The Hudson Soft Gallery

Hudson Soft began as a radio shop in Sapporo in 1973, became the first outside company Nintendo ever licensed to make Famicom software, and then did the thing no software house was supposed to do: it designed a console of its own with NEC, the PC Engine. This shelf holds the four series that define it. Bomberman, the maze game that learned to be a party. Adventure Island, the Wonder Boy port that put a real Hudson employee on the box. Bonk, the caveman whose Japanese name is a pun on the console itself. And Star Soldier, the shooter built for a travelling national tournament.

The PC Engine's own RPG shelf, Ys, Tengai Makyou II, and Cosmic Fantasy 2, lives in the Library already and is not repeated here. Find it in the PC Engine RPG Gallery, and the naming story in Why was the PC Engine called the TurboGrafx-16 in America? Japan only covers get single treatment here, with the absence stated on the tile. Nothing on this page pretends a Western edition exists where none was verified.