NEC

NEC is a Japanese electronics and IT company founded in 1899. In the 1980s and 1990s it was Japan’s leading personal computer maker, and with Hudson Soft it also built a console that outsold the Famicom in Japan for a time. Many games for its systems never left Japan.

PC-88 Emulators and more ›

The PC-8801, or PC-88, from 1981, was one of Japan’s most popular home computers through the 1980s. Early games from Square, Enix and Falcom, including the first Ys, came out on it.

PC-98 Emulators and more ›

The PC-9801 line, from 1982, was the standard business and home computer in Japan for more than a decade, with its own hardware incompatible with Western PCs. Thousands of games came out for it, among them the first Touhou games.

PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Emulators and more ›

The PC Engine, built with Hudson Soft, launched in Japan in 1987 and as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America in 1989. Its games came on credit-card-sized HuCards, and it was the first console with an optional CD-ROM drive. It was a hit in Japan, but far less so in America. Mednafen and ares run it accurately.

PC-FX Emulators and more ›

The PC-FX, from 1994, was the PC Engine’s successor and was built for full-motion video and anime-style games. It sold poorly against the PlayStation and Saturn, and NEC left the console market soon after.