The
TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem, known in Japan and in France as the , is a
home video game console joint-developed by
Hudson Soft and
NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, in the United States on August 29, 1989, and in France on November 22, 1989. It was the first console released in the
16-bit era, albeit still utilizing an 8-bit
CPU. Originally intended to compete with the
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), it ended up competing against the
Sega Genesis, and later on the
Super NES.