Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language.

The Tsushin Booster for the PC Engine is one such project, possibly the victim of vicious commercial games between the leading Japanese console manufacturers at the tail end of the 1980s.

In Japan, Sega played a distant third to NEC’s PC Engine. It was capable of 16-bit graphics, albeit with an 8-bit brain, which counted against it when NEC tried introducing it as the TurboGrafx ...