[I ♥ The PC Engine] AC Adaptor

AC Adaptor (Original) (ACアダプタ)

Maker: NEC Home Electronics (NEC-HE)
Release Date: 10/30/87
Price: 1200 yen

Even the best game system is useless without power — and given that this was the mid-1980s, consoles still came with gigantic, heavy external AC adaptors that you had to balance very carefully as you plugged them into the wall.

I’m not necessarily sure if this deserves a separate entry given that any console is going to come with one of these out of the box, but the adaptor was sold separately, and since different PCE models have different electrical requirements, it’s worth bringing this up as the “original,” so to speak.

This adaptor, part number PAD-105, was included with the original white PCE, the Shuttle, the CoreGrafx and CoreGrafx II, and the SuperGrafx — in other words, any PC Engine that didn’t include a CD-ROM. It cannot be used with the Duo series, nor with the PCE GT or LT.