I really really really wish I'd lived in Tokyo at that time. This was slightly after the bubble had reached its 'hookers and blow' phase where something like a fifth of the buildings in midtown Manhattan were owned by companies in Japan. The bubble had burst, but society hadn't caught up to it.

Look at all the accessories coming you could get for the PC Engine (Turbo Graphics 16), and how they all hooked up, were powered, and what it took to play some of these games. All this for a consumer device, and NEC expected to turn a profit.

All in all just technology for technology's sake.