TurboGrafx-16 retrospective

Definitely Final Lap Twin and Alien Crush

Looking foward to those games... I hope they're affordable.

The Castlevania game for the CD system was a must play. Its amazing how they still bite off the enemy design for current castlevania games.

This better mean a return of Johhny Turbo.

http://sardius.team-coti.com/reviews/jturbo/jturbo1-1.htm

I'm so happy about this. The rest of the world needs to experience Final Lap Twin and Keith Courage!

I still play mine every now and then. It's a great system.

of course the bonk series. one the best old school platformers (a diamond in the rough).

I just want Bonk! also these games better be no more then 1 or 2 dollars.

On my revolution? None. I have my original Turbo Duo and a heap of games for it, which I ALL cherish equally. I still applaud the move and look forward to remakes or sequels to the amazing classic titles that exist on this console.

YUP... I'm a NEC kid. Almost no NES or Master System for me when I was young, strictly TURBO!!

I won't be playing old games on my revolution...I already do that for free on my PC/PSP/GP2x....

Even my VHS does emulation at this point.

What games will I be playing? The shooters, the PCE was a great system for those games. Salamander, R-Type, Parodious, Raiden, Gunhed, Blazing Lazers,,, so many great games. I really hope Military Madness makes it onto the virtual console, that game was like Advance Wars only with more variables in the battles (flanking bonuses etc.)
I could be wrong but I think "Some suceoiss" is a bit of a understatement, didn't the PCE sell more than the Famicom?

Eh, I alrady have the first two Parodius games for the Playstation.

But still, to have Gates of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, and Air Zonk at my fingertips? Why, other systems don't even compare!!

... Damn you, Johnny Turbo.

Please port the CD games too Nintendo! I want to play that awesome Castlevania game I never got to!

Baby I want some Sega CD's on that Revolution.


Snatcher.

Wow, got a little shiver down my spine when I saw that pic of the TG-16 w/CD and Super System Card. Can you believe that I sold all that and a bunch of games for $125? I'd pay double to get it back. Well the Rev really doesn't appeal to me that much with their controller but consider me sold on the Virtual Console. Bring me Bomberman, Devil's Crush, Ys Book I & II, Dragon Spirit, Military Madness, Dungeon Explorer II, Dragon Slayer, and hey even Beyond Shadowgate!

Ah, going back in time. I was happy playing my Famicom, until I bought Hobby Consolas, a spanish magazine that reached Argentina with a 6 month delay. That must have... 1992. Yeah, the first number I bought had Super Mario World's review. That introduced me to two mysterious consoles: Neo Geo and Turbo Grafx. Dunno why, but games in TG always looked better. Splatter House, New Zealand Adventures, it always seemed as if those games looked better there than in any other console.

Ah, going back in time. It will be nice.

I hope that Air Zonk will finally be experienced by the masses and recognized as one of the most fun shoot 'em ups out there. Myself, I'm looking forward to finally trying out Final Lap Twin since I missed out on it before.

One of my great gaming mistakes was believing I'd done all I cared to do with my Turbo CD setup and selling it off to buy some newer stuff. With a little patience I could have picked up the newer stuff for very cheap. I've been an unwavering CAG ever since.

Nintendo of America's exclusivity requirements in their publishing contracts (typically, the game in question could not appear on a competing platform for a minimum of two years) pretty much crippled the other players in the market but it was their own fault for not challenging the status quo. It didn't take Nintendo long to fold and settle out of court once Sega brought suit and it became obvious the case would go badly against them.

So why didn't NEC, a company with as much to lose as Sega in the video game business, take on NoA when it could have made a critical difference to the TurboGrafx to bring over a horde of greatly superior versions of third party NES hits? Because NEC is a huge semiconductor company that at the time had a small division doing video games in partnership with Hudson. (Hudson really did almost all of the real work on designing the hardware and assembling software support.) NEC sold tons of RAM chips and other items to Nintendo and this represent far more revenue that the US games operation in its constrained form. Alienating Nintendo as a customer by taking their US operation to court was a major no-no. NEC didn't believe strongly enough in their US prospects to take that risk. They had everything they needed to reproduce their high success in Japan except self-confidence.

Self-imposed conflicts of interest have often changed the course of a platform. Microsoft felt an intense need to have the Xbox perceived as a console and in support of that avoided a lot of PC things like mouse & keyboard support for certain games and a lot of potential PC ports in general. Thus a strength was squandered.

Castlevania.

Hey #8, you forgot one of my other TG faves: Dragon Spirit!

I'm gonna love having almost all of the R-type games to play on the rev!

I loved the TG16 CD System back in the day. I still have my whole CD set up even the terrible version of Fighting Street, try controlling that damn thing. Games I want to play on the REV how about R-TYPE and AIR ZONK. NEC's system was really great but did not get the right games to take on the big two Nintendo and SEGA. So much never realized potential in the US, Japan had all the best games.

all i know is that the 360 is getting a new dungeon explorer (and a new bomberman which looks lame). everyone else seems to just be getting the old hudson games while the 360 gets the remakes and new versions. what is with that?

all i know is that i can't wait for the dungeon explorer game, which is supposed to be a update of the original.

I agree with you @ The Mayor. I played Final Lap Twin and loved it on my TG16. It freaked me out because it was a racing RPG. But the gameplay was great.

@ #15 Dragon Spirit was awesome too but has everyone forgoetten Ninja Spirit? Shame on you all. It was a game I could hold against Revenge of Shinobi and Shadow Dancer with Pride.

Valis 2 was crap but Valis 3 and 4 were great games with great stories and cinemas.

Then there's Bloody Wolf and Legendary Axe, Side Arms, Spriggan, Wanderers from Y's. Gates of Thunder came out first and was great but then Lords of Thunder was released later and was even better

Last but not least. There was a guy at my college that had Supergraphx and Core Grafx. Supergraphx only had six games but one of those games was a Ghouls and Ghost. I do not exaggerate when I say it was easily on of the greatest versions of the game to this day. It was easily better than the SNES and Genesis versions and it was approaching Saturn level of quality. But the console was god awful expensive.

Legendary Axe and Military Madness...definately Military Madness. That game was so much fun back in the day. The Bonk games were a lot of fun to. Man, I haven't played a TG16 game in at least a decade, I can't wait to get my hands on some of these on the Rev.

I had the TG16 and the CD add-on and I STILL have my Turbo Express!

I'm with Strider on VALIS. VALIS IV was an amazing game, I got the japanese version for TGCD and it blew me away. Hope to see it again some day.

Sidearms & Splatterhouse.

And.... Bonk. BUT, only if we gets the real version in the US. That Fart-in-a-can sublimation for american censors was BULLSHIT.

(yeah, I just conditioned my purchase on whether or not Bonk rips ass. So?)

y's dude and splatterhouse rocks i still play that rom all the time! 2x4 is best wep ever.

Hopefully Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire will be available. It would be a bonus if they charge less than $500 for it, too.

Splaterhouse Rules!

what about the vietnam game(i think that was Neo-Geo)

also what was the game that came with it
it was some side scroller ninja-gaiden like game i forget its name..

Fantasy Zone (is the only one I didn't see listed here), Bonk, Splatterhouse (the first horror game right?), and Castlevania.
Cheap? This crap should be free. Years ago you could get these games at funcoland for under $5.

O man I almost forgot what it looks like... I used the portable version in it's later years... whatever that was called... I guess I don't have much of a memory for game history.

Can't forget Bloody Wolf! Nam '75 is the Vietnam game in question, #28. Would love to see some supergraphx games, like Aldynes and Strider, too. I hope we can finally play Y'2 book I and II the way they were meant to be played and don't forget on Working Designs first ever ports, the immortal Cosmic Fantast 2!