Super A'can

Introduced in October 1995, the Super A'can was a short lived 16-bit console sold exclusively in Taiwan. It was produced by Funtech a division of Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer UMC.

The system was built around the aging Motorola 68000 chip, used in the Sega Mega Drive 7 years earlier. Some functions were handled by the older MOS 6502, a modified form of which had debuted in consoles nearly 20 years earlier with the Atari VCS. The limited hardware resources made the system a difficult sell against the more capable SNES or the recently introduced PlayStation. The system had a wide palette of 32,768 colors but a relatively limited visible resolution of 320x224. Few details are known about its sound capabilities although it was capable of stereo.

Lack of third party support outside of Taiwan also doomed the console, and the entire library consists of 12 released cartridges. A number of announced titles went unreleased as well as accessories such as a CD-ROM drive. UMC ultimately took a loss of US$6 million on the console, and it is commonly believed that the unsold inventory finally made it to North American, albeit as scrap components.