The joint venture, formed in North America as TTI, made an add-on called the PC Engine CD ( PC-CD) / TurboGrafx-CD that loaded games from discs instead, much like the Sega CD but better supported. The European versions varied throughout the countries, being the western version in Spain and United Kingdom and Japanese models in Benelux regions.
When it came time to seek other potential markets, the two companies eventually caved to a limited American release in 1989 under a completely different model and name: the TurboGrafx-16. The ( PCE) was a 16-bit system released jointly by and in Japan in 1987.
