The PC Engine CoreGraphx mini finally available

Credit: Konami

Players who love retro-gaming no longer know where to turn, between the NES and Super NES Mini, the Mega Drive Mini , and soon the Game Gear Micro announced by Sega ago a few weeks. Konami is now eyeing them with the PC Engine CoreGraphx mini, a console little known in France, but will have a cult following among fans.

A cult console

The PC-Engine was launched in October 1987 in Japan. This 8-bit console manufactured by NEC in collaboration with the publisher Hudson Soft has been so successful in the archipelago that it has been considered the real competitor to the Nintendo NES. His technical qualities enabled him to display 482 colors and 64 sprites simultaneously on the screen. What to go back to the other consoles of the time.

The PC-Engine quickly specialized in arcade games, especially shoot'em ups, but without denying nervous platform games. Its catalog, which has around 600 titles, is now the joy of emulation enthusiasts. The console quickly acquires an enviable status among players, who outside Japan had to go out of their way to buy one.

It took the dedication of the French group Sodipeng for the PC-Engine to be officially imported into France in November 1989, under the name CoreGrafX. NEC preferred to focus on the American market, where the console was launched during the summer, with a new name there too… a bit of a lie: TurboGrafx-16. We had to compare favorably to the Mega Drive…

As you already know, the context of pandemic has delayed production and thedelivery of #PCEngine#CoreGrafxMini…

Wearepleasedtoannouncethattheconsolewillbeavailableforsalefrom24/06!Thankyouforyourpatience🙏
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- KONAMI FRANCE (@ KONAMIFR) June19,2020

Aftertakingupthetorch,Konamihasunveileditsplantolaunchaminiversionofthelegendaryconsole.Thelaunchwasdelayedduetothecoronavirus,butitisfinallyavailableatthepriceof € 109.99 on Amazon. 57 games are integrated, 26 PC Engine games (Japanese versions) and 24 TurboGrafx-16 games (versions English), with several display modes but only one controller.