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 ...

This led to a sort of parallel universe in which NEC’s PC-9800 series (‘PC-98’) was the dominant personal computer, including its NEC µPD7220 display controller with its 4096-color palette.