@AJBSONIC, Funny thing is that TG did'nt stick in the U.S for several reasons including poor adver, poor release date and debut location, Nintendo's monopolizing of developers etc, ironically the Tg-16 is still building popularity and is in high demand. So it never really failed like say Dreamcast, it just got buried in the background and most people never even knew about it since it was only available at few retailers
@Lovelorn8888, Which systems do you own, grew up with, collect for, prefer, favor and have you had a chance to build libraries for them yet. I have a little over 25-30 systems most of which I grew up with and collect for all, but emphasize my favorite consoles of course.
@Lovelorn8888, Bomberman, Bomberman 93, Phsychosis, Raiden, R-Type, Shockman, Space Harrier, Victory Run, yes and both Legendary Axes.....let's not get into it's Pc Engine hucard library of over 700 Hu-cards and it's Super Cd-Rom library that fetches top dollar till this day for good reason. I've built up a library for all major systems, old and new and I'd have to say the top two systems to collect for are Neo Geo and Pc Engine...everything e
@lovelorn8888, No...Air Zonk, Splatterhouse, Vigilante, Ninja Spirit, Parasol Stars, Blazing Lazers, New Adventure Island, All three Bonk Adventures, Ordyne, Alien Crush, Devil's Crush, Super Star Soldier, Neutopia 1 and II, Soldier Blade, Magical Chase, Legend of Hero Tonma, Bloody Wolf, Dead Moon, Dungeon Explorer
lol @ all of the no-longer-in-business businesses that sold the tg-16: babbages (wtf) electronics boutique, montgomery ward, software ect, mc duff electronics, video concepts
I remember how cool it was back in grade school to see the games for the system being on those thin cards, instead of cartridges. But that was about the only cool thing about the system.
Of course, what I meant by quality is that a high price didn't automatically mean a good game.
As for the Super CD, I'll bet there were many explanations, both technological and political. For company politics, it's been mentioned that Nintendo reviewed their contract with Sony and did not approve of the terms, specifically over control of software.
For hardware, no doubt this was a factor; CD-ROM as a consumer medium unrelated to personal computing was still in its infancy.
Well, I never said why Nintendo abandoned their CD-ROM accessory, just merely commented that Nintendo ultimately didn't go through with it while their competitor's products went nowhere.
The expense, not necessarily quality, of the games themselves wasn't that big a factor, but the expense of the hardware versus what you ended up getting was.
Settle down there. The TG-16, also known as the PC-Engine, came out a year before the Genesis. In fact, it even beat the Genesis in Japan, and was second only to the SNES over there. Unfortunately, it was never properly released via traditional retail channels in the European and South American territories. And of course, it never really took off in North America. It was still a neat system (and could display more colors on screen than the Genesis).
Ha! All of those stores listed at the end of the commercial could be now simply listed as Gamestop. I forgot about the days when I had choices in which store I went to for videogames. Now it's just Gamestop Bestbuy or Amazon really.
Wait I checked again using Google and found out Turbo CD released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989. Sega CD Japan on December 12, 1991 and in America somewhere in 92-93ish.
@signupsigma Oh, I agree whole-heartedly... They definitely did a "tuxedo" job with it (Take a classic, familiar design & update it). But sometimes... it's just a matter of presentation that can have overall effect. And since TG16 was new to the game, Sega's existing budget... and internal mantra of "1M-units"... just trumped it. Not to mention that the first commercial for the TG16 totally sucked compared to Genesis'. (Remember what I said about presentation?)
@signupsigma Okay, tell me this: Did you see the first-wave of TG16 advertising? I did, my brother did & so did all of his and my friends. We all agreed: It sucked, because it made very-little to no sense. Later-on, my brother met the woman who designed it, and he told her what's-what about it. I imagine that's what led to the total redesign posted here.
My brother tested one when he worked (Briefly) for a 'gamer-mag. It was far-more impressive-at the time-than what other companies produced... but, even with it's advanced memory-card technology, a lack of familiar titles with coin-op ties hurt it in the long-run. Plus: When Sega intro'd it's Genesis platform, with promise of CD-based games to come, it was definitely over.
i used to have a turbo grafx 16, i had keith courage in alpha zones, space harrier, bloody wolf, and some others, and i liked it, but ended up getting a sega genesis,
This was a very good system and it was ahead of it's time.. I think the main reason it failed was because of the crappy games that were on this system. Most of TGfx games were shooters..
It might have seemed like a good idea at the time,but a portable system that plays console games (and is an absolute juice glutton when rechargeable internal power supplies were the province of sci-fi and government agents) cut into console sales plus games optimized for a home experience don't always translate well to being played on the road.
At least Nintendo and Sony learned from their mistakes. Sega just repeated them.
Ok I got the best deal today. I got turbo grafx 16 new in the box not even used once at a yard sale for $5. Lol it came with two copies of Keith courage. One is sealed. I never played one before so I opened it. Lol. I likely wouldn't resell it anyway. I just need to find more games. I've never seen them anywhere.
Main reason I want the TG-16 is 'coz of games like Wonder Boy III Monster Lair, Bikkuri Man World, Dragon's Curse, Dynastic Hero. Why those games? Coz they're Monster World games! I've played all of their real Sega versions but never played the TG16 ones though.
I had one of these...with the CD ROM drive too...It was awesome... Definitely something else for what it was... This machine makes me think of Mom and Dad...When I was a kid we had family night and they loved playing Bonk's revenge with me... Memories I dedicate to the memory of my mom and dad...who were taken before their time in a car crash a few years ago...:( Sorry man...just sad.. But The memories are still there.. Gonna see if I can find one of these on Ebay so my kids and I can play.
No that's not true, Genesis was $189 in 1989 and during all of 1990 while Altered Beast was the pack-in game included with every Genesis console. Sega did not lower the price to $149 -until- *1991* when Sonic replaced Altered Beast as the pack-in to fight the SNES launch.
@AnimalGuy17 Yeah, but the system was introduced at a much higher price point than $99.99. If memory serves me correctly it was $189.99. The Turbografx CDROM attachment was originally $399.99 (and there were only two launch titles "Fighting Street" and "Monster Lair"). It was later reduced to $299.99 and then $149.99. I think the system could've worked had the company in charge had done a better job picking titles to release in the US. The CD had a fairly respectable library of RPGs on CD.
Nope, it had one 8-bit CPU, and dual 16-bit GPU's. It supported 482 colors on screen at one time out of a palette of 512 colors. It contained a 6 channel PSG programmable sound chip. It was an 8-bit system but had 16-bit graphics. Also bit's don't count for graphics, example, Atari 2600 was an 8-bit console. It's all dependent on the GPU/VDP chip's of a console to determine graphics really. :)
Actually, this commercial came after one or more significant price cuts.
The 1990 Sears catalog listed it at $159.95, and the TG-16 had already been on the market for over 4 months then. It may well have been as much or more than the Atari 2600 at launch.
And whatever the CD & Turbo Express were going for at the time apparently wasn't something the advertisers felt comfortable uttering in public.
It was only in the west that Nintendo killed the competition. PC Engine had strong sales in Japan during the late 80s and early 90s. Sega has always been dead last there until they released the Saturn thanks to the Segata Sanshiro ads.
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Blah Blah Blah what the commercial says. Look which gaming company is still active. Same goes with the Genesis. After countless commercial in the 90's mocking the both Nes and Snes, look who ended up falling.
I loved this system, but I traded it in and got a SNES. The TG-16 had potential, but lack of games killed it. I later picked up and still have a TurboDuo and love it! You can play all the import CD games without a converter. I have a Hucard converter to play import Hucards.
@gshowguy : True. The thing that killed the Turbo was that most of the games in Japan could not come out in America due to Nintendo's licensing scheme.
The TurboDuo did not add extra power to TurboGrafx, only a ton of game-storage space on CDs and RAM. The TurboGrafx/TurboDuo could not do parallax in hardware (like Genesis/MegaDrive), but only through software tricks. Because Sega's console had two background layers in hardware, it could do even more through software. check out ThunderForce IV / Lightening Force,it's got way more parallax than Gate of Thunder or any TurboGrafx/Duo game.
The NEC SuperGrafx (PC-Engine 2) had two layers tho
I picked one of these up used recently for $45 with an extra controller and two games (though they forgot to put in a turbo tap to use both controllers!). There were a handful of good games for this system...
what company made this syste?
dabul2003 2 weeks ago
@dabul2003
NEC. Or HudsonSoft. The worked together on it, I believe, I don't know if you can give credit to just one or the other.
dunnono00 1 week ago
@AJBSONIC, Funny thing is that TG did'nt stick in the U.S for several reasons including poor adver, poor release date and debut location, Nintendo's monopolizing of developers etc, ironically the Tg-16 is still building popularity and is in high demand. So it never really failed like say Dreamcast, it just got buried in the background and most people never even knew about it since it was only available at few retailers
gamecollect101 2 weeks ago
@Lovelorn8888, Which systems do you own, grew up with, collect for, prefer, favor and have you had a chance to build libraries for them yet. I have a little over 25-30 systems most of which I grew up with and collect for all, but emphasize my favorite consoles of course.
gamecollect101 2 weeks ago
@Lovelorn8888, Bomberman, Bomberman 93, Phsychosis, Raiden, R-Type, Shockman, Space Harrier, Victory Run, yes and both Legendary Axes.....let's not get into it's Pc Engine hucard library of over 700 Hu-cards and it's Super Cd-Rom library that fetches top dollar till this day for good reason. I've built up a library for all major systems, old and new and I'd have to say the top two systems to collect for are Neo Geo and Pc Engine...everything e
gamecollect101 2 weeks ago
@lovelorn8888, No...Air Zonk, Splatterhouse, Vigilante, Ninja Spirit, Parasol Stars, Blazing Lazers, New Adventure Island, All three Bonk Adventures, Ordyne, Alien Crush, Devil's Crush, Super Star Soldier, Neutopia 1 and II, Soldier Blade, Magical Chase, Legend of Hero Tonma, Bloody Wolf, Dead Moon, Dungeon Explorer
gamecollect101 2 weeks ago
Why wasn't this console a big succes like snes and megadrive?? I mean.. $99,99 was a pretty good deal right?
TheMeleeMaster21 3 weeks ago
@TheMeleeMaster21 not enough good games.... no 3rd party support.... I loved it! takes me back to kindergarten LOL
lovelorn8888 2 weeks ago
@ExtraCholesterol I believe it was turned in to like best buy or somthing I am not sure
BLASR24 1 month ago
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PanterAmetal100 1 month ago
its like xbox, ps3, and wii.
its the wii.
BlackmarketFTW 1 month ago
@BlackmarketFTW why'd you say xbox first???? are you feeling ok? those brake down like cars............ its... "its like Ps3,Wii,and that xbox360
lovelorn8888 2 weeks ago
@lovelorn8888 just the Tg was a good system unlike xbag
lovelorn8888 2 weeks ago
@lovelorn8888 i know, just said that cause i personaly play ps3, i think xbox is shit. my ps3 is BlackmarketTaco, just to add
BlackmarketFTW 2 weeks ago
@BlackmarketFTW lovelorn88
lovelorn8888 1 week ago
hey whtever happened to babbages
ExtraCholesterol 2 months ago
Epic
evildead818 2 months ago
you can't say the Turbo didn't try =\
AJBSONIC 3 months ago
Picked up the system right away after launch and every game I played for TurboGrafx was legendary.
gamecollect101 3 months ago
@gamecollect101 AXE?? LOL
lovelorn8888 2 weeks ago
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Damn this makes me want to go buy one NOW. If only we had gotten awesome commercials like this back then. SNES would have never seen a spot on my TV.
Luigi84289 4 months ago
lol @ all of the no-longer-in-business businesses that sold the tg-16: babbages (wtf) electronics boutique, montgomery ward, software ect, mc duff electronics, video concepts
kurojin97 4 months ago
I remember how cool it was back in grade school to see the games for the system being on those thin cards, instead of cartridges. But that was about the only cool thing about the system.
Uridien 4 months ago
Bonk was fun but that's about it really.
WastedTimeAndEffort 4 months ago
Splatterhouse was badass and that's about it!
bmoviefanrude 5 months ago
@bmoviefanrude Bonk and Pac-Land wasn't bad either. :-)
averypack13 4 months ago
parecia una buena consola, un poco adelantada a su tiempo
gatofox 6 months ago
This reminds me of that Power Thirst commercial.
redblade79 6 months ago
@DragonZord90
Of course, what I meant by quality is that a high price didn't automatically mean a good game.
As for the Super CD, I'll bet there were many explanations, both technological and political. For company politics, it's been mentioned that Nintendo reviewed their contract with Sony and did not approve of the terms, specifically over control of software.
For hardware, no doubt this was a factor; CD-ROM as a consumer medium unrelated to personal computing was still in its infancy.
Watcher3223 6 months ago
@DragonZord90
Well, I never said why Nintendo abandoned their CD-ROM accessory, just merely commented that Nintendo ultimately didn't go through with it while their competitor's products went nowhere.
The expense, not necessarily quality, of the games themselves wasn't that big a factor, but the expense of the hardware versus what you ended up getting was.
Watcher3223 6 months ago
duuuuude, those graphics are sweet!
mumucachu366 7 months ago
99 dollar??? thats cheaps
yapalli83 7 months ago
@yapalli83 IT was more back then.. i think it is like 120 in present cash?.?>
00LAVALAMP 7 months ago
@00LAVALAMP... its still cheap in my opinon..... i paid fucking 250 euro for a 3ds handheld...:)
yapalli83 7 months ago
BUY THIS SHIT NNNNNOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!!!! CAUSE IF YOU DON'T............YOU'RE GONNA DIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!! MOOOOTHATFUUUUUUCKAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
xxfrijolxx 7 months ago
@xxfrijolxx ....jeez...how old are u?? the stupids comment ive ever read on tube:)
yapalli83 7 months ago
what year?
exodus2142 7 months ago
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slicksgirl 8 months ago
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TheKen284 8 months ago
@TheKen284
Settle down there. The TG-16, also known as the PC-Engine, came out a year before the Genesis. In fact, it even beat the Genesis in Japan, and was second only to the SNES over there. Unfortunately, it was never properly released via traditional retail channels in the European and South American territories. And of course, it never really took off in North America. It was still a neat system (and could display more colors on screen than the Genesis).
dunnono00 7 months ago
@dunnono00 dint know that but the wii is better it could play those games on vitual console so nintendo better
TheKen284 7 months ago
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TheKen284 8 months ago
In 15 years you can play them with emulators
JustinC721 8 months ago
99.99! how much is the CD add on then?
THENGAMER64 9 months ago
@THENGAMER64 The CD add on was $399. That was one of the reasons no one bought it.
MartialBob 8 months ago
Ha! All of those stores listed at the end of the commercial could be now simply listed as Gamestop. I forgot about the days when I had choices in which store I went to for videogames. Now it's just Gamestop Bestbuy or Amazon really.
LordDVS 9 months ago
Wait I checked again using Google and found out Turbo CD released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989. Sega CD Japan on December 12, 1991 and in America somewhere in 92-93ish.
J5MARLON 10 months ago
TurboGrapfx is copying off of SEGA!
Pokepimp30875 10 months ago
man these old videogame attack ads are enough to make even a politician blush
mechanoid2k 10 months ago
Yup TurboGrafx16 is going to surpass all other systems..........
nintendoworldify 10 months ago
First use of CD use on a console system.
J5MARLON 10 months ago
@J5MARLON Wasn't that the Sega CD?
SpiralPegasus 10 months ago
@SpiralPegasus No Turbo CD came first in 1990 and the Sega CD was 92-93
J5MARLON 10 months ago
@J5MARLON Oh, I see. Well, one less nice thing I can say about SEGA, then.
SpiralPegasus 10 months ago
$99.99? Wow. Not Bad. How Much Did It Cost When The Console Was Released?
80sMTV 10 months ago
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
GymMasterAlex 11 months ago
can u give me mmmmm how many youtubers are we here?
yeah we are 50602.... so can u give me those please..
is so cheap XDDDDDDD
yeah im paying in cash...
craziux 11 months ago
*Takes Seizure*
ryancee7 1 year ago
CD's instead of cartridges?! It'll never catch on.
IveGotNothinToSay 1 year ago 73
@IveGotNothinToSay It's funny how they even figured it out before Nintendo lol
chosenxeno 9 months ago
@IveGotNothinToSay
Actually, up until the Sony PlayStation, CDs actually didn't catch on.
Turbo CD and Sega CD both virtually went nowhere and Nintendo, in the end, abandoned plans for their Super Nintendo CD-ROM accessory.
Watcher3223 7 months ago
@IveGotNothinToSay especially games on blu ray discs lol
punji73 4 months ago
@IveGotNothinToSay nope, in japan it was opposite
PanterAmetal100 1 month ago
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective.
Funny what passed for selling points back then.
TBTabby 1 year ago
99$ holy shit that was a lot then and its a lot now with un employment and stuff
THEmomsqaud2 1 year ago
sunday sunday sunday!!!!!!
redviper98 1 year ago 28
Now!!!! Gee, that scared the hell out of me :) And it's so funny.
RetroStacja 1 year ago
Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine !!!!!!
I guess that's where ReBoot got their "99999" thing for Mike the TV.
Quartrez 1 year ago
first that was the atari,,,,then that was nintendo.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW the next generation video game system turbo grafx 16
gameboyadvance45 1 year ago
too bad such a shitty system had such a great price and now its the COMPLETE opposite
KartKing4ever 1 year ago
MODERN WARFARE 2 GRAPHIC
DerGeckarbor 1 year ago
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signupsigma 1 year ago
@signupsigma Oh, I agree whole-heartedly... They definitely did a "tuxedo" job with it (Take a classic, familiar design & update it). But sometimes... it's just a matter of presentation that can have overall effect. And since TG16 was new to the game, Sega's existing budget... and internal mantra of "1M-units"... just trumped it. Not to mention that the first commercial for the TG16 totally sucked compared to Genesis'. (Remember what I said about presentation?)
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signupsigma 1 year ago
@signupsigma Let's not get off-topic here....
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signupsigma 1 year ago
@signupsigma Okay, tell me this: Did you see the first-wave of TG16 advertising? I did, my brother did & so did all of his and my friends. We all agreed: It sucked, because it made very-little to no sense. Later-on, my brother met the woman who designed it, and he told her what's-what about it. I imagine that's what led to the total redesign posted here.
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signupsigma 1 year ago
My brother tested one when he worked (Briefly) for a 'gamer-mag. It was far-more impressive-at the time-than what other companies produced... but, even with it's advanced memory-card technology, a lack of familiar titles with coin-op ties hurt it in the long-run. Plus: When Sega intro'd it's Genesis platform, with promise of CD-based games to come, it was definitely over.
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signupsigma 1 year ago
@ :19 the Turbo Chip is inserted into the Turbo Express the wrong way.
theraptorus 1 year ago
Sounds like a commercial for a monster truck rally.
TheLoadingScreenz 1 year ago
PCEngineFX is such a terrible forum...
Soukyugurentai 1 year ago
@Soukyugurentai Hello Random.
VinceLatello 1 year ago
@VinceLatello
Well it is. One of the moderators there is a troll himself and he lets the other trolls there get away with murder.
Soukyugurentai 1 year ago
It makes me so sad that there will never be video game commercials like this anymore.
dogeymon83 1 year ago
i used to have a turbo grafx 16, i had keith courage in alpha zones, space harrier, bloody wolf, and some others, and i liked it, but ended up getting a sega genesis,
Napalmdeath420 1 year ago
Man , I miss my Turbo Graphic's 16. Those were some fun days. And some great games. Loved Bonk , Sidearms and Areo Blasters.
jayce79 1 year ago
I might get this when is it coming out
kingamer19 1 year ago
Hmm I think this was after the price drop because I remember the Turbo Express Handheld being like 200$ by itself.
jordanv78 1 year ago
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I don't remember this system
aquasealer 1 year ago
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I don't remember this system
aquasealer 1 year ago
I don't remember this system
aquasealer 1 year ago
Turbo CD vs Sega CD?
16-bit war Genesis/mega drive vs PC Engine/TurboG16 vs SNES ?
Uberaoshi 1 year ago
This was a very good system and it was ahead of it's time.. I think the main reason it failed was because of the crappy games that were on this system. Most of TGfx games were shooters..
Jeffrizel1986 1 year ago
$99.99 thats cheaper then what it is sealed on ebay
raskafari7273 1 year ago
Wait just one second... It has SHERLOCK FUCKING HOLMES?!
Goddamn! I better rush out and get one!
Boshi0 1 year ago
no shit sherlock
nooblet911 1 year ago
HA! Man i remember i ran through that fucking Bonk's Adventure in one damn sitting.
geostillo78 1 year ago
It might have seemed like a good idea at the time,but a portable system that plays console games (and is an absolute juice glutton when rechargeable internal power supplies were the province of sci-fi and government agents) cut into console sales plus games optimized for a home experience don't always translate well to being played on the road.
At least Nintendo and Sony learned from their mistakes. Sega just repeated them.
EatWave 1 year ago
its impressive how cheap and how TINY it was (Smallest console ever made)
MarkP0rter 1 year ago
@MarkP0rter The Japanese version (called PC-Engine) was even smaller (like half the size of the TurboGrafx-16).
OMA2k 1 year ago
@OMA2k
well....the ethiopian one was called the dirt machine and it was 1/4 the size.
dork
theenatedog 1 year ago
@theenatedog What?!?! Why do people in Youtube feel the need to cowardly insult every other people from behind their keyboards, just because.
I just pointed out a relevant FACT, to inform other people. I wasn't bashing you in any way, so why are you?
OMA2k 1 year ago 2
God this comercial was like all in your face
ProtoMario 1 year ago
this system was ahead of it's time yet so underrated
str8kila 1 year ago
Wow. I'm sad I never had one....
NuMrGreen 1 year ago
So when dose this come out. I want one. It looks kooowl!
codycurry52 1 year ago
montgomery ward wow thats an oldy
itwa5me 1 year ago
I want one!
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
I still play my turbo grafx. My favorite system of all time. My wife has a Wii and I can't play it for more than 10 minutes before I get bored.
toemasie 1 year ago
Ok I got the best deal today. I got turbo grafx 16 new in the box not even used once at a yard sale for $5. Lol it came with two copies of Keith courage. One is sealed. I never played one before so I opened it. Lol. I likely wouldn't resell it anyway. I just need to find more games. I've never seen them anywhere.
wolfy40oz 1 year ago
Mine quit working for some reason :( it was so awesome though!
ElSambrero 1 year ago
I have the portable and system since 89' or earlier : ) and it is awesome
nomorenames101 1 year ago
I miss how "in your face" 90s commercials were! These ads would make you go buy anything back then lol!
JayMBeeMe 1 year ago
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cloudwalkerty 1 year ago
Just put my Turbo up for Auction on Ebay starting at 99 Cents just search for *Used Turbo Grafx 16 Big Lot 7 Games 1 Controller Rare*
Masterstockli 1 year ago
@Masterstockli I sold one a couple years ago w/ two BAD games + turbo tap... went for 70 $. Great, cause I only gave 10$ at a flea market.
10072018 1 year ago
Main reason I want the TG-16 is 'coz of games like Wonder Boy III Monster Lair, Bikkuri Man World, Dragon's Curse, Dynastic Hero. Why those games? Coz they're Monster World games! I've played all of their real Sega versions but never played the TG16 ones though.
Monsterworldfan64 1 year ago
turbo express was way ahead of its time
ceeIoc 1 year ago
Dude is that Jesse Ventura narrating? Sounds exactly like him. Haha. I miss the 80's!
HuuGRection 2 years ago
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BrainFreezeFTL 2 years ago
I miss my portable 16, some fuckhead jacked it!
TheDarkness71 2 years ago 2
Bonk rules.
ieatorbs 2 years ago
Somebody needs to upload the commercial for LEGENDARY AXE with the dog eats the guy's food and says "tuuuuuurboooooooooo" ...oh man it's hilarious!
It was on youtube a year or so ago but got taken down.
turbografx 2 years ago
I remember another version of this. I always wanted a Turbografx16 after seeing it, but i stuck around with the Genesis and SNES.
TheMoogleMaster 2 years ago
and some of the turbo games looked better than their genesis counterparts, i mean look at my personal fave Aero Blasters.
milesthefox90 2 years ago
Too bad Hiroshi Yamauchi(Nintendo)'s monopoly and greed pretty much destroyed the Turbo-Grafx AND Master System.
I never got a chance to play the games back then.
RocMegamanX 2 years ago
Was that from the late 80's?
KodyBoy555 2 years ago
Close 1990
molonlave2010 2 years ago
$99 for the PC-E, but how much was the Express and the CD add on? :P
CBXweb 2 years ago
I had one of these...with the CD ROM drive too...It was awesome... Definitely something else for what it was... This machine makes me think of Mom and Dad...When I was a kid we had family night and they loved playing Bonk's revenge with me... Memories I dedicate to the memory of my mom and dad...who were taken before their time in a car crash a few years ago...:( Sorry man...just sad.. But The memories are still there.. Gonna see if I can find one of these on Ebay so my kids and I can play.
scott93257 2 years ago 3
99$ is cheap even back then i mean the atari 2600 was like 200$ when it came out and the intellivision was like $300!
AnimalGuy17 2 years ago 21
Genesis Was $149 @ That Time
MapleBalls 2 years ago
@ MapleBalls:
No that's not true, Genesis was $189 in 1989 and during all of 1990 while Altered Beast was the pack-in game included with every Genesis console. Sega did not lower the price to $149 -until- *1991* when Sonic replaced Altered Beast as the pack-in to fight the SNES launch.
turbografx 2 years ago
No......it was $189.
gamesforall129o 2 years ago
they dropped the price around 1991
Segadude3000 2 years ago
@AnimalGuy17 For realz - I remember paying $150 for an NES with Mario/Duck Hunt... SNES was like $200 I think...
aidanday 1 year ago
@AnimalGuy17 Yeah, but the system was introduced at a much higher price point than $99.99. If memory serves me correctly it was $189.99. The Turbografx CDROM attachment was originally $399.99 (and there were only two launch titles "Fighting Street" and "Monster Lair"). It was later reduced to $299.99 and then $149.99. I think the system could've worked had the company in charge had done a better job picking titles to release in the US. The CD had a fairly respectable library of RPGs on CD.
BadIdeaSociety 1 year ago
@AnimalGuy17 bullshit
WhiteChocolut 1 year ago
@AnimalGuy17
2 8-bit chips they marketed as 16 bit. A lot cheaper than an actual 16 bit system would have been.
NetBoy2112 1 year ago
@NetBoy2112
Nope, it had one 8-bit CPU, and dual 16-bit GPU's. It supported 482 colors on screen at one time out of a palette of 512 colors. It contained a 6 channel PSG programmable sound chip. It was an 8-bit system but had 16-bit graphics. Also bit's don't count for graphics, example, Atari 2600 was an 8-bit console. It's all dependent on the GPU/VDP chip's of a console to determine graphics really. :)
Chaniyth 1 year ago
@AnimalGuy17 atari 2600 was 50.00
domin19991 1 year ago
@AnimalGuy17
Actually, this commercial came after one or more significant price cuts.
The 1990 Sears catalog listed it at $159.95, and the TG-16 had already been on the market for over 4 months then. It may well have been as much or more than the Atari 2600 at launch.
And whatever the CD & Turbo Express were going for at the time apparently wasn't something the advertisers felt comfortable uttering in public.
Nintendough 1 year ago
omg was that cheap compare to ps3 and xbox
HongKongKanto 2 years ago 20
still wishing a game could go system to portable like this one did, imagine that now
koolever3 2 years ago
it shouldn't have failed it was a really good system :(
AnimalGuy17 2 years ago 4
Blame Hiroshi Yamauchi. He may have revived the video game industry, but he killed most of the competition.
Satoru Iwata is much better.
RocMegamanX 2 years ago
Hiroshi Yamauchi is like the HHH is Gaming.
Hiroshi Yamauchi:I RULE ALL,XBOX SUCKS!
conradojavier 2 years ago
@RocMegamanX
It was only in the west that Nintendo killed the competition. PC Engine had strong sales in Japan during the late 80s and early 90s. Sega has always been dead last there until they released the Saturn thanks to the Segata Sanshiro ads.
Soukyugurentai 1 year ago
@Soukyugurentai
Then what's this whole "exclusive contract" that Yamauchi forced all the big third-parties to adhere to? What about the whole monopoly thing?
RocMegamanX 1 year ago
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Blah Blah Blah what the commercial says. Look which gaming company is still active. Same goes with the Genesis. After countless commercial in the 90's mocking the both Nes and Snes, look who ended up falling.
Airjet2582 2 years ago
if i had seen that as a kid i would have asked for it
DarkImpalement 2 years ago
genesis pwns! THE TURBO GRAFX16! GENESIS PWNS!
NESWIIGAMECUBE 2 years ago 3
I loved this system, but I traded it in and got a SNES. The TG-16 had potential, but lack of games killed it. I later picked up and still have a TurboDuo and love it! You can play all the import CD games without a converter. I have a Hucard converter to play import Hucards.
sidearmsalpha 2 years ago
damn $100 back then
harrier150 2 years ago 3
Yeah that was kinda cheap for a system back then. Most systems were more expensive.
SwordOfCrystalis 2 years ago 3
NOW!!!!! LOL! Loved that commercial! NOW!!!
ecmjr 2 years ago 3
NOW!!!!
XD
ianh97 2 years ago
gotta get me one of those for hd graphics lol!
megaluisdeth 3 years ago
wow.. to bad they dident last a generation or so :P
secuda1 3 years ago 2
Flashy commercial!
(For a flashy product :P)
QualityDefinition 3 years ago
HELL yeah, Bonk!! Oh the sweet memories!! 0:27
Samouflage 3 years ago
Sweet! Sega tried to copy Hudson Soft with the Sega CD. Although I could be wrong because Wonder Boy was first and then Adventure Island.
supermariogalaxian 3 years ago 4
TurboGrafx-CD came first (1990), then came Sega CD (1992).
gshowguy 1 year ago
@gshowguy : True. The thing that killed the Turbo was that most of the games in Japan could not come out in America due to Nintendo's licensing scheme.
majesticlizard 1 year ago
dungeon explorer an absolute classic a well as bloody woo\lf ...now J.J and Jeff ...that was crap.
koben420 3 years ago
holy crap is that Robert Englund?? (Freddy Krueger)
mikediamonds79 3 years ago
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ecmjr 2 years ago
$99.99? I think I saw a copy of Blazing Lazers going for that.
NinjaGhostScorpion 3 years ago
best game for tg16 was that race car game.
joeyabs77 3 years ago
The TurboDuo did not add extra power to TurboGrafx, only a ton of game-storage space on CDs and RAM. The TurboGrafx/TurboDuo could not do parallax in hardware (like Genesis/MegaDrive), but only through software tricks. Because Sega's console had two background layers in hardware, it could do even more through software. check out ThunderForce IV / Lightening Force,it's got way more parallax than Gate of Thunder or any TurboGrafx/Duo game.
The NEC SuperGrafx (PC-Engine 2) had two layers tho
turbografx 3 years ago
I picked one of these up used recently for $45 with an extra controller and two games (though they forgot to put in a turbo tap to use both controllers!). There were a handful of good games for this system...
XSC3 3 years ago
i still have this hehe
nikeboy90 3 years ago
im making this comment on my ps3 right now, and console makes my
3.2GHZ x 8
550mhz video card
1080p @ 60fps
LOOK LIKE CRAP
abidauron 3 years ago
shut up.
6stringedkiller 3 years ago 2
somebody put this x-bot back into the zoo
abidauron 3 years ago
shut up.
6stringedkiller 3 years ago
somebody put this x-bot back into the zoo
abidauron 3 years ago