Turbografx-16

[Anonymous No.5633998]

So you were born in the late 80s but had no idea the Turbografx existed while growing up, just Nintendo and Sony.

Why was that?

[Anonymous No.5634009]

>>5633998
where i grew up nobody had one or knew they existed. i also only knew one kid who had a sega. everyone else had computer or nintendo.

[Anonymous No.5634024]

I was born in 1985, I got into gaming around 93/94. That system was discontinued for several years by that point, was only even sold in certain areas, and no one had one.

I saw CDis for sale in stores and Jaguars on clearance. I even played a 3DO at a store demo. I've never heard of a Turbografx until the internet was a thing. Still have never actually seen one.

[Anonymous No.5634028]

>>5634024
I've seen consoles in used game shops before, but I never heard of one growing up, never had any friends who had one, just Genesis or SNES.

I never see games in boxes either, just loose Turbochips or Hucards or whatever they're called.

[Anonymous No.5634029]

>>5634024
get the romset and pirate the emulator (might be better ones now no idea) and give it a go over. not the best selection but I enjoyed silent debuggers and devils crush. There was some racing rpg I messed with a few times .
and a really solid ninja game that was side scrolling.. you could get clones and fight with 4? weapons. wish I could remember it's name. I mostly played silent debuggers and devils crush outta the 16 games I had. dont really remember the rest...

[Anonymous No.5634079]

>>5633998

i had one but born in early eighties. never met another person who had one and never bought games besides those i got with the console

[Anonymous No.5634082]

>>5633998
No I knew. Saw it in Electronic Gaming Monthly. Wanted a Turbo Express. Alas too expensive.

[Anonymous No.5634257]

I was born in the early 80s. I was aware of it from magazines, and wanted one if just to have even more games to have in addition to my Super Nintendo and Genesis. I eventually got to play one at another kid's house, just Splatterhouse. I thought it was cool but TG16 was never more than a mild want for me.

[Anonymous No.5634373]

>>5633998
Because I was born in the late 60's and it didn't exist when I was growing up?

[Anonymous No.5634375]

>>5633998
I knew it existed, thanks to video game magazines. I think Tips and Tricks had a segment dedicated to it, like they did for Nintendo/Sega/Sony systems, for instance.

T. Boomer born in 86

[Anonymous No.5634376]

>>5633998
Well you couldn't get them in Australia at all so that was partly to blame.

[Anonymous No.5634379]

>>5633998
I knew it existed. Used to see it mentioned in EGM and other mags and I think it was on that Video Power show a few times.

[Anonymous No.5634382]

>>5633998
A few years ago I read up on every single PCE game and played most of them. And man, one of the worst libraries I've ever dealt with. PCE was a mess.

[Anonymous No.5634386]

>>5634029
>and a really solid ninja game that was side scrolling.. you could get clones and fight with 4? weapons. wish I could remember it's name.
Ninja Spirit. Great game.

[Anonymous No.5634387]

>>5634029
>a really solid ninja game that was side scrolling
Ninja Spirit

[Anonymous No.5634402]

>>5634379
this.
also the price tags were insane and for what? hardly better visuals?

[Anonymous No.5635059]

>>5633998
My cousins had one. When they showed it to me and my brother we were amazed and couldn't wait to go back and visit them again so we could play more of their games. The answer to your question is that there was no marketing a the time and most of the major retail stores just didn't carry it outside of the major cities (my cousins lived in the middle of Boston).

[Anonymous No.5635061]

>>5633998
No. My best friend had one and we played the shit out of it. Also there was no Sony console in the 80s.

[Anonymous No.5635114]

>>5633998
Probably because you didn’t live in a larger city. The department stores in my semi-rural hometown certainly never carried TG-16 or Neo Geo stuff. I only ever saw it when I visited my grandparents that lived in a big city and went to their local Toys R Us.

[Anonymous No.5635124]

>>5635061
Since OP was born in the late 80s, he wouldn’t have really been cognizant of video games until the fifth gen era was in full swing. Definitely quite a bit later than when the TG-16 was a current gen console.

[Anonymous No.5635126]

>>5634382
>And man, one of the worst libraries I've ever dealt with. PCE was a mess

why would you force yourself to play all the digital comics, weebshit and low budget stuff?

just stick to the platformers, ports and shooters by the big name companies

[Anonymous No.5635308]

I knew about them but nobody had them

[Anonymons No.5635416]

>>5635059
>most of the major retail stores just didn't carry it
this.

the only place i saw it being sold was the same place that sold the Neo Geo.

[Anonymous No.5635421]

My household briefly had one. Great little system if you like Hudson IPs, especially Bomberman and shooters. I still emulate some of those games to this day.

My only gripes are the release of SuperGrafx and the CD add-on. Add-ons in general were a bad idea. Consumers did not like having to pay for additional hardware after dishing out hundreds of dollars for the base unit. They should have kept designing games that worked with the original hardware and left it at that.

[Anonymous No.5635491]

>>5635421
But all the games I'm interested in are CD games

[Anonymous No.5635814]

>>5633998
If you didn't know then you mustn't have ever read any magazines coz they were mentioned in every single one across the globe and reviews for the games were always in them.
Even over here in PAL land they were always reviewing PC Engine games and praising them.

[Anonymous No.5635816]

>>5634029
>pirate the emulator
What?

[Anonymous No.5635837]

Uhh i knew about it cause 2 of my friends had them

[Anonymous No.5636142]

>>5635816
>reading comprehension
huh wut?

[Anonymous No.5636198]

>>5633998
But I was born in the late 80's and did know about the Turbografx. In fact I enjoyed playing it a lot as a kid. Especially enjoyed the Bonk games.

[Anonymous No.5637179]

had one got it for my 5th birthday
I was starting kindergarten
had bonks 2, keith courage, impossamole,

and had legendary axe, tennis rpg (or whatever its called) silent debuggers and military madness for many months (my brother rented them but didnt bring them back for many months till he finished them)

[Anonymous No.5637984]

>>5633998
I don’t know. It wasn’t a very big deal. Only a million or so sold, something like that. I remember seeing commercials on TV for it. But just around the time it launched, not much after that, an announcement they slashed the price to $99, then just some magazine ads.

Seemed like NEC wasn’t going to put much effort into the system. And when it didn’t succeed immediately they just gave up.

Pictured: A $580 8-bit video game system.

[Anonymous No.5637998]

>>5637984
Don’t forget to get the Super System Card for $65! And the $20 TurboTap so you can plug a second controller into the system!

Gosh! Why didn’t TurboGrafx 16 catch on? Guess we’ll never know...

[Anonymous No.5638012]

>>5636142
I guess you're talking about a payware emulator like Magic Engine? No one knows what you mean when you say "duh emulator" unless it's a system with legitimately only worthwhile emu like PS2.

[Anonymous No.5638032]

When I was growing up, I had TG16, SMS, NES, SMD, SCD, SNES and NG simultaneously. We used two VCRs and a switchbox to connect them all to my TV.
So yeah: I knew what it was.

[Anonymous No.5638036]

>>5634387
>solid game
>looks to be nothing but a buttonmash fest of the worst kind
Wut?

[Anonymous No.5638046]

>>5633998
I didn't live in or near a major city that NEC concentrated their advertising in.

>NEC had no idea how to market in the US. Most of Japan had no idea how to market in the US despite our market being several times larger than their native one.

[Anonymous No.5638062]

>>5638046
To be fair, even the US itself was like this with stuff for the longest time. Movies used to be released in the major cities first and then rolled out to theaters across the country. It was totally different from the nationwide releases we have now.

[Anonymous No.5638139]

>>5638062
In theaters everywhere!
Film at 11!
All stores open late until 9PM!

[Anonymous No.5638148]

>>5634082
LMAO... I remember wanting a Turbo Express too.

[Anonymous No.5638157]

>>5638139
It was a simpler time.

[Anonymous No.5638984]

>>5638012
All I'm talking about is a tard who can't understand what some other anon wrote. And he didn't even say "duh emulator". Were you dropped on the head as a baby? Are you still a baby?

[Anonymous No.5639041]

>>5633998
I had one as a kid. The problem was I only had like 3 games, and the only one I remember at all was Galaga.

[Anonymous No.5639048]

>>5638148
with the tv tuner

[Anonymous No.5639063]

>>5633998
born in '82. parents divorced. told dad i wanted a nintendo. dad was poor. convinced me to get TG16 instead cause it was on sale. at the time i was a little bummed. looking back i know he was just doing the best he could.

[Anonymous No.5639091]

>>5638036
That gif doesn't really show what makes it a good game, just some of the different attacks you can do.

[Anonymous No.5639121]

there was 3 video stores within a 1-2km range where I grew up and a gaming store.

bought the tg16 on sale which came with 2 games.
rented the rest of the games thru the years.
one of my first games for it was splatterhouse

[Anonymous No.5639424]

>ever using childhood as a way to rate something or to rate something with.

[Anonymous No.5639625]

I saw ads for them in comic books all the time. Seemed pretty cool but I never actually saw one in person.

[Anonymous No.5639832]

>>5633998
Told this before, but born in 80. The only time I'd ever saw one was a friend's family rented one about every other weekend or so for about 4 months. The only thing we played was bonk. It was utterly mind blowing at the time, before genesis was common at all. My first genesis experience was a different friend in 1991, then myself and several friends in about 92 to 93. I lived in rural Iowa but this was my experience. You saw tg16 in game magazines at times, but they didn't exist in stores here.

[Anonymous No.5639892]

>>5633998
Born in '86. NES, SNES, GB, Genesis, and GG were all I knew as a kid. Two kids I was friends with only had Nintendo systems. My cousin had the Genesis. Can't recall any T-16 commercials. Didn't have any subscriptions to any game magazines and my friend only had Nintendo Power.

[Anonymous No.5640054]

>>5638984
Quiet Junior, the adults are talking.

[Anonymous No.5640478]

>>5640054
>get btfo
>project