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HuC6270 is a video display controller (VDC) developed by Hudson Soft and manufactured for Hudson Soft by Seiko Epson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This VDC was used in the PC Engine game console series produced by NEC Corporation , and the upgraded PC Engine SuperGrafx .
The HuC6280 8-bit microprocessor is Japanese company Hudson Soft's improved version of the WDC 65C02 CPU, an upgraded CMOS version of the popular NMOS-based MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPU, manufactured for Hudson by Seiko Epson and NEC. The most notable product using the HuC6280 is NEC's TurboGrafx-16 video game console.
The PC Engine was the result of a collaboration between Hudson Soft and NEC and launched in Japan on October 30, 1987. It launched under the name TurboGrafx-16 in North America on August 29, 1989. Initially, the PC Engine was quite successful in Japan, partly due to titles available on the then-new CD-ROM format.
The relation between Hudson Soft and Konami can be traced to at least as early as 1985, when Hudson ported Konami's arcade game Pooyan to the MSX and Famicom. But the acquisition process of Hudson Soft by Konami would only begin in 2001. Hudson Soft was severely hit by the collapse of its main bank Hokkaido Takushoku. [18]
Hudson Soft also named a number of products after the C62, including the development kit for the PC Engine, [9] [10] and a chip (Hu62) that was used in a later version of the hardware. [11] It was also the code name for their console before they settled on PC Engine. [12] A C62 called Mr C6 is seen in Yamataro Comes Back.
This is a list of video games developed or published by Hudson Soft. The following dates are based on the earliest release, typically in Japan . While Hudson Soft started releasing video games in 1978, it was not until 1983 that the company began to gain serious notability among the video gaming community.
The TurboGrafx-16 uses a Hudson Soft HuC6280 CPU—an 8-bit CPU running at 7.16 MHz paired with two 16-bit graphics processors, a HuC6270 video display controller and a HuC6260 video color encoder. [33] It includes 8 KB of RAM, 64 KB of Video RAM, and the ability to display 482 colors at once from a 512-color palette.
Hudson Soft Hudson Soft 26 April 1996 Super Real Mahjong PV: Board game SETA Corporation: Naxat Soft: 29 March 1996 Team Innocent: The Point of No Return: Action, Adventure Hudson Soft Hudson Soft 23 December 1994 Tekipaki: Working Love FX: Adventure, Life simulation Studio Offside NEC Home Electronics 27 March 1998 Tenchi Muyō!: Ryō-ōki FX