Tube Slider marks NEC's return to the North American video game market after a nearly decade-long hiatus that began with the fall of the company's own video game platform, the TurboGrafx-16. It may warm the hearts of sentimental gamers to see NEC's name on a video game once again, but unfortunately for them, and for NEC, Tube Slider is as an uninspired futuristic racer, and it definitely isn't the comeback hit they might've hoped for