Turbo CD, Super CD Games Coming to Virtual Console

Hudson Soft has announced that, beginning in October, you’ll begin to see games from both the Turbo CD and Super CD library make it onto the Wii’s Virtual Console. The plan is for at least five games to be released by the end of the year, and then over 10 in 2008. Turbo CD and Super CD games will fit into the pricing tier system at 800 Wii Points, or $8 in real world money.

From the press release:

These titles were originally created for the PC Engine, a game console jointly developed by Hudson Soft and NEC Corporation (formerly NEC Home Electronics, Ltd.). In addition, Hudson Soft has also been distributing third-party released PC Engine games.

The PC Engine was a video game console marketed by NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. (release date: October 30, 1987; price: 24,800 yen) with a unique LSI “C62 System” (microchip system) developed by Hudson Soft. The console’s cutting-edge speed and performance surpassed the conventional computing wisdom of the day. Among the PC Engine’s noteworthy features were high-speed CPU processing, gorgeous 512-color graphics, and a powerful sound system with up to two output channels and six stereo audio channels. Another feature that got people talking was the small, high-capacity plastic ROM “Hu-CARD (Turbo Chip)” that the PC Engine used as software. A successor to the original PC Engine, the “PC Engine CD-ROM2 System” became the world’s first game console to utilize CD-ROM as a gaming media platform when it was launched on December 4, 1988. An overseas version of the PC Engine was marketed in North America from 1989 under the name TurboGrafx16, and subsequently in Europe as Turbografx.

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