A MySpace page made to make you discover or re-discover the musical pieces of art you can find in the form of credit card like cartdriges pop-in inside this 14cmx14cm video games system.
This is 80's. This is 8bits. This is the Nec PC ENGINE HuCard system. This is sexy!!!
! THIS BIO IS STILL UNDER THINKING/FORMULATING/WRITING PHASE ! PLEASE GIVE ME A FEW MORE WEEKS TO COMPLETE A PROPER TEXT ! THANK YOU !
A bit of history:
On the 10th October 1987 the Japanese electronics giant NEC with the help of the games developing company HUDSON SOFT launched a powerful video games system which they named the PC Engine HE System.
It was the centre ( the "engine" thing ;) of a much larger entertainment system incorporating disc drive, a graphic palette, a printer, even a karaoke system! However, in the 1st few months the system did not appear to be very popular. NEC shelved the idea of making the machine the centre of a home entertainment system and concentrated their time and resources in marketing the machine as a games only system.
Still, it took time for the new machine to be widely accepted in Japan. The Nintendo Famicom was still the market leader with 3 in 5 Japanese homes owning one.
It was not until game companies such as Taito and Irem started to produce quality software that the Japanese public started to take notice. Games such as Alien Crush and Dragon Spirit were now being produced. In particular it was a game called R-Type which started the now tremendous popularity of the system. And from the middle of 1988 the PC Engine became the second most popular games system in Japan.
A year later NEC released the CD Rom drive. From this point the popularity of the system was assured with many other software companies such as Namco, Naxat and later even Konami producing games on both card and CD format.
