PC Engine Shuttle

PC Engine Shuttle
Manufacturer: NEC Home Electronics
Distributor: Daewoo Electronics (Korea)
Release Date RRP Code JP 1989-11-12 ¥18,80018,800 PI-TG2 KR 1990-04 ₩180,000180,000 CPG-100

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The PC Engine Shuttle (PCエンジンシャトル) is a cost-reduced PC Engine console released in Japan in late 1989.

Daewoo Electronics licensed and officially distributed the hardware in South Korea in 1990 as the Zemmix PC Shuttle (재믹스 PC 셔틀), giving it the "Zemmix" moniker to capitalize on their highly successful domestic brand identity.

Hardware

The PC Engine Shuttle stands as NEC's first attempt to reduce manufacturing costs of the PC Engine, though thanks to the state of the market at the time, the reductions were not passed on to the Japanese consumer, who could purchase a regular PC Engine for roughly the same price. Furthermore the Shuttle has a radically different design which makes it incompatible with most PC Engine add-ons (without significant modifications) - it lacks the rear expansion port for the CD-ROM², and is significantly bigger in size than a standard PC Engine console.

The Shuttle came packaged with the Turbo Pad II controller, which is shaped differently from a standard Turbo Pad. Like the later-released PC Engine CoreGrafx, it replaced the original PC Engine's RF output with a composite A/V output port.

Magazine articles

Main article: PC Engine Shuttle/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

PC Engine, JP
Cover

PC Engine, KR