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if only NEC had marketed it as an arcade-at-home experience.

>> No.8718762 [DELETED] 

>>8718757
The truth is TurboGrafx is a really stupid fucking name. What were they thinking?

>> No.8718764

>>8718762
you know what's a dumb name? fucking playstation. sounds like a toy. so try again

>> No.8718771 [DELETED] 

>>8718764
Cope. The name is retarded

>> No.8718776

>>8718757
That cancerous growth on it's back coupled with the case that went around it made it look like a piece of garbage.
They really fucked up the look of those things included the Japanese one.

>> No.8718807

>>8718762
Because when you're trying to market this thing towards kids, teens, and young adults in late 80s America where everything was starting to be marketed as hip and XTREME, with the bit wars coming into full fruition, the name seemed like a no-brainer. Too bad the thing was the "Five Hundred and Ninety-nine U.S. Dollars" of 1989 and didn't sell as much as the competition because it has some fantastic games.

>> No.8718835 [DELETED] 

>>8718807
The name sounds like it was decided by a board room of 40 year old Yuppies

>> No.8718841

>>8718762
Americans

>> No.8718849
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8718849

>>8718762
Same with renaming Mega Drive to Genesis.
Yeah I know I know, copyright reasons. Shut the hell up.

>> No.8718949
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>>8718762
>TurboGrafx is a really stupid fucking name.
Always thought it sounded rad.
>>8718764
>know what's a dumb name? fucking playstation
Feel the same but being successful means the name gains some respect
>>8718849
>Same with renaming Mega Drive to Genesis.
I'll give (you) that Mega Drive is the better name but Genesis is still a badass moniker and europoors need to stop pretending that it isn't.

>> No.8719000

>>8718849
>Yeah I know I know, copyright reasons. Shut the hell up.
It's actually because David Rosen disliked the name "Mega Drive". He thought it sounded too PC-like for a game console.

>> No.8719290

>>8718757
If they packed in and promoted it with Legendary Axe, I imagine it would've been more popular in America

>> No.8719294

>>8718762
no it's not, They used the branding for all the revision models
Core Grafx
Super Grafx

>> No.8719306

>>8718849
>>8719000
>>8719000
Mega Drive makes no sense since the game uses cartridges, and has no storage. It's a dumb fucking name that sounds like a generic made up console some kid on a sitcom would play. Genesis fit perfectly with how it was marketed and sounds cool.

>> No.8719308

>>8719294
and those sold jackshit
legendary console, but stupid fuckin name

>> No.8719319

>>8718841
Was called that in official European releases as well, brownoid.

>> No.8719320

>>8719308
the core grafx is the most popular version, the fuck you talking about

>> No.8719324

>>8719319
>official European releases
uh, what?

>> No.8720207 [DELETED] 

>>8718762
>the truth is i'm a turboautist

>>8718776
Burgers are obsessed with BBC. Deal with it.

>> No.8721146

>>8718949
>>8718849
Who for? Christian?

>> No.8721242

>>8718757
Shantae

>> No.8721273

>>8718762
>PC Engine
>Is neither a PC nor an engine

>> No.8721416

>>8719324
UK did get a variation simply called the TurboGrafx
France had a healthy import market for PCE

>> No.8721420
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8721420

>>8718949
>>8719000
>>8719306
>>8721146
Genesis sounds like a tranny abomination. It's Mega Drive, mutts. Get it in your meaty lard heads.

>> No.8721537
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8721537

>>8718757
BONK > Mario
Hudson should have made Bonk and Bomberman Turbografx exclusive.

>> No.8721547

>>8721420
Why do you allow trans people to live rent free in your head 24/7?

>> No.8721551

>>8721547
They (and Antifa) destroyed my family business.

>> No.8721558

>>8718807
>Too bad the thing was the "Five Hundred and Ninety-nine U.S. Dollars" of 1989
The TurboGrafx-16 and the Genesis launched at virtually the same price.

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>>8721537
Sorry, there's only one basedboy caveman game

>> No.8721562

>>8721551
Didn't you have insurance?

>> No.8721567

>>8721562
No insurance against libel and public sit-ins

>> No.8721570

>>8721551
Based. Your business was obviously gay if it was weak enough to be destroyed by trannys. Get fucked

>> No.8721575

>>8721570
I shit bigger and higher than you, kiddo

>> No.8721582

>>8721575
That's why troons fucked your business up. You're an obese fat fuck that shits all day. Kys fatty

>> No.8721615

>>8721582
Europeans are not fat like you mutts.

>> No.8721661 [DELETED] 

>>8721615
Sure thing fatfuck

>> No.8721667

>>8721567
Couldn't you be the litigant in a libel suit?

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8721670

>>8721661
>t.

>> No.8721695

>>8721273
>Family Computer
>It's not a computer and it's played mostly by children

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>>8721670
Is that a pic of you on your vespa? I see how the gash wounds crushed your faggy business lmao

>> No.8721713

>>8721667
Dudes a larper hows he gonna sue anyone? just another vedditor obsessed with transexuals

>> No.8721717

>>8721708
that's clearly a brit

>> No.8721719

Pretty sure it was.
Stop trying to figure out how to outdo 90s american marketers, they did what they could, and then some.

>> No.8722628

>>8721416
was it official release?
I thought it was some weird sort of import shit

>> No.8722867

>>8718757
What they should have done was wait for the PCE Duo to come out before moving to the West. That way you release it as the Turbo Engine with Dual Media Technology (TM), a game console that plays both card and CD games, and aggressively market it as a competitor to the Genesis and its Sega CD add-on by mocking the need for a conjoined twin fetus or whatever. Plus this way the PCE would have already hit its library peak and thus there wouldn't be the other issue of having nogames when it came out in America.

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8723176

>>8718757
Any other marketing strategy would've been better than what they chose.

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8723261

>>8723176
did you see he's in a game now?

>> No.8724037

>>8723176
FEKA tried to take all the credit for Sherlock Holmes. they were just acting defensively

>> No.8724219

>>8723176
This has the biggest "how do you do, fellow kids" vibes to it.

>> No.8724681

>>8718757
>if only NEC had marketed it as an arcade-at-home experience.

The problem with this, is that the Genesis came out around the same time, which also used the marketing of "the arcade experience at home", and the Genesis/ MD was much more suited as an arcade home-port machine, with its' Motorola 68000 CPU. Basically the same type of CPU found in many of the 16bit arcade boards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-tH9fKuOo

>> No.8725207

>>8718757
It would have probably sold much better as the pc engine

>> No.8725951

>>8724681
Eh, on average the PC Engine had better arcade ports
they should've promoted the fact that it had the colours and the big sprites

>> No.8726328

Should've based it on the SuperGrafx and not the regular PC Engine.

>> No.8726404

>>8718757
>if only NEC had marketed it as an arcade-at-home experience.
wasn't even close to being an arcade-at-home-experience. it was vastly inferior.

>> No.8726407

>>8724681
at least megadrive was based around real arcade hardware. nec could never compete with that.

>> No.8728271

>>8718757
honestly the real problem is they wasted a bunch of time and resources redesigning the PC-Engine in a vain attempt to make it more appealing to the US market when the original design probably would have sold just fine, particularly if they had managed to do an American release in 1988 before the Genesis would be a thing in the US instead of releasing in 1989 two whole months after the Genesis, in such a world they might have been able to secure a proper niche against Nintendo instead of being a mostly forgotten "also-ran" here in the West

>> No.8728283 [DELETED] 

>>8726407
Sure they could have considering how bad they spanked Sega in Japan. Sega had godly marketing in the west which is how they sold so well.
Meanwhile NEC was completely clueless as to what the west wanted. They actually had the exclusive rights to Mortal Kombat sitting in front of them but foolishly turned it down.

>> No.8728342

>>8718757
>if only NEC had marketed it
ftfy

>> No.8728415

>>8728283
Very good on them, MK completely overhyped dogturd

>> No.8728416

>>8723176
>>8723261
>uncalled
He appeared resembling Youtuber Johnny VS.

>> No.8728417

>>8718757
If only NEC had invented shoulder buttons first......
and gave us a GBA style home console controller......

if only my arbitrary preferences were a reality, shame

>> No.8728421

>>8721537
There some other better mascot from 2002 GBC

>> No.8728428

>>8721416
Spain and Shat Korea too.

>> No.8728671

>TURBOgrafx
>MEGA Drive
>SUPER Nintendo
Based late 80s early 90s naming conventions.

>> No.8728701

>>8728283
>They actually had the exclusive rights to Mortal Kombat sitting in front of them but foolishly turned it down.
Why would I play a TG-16 version of Mortal Kombat when I could play a TG-16 version of Street Fighter 2 instead? (I was gonna ask how it would even work, considering the TurboGrafx standard controller only has two buttons, but then I remembered they came out with a six button controller for Street Fighter 2, just like the Genesis.)
>>8728671
In Sega's defense, they meant "mega" as in the SI prefix. As evident by them calling the PC/Genesis hybrid the "Tera Drive".

>> No.8729738

>>8723176
Shantae exists being best mascot for NEC TG-16 console.

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>>8718757
if only a lot of things
>if only they had released the supergrafx in US instead, since it launched in JP the same time as TG16 did in US
>if only they released TG16 with a multitap built into that empty plastic shell space
>if only they released it in august 88 when they started marketing it in US, a full year before it launched
>if only they didnt use potato quality cover art

>> No.8731008

>>8729948
The PC Engine succeeding only in Japan was a good thing, since it meant that the console wasn't filled with western-developed trash compared to the Super NES and Genesis.
>But muh Mortal Kombat port

>> No.8731061

>>8729948
Soundchip is pretty generic as well. The Turbo didn't even have its own voice.

>> No.8731090

>>8729738
>>8731061
What is with this trolling?

>> No.8731570

>>8731090
??

>> No.8731578

>>8728421
>>8721537
>>8728701
>>8729948
See>>8721242

>> No.8731618

>>8721695
Computer for the whole Family makes more sense than PC Engine, especially since the latter is just a reference to NEC's "PC" line of computers.

>> No.8731627

What is this Shantae on Tg16 shit?

>> No.8731631

>>8721420
Fuck off, tranny poor. Even Euros think Genesis is a cool term, hence the band.

>> No.8731634

>>8731627
it's just a troll, same as the guy that talks about it not having "it's own voice"

>> No.8731636

>>8731627
Some faggot spamming that on here for years to make a (forced) meme.

>> No.8731648

>>8731634
>>8731636
You both know nothing.

>> No.8731671

>>8731636
Look potential decent meme.

>> No.8732007

>>8718757
Has anyone else got the SHDS3 PRO?
this thing has huge issues reading some CD games and it's pissing me off, especially because of how annoying it is to remove the SD card

>> No.8732024

>>8732007
No, I own a Super CD-ROM2 because I'm a handsome pimp. That really sucks that something that expensive is giving you that much grief

>> No.8732026

>>8732024
All I know is it's the only terra onion product I have and I am definitely not buying another thing from them

>> No.8732027

>>8718762
its a fucking sick name. kanye was even going to name an album after it. fuck off.

>> No.8732119

>>8732007
Are these unspecified yuge issues covered by the documentation that you totally read before you bought it? The device is known to have a number of problems.

>>8732024
Based. I have them in two of my setups.

>> No.8732129

>>8732026
My condolences. I would say that you might be able to sell it but given how hard that guy shot himself in the foot PR-wise the other day I'm not so sure that you could. I really smelled a rat with that guy to begin with and it made my decision to buy an aging CD drive instead of his solution that much easier
>>8732119
It's seriously great and very easy to maintain from what I understand. I actually haven't even had to open mine up since I bought it last year. I also picked up a Turbo EverDrive.
The PC Engine was my white whale for years and I'm happy to not be let down by it now that I actually own one.

>> No.8732179

>>8728415
>MK completely overhyped dogturd
And yet it sold systems. It's the main reason my brother wanted a Genesis.

>> No.8732185

>>8732119
I bought it on release, it plays some games but others I have to find some specific source otherwise it won't play and some with translations will freeze randomly, it works well when it works though

>> No.8732193

>>8726328
i saw this, looked up the release date thinking the SG came out in 91 and damn.... that is close. i imagine NEC didnt want to wait to completely redo the launch to accomodate that but it would have been great if the american system having more power would have pushed a ton of souped up rereleases of older PCE games that then got sent back to japan. i dont think it would have sold any better though

i really want someone to develop a good PCE ode that isnt an ugly, bulky external unit

>> No.8732198

>>8732193
Well that’s impossible, it needs to be an external unit

>> No.8732229

>>8718807
No way did it cost that much, I had one. You must be thinking about the cost of the system with the CD-ROM add on. The base unit by itself was like $200, if that.

>> No.8732361

>>8732129
If it's working fine then it's probably already been recapped and will be good for another 20-30 years minimum.

>>8732185
>some specific source
This isn't a problem with the SHDS3 and isn't limited to the SHDS3. I think the product it a half baked turd, but you can't blame them for faggots like redump changing their non-standard formats on an autistic whim.

>> No.8732423

>>8732361
yeah, I'm just going through the redumps now to make sure the file types are cue/bin instead of cue/img

>> No.8732778

>>8731627
She felt perfectly right on PCE platform.

>> No.8732783

>>8732179
Your brother was brainwashed into buying dumb ad.

>> No.8732901

>>8728417
NEC can invented MD like controller before Sega + seven wave table and two fm channel

>> No.8732932

>>8721420
>Seething North Americans don't capitulate to muh megar droite nonsense
>Tranny derangent syndrome
>New-worlders on the brain

Excuse me, but we're talking about an AMERICAN game system here. Isn't there an Amiga or Speccy thread for you "people"?

>> No.8733295

>>8718757
Using the Super Grafx spec (it has the socket for the extra PPU) and killing off the PC Engine spec would of done wonders for it.

>> No.8733428

>>8732783
Whoa, advertising works and nineties kids like Mortal Kombat? Revelatory

>> No.8733437

>>8718764
All videogames are toys

>> No.8733448

>>8732423
Even then you might have problems. Don't know if it's just people being retarded but I've seen plenty complaining that redump shit doesn't work on the device. I know redump is a problem on other devices like GDEMU even after converting, so tend to believe them.

>> No.8733571

>>8721420
>Genesis sounds like a tranny abomination
south american detected also rent free

>> No.8733609

>>8733437
They stopped being toys once the 360 shown up and became media boxes.

>> No.8733652 [DELETED] 

>>8732778
So the answer to the original question is schizophrenia

>> No.8733958

>>8733448
Well I’ve not had a problem with gdemu not recognising discs

>> No.8734084

>>8733958
GDEMU can't recognize or do anything else with discs. Only images. And if the images are redump a massive percentage won't work. Just because it recognizes an image that doesn't mean the image will run. Also, you shouldn't have it recognizing anything. You should be using a list.ini. Without that startup will take a couple minutes if you have any large number of images.

>> No.8734109

>>8721551
based trannies

>> No.8734114

>>8722867
that actually would've sold way better yeah

>> No.8734119

>>8732783
yeah we all were, retard

>> No.8734207

>>8734084
I dunno, I use gdmenumanager and I haven’t run into a problem

>> No.8734220

>>8718762
They thought it was the perfect name for a late 80s-early 90s product for kids and teens

>> No.8734230

>>8721575
You have incredibly thin skin you big annoying fag. Way to get your business tanked by ugly people that rarely go outside

>> No.8734239

>>8721551
Hope you die

>> No.8734249

>>8725951
What great arcade ports did NEC have aside from pac land and a handful of shooting games?

>> No.8734253

>>8718757
they should have
>released it a year earlier
>added a second controller port
or alternatively
>wait a while and just release the turbo duo first

>> No.8734290 [DELETED] 

>>8734249
Every namco game and taito gsme

>> No.8734345

>>8734249
Tower of Druaga
Legend of Valkyrie
Splatterhouse
Ninja Spirit
Cadash

>> No.8734358

>>8734249
Strider
Cadash
SFII
If you actually go and look, you’ll find a lot