/vr/ - Retro Games

As far as I remember, it was a console that competed against SNES and Genesis but failed.
I don't really know much about it.
That would be my response back in the day.
Now I can tell you that it was the american version of Japan's popular PC Engine, a system that rivaled the mighty Famicom and took some of its market share in the later years, and competed a bit against the Super Famicom. Although it could never be as popular as neither Nintendo systems, PC Engine was more popular than Sega's systems in Japan. It got a CD add-on and one of the most acclaimed Castlevania titles, Rondo of Blood.

>>7016631
>What the hell is a turbografx-16?
A Sega System clone.

>>7016631
A more powerful version of the Sega Master System.

>>7016641
SEGA System

>>7016638
>>7016649
I pity your family or whoever is in charge of you.

>>7016631
surprised theyre not canceling it bc of kanye west

wow vice is RAYCIS

>>7017245
Vice is only for kool deep kids to read. If you have a flat peak cap and an obey t-shirt you qualify

>>7016631
Imagine a console that only plays shmups

>>7017281
Sounds awesome

>>7017281
That sounds great

>>7016631
Did anyone actually got this console was a kid?

A friend of mine had it. We used to play the multi-player games a lot. The platformers were mostly decent, and the shooters are all awesome.

It's not as good as SNES or Genesis, but it has some very good system exclusive games or best versions of arcade ports I think.

>>7017281
My JTAG/RGH Xbox 360???

>>7017293
you ok?

>>7017281
Not my favorite genre, but I can live with it, there's bound to be a bunch of good ones.

Funny because the TurboGrafx-16 sold better than the Saturn and the Dreamcast.

>>7017293
I did, around the same day I owned an FM Towns Marty and a Sega Master System.

did they even exist in europe

>>7018183
Theres an offical PAL version of the Turbografx but it was some weird limited offer launch (you can still buy new unused ones today) It's really the American version only playing at 50 hz and a different color scheme, cards are same as the American ones.

>>7017245

/pol/ is not a personality. Get a fucking life and obtain your own personality, retard.

>>7018269
>triggered biden supporter

>>7016631
>>7017245
>VICE
This shit spam clickb8 should be banned or forced to pay for ads.

>>7018269
get out of your parents basement

>>7017973
What in the what?

>>7016631
If you like R-type Splatterhouse and Ys it's right up your alley. It was the poor man's Neo Geo.

>>7017979
This was a legit question

>>7017281
Sounds like the best console ever

>>7018232
Can you mod it to 60hz?

>>7016637
>competed against SNES and Genesis

NEC wished. NES shut that mofo down, hard.

>>7016631
I honestly don't have any recollection of seeing, playing, or maybe even hearing about the TG16 until after it was already obsolete. Granted, I was an American kid born in '88, so maybe I was too young to be aware of it when it had any relevance.

>>7019037

>>7016631
thats the kanye album that never manifested

It's some weird halfway between a NES and Mega Drive with 16-bit tier graphics and a tricked up 6502 derivative. NEC pitched it as an alternative to developers who found the NES too limiting and (in some cases) disliked Nintendo's controlling, greedy business policies. Problem was, the 16-bit consoles were just around the corner and quickly rendered it superfluous.

>>7018127
It actually had a big library considering it was one of those "alternative" consoles

>>7019968
What is an alternative console? I guess the Intellivision is one, and the Master System in NTSC regions, and maybe the Dreamcast?

>>7019971
Anything not Atari, Nintendo or Sega at the time

>>7019971
I guess it depends a lot on your region. Saturn would probably fall into that category in the US when compared to the PSX and N64.

>>7019971
And if you include computers in the equation, stuff like the TRS-80 CoCo and BBC Micro would be "alternative" machines.

>>7016631
I have the fucking thing, but never got the CD unit and now those are super expensive!

>>7016631
I find it interesting that the TG16 had magazine advertisements a full 13+ months pre-launch, only a year after it launched in JP.

>>7018405
it's not my parent's basement, it's MY basement. if you live somewhere for more than 40 years it becomes yours and you own it

>>7017245
Cringe
>>7017281
Based

>>7020245
But your parents still live up top, anon...

>>7016631
A hipster console literally no one ever had, with one good castlevania game and the rest of the library being composed of shitty versions of games the snes and the genesis already had

>>7016631
This is your brain on western journalism

>>7017245
Um sweaty Kanye West is no longer a person of colour, though you are racist.

>>7018269
>/pol/ is not a personality
Nobody tell him kek.

>>7017245
What are you even talking about?

>>7021081
>shitty versions

>>7018269
>obsessed over /pol/ in 2020
>hating shittyclick bait is “”””/pol/“”””

Hang yourself after reading a Buzzfeed top ten list for wackiest rope brands retard

>>7021302
>le kek

>>>/2015/

>>7019316
>>7019316
>NES shut that mofo down, hard.
Only in the US.

>>7016631
They mean a PC Engine.

>>7018269
Rent Free.

>>7016631
I had one as a kid. I’m pretty sure it can put before the snes and genesis. I don’t remember why we got it but I remember getting it from toys r us. The bonk game was awesome

>>7023226
What year did you get it?

>>7023257
I honestly can’t remember. It was so long ago. Only thing I remember was seeing it at toys r us. I must have been under 10

>>7016631
>Vice

>>7017245
Whenever I'm feeling down I can always cheer myself up by coming to /vr/ and taking solace in the fact that I'm not pathetic enough to post this /pol/ shit

>>7016631
a solid console that was a distant 3rd place to the snes and genesis

had some excellent shooters, rpgs, platformers and arcade ports

lot of games by hudson, namco, irem, falcom and taito

was actually a decently powerful console but wasn't pushed to the limit very often

>>7023751
I rate it above the SNES, but that because I love shooters and don't give a shit about RPGs.

>>7016631
it's a consolized turbo express

>>7016631
This image should tell VICE everything they need to know.

>>7023827
Has there ever been a more scathing critique of your average techno kid?

>>7016631

Has the best version of R-Type on it

>>7023827

Holy fuck thats so true! Like looking into a mirror!

>>7021693
>le
>>>/2011/

A console with only two fightans released (Street Fighter 2 and Strip Fighter 2), despite being contemporary to the early 90's fightan fever.

>>7023887
Unless you include the CD add on in which case there's Art of Fighting & Street Fighter 1

>>7023863
What makes it better than the arcade

>>7023904
Maybe the music. But it's missing the parallax scrolling. Otherwise they're almost identical.

>>7017293
I did. It's very underrated.

>>7016631
If you ignorant fucks think this console sucked go get an emulate right now and see how wrong you are

>>7017293
I did. It was the first console I bought with my own money. At a local video & electronics store in 1993 I think. The store was liquidating it for $50 with Keith Courage & a second surprise pack in which turned out to be Neutopia.

It was a small town though so I didn't know anyone else who had one plus the only places to buy games for it was that local shop, Radio Shack & pawn shops. I also got Legendary Axe II because I had it confused with Golden Axe, Bonk's Adventure which I knew from comic book ads, Bloody Wolf because it has blood in the title & Air Zonk because he was their new mascot.

I rented a couple other games and really enjoyed them but then a year later I bought a Genesis and forgot about my TG-16 in a bin until university where I could actually find more old games in the city.

Turbo Grafx missed out on too many games. If you are investing get a PC Engine. Mad amounts of Shmups and sillyness. Tied for best arcade game retro console with AES. Fucking love mine

>>7017293
my friend had one, it was the first 16 bit console i had seen. i only remember playing bonk tho, the rest of the time we played nes.

>>7017293
Kanye did

>>7016631
Reminder not to fall for the Analogue scam.
Go miSTer instead. Better than proprietary garbage.
https://felixleger.com/posts/20201018-misterfpga/