HuCard

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Storage medium HuCard
General
Type	Semiconductor memory
size	85.725 mm × 53.975 mm × approx. 3 mm
use	PC Engine and Supergrafx video game console from NEC
origin
developer	Hudson Soft
idea	Late 1980s

The HuCard

The HuCard is a memory card developed in 1987 by Hudson Soft together with Nippon Electric Corporation (NEC) . The size of a credit card , it was used in NEC's PC Engine and SuperGrafx video game consoles . HuCards contain an integrated circuit (IC), which is located at the connections (38 pins) and is protected by a thin plastic sleeve.

Compared to the more traditional game consoles of this time, the PC Engine and the Supergrafx, apart from the similar Sega cards for the first Sega Master system, are the only video game consoles that use the relatively small and compact HuCards. In the USA the HuCards are named TurboChips (after the US version, the Turbografx16 ). The HuCard can be compared to the BeeCard (also a memory card from Hudson Soft) that was used in MSX computers. The BeeCard is a bit thinner and contains 32 pins while the HuCard has 38.

HUCards as system cards, here the two arcade cards released in 1994