The TurboExpress was a portable version of NEC's TurboGrafx 16 video game console, and was released in 1990. The retail price at the time of release was $299.99.

TurboExpress handheld, TV tuner, and games

It was the most advanced handheld of its time and could play all of TG-16's games (which were on a small, credit-card sized media called HuCard's). Its Japanese equivalent was the PC Engine GT. It had a 2.6 inch screen, the same size as the original Game Boy, and could display 64 sprites at once, 16 per scanline, in 482 colors. It had 8 kilobytes of RAM. The Turbo ran its two 6502 CPUs at 7.2 megahertz.

The optional "TurboVision" TV tuner included RCA audio/video input, allowing you to use TurboExpress as a video monitor. The "TurboLink" allowed two-player play. Falcon, a flight simulator, included a "head-to-head" dogfight mode that could only be accessed via TurboLink. However, very few TG-16 games offered co-op play modes especially designed with the TurboExpress in mind.