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The original white PC Engine is still ranked as one of the most incredible looking games consoles ever due to its small size measuring just 135mm x 140mm x 40mm, this being part of its charm to a lot of people along with the incredibly small credit card size carts which have yet to be surpassed by any other console.

A year after the PC Engine was released, NEC released the CD Rom unit. All you did was plug your PC Engine into the interface, insert the system card and away you go. CD games were now flooding the market and at that time to play a game with a CD based soundtrack and not forgetting loads of endless speech was streets ahead of its time. Anyone who 1st played Fighting Street or Monster Lair at this time will never forget the experience. 

As the years went on, more powerful system cards like the Super System Card and Arcade Card Pro were released (a specific Arcade Pro card was also released for the PC Engine DUO machine) giving the programmers more power to play with and the end result on classic games such as Strider the PC engine didn't look anything like an 8-bit machine anymore. 

NEC Also released a Karaoke Unit which included 2 speakers and a mixer which sat underneath the CD Rom and interface. A re designed version of the Cd Rom & Interface called the Super Cd rom 2 which was half the size and full grey in colour was also released.

Strider (Click image to enlarge)

In late 1989 NEC released these models. Although they have a different name and a dark grey colour scheme, they are still essentially a white PC Engine. There was the added feature of an AV port on the side and an auto fire joypad now given as standard. 

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