Turbo Grafx Revolution wish list

I'm confused, isn't Keith Courage in Alpha Zones generally seen as one of the worst video games ever? That's what I keep hearing.

Can I get Spriggan (known as M.U.S.H.A in the US on Genesis, Metallic, Uniframe, Super, Hybrid, Armor) or Valis. How about Legendary Axe or Bloody Wolf?

MILITARY MADNESS!!!

I second Military Madness. That's like Advance Wars, but even cooler (if that's possible).

Ahh what would our favorite Video Game hater think if Splatterhouse was released today???

Star Soldier, Super Star Soldier, Final Soldier.

Keith Courage is awesome! I love it.

Not exclusives, but how about R-Type? Or Vigilante? I want to save Madonna wirelessly...

I can't believe no one has mentioned Dracula X: Rondo of Blood. Arguably the finest Castlevania title over. Though it is only in Japanese, this would be the perfect avenue for an American translation. Or even if it's on Japan's Virtual Console if we could change over to Japan's region and get the Japanese version.

Am I the only person who owned (and loved) JJ & Jeff? Trying to describe it would be pointless, just Google it. Truly a surreal masterpiece.

It Came From the Desert. Fu Man Chu. Please, please Military Madness.

Being one of the fortunate few to have a TurboDuo back in the day, I am thrilled that the Revolution will have some of these lost games. Hell, I bet a bunch of these games generate more revenue now than when they were originally released.

In addition to the above, I hope they release Dungeon Explorer 2, one of my favorite RPG memories from my youth.

Ok. It's not Y's! It's YS! YS! And it's also not pronouced like wise, it's like east without the t.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_(video_game)

JJ and Jeff was great!!! When I was little, I returned Devil's Crush to get it, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

JJ and Jeff was sort of like the Adventure Island series, only much funnier. Much harder too!

Also, Bloody Wolf was AWESOME!!!

I know its not a TG16 exclusive (originally on PC) but i want LOOM!!!!! and Bloody Wolf

I would be extremely happy if any of the "TV Sports" games were on the Revo/RS/Whatever it'll be called.

Ummm....Late April Fools

Keith Courage was a perfectly good game for the era. It just lacked any real outstanding qualities when compared to popular pack-ins like Mario and Sonic. Enjoyable but generic. Remember, the Genesis originally came with 'Altered Beast' long before Sonic appeared.

"Wise fwom youw gwave!"

There was a PC Engine CD game called Avenger, IIRC, that never had a US verion. Excellent shooter with some unique aspects I really liked. The would be nearly no translation needed and it didn't take up all that much space on the CD. Would have fit in a card easily if it weren't for the opening semi-FMV sequence.

And although I've no desire to play them myself, seeing the old Cinemaware titles made available again would be good for sentimental value.

Anyone needing a reference to reawaken the old memories, look here:
http://gamedude.com/turbo.html

Andre Panza Kickboxing, China Warrior, Talespin, Fighting Street

damnit! I just bought a turbo off ebay a short while ago

"MILITARY MADNESS!!!"

Exactly!

http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/tg16/01/20.htm

Advance Wars still can not hold a candle to this game.

R-Type of course (and Image Fight and Mr Heli) and all the obscure Japanese shooters like Metal Stoker, Override and Heavy Unit that didn't make it to the West.

OMG....

I cannot believe that this list has gone on this long without mention of The Legendary Axe!! That is the one game that makes me go back to the console from time to time. Hell, I even kinda dig Final Lap Twin's RPG mode. It's not the best in the world by far, but I always thought it was an interesting spin on an otherwise tired genre at the time (2D racer).

I got a PC Engine GT anyways, but there are a few games which are too expensive/rare for me to but - Dracula X is one. the Super Star Soldier series was great, Puznic, Plotting, ummm... Kikikaikai, the YS series (wasn't it only available in Japanese tho?) Lords of Thunder, that Supergrafx shoot-em-up... Afterburner was good, as was the BC kid series (Bonk in the US) and now I've got the music in my head.
Wow I love the PC Engine.

Saint Dragon

This is the big question - will the Virtual Console be region free? 90% of the best PC Engine games released in Japan never made it over to the US Turbo audience, and neither machine was ever released in my homeland - the UK. On top of that, who wouldn't want to get some of the Japanese Genesis games that never left the East (Eliminate Down, Alien Soldier, etc) My Turbo wish list would include: Dracula X, Street Fighter 2, Star Parodia, the Gradius series (not as good as the emulated PSX deluxe pack but not too shabby back in 1992); Mr Heli, Side Arms, Gunhed, Raiden, Ordyne, Dungeon Explorer, Ultimate Tiger (single player Twin Cobra); Atomic Robo Kid, Bomberman '94, PC Kid series; Alien Crush, Devil Crash, Sega conversions (Space Harrier, Outrun, Afterburner), Aeroblaster, Dragon Spirit, Shinobi, Tatsujin...I can't wait to see what they have.

What? No call for Magical Dinosaur Tour or Sherlock Holmes? :)

I thought Valis II & III were good action/adventure games and should be added. Ys: Book I & II must the original cd soundtrack, it was most excellent. I second The Legendary Axe, great game.

Legendary Axe
Bomberman (heck, we played bomberman on our TG-16 yesterday)
MotoRoader
Dungeon Explorer
Dungeon Master
Chew Man Fu
Blazing Lazers
Bonk games

Of course, it won't make me buy a nintendo, as my modded X-box can play every TG-16 game already with my ROM collection, but it would be nice for other people I suppose.

Can this be true? God all mighty I hope so. If is true then I'm 100% sold and no questions ask. Then I will fall in love with Nintendo all over again.

Best baseball game ever: World Class Baseball.

Fuka, Ula, Shima all over your asses!!!!

Dungeon Explorer.
Street Fighter.
As to Keith Courage: it's definitely a talked-down title, and compared to other pack-in games it doesn't measure up. What it did have, though, is a really unique art style and some damn gorgeous sprite work.

Pacland is going to take me down memory lane for sure. The secrets in the arcade version mostly ported to the TG16 and this came out at a time that arcades were mostly useless. TG16 seemed like a real home arcade with platformers like BONK! That game was way ahead of anything on Sega Genesis or NES.

Man, I need to pull my TG16 outta storage after this trip down memory lane. I totally forgot about MotoRoader and the TV Sports series.

It wasn't clear from the Nintendo announcement if the Revo would play TG-CD games. Weren't most Hudson Soft games in HuCard format? Not sure how Nintendo plans on distributing all the CD audio goodness.

If it DOES play CD games, then Ys and the Thunder series is at the top of my list. I'd also recommend Super Darius (import). Although I think this has been ported to other systems.

I'm surprised no one mentioned any of the Working Design games (RIP): Exile, Cosmic Fantasy II.

Let the big eye anime begin.

I think the variety of games mentioned above is a strong testament that the Revolution could become a big success. Not simply because of all this talk of retro games on the Virtual Console but because people who weren't necessarily Nintendo owners back in the day or who may not be fans of Nintendo now are talking about it.

I was one of the strictly Nintendo kids- I went from NES to SNES to N64 to NGC and I've hardly even heard of any of these games that are being discussed.

It's great that Nintendo will be offering its own back catalog but it seems that the games from other systems on the Virtual Console may be what really get people interested in the Revolution.

I doubt there would be any reason for them not to include CD and SuperCD games. They weren't like contemporary games where the whole CD was packed with game info. IIRC, the first track on the CD contained all of the game data and the rest of the tracks were all the audio, in Redbook. So with MP3 compression alone, it shouldn't be any problem to get those games down to a reasonably downloadable size.

Going to have to go with Final Lap Twin. Nothing like a Racing RPG! I bought the system twice just to replay it.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/turbo-grafx/final-lap-twin

I find it interesting that lots of people are excited about these games being on the Revolution. However, simply keeping these older systems/games means you could play them now.

@ #34 Hart704:

Your comment gave me a thought: I don't know about anyone else, but I haven't heard a thing about any NEW games coming out for the Revolution. All of the talk I've heard is about the "Virtual Console" and the games it can play from various systems. Could it be that the Revo won't even have next-gen games, but become more of a "video game history/archive" machine? That's just my $.02.

When you can't create exciting new games give'em some old ones and label them as new.

Ignore me, I'm just being cranky and bitter. Honestly I think this is a pretty wild thing for Nintendo to be doing especially if they can pull off Turbo Duo CD support. Dracula X? Macross: Love Song? Ys 3 ("Hey, Adol! Smell that fresh sea breeze?")? Did I mention Dracula X? That would be incredible!

As far as Hu-Cards are concerned: Forget that Saturn Bomberman stuff from a couple of days ago (though it is a fine game); Bomberman '93 is where it's at! Blazing Lazers (or was it Lazurs?), Devil's Crush, the Bonk series, Air Zonk...the list goes on!

Oh, and #7, didn't the skinheads kidnap Madonna? Why would they do that? Maybe it had something to do with "Material Girl." Anyhow, something tells me they'd edit a couple of things about Vigilante's story (not that it was terribly deep to begin with).

For those of you who just can't understand how brilliant JJ & Jeff is check out this (sadly) old page discussing the import as well as a bonus review of, um, Toilet Kids. ( http://zeroes.overclocked.org/toilet.htm )

I really want to play my Turbo Grafx now. Sweet memories.

I demand Johnny Turbo.

Because nobody else has said it yet...Viegues Tactical Gladiator! Awesome shooter-on-rails where you got credits to upgrade your mech at the end of each level based on how many enemies you killed.

Keith Courage was great, but I never did beat it. I mostly just remember smashing lucky cat statues that fell from the sky to make money. I don't even remember what the money was for. It would probably have a better reputation if they cut out all the cutesy overworld stuff and made it all about the dark underworld, but then it wouldn't have been as memorable.

There are a lot of games I wanted to play but never got a chance to. Exile, Loom, Exile 2, anything by Working Designs.

Vasteel was a mech strategy game that my brother played to death and still talks about to this day.

Andre Panza Kickboxing was the most intense fighting game I've ever played. The graphics and sense of control were phenomenal for the time.

Sherlock Holmes was a game even my sister enjoyed, and she's the antigamer.

There was that ridiculous 5-player wrestling game. All I remember from that are the taunts, specifically the middle-eastern guy growling "YOU DIIIE!" Good times...

I hope if it's successful, they'll be able to add more consoles to the service. Nobody I knew could afford a 3DO, but we all lusted after the screenshots in magazines. The Sega Saturn also deserves another shot at success.

In addition to most of the things already in the article:

Legend of Valkyrie deserves a stateside release. Dungeon Explorer would be cool. Galaga '91, of course (for those who didn't get Namco 50th Anniversary with emulated Galaga '88 in it). Anything Working Designs translated. I think one of the Cotton games got a US release for the TG16 as well, so that.

I would love to see ALL the Supergrafx library brought over to the virtual console. There were some real gems that never got the U.S. exposure that they deserved.

Splash Lake

Neo Nectaris, in English.

Bloody Wolf.

all the TV Sports games (hockey, basketball, football)
bonk's games
and that wresting game (i can't think of the name)

The wrestling game was Battle Royale!

Yea
Bonk & Splatterhouse.
Was there anything else worth getting for that system?
Those two did provide hours of fun.

never got to play it and it's too expensive to buy now but i always wanted to play Ginga Fukei Densetsu: Sapphire, it's some crazy shooter that used the arcade card that was supposed to do all kinds of 3d crap which was a big deal back then...i was always curious about how it acutally looked....that and i missed bonk3 dammit!

God, I miss my Turbo-Duo (I owned a TG-16 before that but it eventually died I played it so much). I'm gonna have to break it out soon I think...

@ Schtum: "Vasteel was a mech strategy game that my brother played to death and still talks about to this day."

VASTEEL!!! THANK you...I played through that game like 20 times I swear. And it's not short. It's a hex world map strategy game but every battle is a one on one action sequence with the mechs. If you were good, those sequences gave you the opportunity to destroy mechs that "outclassed" your mechs. A great way to swing the tide when you are outgunned.

I would also love Ys, Blazing Lasers, Bonk, Bomberman, Bravoman (that game was bizarre, stretchy arms, legs, and neck as weapons?!?), Legendary Axe, and Final Lap Twin (RPG: Anyone else think your dad looked like Hulk Hogan in that game??).

Oh the memories...and how sad that Working Designs, a company that did brilliant localizations is no longer with us. We miss you!