The real history of the PC-FX games console disaster - Bye Bye Hudson Episode 4

If you enjoyed this documentary, please consider supporting my work via Patreon from as little as £2 a month, where you can receive early access, as well as many other perks. Patreon:   / pixel_vixen   Merch store: https://linktr.ee/futuresaviors [Episode 4 - 1992-1995 - The Iron Man] Having been launched in 1987, the PC Engine which was a collaboration between Hudson Soft and NEC Home Electronics, was beginning to show its age. The 5th Generation Console race was on, with more players than ever entering the marketplace or making their last gasp attempts to stay relevant. Into this febrile marketplace, NEC Home Electronics launched the PC-FX on December 23rd 1994, and it bombed hard. How on earth did they get their follow up to PC Engine so wrong? The history of the PC-FX is to put it mildly murky, with rumours that have become fact over time, and misunderstandings about goings on becoming concrete evidence. Untangling the mysteries to get to the bottom of the PC-FX's origins and its development has required finding the original Japanese sources to unravel what actually happened and flesh out the contemporary English language reports with what was really going on. For example, Electronic Gaming Monthly reported the PC-FX's nearest predecessor, the Hudson HuC62 platform as being from NEC. It absolutely wasn't, multiply this up, with poor edits to Wikipedia and years of forum posts that have been taken at face value in write ups on the system that don't reference concrete sources, it ends up a bit of a pickle. With newly translated articles, interviews and articles from those there at the time of the PC-FX's development, the fourth part of Bye Bye Hudson discovers the PC-FX had much more in common with the 1989 mega flop the PC Engine SuperGrafx than either would have liked to admit when going up against the PlayStation, 3DO, Saturn and eventually Nintendo 64. 00:00 The Iron Man - PC-FX explained and Games Showcase 8:56 Cause and FX: The emergence of the PC Engine replacement 17:52 After FX: How it went so wrong and unpicking the truth Some footage is used under fair use terms, with massive thanks to ‪@cdromrom‬ and ‪@LGR‬ for footage of some of the PC-FXGA games and DOS/V card. And of course, the wonderful Saki Endo from ‪@SakiEndosRubbishHeap‬ . #hudsonsoft #retrogaming #pcfx [Series Overview] Episode 1 :    • Bye Bye Hudson Soft - The history of a gam...   Episode 2 :    • The PC Engine's Early History and Games - ...   Episode 3 :    • Hudson's early 90s games and the PC Engine...   Episode 4: This episode Episode 5: Coming 2026 - Running out of steam - 1995-1998 Episode 6: Coming 2026 - Hitting the buffers - 1999-2012 [Episode Details] Games featured included Battle Heat (1994), Team Innocent (1994), Tengai Makyou Dennou Karakuri Kakutouden (1995), Zenki Kishin Douji FX Varja Fighto (1995), Super Power League FX (1996). All recorded via emulation. [Footage credits and References] All footage except where noted has been used under the principles of Fair Use for the purpose of documentation. All translation (Japanese to English) done by myself. Iwasaki Hiromasa's blog: https://web.archive.org/web/201006180... Itagaki Fumiko's website: https://itagaki.eek.jp/ Takahashi Meijin's website: http://www.16shot.jp/ Beep Magazine, Gekkan PC Engine, Dengeki PC Engine, Edge Magazine, New Generation magazines - https://archive.org Game Catalog II (TV Asahi), Tonight 2 (TV Asahi), Ohtake Makoto no Tadaima PC Land (TV Tokyo) PC-FXGA DOS/V Card footage: ⁨@LGR⁩ Same Game FX / Nnyu footage: ⁨@cdromrom⁩ NEC PC-FX Demonstration: @BGRerobachi ​ PC Engine & PC-FX Perfect Catalogue - Maeda Hiroyuki Saki Endo from Saki Endo's Rubbish Heap ‪@SakiEndosRubbishHeap‬ World of Longplays footage for Road Blaster FX ‪@worldoflongplays‬ Commodore/Psygnosis CDTV Promotional Video: ‪@mk1videos‬ [Interpretation/Translation notes] The Japanese interpretation was all done by myself, and I hope that I understood everything correctly. My approach to translation is not to change the original meaning, but to intuit a natural English translation rather than a more direct translation. I have been studying Japanese for 7+ years, lived in Japan for 5 years and consider myself experienced, but of course I will always be a student of Japanese. 日本語話せる人のお知らせ：この動画では私が日本語の番組とインタビューを英訳しました。もし間違えところを見つけたら、私にクコメントをしてください。現在はイギリスに帰ってですけど五年間ぐらい日本に住んでいた。それに、私は7年ぐらい日本語勉強してけどたまに間違えところがあります。それで私の学ぶのためにその観測を優しく教えっていただきますか。またよろしくお願いいたします。ちなみに自分のゴールのは自然な英訳をしたかったですけど日本語バーションのニュアンスと意味を保存して欲しいでした。 [My other YouTube channels] Saki Endo's Rubbish Heap:    / @sakiendosrubbishheap   Future Saviors:    / @future_saviors   [Manga] Read my manga Future Saviors: https://linktr.ee/futuresaviors