Turbografx-16 Promo VHS Video 3: "Lords Of Thunder"

[Auxilla86]

Lords of Thunder. The Hair Band of Videogames.

[Joebo3]

this was meant to trash the segaCD? Thats not very difficult.

[chuxmix]

Holy crap, that's me at the 4:48 mark! I thought this video was lost forever! Now that I see my haircut, I kind of wish it WAS lost forever.

[snakes3425]

The TG-16 was known for having great shooters

[crazy201]

Hey, what's that show called in the late 80's when this guy would come in every day with a new video game? I totally wanted those games, that rich cunt..

[WARPUDDY666]

got it on sega cd now wish I had the cd addon for my TG16 music is mutch better and graphics look cleaner

also if you dounload the sega cd iso it has the metal sountrack allready ripped to mp3 may be same on TG16 iso

verry fun shooter my new fave

[PaleDeth]

One must remember that the turbo duo was only 8bit (only the gfx chip was 16bit ) whilst the genesis/megadrive was 16bit

[malducci]

What does that have to do with anything?

[avenuePad]

The sega port of LOT is teh inferior.

[WeskerSega]

Very funny how they trash the Mega CD using this game, and it turned out that this was also released for the Mega CD afterwards. Great owned LoL.

[superpcenginegrafx]

I think that this is one of the main reasons why Genesis-fanatics are quick to trash the generally considered inferior Sega-CD port as a poor job, when in fact it's an amazing conversion.

Since it was a showcase for the Duo, they don't want to admit that the graphics can't be replicated on Sega-CD.

[KarateCop]

It's a good conversion but the colors suffer (the Turbo could handle more), as bigolebadassbob explained. NEC was banking on this game to win over a lot of the Sega crowd, which of course didn't play out to their expectations. Sad. The PCE-CD was packed with software inc. Dracula X which NEC was insane for not distributing on US shores. Instead, they were pushing crap like Impossamole and Air Zonk which was a severe letdown. Too bad because they could've been competition.

[superpcenginegrafx]

I've heard that Konami never let anyone else publish their games anywhere back then so NEC/TTI never had a chance to bring them over.

That still left plently of amazing NEC and Hudson games though...

[TheRipper999]

thats a bizarre promo video ahaha

[Grooveraider]

LOL - I guess only a few would understand this promo video. This video was shot entirely by the employees of the late Die Hard Gamer Club store in Tarzana, California. And for those who remember that monthly magazine "Die Hard Gamers" that store you see in numbers 00:41 , 1:21 , 1:46 and other segments is where the magazine originated from.

[ViciousAlienKlown]

The one thing this video does show is that the gamers would buy it. It just wasn't meant to be for NEC.

[bigolebadassbob]

The SegaCD version is a watered down port of the Duo version.

The image is less sharp and the colors are less vibrant on the SegaCD version.

[ParryAll]

man who was in charge of marketing the duo back then? Two nerds with a camcorder?

There are far more impressive shooters than Lords of Thunder that came out the same year or predate it, on SNES, Genesis, and even TG16. The graphics aren't even impressive for 1993 standards.

[pwEclipse]

Lords of Thunder have an impressive metal soundtrack with cd quality sound. Btw there's also Lords of Thunder for sega cd, but the first version came out for tg16 and turboduo