With the advent of Super Famicom and Mega Drive,
PC-Engine was somehow affected, but it had not stopped NEC
from introducing more hardware.<br><br>Nov 16, 1990.
NEC introduced PC-Engine GT, this is, in my opinion,
the best portable system as far as graphics and
software selection is concerned (yes, even better than
Neo-Geo Pocket), the games actually plays faster and with
an addition of TV-Tuner, you can listen to radio and
watch TV on it.<br><br>To compete against the 16-bit
giants, NEC introduced PC-Engine Duo on Sept 21, 1991. a
combination of PC-Engine and Super CD which also plays
standard PCECD games. Most CD games went into Super CD
format after the introduction of Duo which do not work
on standard PCECD-Rom drive. The solution? Either
the Super CD card or get a Super CD-Rom drive. Super
CD-Rom drive was released on Dec 31, 1991, it was for
those who had original PC-Engine hardware who needed
CD-Rom upgrade. For those who already had original
PCECD, they had to buy Super CD-Rom card adaptor.
<br><br>On the same day, Dec 31, 1991, NEC also released
PC-Engine LT. It was one of the most expensive systems ever
released, yes, even more so than Neo-Geo at almost 100,000
Yen. (Even more now at ebay, last one fetched about
$1700). It's a portable system with the size of standard
PC-Engine. The screen is a bit larger than PC-E GT. In fact,
you can put this system with original CD-Rom box set
instead of standard PC-Engine and make it a portable CD
system, which feels just like a laptop.<br><br>NEC also
released Duo R on March 25, 1993. I don't know much about
the system except it has the white casing instead of
grey and perhaps with arcade card upgrade
built-in.<br><br>To see the pictures of all the system I've just
mentioned, click on this
URL:<br><br><a href=http://k508l.balpol.tudelft.nl/~baloo/nec/pc-engine.html
target=new>http://k508l.balpol.tudelft.nl/~baloo/nec/pc-engine.html</a><br><br>W\
ith so many upgrades on the systems, here're the
brief list of cards for CD-Rom upgrade:<br><br>Super CD
card- Plug in PC-E to play SCD games on standard
CD-Rom<br>Arcade Card- Plug in to play ACD games on
SCD-Rom<br>Arcade Card Pro- Plug in to play ACD games on standard
CD-Rom<br><br>If the latter 2 is mixed up, please correct me
(anyone)