Your birth year
2006
TurboGrafx-16
19891980s
TurboGrafx-16 is 17 years older than you
It's from 1989, before you were born.
- Maker
- NEC / Hudson Soft
- Type
- Home console
- Debuted
- 1989
- Note
- Dominated Japan as the PC Engine
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About
As of 2026, it's 37 years old.
The TurboGrafx-16 arrived in 1989 to take on Nintendo and Sega, armed with a tiny HuCard slot and a name that promised more bits than it technically delivered (the CPU was 8-bit, but we don't talk about that).
In Japan, as the PC Engine, it was a genuine hit. In America, it showed up between two giants and quietly became the console your one friend with great taste actually owned.
The cult favorite that everyone respects and almost nobody had.
