TurboTV Intro Archive - Ys I & II

[lonthaniel]

I will NEVER forget receiving this game as an 11 year old, bringing it home, firing it up on the original Turbo cd player and having NO idea what I was getting into. Keep in mind this was new technology at the time so suffice it to say I nearly crapped my pants when the voice over began. Other than Dragons Lair in the arcade years before this, I'd never heard a home console use recorded voice. Blew my little mind! I literally jumped out of the sofa and ran up and grabbed the tv. Best RPG ever.

[amrac0d]

Crazy, I still remember all the words to this from when i was a kid.

[Kefka44]

I really wish Hudson was more Successful to make another Console

[sirsinnes]

This intro gives me chills. Chills, I tell you.

[LadyOtacon]

Does anybody know the song that is played during 2:42-3:15.

[Kefka44]

@LadyOtacon Feena I believe.

[Kefka44]

this game is fucking amazing I beat the DS version this morning. I'll get on finishing the Turbo Version soon.

[perhaps333]

I still get the musical themes from this game stuck in my head, I found the soundtrack Symphony Ys '95 in a shop in Chinatown NYC back in the mid '90s, what a great CD...

[TheyCallMeTheSwede]

Yuzo is the Best!!!

[Ryuukazi]

I still have my TGX-16 (Turbo Duo).

:)

[gregsoccult]

@Ryuukazi I have my original TG16 with the Turbo Pack which made it full stereo sound. Talk about ahead of its time.

[mnap128]

so beat this game for duo back in 93 :)))))))

[organs]

I remember how this was the flagship game for the Turbo CD, and how I could never try it out because the damn attachment cost $400. That's a lot to spend on a system attachment even today, and this was what it cost in the early '90s!

[jpvarga5]

While I would rather have someone buy it on the Wii's Virtual Console, I don't have a huge issue with burning the game on an emulator, etc. At least more people - especially younger gamers - are getting exposed to this hidden gem.

[NormsChem]

Honestly I had never heard of it before seeing it on the VC... the music alone blew my mind.

[Shimarisu1]

Also Songoku you are 10 years younger than me and clearly a kid of the freeloading internet age. 10 to 1 you like retro cause you got much of it for free ie.: "I just burned this to a CD," well that's nice, and yes these are good games, but to act like a veteran when you likely weren't playing this stuff when it came out (Turbo Duo was pretty expensive for a 5 year old) is frankly daft.

I DO mostly play new stuff but that's because I've played the old stuff I liked to death already.

[songoku350]

OOOH yeah well i guess the internet age was in freaking good form in 1993 when i imported Dracula X and bought this game back in 1995 originally. Dont tell me what i know and what ive played and i wont put you in your place thank you.

[songoku350]

excuse me 1994 turbo duo was being sold at bargain price at Montgomery ward for $159 with the 4 in 1 so i did happen to have a turbo duo.

[xinic5]

Dude, you sound like your just jealuos or something. By what you say, you can never call a sports player a pro or veteran of the sport because he or she was not around when it was first created. I being only 19 and just born the year this game came out, could get this game learn to play it and come to know more about then you. Will that happen, probably not. But I'm just pointing out that just because someone didn't play the game when it was new doesn't mean they can't come to know alot about it

[songoku350]

I just burned this to a CD a few days ago it rocks

[oldirtydawson]

I've been waiting 8 patient months for the release on the Wii, and still not out. I've just about given up. Thanks for nothing Hudson Soft : (

I'd love to play this game, but not for an outrageous amount of money.

[Shimarisu1]

I mean I preferred the PC Engine over the SNES because memory and CD sound is VERY important for impressive games as well as onscreen palette but jesus people, shut up. It's pathetic how nobody can get over this junk.

[songoku350]

The only thing that is junk is your philosophy Shitmarisu. You obviously arent a fan of video games. Maybe some of us do prefer older games to the new linear junk that comes out today. I play the newer games but appreciate the classic junk as u call it because they paved the way for today's games. You are some simple minded moron who should go back to getting off watching nudity in Grand Theft Auto. Thank you.

[Shimarisu1]

It is pathetic to argue vehemently, as I still see most my friends doing, over which decade long dead system was better than the other. It is equally pathetic to argue over which current system is, although maybe you can cut kids some slack as they are blinded by loyalty to the only system they can afford. It's bizarre that there are people who still argue about Sega vs Nintendo/NEC/SNK when it is 15+ year old brand loyalty to the only system THEY could afford. No?

[ILLumynaty]

my friend let me barrow his console so i can play this awesome game.

[darkfakt]

for me, Ys is the best game ever made, with the best OST made by Yuzo Koshiro!

[mongoloids69]

It is the best game ever! I remember when and where I bought the game. Darm Tower is still very ominous looking.

[drodrinks]

knave prepare to die!!!!

[RogueLedr]

I actually owned this system back in the day. I played and beat this game on it. It was a great game and WELL ahead of its time.

[Photekkian]

Wow. Just...wow. I think I'll trust actual released console specs over the numbers you pulled cleanly out of your freaking ass...lol...wow...the SNES was only dominated by the NEO GEO for on-screen color and only because it was a 24-bit hybrid beast...the TG-16 wasn't even a true 16-bit...

[Shimarisu1]

If there is anything sadder than console advocacy, it is console advocacy for 15 year+ dead systems, spouting as it does from the mouths of 30 year olds who should have grown out of this.

[warhouse4billion]

Well, actually the TG-16 did have a wider color pallete. Compare both the PC-engine and Sega CD versions of the game Snatcher.

The Sega CD looks a bit more pale compared to that version, but made up for it in awesome music.

[nfoo]

Aaaahhmmm ... no?

It just had CD music and more memory (CD) for graphics, not greater palette or processing power.

[nammiyoo]

Ys I&II was released on Wii virtual console in October 2007 in Japan.

you could play it in few months in all over the world!

[dalkimi]

Ys is the most impressive game I've ever played. Ys Eternal was the first window game I played, and I daresay it is THE game. There is no such impressive games beside Ys. This video has some antique touch, but to be able to make this much in the old day, Falcom is amazing.

[bigdaddy496]

i had this game on my turbo duo, loved it, great freaking soundtrack for a video game at the time

[bookontable]

i remember playing this game when I was really young. So young that I couldn't read so I had to get my mom to read everything for me. I wish I could play it now...

[ThanhLS88]

Wow... TG-16 was way ahead of its time when they released this. This changed CD-ROM gaming forever.

[Nintega]

Yet no one in the west noticed. Nintendo and Sega dominated the US market at the time while in Japan it outsold the Famicom and Mega Drive.

[Alfrunk]

I masturbated openly, no - PROUDLY as I watched this. Each stroke felt as if the music were inspiring it. It was the most amazing thing I've ever experienced.

[kurojin97]

umm...okay...no but seriously, get help....

[Torlan47]

Impressive.

[Symos]

Too big for the Wii's virtual console?

[batlin]

To think that this game must be 14 years old now and makes today's games look like a joke in terms of style and the music and voiceover work is truly awe-inspiring! That hardware looks bloody impressive.

[yourtubeyourass21]

Yeah cause in one of the interviews I was reading on the net, yuzo koshiro says: He had no involement with the remakes,The cd version would have been tottaly different. Yuzo koshiro also belives that he wants to take his composition to the actual hardware(the game system)of its fullest capacity.

[yourtubeyourass21]

Damn music sounds excellent, sheesh even shits on todays game music by far. I used to own theses games on the tg-16cd. I an so dang stupid I got rid of it along with my neo-geo. Oh well. Theses will bring so much memories. Like they all say, classic games owns. YS music in general=Legendary

[TheZorch]

Y's Book I & II for the TG-CD is a remake of an old 80's PC game from Japan by Falcom which made it onto the Sega Master System as Ys The Lost Omens. It was the best Turbografx game of all time IMHO

[darkzeroperfect]

Best music in an RPG EVER. I loved Allen Oppenheimer's voice over.

For those that dont remember he played Dr Rudy Wells in the Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man.

[roboticcoconut]

Ys....I love this game SO much. Thanks for the vid ^^

Makes me sad that I can't play cuz both of my controllers are busted, though

[megazone33]

I agree with the others, this brings back memories. Thanks for posting this!

I have a request though, could you post the intermission movie between parts 1 and 2? Like the one here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=jqSmvSJY5r4 from 2:50 minutes on except with the English dialog.

[papaX]

これは懐かしい・・・

ＰＣエンジンのイースですな

15年くらい前か？

本体横にＣＤプレーヤーくっつけたやつ

当時この映像美には度肝を抜かれ、「これからのゲームはＣＤだ！­」ってマジ思った

[Nintega]

Was this the first RPG put on CD-ROM format? The voice overs are a lot better than any Sega CD game I've heard.

[Pcenginefx]

Yes, this was the first RPG on CD-ROM format (for home consoles). The TurboGrafx has its share of bad voice overs, but Ys had some of the best.

[renedrivers]

Thank you so much for posting this. It brings back so many memories!

[Pcenginefx]

Not a problem! If you want to see more video related to the TurboGrafx days, check out PcenginefxTV at http://www.pcenginefx.com.