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i just got into this system recently. its a lot of fun with some pretty good games. one of my favz so far is 'keith courage in alpha zones'. 'sidearms' and 'sinistron' have been amusing me for hours too.
im glad ive become a collector cause i never played stuff beyone sega, nintendo and sony. i want to get some neogeo stuff sometime soon. thats one i never played. maybe the 3do too. damn i love games.

Turbo who?

there were a couple of games on the system that looked interesting (back in the day), but the software support was seriously lacking in order for me to ever purchase one.

I like the TG-16. I recently got 2 games from shaggy that I'm anxious to try. Side Arms and Legendary Axe. I've played Keith Courage and like that one as well. The only other non-sports games I have are China Warrior which is kind of lame and Tricky Kick. Tricky Kick is a nice puzzle game.

One thing that sticks out to me about the TG-16 and I think could have contributed to its lack of success is the package art. The TG-16 had some of the worst, unimaginative package art I've ever seen. A lot of it is really quite boring. It's a shame because the games are not.

well it never came out in England but with the Wii's virtual console i will definatly be buying some games

I've never played one either.  I remember seeing it in magazines back in the day, but I was already satisfied with other consoles back then.  If I manage to come across one in Europe I'll definitely pick it up as I enjoy 16 bit games, but chances of coming across one here seems pretty slim to me. 

I'm still trying to get my hands on one.  Back in 1990 I think it was, legendary axe was game of the year according to Player strategy guide.

SplatterHouse Whooo!!! :nod:
So I voted yes ;D

there are a ton of good shooters on the system, and the controllers have built in adjustable turbo

I only have a handful of games for it (8 I think?) but all of them rock.  Except for Impossimole.  That game sucks out loud.  The games I do have are Bonks' Adventure, Legendary Axe, Final Lap Twin (Damn original game.  It's an RPG where you race cars instead of fight), Side Arms, Neutopia (Excellent Zelda Clone), Impossimole (ugh...) and I think I have a few others.  Can't remember right now.

I always want to buy more games for it, but I hate paying Ebay prices for them, and I never see them in the wild.

On the bright side, so far no one dislikes it :)

there is a tennis game that works the same way, you walk around and fight enemies on the tennis court

And I have a copy for sale :D  I like the Turbo Grafx-16.  It has some pretty cool games.  Splatterhouse anyone??  The CD add-on had some slick games, too, like Y's and Beyond Shadowgate.

Just to confirm, was the TG16 part of the same console generation as the SNES and Genesis?

yes. I've got one if you ever want to give it a try.

Splatterhouse was the sole reason I USED to own one, and I loved it...wish I had never gotten rid of it...and I bought it new from Babage's just before they switched over to Babbage's Ect., or whatever they call themselves now.

I also liked JJ & Jeff (I'm probably in the minority).  My brother and I would play that forever, but it never seemed like we got anywhere with it.

yes... but it came just a bit before the genesis, and has an 8 bit processor.  it had a second processor that the marketing department decided to add 8+8 to make it a 16 bit machine

So it wasn't a true 16-bit system?
Well that was a pretty rocken SplatterHouse conversion in that case.

Sega should of used the same marketing strategy and said the Saturn was 64-bit ;D

man i am really suprised about this thread. no 'no' votes at all. that calls for a turbografx week. anyone ogt a copy of splaterhouse for sale at a decent price?

 8) http://cgi.ebay.com/SPLATTERHOUSE-turbo-duo-grafx-16-cd-US-W-Booklet_W0QQitemZ220044991875QQihZ012QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've been trying to get a cheap TG16 system for a LONG time, but I've only gotten 2 that were both broken.  Hopefully someone will help me out someday.

Ken

Whats your definition of cheap?
This was the cheapest I could find for ya
http://cgi.ebay.com/Turbografx-16-system-tested-great-TG16-Turbografx16_W0QQitemZ170045909701QQihZ007QQcategoryZ62054QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

A lot of people still don't know what a TG16 is, so I think a week dedicated to it is a great idea.

NEC's first video game system looked 16-bit, sounded 16-bit, but in reality, it was 8-bit to the core. Though its main CPU was 8-bit, the chips that handled its graphics and sounds instructions were 16-bit, making the system look like a 16-bit system at first glance. One neat feature this unit had was that all it game cartridges, (or HuCards), were about the size of a credit card. This made the games extremely portable. This is reflected by the release of the "Turbo Express". It was a Gameboy looking device with a black case and a colour LCD screen. But unlike the Gameboy, where you had to buy a separate Gameboy version of a NES game to play it on Gameboy, you could use the same HuCard for the main unit on the Turbo Express just like the Sega Nomad!

A CD-ROM unit was later released: the first CD unit for any console unit. Though a bit expensive, it never got a large following from the consumer. The Turbo Grafx 16 unit later faded out of the main stream market a year or two year later, but its imprint to the world wouldn't.

NEC is one of the few companies I truly trust, in fact my PC was made by NEC  ;D
Other electrical companies I trust to the same degree are Philips and Panasonic.

Didn't we just feature a TG16 game a couple of weeks ago?

Something Dreamcaster will possibly find interesting is that the Dreamcast's graphic processor was made by NEC along with Videologic.

By the way, I think he meant a week dedicated to the actual system.

So why is the NEC Turbo Grafx 16 so unheard of?

It's simple really, much like the Sega Saturn it's true success story lies in Japan, a country that knows good technology when they see it.
But this is even more complicated in the case of the Turbo Grafx 16, as Turbo Grafx 16 was merely it's US name, yep it got renamed, but not just renamed, the entire thing got a new look. The slimmer sexier Japanese release was called the NEC PC-Engine.

Ahhh... so now it's all making more sense, no?
And then to top it all off, it never got a PAL release so all of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand all missed out.

7 million units were still sold nevertheless and it had around 650 games released for it.
Rated 5 stars by The encyclopedia of Game.Machines this is what they had to say, witch RF is more than welcome to reuse if they want in the event we have a NEC's great system week.

i also posted this in the 'trophies from the hunt' part of rfg. but i figured it deserved to be put here as well. also seeing that afew were looking for cheap tg16 games. well here is my score of all scores.

check this....
all these turbografx 16 games only cost me $50 for all of them. i cant believe this myself.

games with plastic sleeve, card and booklet:
tiger road
cyber-core
china warrior
moto roader
dragon spirit
victory run
psychosis
ballistix (2 copies)
silent debuggers (2 copies)
alien crush
devil's crush
pac-land
military madness
boxyboy
parasol stars
blazing lazers
legendary axe 2
world class baseball
raiden
king of casino
ordyne
galaga '90
super star soldiers
legendary axe
power golf
fantasy zone

just card and sleeve
final lap twin
hit the ice
tv sports football
drop off
talespin
sidearms

booklet only
blazing lazers
dead moon
aero blasters
impossamole

ALL FOR ONLY $50!!!!!!!!!!

i could post this in the sale/trade area.. but i think its gonna get more attention here. staff, please dont move this post. please. :)

this is what i have for the tg16 that i dont need. i would prefer to trade for other tg16 games if possible.

silent debuggers - card and booklet
power golf - card and booklet
legendary axe - card and booklet
ballistix - card and booklet
sidearms - card and booklet
fantasy zone - card
blazing lazers - booklet

oh, and on trading.... check to see if i got it. if i dont then i want it. greedy little bastard arent i?

Fantasy Zone? Is that the one by Sega?

yep. made by sega for the tg16.

oh. i added up the values of my recent buy by ebay price averages and i came up with a grand total of $500. what a hell of a score.

I love the system.  Due to money issues I had to sell it and the cd player, all in a case last year =(  I kept my turbo express though!

From what I remember back in teh day it had some good games.