A HuCard is a memory card developed by Hudson Soft with the size of a credit card and were used with the NEC PC Engine and SuperGrafx video game consoles. A HuCard contains an integrated circuit (IC) that is placed close to the connectors and protected by a thin plastic shield. Compared to the more traditional cartridges used by almost every game console system, the HuCard is relatively small and compact. A 32 MB High Speed CompactFlash Type I card A memory card or flash memory card is a solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device used with digital cameras, handheld and laptop computers, telephones, music players, video game consoles, and other electronics. ... Hudson Soft is a Japanese publisher and developer, founded on May 18, 1973. ... Credit cards A credit card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. ... NEC Corporation (Jp. ... The PC Engine was a video game console released by NEC, a Japanese company, in 1987. ... The SuperGrafx video game console is an upgraded version of NECs popular PC Engine system. ... The Atari 2600, Sony PSOne, Nintendo Gamecube, and Xbox 360 A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer. ... Integrated circuit showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery A monolithic integrated circuit (also known as IC, microchip, silicon chip, computer chip or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) which has been manufactured in the surface... In a variety of electronic equipments, a cartridge (in video game terms, cart, game pack, or Game Pak) can be one method of programming different functionality, providing variable content, or a method by which consumables may be replenished. ...

Een HuCard can be compared with a BeeCard, also a memory card developed by Hudson Soft which was used with MSX computers. A BeeCard is slightly thinner and contains 32 connectors where the HuCard has 38 pins. A BeeCard is a memory card developed by Hudson Soft with the size of credit card totally aimed at the video game console market to distribute video games. ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ...

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In the United States are known as TurboChips, named after the US-version of the Japanese PC Engine the TurboGrafx. For information on the Japanese version of this console, see PC Engine The TurboGrafx-16 was a video game console released by NEC in 1989, for the North American market. ...