Classic Game Room HD - BLAZING LAZERS for Turbografx-16 review

[cdubmeyer]

romhustler here I come

[aidwin85]

...1959?!

[cdubmeyer]

@aidwin85 1989, look at it more closely lmfao. Yea they were rocking it in 1959.....

[DoxiMoxi]

awesome game, maybe a reason to get a 16



[SardaukarPrime]

This was made by the same team who made the awesome Guardian Legend (and it shows).

[a2r1v1i2s]

remember wanting "the 16" so bad when I was a lil bitch.  games on cards with awesome graphix get out of dodge!

[CubistKing1906]

duuuuuuude. Air Zonk was definitely the best shooter on Turbografx. its looked awesome and it still gives my friends seizures when they watch me play. crank that game up to the hardest setting and oh jesus bring the pain. it also gets bonus points for coolest final level where you fly INTO THE GAME SYSTEM'S ELECTRONICS to totally fuck up the final boss since that's where coward final bosses hide.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Too bad it was a Mono VCR.

[Lachlant1984]

@Morahman7vnNo2 The sounds and music in Blazing Lazers aren't even in stereo anyway as far as I can tell.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

@Lachlant1984 My only problem was that the sound wasn't reaching both left and right, just left.

Luckily Mark filled the void.

That's why I was remarking on it not being pseudo-stereo.

[gamecollect101]

@Atomicskull, Very good but I prefer Spriggan!!!

[Alevamltd]

Why do SO MANY sapceship shooters have an organic level?

[dustYCartridge]

Blast processing? Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ftttttt Turb bitches!!!!! TURBOGRAFX 16!!! :D

[KLONOA105]

looks like space megaforce

[mpontheair2]

idk if I've commented on any of these videos before, but if you like Zanac, Gun-nac, Aleste, Star Soldier, or The Guardian Legend, buy this game, dammit!!!!

[xyzoneon]

I thought Space Megaforce was better, same game but better.

[dongerado]

the review was cool but if the guy said blazing lazers one more time i would have gone apeshit

[rsranger2201]

system only had 16 games wtf!?!?!?!?!?

[UnholyWarcry]

@rsranger2201 Uh... no? The Tubo-Grafx 16 has a large library of great games, and then a CD addon (the Turbo CD) which somehow is actually great, and has many more awesome games. Where did you get that ridiculous idea? The 16 is for 16 bit...

[rsranger2201]

@UnholyWarcry sorry wiki misinformed me

[derickprime]

Dude I just got this game from Oogie Games for 10 bucks it rocks the world.I love turbo Grafx 16.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Compile, who knows their space shooters, made this game. Hudson, a subsidiary of Konami, published it.

[AntichristDemoncore]

Own this game for my turbo and beat it took me 14 years to do it but I finally beat it one day and I had been playing it since I was 5

[GodzillaXAbudAwwal]

the game was released in japan as gunhed in a tie in to a movie of the same name, ive seen the movie, its awesome, and for its time, the effects are great, check it out if u liked blazing lazers/gunhed

[NAJ0202]

I really wish I had owned and played Blazing Lazers for my TG-16, back in the day. Oh well, it's still cool to see it online in the present. During this review, you mentioned a game called Star Solider for the NES It sounds like a fun space shooter as well =) Will you review it one day, too?

[CrimsonMoonM]

I plan to pick up a shmup today, Soldier Blade or Blazing Lazers?

[atariman72]

This console had limited capabilities.It looks more like 8-bit. The Atari Jaguar was better.

[retroshooter]

@atariman72 this console was launched in 1987 and the atari jaguar in 1993, and i can tell you the pc engine has way more good games than the jaguar, so your comment seems a little biased

[vebxenon]

@Atomicskull Gunhed was programmed also by Hudson, hehe. If you see, the gameplay it's more Star Soldier than Aleste. But this is a perfect game... the best of Hudson and the best of Compile in one game... :D

[vebxenon]

One of my favorite games ever :D

[SupahSonic7734]

I'm still rocking the TG16 :P

[rickclawson6969]

Does anyone know what the side scroller game is called where youre a baby with a bone for a weapon? I used to have it and i wanna look it up. Thx

[videogames5196]

@rickclawson6969 bonk's adventure or something

[blackorchid52]

@rickclawson6969 Chuck rock II son of chuck maybe? :D!

[KingDavid73]

as long as the console doesn't require RF, I just plug the thing directly into the line in ports of my computer to record, otherwise I have to run it through a VCR, then into the line in ports (2600, colecovision, etc). instead of using VHS, why not do something like that? you could even use a usb easycap thing. It has to be better than VHS.

[cinosthehedgehog1]

nice start up music 

[scenscoff]

thumbs up if you hate having to sit through an advert to whatch a vido

[videogames5196]

@scenscoff no

[scenscoff]

@videogames5196 ok fair enought i dont like doing thumbs up comments any way but you have to admit the advets are crap

[acarbethonafe]

like enjoying that total version with the following video on avatz (dot) net change (dot) to .

[bunc89]

The music is amazing in the game, probably the game that comes the closes to musha

[Cab0cl0]

wow, the audio is impressively good.

[scenscoff]

i just bought it for virual console and it,s awsome 

[actionfigures95]

more games like this the TG-16 would have done better

[animefanclay]

@actionfigures95 Soldier Blade? Aero Blasters? FInal Soldier? Darius Alpha/Plus? R-Type? R-Type II? Raiden? Super Star Soldier? Gradius? It even had some great cute 'em ups like Detana Twin Bee and Fantasy Zone... What about the TurboGrafx-CD? Ai Cho Aniki? Gate Of Thunder? Gradius II? Lords Of Thunder? Super Darius? Super Raiden? Zero Wing?

[actionfigures95]

@animefanclay well let me specify, it was not easy to get these games in the US (were all those games mentioned available in the US?). I was around when the 16 bit wars were going on as a teenager and you had to really hunt TG-16 games down. So even if they did have good games out there, what good did it do if the marketing and disribution wasn't there? ALSO... the perception out there was that most TG-16 games were not up to par with Gen and Snes.. and MANY of them were NOT.

[animefanclay]

@actionfigures95 The TG-16 predated the SNES and Genesis, so the games really shouldn't be as polished as the SNES or Genesis ans developers weren't used to dealing with 16-bit programming, a lot of the earlier genesis games are at the SAME level or BELOW TG-16, though a lot of the Sega Genesis's later games WERE better. And the SNES wasn't exactly the console for shmups, as there weren't really that many, though you are right about availability of TG-16 games, which is what I believe killed it.

[jayce79]

This is one game I actually did not have for the TG-16. Retrotastic fun.

[Tryzon]

I can't get over how great this game's name is. Seriously!

[ericdajerk]

man the countless hours i spent on this game in my youth....i should buy it again now because i never beat it....

[DEATHMOBER1]

Looks like truxton!

[DatBoyQ305]

Mark sacrifices and keeps it real!!

[DylanMayhew]

I'm impressed the game looks quite good, might pick it up cause I am looking at a turbografx 16 and if he will willing to come down to my price then this will be a game to get.

[TheLoadingScreenz]

I HATE THESE DAMN ADDS

[vittau]

Everything was spelled right, except for the name of the game itself. =P

Damn, they had to screw up somewhere...

[omid11]

hate those damn pyramids

[bonggzilla]

I GET A PC ENGINE TURBO GRAFX because i love super aleste for the snes!! and this game is like it :-)) AAAAAAAAAAWESOME!!!! COMPILE ROCKS!!!!

[leadgold72]

man... this guy definitely made some rookie mistakes! First off, his speed should be at 3 arrows!!! ;-)

[InfernoPhoenix322]

lol he sped it up

[salemcripple]

What's a VHS tape??? lol

[sonikku956]

@retrogamer233 Although touted and marketed at the time as a next generation "16-bit" console, the TurboGrafx-16 was, in fact, built around an 8-bit microprocessor as its CPU. SUCK IT N00B!

[knightwasp]

@sonikku956 It was actually two 8 bit processors tallied together to make 16, but your right it's definitely not true 16 bit. Yet better than straight 8 bit, Much faster too.

[gbbsc]

OMG this brings back some fond memories.

[IshidaTheQuincy]

I'm definitely buying this on the Wii's Virtual Console.

[sonikku956]

Best graphics for a 8-bit system.

[ioport]

@sonikku956 Best graphics for 8 bit because the TG 16 had a 16 bit graphics chip

[sonikku956]

@ioport but, it had a 8-bit microprocessor.

[sonikku956]

@ioport as the main cpu

[ioport]

@sonikku956 Yeah, I know it had a 8-bit CPU, but the fact that it had a 16 bit graphics chip is what made it look tons better than a true 8 bit system like the NES

[avenuePad]

@ioport Actually, the Turbografx/PC Engine had an 8bit CPU that was extremely fast - faster than the SNES and at least as fast as the Genesis/Mega Drive. It had two 16bit graphic chips and was able to display 482 out of 512 colours on screen at once.

The Turbografx 16/PC Engine, especially the PCE, was able to stay in the game through three different gaming eras - the 8bit, 16bit, and even into the 32 era.

OBEY

[frickfrock999]

Wow, that's some damn good motion blur at the start!

[chinitosoccer1]

umm.. just one correction, Blazing Lazers is not made by Hudson Soft but Compile's, it belongs to the Aleste series of games, Hudson is only the publisher.

[3L3CTR0static]

wow looks amazing

[tyroniusmaximus]

I never owned a Turbo Graphix back in the day, but this is the game that would have forced me to buy it. Back in the day, I was more of a ThunderForce, Musha, and Truxton fan!

[mark666snick]

Thanx for the review! Great game! I play it now on VC!

[necrokin1]

6:50 that is nasty

[dukee155]

haha i still use a vcr for my xbox (im not ghetto i just keep tv's until they are dead or if i call a repair guy in they have no idea how to fix it)

[scir91]

best shooter of all time is RADIANT SILVERGUN. review that!!

[madsli]

The powerup bubbles are the same as those in Gun-Nac, it must be made by the same people.

[kibjohn]

@madsli

Not really. Gun-Nac was made by Compile.

-kidThunder

[CapeWearingSchmuck]

So was Blazing Lazers, it just doesn't say so on the title screen for whatever reason. The game box and end credits reveal BL was, in fact, developed fully by Compile and published by Hudson Soft.

[kibjohn]

Interesting.

-kidThunder

[anupsanju]

Well, it was made by the same people who made MUSHA.

[ViciousAlienKlown]

Looks like a great game but the music sounds like typical japanese shlock.

[LeMoreau]

This game is awesome, but really hard for an intermediate Shoot'em Up player. awesome gameplay and graphics tho.. too bad Nintendo shut TurboGraphX down back in the days. The actual turbographx was out before snes and was more powerfull loll. Owned Nintendo

[MetallicMushroom]

ummmmmm..... no

[Arkhandroid]

Turbo *Grafx*-16

-_-

It owned Nintendo in Japan.

[ATARI800XLfan]

You are exactly right. Nintendo had nothing on the PC engine untill the SNES came out,even then it took a few years.

[Cecilink60]

@LeMoreau The TG-16 was definitely not more powerful than the SNES.

[Aetherbyte]

no but it had better games anyways, lol.

[kh44k]

"It even has a story" lol

music was fantastic!

[Atomicskull]

This game was called GUNHED in japan. It was programmed by COMPILE, the same company that did ZANAC, MUSHA and a lot of other classic shooters. (they had a thing for all capital letters) Their masterpiece though was The Guardian Legend aka Guardic Gaiden.

[mazze84]

The Guardian Legend saved my childhood!! Fucking awsome!!

[darksaiyan2006]

@Atomicskull But it has no capital letters :(

[wbrown16]

I was wondering why some sound effects, music, and enemy design reminded me of Gaurdian Legend! Nice

[anupsanju]

That masterrpiece thing is pretty debatable there. Not that the game itself isn't a masterpiece, but rather the assumption that it was Compile's best game.

[ReligionIsADrug]

@Atomicskull Yeah and the best of all, Aleste!

[Progearspec]

Blazeing Lazers such a classic shmup for the TG16.Btw,mark the developer for it was by (compile) the same company that did musha if you didn't know that.

[DrSzalony]

is it r-type?

[BOOTLEGPIRATEVIDEO]

i found a similar game on the psp.. it was from a SNES pack... can't remember the name... but definately fun

[mtvenar]

VHS? Tim and Eric would be proud!

Definitely not HD.

I have to play this game.

[mariodivine]

Space version of Amiga Battle Squadron :) Blazing Lazers is very addictive shooter! 5/5

[atarileaf]

One of my favorites for the system. Awesome, awesome game. This is a must have if you own a TG-16

[Shikaroxen]

looks awesome, specially for it's time O_o

[SusakeKes]

blazing lazers is awesome i love this game!

[immaculate15]

SWeeeeeet my request came through!!

[h20DDs]

My Favorite airplane shooter would have to be Aero fighters for the NES. The music sounds like the music for the old megaman.

[Torqegood]

An island in space...you mean a moon? Or an asteroid?

[PixelOutlaw]

These are the essence of video games. You sit down and keep playing until you get good enough to clear the game.

Another great review.

[fenix611]

the brain part was eff'd up

[Edelbluete]

good stuff.

[Melville10]

1989 goodness!!! Who needs Gears of War?!!! LOL

[Classicgamesfan89]

I was born in 1989

[Dragonfury3000]

@Classicgamesfan89 same here :P

[spootboy123]

Too much going on on the screen lol,, looks fun and crazy as all get out

[TheTerminatorT101]

Ohh Yea! VHS Forever!! :D

[sc0tt10]

I'm glad someone else noticed the similarity to Tyrian.

I'MA CHARGIN MAH LAZER btw.

[duhmez]

You should get a composite video cleaner device, forget exactly what they are called, they remove noise and stuff and naturally tend to remove macrovison too, the point being, I bet if yu use one of these, youi could pass the signal through and your capture card will be able to properly capture the cleaned signal. This avoiding the horrible vhs quality dmg! The device would be a tax writeoff for your business too.

[Firebomber7]

The TG-16 is FULL of awesome shoot 'em ups. Of course there's Blazing Lazers (aka. Gunhed), but there's also 3 other games in this series; Super Star Soldier, Final Soldier (Japan only) and Soldier Blade. Others are R-Type (duh...), Air Zonk, Dragon Spirit, Dragon Saber, some of the 194X games, Side Arms, Gradius (J only), Parodius (J only), Twin Bee (J only), Life Force/Salamander (J only), Toilet Kids (J), Gate of Thunder (CD), Lords of Thunder (CD), Gradius II (CD), and 100 more!

[hugothenerd]

I GOTTA GET IT

Even thou i prefer TouHou :3

[kiman2]

Wow, what a shock to see a turbo game review on CGR! This game is one of the best on Turbo and one of my fav shooters (along w/ R-Type). Keep more Turbo reviews coming!

[Suppabad82]

best intro music evvvvar!

[DeadOmega]

*buys Blazing Lazers*

[sirenrose666]

This game is so fun! I remember getting so mad trying to beat it. Good times! xD

[m22k3yt]

I'm beginning to think CGR holds a special place in its heart for retro space shooters.

[carlitoxxe]

In fact, that kind of games are his favourites. Just look the M.u.s.h.a review and you'll understand.

[m22k3yt]

I forgot to mention that I've been a subscriber to his videos for quite a while. But yeah you can definitely tell he's into the space shooters as he occasionally reviews one regardless of the system.

[justsumdude899]

One of my favorites. Lots of nostalgia for this game. My uncle had Turbografix 16 in his "computer room." Every time I went there with my parents, I escaped there to play Blazing Lazers and Bonk's Adventure.

[vgbjason]

wow. . .this actually looks really good!

[clairefedfield]

wow great graphics for such an old game, bet it looks great on the wii too

[JerryTerrifying]

If you don't like using RF get a TurboBooster or TurboBooster +. :D

[phynyte]

its cool how you listen to your subscribers i remember comments saying you should review this

[despiriaa]

was waiting for this CRHD!!! thanks!!

[CoherentState]

What I love most about the PC-E/TG-16 shmups, is being able to select the craft speed (via select button) for tricky sections/boss meets.

...just really fine tunes the gameplay - why was it dropped?

[zabakkabou]

nice review

[MEGAMAND1]

If you think this is awesome you should try soldier blade it's awesome and it has robots but no flame thrower. but it's still awesome Mark! please reveiw that next on the T.G. 16

[CoherentState]

>MEGAMAND1

Check out - Sapphire!

[eatcarpet]

Wow... this game reminds me a lot of Tyrian.

[siegetank55]

"there is no one weapon that you get that sucks and your screwed" lololol

[MazdaArai]

i remember playing this game before.

[neofunface]

ultra awsome game!!!

[seanobi777]

6:58 - music sounds slightly like the Duke Nukem Theme

[HappyFatzKid]

Ok, I know this is off topic, but does anyone know the name of the TurboGrafx-16 game where you are a wizard or some thing like that, and it is like a Gauntlet type game. All I can remember is the thing the char shot. It was a circle of shapes, a circle, a triangle and a square. If anyone can help with that would be awesome. Thanks.

[zborgerd]

You are probably referring to the Dungeon Explorer series. The sequel is really rare in the USA, and it had some localization and voice work that was done by Working Designs for Hudson soft.

[CygnusRising001]

@HappyFatzKid

Dungeon Explorer?

[region1111]

Fail. Genesis was better than the turbo grafx 16 :-D :-D

[Monkey6624]

Not when it comes to CD, TG-CD games are way better than Sega CD.. also I prefer the sound quality TG-16 over Genesis too.

[FF7ACJW]

I got this on the Virtual Console because I heard it was good. It is now one of my favorite shmups!

[m1up]

I am so buying this NOW!

[Immafirinmahlazer]

Nice one Mark.

You should try Side Arms: Hyper Dyne on the TG16.

It's a sie scrolling shooter with giant robots.

And they dry hump the air.

[BuckFastZombie]

Is it just me or do Classic Game room videos take a lot longer to load than most other youtube vids? Im not talking full HD either, just standard quality? I have a pretty fast connection ( 8MB/PS ) fo where I live. Scotland!

[krize604]

@BuckFastZombie

I have to press play manually on these videos..

[Shakeandbake4321]

no i would agree i have  the same problem and i had a 15 mbs speed

[starsoldier1]

Ohya, Blazing Lazers is way better then Star Soldier...... damn, that was a weird shooter paradox.

[Sinistar24]

I think I'm gonna have to pick up a tg-16 now. Way back in the days where I couldnt afford both and had to chose one 16bit console, I choose the Genesis. One reason was because I've read that tg-16 wasnt really 16bit but 8bit lol.

[MrMoneyclips]

I have the core system, but no controller or cords

[edge662]

ZOMG! My favorite Turbografx-16 game gets the recognition it deserves!

[tunicaroja86]

VHS screener

EPIC

[BIGGBAGA]

The sacrifice to keep it reel! Preech lol

[pnroyal]

what was the name of that NES shooter that was close to this one? I remember it started with a Z ... I believe. Anyone remember?

[revolucionzation]

Zanac

[MrTigarex]

i love you lets make babys

[TheKirb7]

HAY you know wat the nintendo virtual console needs is golden eye wii shop channel needs that really really bad

[xcoolymanx]

hey mark can you review digimon world for playstation 1 you can download it to your psp too

its a very cool rpg that ive never seen and still not seeing

unfortinatly i am play a emulater of playsatation 1 so i cant send you my copy cuz it doesnt work

[CyberPirate83]

Wow- that games truly looks awesome! Though, I'm an R-Type guy, but still- this one is great!

[StopFear]

so how much is a working system like that these days? OR does anyone know of good emulator

[hikaruchan1]

Yes the Turbografx-16 is the US Version of the PC engine.

[speedking92]

wait, an island in space? How does that work? Is it like an astroid surrounded by floating water?

[powerman2027]

wish i had a TG 16 and a NEO GEO. thats old school, lol, keeping it real.

[smartwarlord]

if that's "old school" then what are the NES, Master System, etc ?

[aaamarco3]

could you make a few more modern reviews plz?

[CyanProductions]

He does plenty.

[l2pie]

is it just me or is the "area" text the same as in super mario world?

[RAY4everYANY]

hey .. CGR .. did u review michael jackson's moonwalker game yet .. ??

[levizer]

kewl!

[AlthenasGuard]

this game is a beast! I play it with s-video turbo duo. Very similar enhancement like your s-video genesis. hey you gotta keep it real with busting out those VHS tapes. Is it me or doesn't 2010 sound so futuristic lol

[powerman2027]

dude, when we're en 2024 that isn't gonna sound so furturistic either. so keep that in mind.

[AMVDawg]

@powerman2027 when it was made it was...

[SuperSuperZ]

good game.