This system is a fever dream. Did anyone here actually had it or does everyone's experience with it come from emulation?

>>11858452 (OP)
My mom bought it for me and I played bonk on it.

>>11858486
and what else? did you only play Bonk?

>>11858452 (OP)
Macaulay Culkin had it.

>>11858452 (OP)
I played it at a kiosk in Toys R Us and was amazed by the card format games and graphics

>>11858497
same, I played Bonk on it one time at TRU and was blown away just to see it in the wild, it felt like an exotic and therefore intimidating system. It was late in the lifespan 1992 or 1993. I will always remember the experience because I left my wallet by the kiosk and left it there, but someone actually took it to a clerk without stealing anything and I picked it up the next day. But as far as Bonk I was really impressed that the color scheme was intriguing for some reasowak2n.

>>11858452 (OP)
Everyone who had this system as a child is trans now.

>>11858526
So it's the N64 of the 16-bit era?

>>11858452 (OP)
My buddy's dad got one at launch, and he dug it out and his son and I played the heck out of it in the early 2000s. Other than that, my "TG16" nostalgia is from the Wii Virtual Console titles.

A local mom and pop drugstore was the only retailer in my city to carry the tg16. They had keith courage on demo and later on the first bonk game. That is my only time ever seeing them in the wild.

The movie stores never rented the tg16 games so there was no point in owning one. A rental library was really the only factor that mattered in the late 80s and early 90s.

>>11858551
I saw exactly one TG-16 in the wild ever and it was a demo station in a TRU that was playing Air Zonk. Seeing one of these systems felt like witnessing a unicorn.

>>11858452 (OP)
I really wanted it as a kid, but my parents told me to wait for Nintendo to put a new system out. How did they know?

>>11858518
ah, the good ol' days of white society

>>11858526
I'm not trans I just have gay sex sometimes

>>11858452 (OP)
I actually, unironically had one as a kid. US resident, bought it from Toys R Us. I don't know what you niggers are talking about with it being some rare commodity, they had a display and a whole shelf of games just like any other console and I remember seeing it in other stores, too.

Can't say exactly why I went with the TG16. It just looked cool. The cards were cool, the controllers coming with turbo by default looked cool, the 90's edgelord tv ads looked cool, the screenshots in the Sears catalog looked cool, the game covers looked cool. What wasn't to like?

Anyway, you might think that with all the legendary consoles of that era winding up with the "weird" one would be disappointing, but honestly it was a great purchase. I ended up playing Sonic and Street Fighter II and whatever at my friend's houses anyway but none of them had Ninja Spirit or Splatterhouse or Devil's Crush. I got to play all kinds of games no one else had and most of them were really good. The TG-16 had a ton of really good games and I don't think we bought a single game for it that wasn't worth playing. I even had Silent Debuggers which absolutely no one seems to remember now.

My only complaints would be that the pack-in game (Keith Courage) was not exactly bad but extremely forgettable and immediately set aside once you got any other game. Not exactly Mario World. And eventually all the coolest new games were for the CD add-on which I never got because it was outrageously expensive. They should have just released the duo as a standalone next-gen version instead of doing it in installments but hey, Sega blew the add-on thing, too. It was just what companies did in the 90's.

>>11859284
Bithead is that you?

>>11859808
Kek

We had two. I had a Turbo Express and about 30 games and my brother had his own PCE Duo but I don't know how many games he had.

>>11859362
>I don't think we bought a single game for it that wasn't worth playing
Lucky. I'm >>11859840 and I had a couple of stinkers.

I have played dozens and dozens of hours of PC Engine games and own a copy of Ys I and II, but I have never seen the original hardware in person

>>11858452 (OP)
I saved up for it as a kid., The memory cards were too cool, and it was the first 16-bit console. The games weren't very good.

I've only seen the TG16 once at someone's house. They were playing Bonk. A console I'd like to get into eventually, just not now.

>>11858452 (OP)
I knew one kid who had it and even he thought it sucked. Its current reputation is 100% from emulation.

>>11858486
my friend had one and the only game he had for it was bonk

it wasnt really popular out of japan, the only good exclusive game i know is castlevania, and it had a snes version

From what I've observed, the only people who had this shit were weird kids stuck with this as their "We have a new 16 bit console at home, we don't need a snes/genesis" console, or rich "I have sega, Nintendo, and turbo grafx" kids

>>11858495
I only had Bonk.

Anybody here have Bonk on the TG-16?

>>11860098
>the only kids who owned a turbogfx were kids who only owned a turbogfx and kids who owned a turbogfx as well as other consoles

>>11858452 (OP)
My friend back in elementary school had one. I clearly remember us playing Bonk once and one other time I think we played Keith Courage. He also owned a Genesis and for sleepovers, our other friend always came through with his SNES, so it's safe to say those systems' exclusives pretty much exclusively won out.

I remember playing Bonk on this but I don't remember when or where

>recently got a turbografx-16 at some old guy's yard sale with bonk and keith courage
>want to get more games for it
>every game is extremely overpriced for some retarded reason
>literally cannot find the cd add-on for sale, when it does show up it's 450+ dollars
Fuck this stupid thing, it just takes up space on my setup.

>>11859848
I'm fucking Jealous you had a Turbo Express. Man, those things looked slick. Like a Game Boy that grew up and got into BDSM.

I mean, look at this thing. This handheld fucks

got this and Bonk for christmas one year

>>11860370
All retro shit is overpriced now, anon. And with the TG16 having fewer units sold than the other consoles of its era that just means less of its hardware or software is out there, so of course it's all expensive. It fucking sucks if you're trying to collect anything and I wish people would stop gouging but you should hardly be surprised. Collecing rare vintage anything is not a poor man's hobby

And the CD add-on had an even smaller user base and way more moving parts that could break down so is even more rare. I don't know If I would even buy one sight unseen unless I knew how to fix it. They seemed to be well made and didn't just fall to pieces after six months like the Jag CD or anything but still, I gotta think there's not that many functioning units still out there. Or at least not ones for sale

>>11858452 (OP)
never saw one or even heard of it in california until the wii era
then i started going ham
its like a nes+ library i never got to enjoy
really nice timecapsule

>>11859362
>Silent Debuggers
fuggin based
but i never got to enjoy it until i was already a man
everdrive+full retail library and a crt

my oddball system no else seemed to have was the 3do

>>11858452 (OP)
I sort of knew about it, but I didn't actually get to experience it until, funnily enough, my best friend started dating his future wife (who has since divorced him). Turns out his then-girlfriend's older brother had this console, and since whenever they came over we played mostly older games, she figured she'd show us her brother's game collection that he'd left behind when he moved out, and so one day they showed up with this big tub full of games, including a TG-16 and games. She had never actually played any of the games, but among them was Parasol Stars, and upon booting it up, she actually got fucked HOOKED. I also found it really fun, but my friend didn't much care for it, so his gf and I ended up playing the absolute shit out of it over the span of a month or more until we beat it, only to realize we didn't get the best ending, so we kept playing until we did.

I love my bud, but man, he fucked up hard with her.

Friend got it *and* a Genesis around the same time if not the same day.
I don't remember what he had initially, but Blazing Lasers was cool. The Flicker in R-Type stuck out for me, which kind of lowered my opinion of the system at the time.
Some time later he went to Japan and came back with a PCE Core 2 and CDROM (the "briefcase" setup.) Most of my memories center around that. Though I can't remember much beyond Moto Roader, Battle Lode Runner, and Bomberman with the player count maxed out. I can't even remember what CDROM games he had.

Myself, through patience, cheapness, and persistence, I've managed to accumulate over the years a TG16 w/CDROM, PCE Core Grafx, PCE-GT, and piles of games. Also have a PCFX fwiw. Haven't touched the GT in years, so who knows what the screen is like now; the sound was already fading when I bought it.

>>11858452 (OP)
I had a Duo, which I traded a stuffed animal for. Another kid I knew had a TG16 before that. I didn't know anyone else with one.

>>11858526
Apparently I'm exempt, since I got mine 2ndhand. The kid I got it from is a weirdo tho; he's supposedly asexual, converses with the furry community and collects really expensive stuffed animals. Which he blames me for, all because that first one is the one that cost him his Duo.

>>11858452 (OP)
Never existed the TG16 was a fake and gay psyop, there was only NES, SNES and Genesis. Just like the Saturn never actually existed. No I will not elaborate.

why do people retroactively shit on consoles and obsess negatively over them when there's cycle accurate emulation available that runs on toasters. Is it just baby ducks too retarded/scared to emulate?

>>11858452 (OP)
The only reason I knew about this system 15 years ago is because of happyconsolegamer.

>people think the TG-16 was a ghost in the US

Try Europe.

>>11860384
I had the TV tuner, too!
Also had one for my Game Gear.
The TV tuner broke and I blamed it on my dad who is a very, very fat Chinaman but really, I left the Express in the car overnight and forgot about it so when I got into it the next day to go wherever we were going and didn't look where I was sitting, I sat on it, breaking the antenna. It's literally the only video game thing I ever damaged and I became hyper vigilant thereafter to never damage or misplace/lose vidya ever again
>>11860098
>rich "I have sega, Nintendo, and turbo grafx" kids
Guilty. I was the only kid to have Turbo that I knew of and we had several other consoles, too. We had two Sega-CD consoles, my model 1 (and eventually model 2) and my brother's CDX. He also had a Neo Geo and my dad bought a seldom-used CDi for the TV room. We had an import Saturn and PlayStation before their Western releases as well as a Lynx and about ten games I got from a regional department store when they were going out of business. Not to mention the NES and first Sega (which I just called "the Sega" and don't know where 'Master System' came from).
I've never seen 3DO or Jaguar in the wild, though, and the only 32X I've seen was in a discount bin at a different department store that was also going out of business. I found it extremely odd that it was in there for a few reasons, one being that this was in 2001 or so and two because they just had the console sitting there in a box rather than behind glass somewhere.

>>11859808

>>11858452 (OP)
I got a TG-16 because of Splatterhouse. I was still in high school. Then I upgraded to a TurboDuo when that came out. With CD games now available to me, I bought Rondo of Blood, Y's, Gate of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, etc. I have about half of the NA collection and a few dozen PCE/CD/SCD games. Now that I'm retired I often revisit this console. I purchased an Analogue Duo when that dropped a year ago or so. Great clone machine.

>>11860708
Were you actually able to beat it? I got pwned by the difficulty spike in the later stages. always meant to replay but I'm shit at emulation

>>11861658
Oh, you sweet, sweet liar. : )

>>11858526
Is Kayne West trans?

>>11858526
macauly culkin didnt troon out

Why did they need all these cards?

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>>11861789
He's officially a sega mascot.

>>11859808

>>11862907

>>11861703
No just a gay fish

>>11860370
Your best bet is the Turbo EverDrive, sad to say.

played this shit out of Bonk on this mfer

>>11858452 (OP)
You used to be able to find these for pennies at garage/yard sales throughout the 2000s