it actually ended up throwing down against both the Genesis from SEGA and the Super Nintendo - and also had some of the most exciting video games available at that time.Īdvertised as the very first-ever 16-bit videogame console, the TurboGrafx-16 was actually running off of an eight bit CPU but had both a 16-bit video encoder and video display controller that allowed it to have much better graphics than the original Nintendo as well as better graphics than the Genesis.

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