16-Bit Gems #12: TurboGrafx-16 Retrospective & Ninja Spirit (1/2)

Part 1 of 2. In this episode, we not only take on an underappreciated game, we take one on from an underappreciated console... that's meta. Roo warms up with a history of the TurboGrafx-16, which spawned innovative firsts in gaming - like the TurbGrafx-CD and TurboExpress. Then he goes on to review Ninja Spirit, a classic arcade port that isn't afraid to smack you around a little. You know, like in the good old days of gaming.

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[zolken35]

pause at 0:49

[vookatos]

Well, I think those guys are really funny. It's just more of a "smart" humor, not just curses all over the place. As much as I love AVGN, I really don't like his humor and I think that sometimes games in his reviews are funnier than him. Some of his reviews are just priceless, but some of them are just "Look at the stupid game, strange glitch here, stupid enemy, RAGE"

[puffpuffdustbunny]

That is why i love Jame's movie reviews

[detectivekr]

Hahaha, the professor parody was great! Sadly, I've had professors just like that... it was a total joy to ask them questions. :\

[SNESosT]

What was the name of that movie you just used footage on? looks fun to watch.

[SitarKnight]

NEO GEO PLX!!!!! lol

[gamecollect101]

@Shrapnoid, Did'nt want post,another comment, Lol but your absolutely correct.

[gamecollect101]

Shrapnoid, The console wars of late 80's but mainly early 90's are fresh in my mind like if it was yesterday, from Nes to Turbo or Snes and Genesis (which I owned) all the way to the less affordable powerhouses like 3DO and Neo Geo. I collect for all these including SMS.

[gamecollect101]

@Shrapnoid, I speak for the new age youngsters coming up. Yes research, research, research...I don't how many times I've corrected Wiki which is not the most reliable source, so yeah sometimes you have to research in several places to get the details and big picture in whatever your researching in Magazines even till this day are a joke, even the retro Mags with exception to a very few like Video Game Collector.

[gamecollect101]

@Shrapnoid72, I've been doing exactly that, properly researching or "truthfully researching" systems, specs and it's top games for over a decade when i first started collecting, there was nothing said in this vid or in the comments that have'nt already gone through before so that being said I jump on youtube mainly to purely entertain myself between research and collecting 24/7 365 days a year since the beginning of 2004 with the collecting but gaming hard since 1979. Thanks though.

[Shrapnoid72]

@gamecollect101, it's no use. Only the hardcore gaming truth seekers will do the research to find out what the 16-bit console wars were really like while the fans who just eat-up funny videos and popular opinions go on believing whatever they hear.

[Shrapnoid72]

@gamecollect101, clearly he did do some research but, he was still wrong about a few things and his bias toward the TG16/PCE sounds just as harsh as EGM's idiot reviewing staff of the 1990's.