What was initially viewed as a novelty became a business of its own - consumers unable or unwilling to deal with expensive, 'everyman' computers flocked to Nintendo's machine, particularly younger demographics who had no desire for the latest typewriter or spreadsheet packages.

Then, in 1983, toy manufacturer Nintendo launched its Family Computer, or 'Famicom' - a dedicated video game console which would go on to dominate a newfound market for much of the 1980s. It was a market that NEC, like many electronics giants, wished to capitalise on, and starting with the PC-8000 series in 1979, the company gained a foothold in both the consumer and commercial sectors when it came to computing. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Japanese electronics industry was experiencing rapid growth, and with it, an increased adoption of something once out of the price range of most ordinary people - the personal computer. LFO (low frequency oscillation), noise generation, DAC (digital-analog converter).6 channel wavetable at 3.58 MHz, PSG (programmable sound generator).Sound CPU: HuC6280A also used to program/control sound.Video Color Encoder (VCE) chip: HuC6260.Video Display Controller (VDC) chip: HuC6270A.GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processors: Dual 16-bit Hudson GPU setup.Performance: 3.3 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second).

CPU (Central Processing Unit) processor: 8-bit Hudson HuC6280A (based on MOS 6502) at 7.6 MHz.

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