Turbo Technologies, Inc.

Turbo Technologies, Inc. (sometimes abbreviated as TTi) was a spin-off joint venture set up by NEC Technologies and Hudson Softto handle the sales, distribution, marketing and support of the TurboGrafx-16 line of consoles in North America. After the TurboGrafx-16's lukewarm initial reception in the territory, the joint entity was 1992 as Hudson Soft was still confident in the platform's long-term prospects, and thought NEC wasn't doing an optimal job as their North American partner. The aim of the new arrangement was to give Hudson Soft more control over the North American operations, while still allowing NEC input and a share of the profits.

The main product most associate with TTi is the TurboDuo (later known as just Duo), which aimed to replace the TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD by combining both into a single unit, though still positioning it at a premium product with a high price compared to the competition at the time. The company also handled publishing duties for the vast majority of titles released in North America, in addition to taking over management of a few Western-developed projects which had originally been started by NEC. To more quickly expand the console's library, TTi focused extensively on localizing and releasing titles already out in Japan, where the platform was significantly more popular.

Communications between this new division and the Japanese side of NEC were poor, which resulted in many delays and hangups. The TurboDuo continued to see poor sales as more consumers flocked to new 16-bit offerings from Nintendo and Sega. In 1994, TTi ceased operations, effectively ending the TurboGrafx-16's presence in the North American market.