---
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/).

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