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NEC Home Electronics

日本電気ホームエレクトロニクス(NECホームエレクトロニクス)

NEC Home Electronics was a sister company of NEC, founded in 1953 as Shin Nippon Electric and renamed in 1983. It released the PC Engine, developed with Hudson Soft, in Japan on October 30, 1987; the system reached North America as the TurboGrafx-16 in 1989. Its successor, the Japan-only PC-FX, sold poorly, and the company ceased operations in 2000.

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Founded
1953JA Wikipedia: established June 1953 as 新日本電気株式会社, renamed 1983. No dedicated EN Wikipedia article was retrievable (redirected to NEC Corporation).
Headquarters
Osaka (later moved to Tokyo), Japan

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    TurboGrafx-16

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    NEC

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