History of video games/Platforms/PC Engine SuperGrafx

History
The PC Engine SuperGrafx was released in Japan on December 8th, 1989 - just two years after the original PC Engine released in 1987. The system was said to be released in France in May 1990.

The SuperGrafx did not do well commercially, and only 75,000 consoles were sold. A CD Add on was planned, but not released.

Technology
The PC Engine SuperGrafx uses an 8-bit HuC6280A processor clocked at 7.16 megahertz.

The system has 32 kilobytes of RAM and 128 kilobytes of VRAM.

The SuperGrafx has an extra video processor compared to the original PC Engine though bottlenecking limited performance.

SuperGrafx specific games

 * Aldynes
 * 1941: Counter Attack
 * Ghouls 'n Ghosts
 * Madö King Granzört
 * Battle Ace
 * Darius Plus (Standard PC engine compatible game, with SuperGrafx enhancements)