Control device: Control pad

Manufacturer: Nec

Model: PC Engine gamepad. PI-PD002

Year: 1987

 

Controlled device: Travel alarm clock

Manufacturer: IDEA international (Japan)

Designed by: Ippei Matsumoto (Industrial Facility)

Model: Jetlag

Color: White, green

Year: 2009

 

Hard-wired year: 2010

Serial number: HWD-corp-062

Collection: Corporation

Dimensions: 35x50x3 cm

Cable: 48 cm

Power: 3v button cell x1

 

Set up minutes up (time): D-pad up

Set up minutes down (time): D-pad down

Set up minutes up (alarm): D-pad left

Set up minutes down (alarm): D-pad right

Start set up: Hold 3 seconds any set up action

Set alarm on/off: I button (hold 3 seconds)

Alarm off: I button (hold 3 seconds)

Snooze: I button

Light: II button

 

The PC Engine was a collaborative effort between the relatively young Hudson Soft (founded in 1973) and NEC. NEC's interest in entering the lucrative video game market coincided with Hudson's failed attempt to sell designs for then-advanced graphics chips to Nintendo[4] in an earlier, lower-profile scenario similar to Nintendo's rejection of Sony's designs for a Super Famicom CD attachment which evolved into the PlayStation. The PC Engine was extremely popular in Japan, beating Nintendo's Famicom in sales soon after its release, with no fewer than twelve console models released from 1987 to 1993. But despite the system's success, it started to lose ground to the Super Famicom.