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+title: NEC TurboDuo
+categories:
+- Consoles
+params:
+  name: TurboDuo
+  image: /media/museum/photos/nec_turboduo_1.jpg
+  company: /companies/nec
+  company_name: NEC
+  tabs:
+  - hardware
+  - emulators
+  - links
+  hardware:
+  - title: PACHINKO CONTROLLER
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: This is a pachinko controller for the PC Engine. The angled part which sticks out between the two main sections of the controller is a slider to adjust the angle of the pachinko balls as they come out.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pce_pachinko-controller.jpg
+  - title: TURBO PAD
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_turbografx_turbopad.jpg
+  emulators:
+  - title: Ootake
+    url: http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/
+    platform: Windows
+    text: Frequently updated Japanese emulator
+  - title: Magic Engine
+    url: http://www.magicengine.com/
+    platform: Multiplatform
+    text: Commercial but excellent NEC PC Engine emulator. A must.
+  links:
+  - title: Necstasy
+    url: http://www.necstasy.net/fr/
+    text: PC-Engine & PC-FX TOC database
+  - title: pcenginefx.com
+    url: http://pcenginefx.com/
+    text: The NEC console ressource.. Excellent.
+  - title: The PC Engine Software Bible
+    url: http://www.pcengine.co.uk/
+    text: PC-Engine software archive. Very complete.
+  - title: TurboGrafx.net
+    url: http://www.turbografx.net/
+    text: An English Turbo site with TG info and links!
+  - title: TurboGrafx16
+    url: http://www.atari7800.com/turbo/
+    text: TurboGrafx16 dedicated website
+  - title: Universo PCcengine
+    url: http://pcengine.cjb.net/
+    text: Nice brazilian site
+  related:
+  - /museum/nec-coregrafx
+  - /museum/nec-coregrafx-ii
+  - /museum/nec-pc-engine
+  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-duo
+  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-duo-r
+  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-duo-rx
+  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-super-grafx
+  - /museum/nec-turbografx-16-turbografx
+  oc_id: 1243
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205124038/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1243
+    date: '2022-12-05'
+---
+
+The [PC Engine Duo](/museum/nec-pc-engine-duo/) made it to the United States as the TurboDuo in 1992, but never reached Europe. It was marketed by new company Turbo Technologies Inc. (TTI), which consisted of ex-employees from both NEC and Hudson Soft, after the apparent failings of the [TurboGrafx-16](/museum/nec-turbografx-16-turbografx/) campaign.
+
+The console contained a TG-16 and the newer Super CD-ROM² unit which were unified in a single case, along with the Super System Card integrated on the motherboard and buyers received quite a package for their money. A control pad, TG-CD versions of Ys book I & II, a compilation of four Super CD games and a TurboChip game were all included in the $299 price tag. There was no escaping the fact that this was still a system based on ageing 8 bit technology though.
+
+When Sega's Mega CD launched the same year and promptly outsold the TurboDuo, a series of four mini comic book adverts were launched. Featuring Johnny Turbo, a superhero who battles the evil Feka's attempts to sell CD add-ons for their system (which NEC had already done themselves with the TG-CD) and reveals Feka staff to be robots. Despite being quite entertaining and well drawn, the adverts appear to be little more than a bizarre attack on Sega's ethics rather than a genuine attempt to sell the TurboDuo.
+
+NEC stopped officially supporting the TurboDuo in 1995, and withdrew from America to concentrate their efforts on their native Japan and the newly released [PC-FX](/museum/nec-pc-fx/).
+
+<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this console ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>