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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: Zeon on March 22, 2006, 03:47:43 AM
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I was reading over on this topic here
http://www.pcenginefx.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1428
and it reminded that still have an old vhs tape from I got in the mail years ago back in the turbo grafx's heyday. I'm assuming it came from TZD or TTI inc. It showed many of the current games and some of the new games to come out (Neutopia and Shadow of the Beast come to mind).
I don't know if it still works and I haven't watched it in years, but my question is, does anyone else have anything similiar to this and if so what would it be worth? Not that I would ever sell it, I'm just curious.
I'd love to share it if it's not elsewhere on the net, but I don't have the means at the moment, and I haven't tested it yet to see if it works at all.
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Ah a promo tape... I've only gotten one in my life (of course, I was born in 1990 so I lived through very little of the VHS era), the Pokemon tape (which sucked)...anyway, try and post the video online...i'm curious...
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Holy crap, you were born in 1990!? And I thought I was the youngest PCE gamer here being born in December 1987! Congratz, man.
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I am just as amazed as Keranu is; I was born January 1987 and was basically raised on the tg-16 (which my family later traded in to TZD for a Turbo Duo), but 1990? and a PCE Gamer?!?!
Nanashi I bow to you.
Man all this thinking back is really making me want to bust out with my Duo and play some good old PCE. But alas, I am living in a apartment at college, and my Duo and games are at home...
I will try to up the video for all to see, but it won't be until at least this summer, when I go home again, and only if I remember to do it.
Rest assured; however, that I will try my best to make it happen.
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You all make me feel so old. :cry:
j/k :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I am just as amazed as Keranu is; I was born January 1987 and was basically raised on the tg-16 (which my family later traded in to TZD for a Turbo Duo), but 1990? and a PCE Gamer?!?!
Well another '87er! Nice to meet 'ya! '87 sure was a rad year, wasn't it?
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87!?! Wow, move over chinese astrological signs - you guys are the year of the PC-Engine! :lol: But 1990? You were 2yrs old when the Duo hit the US.. that's a trip.
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The cool thing about 1990 was that it was the year of the Turbo Grafx 16 CD-ROM system :D .
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Yeah and I was two years old when my brother got a turbo grafx for a christmas present in 1989 (he was 7). No Nintendo for us, straight to turbo. Not that I'm complaining. We still have the VHS tape of him opening it on Christmas morning.
He was expecting a nes, boy was he surprised when he opened the thing that would entertain us and occupy almost all of our free time years to come.
Oh yeah and nice to meet you too Keranu. 1987 was a rad year, it's a pity I was too young to remember any of it. The earliest memory of my life I can recall at the moment is watching my brother and dad play Keith Courage then other early games like Fantasy Zone and Alien Crush, back when I was, like, 3 years old.
Man those were the days...
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You all make me feel so old. :cry:
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j/k :lol: :lol: :lol:
Ditto, except I'm not kidding :).
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I grew up with NES (though my older brothers were first growing up with Atari 5200) until Christmas of 1990 when we got a Genesis, which totally ruled. We still played our NES until it broke, but Genesis was the main road of gaming for about seven years to come.
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The genesis was the second system my brother came to own, I didn't like it as much as he did, but I have to admit that I absolutely love Shining Force I & II.
I think after that he got a Sega CD AND a 32X for his birthday one year. Later he got a game gear. Somewhere along the line we traded our Turbo Grafx for a Turbo Duo via TZD's upgrade offer years back, and bought some awesome cd games, such as Dungeon Explorer II, Ys I & II, Ys III, Beyond Shadowgate, Dynastic Hero (does the domestic version of this game really go for $500+ on ebay?), Bonk III, Dragon Slayer, Neo Nectaris, and some other pretty fun games like Might & Magic III, Loom, Splash Lake, and a few pretty bad games including Lords of the Rising Sun and Sim Earth. Opps.. didn't mean to make this into a list of cd games I own for the Duo.
Actually, I didn't own an nes until I was given one in 6th grade when the playstation, n64, and to a much lesser extent, the saturn, were the thing. Ironically the nes, not the PCE, is what ignited my obsession of collecting video games and interest in video game history. Part of it may have to do with the availability of cheap good nes games, the fact that the "nes scene" was in full swing online, and the extreme rarity of pce games (and lack of people and places that have pce stuff for sale, barring online stores).
I remember not being able to buy PCE games from places like Funcoland.. when the system was still in production and new games were still being made in the U.S.!!! Eventually the only place to buy from was TZD and luckily they were, and still are, a good, honest, and reliable company.
One funny side effect of getting exposed to Nintendo so much later than the PCE is that when I saw the original Zelda (my first time seeing any Zelda game) for the first time in an emulator, I watched my friend play it in amazement and bewilderment as I exclaimed, "That's a rip off of Neutopia!"
Wow I sure do rant a lot. Sorry 'bout that.
BTW Keranu, I am curious, when and how did you first hear of the PCE and what ignited your interest in it?
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Holy shit, do you still have all those Duo games? If so, you have a fortune in your hands! :D
I've always heard of the Turbo Grafx 16 and Turbo Duo growing up, but never knew what it was and never actually saw one. When I was in sixth grade in the year 1999/2000, I decided to download a TG16 emulator, which was back when Magic Engine wasn't so hot :D . I only downloaded and played two games: Bonk's Adventure and Neutopia, both games which I thought were really fun and great! Sadly, I didn't play them much due to emulation problems. Strike one.
The next year, I wanted to get into the Turbo Grafx 16 scene again, because I had watched "The Making of Lunar" video disc that came with Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete for Playstation and it showed clips of all these other Working Design games that I was greatly intriuged by, but then one that interested me the most was this game called "Cosmic Fantasy 2" :D . So I downloaded Magic Engine again and tried very hard to find a download for Cosmic Fantasy 2, but I had no look because I had no idea how to search for CD games and I always thought it was a cartridge game back then. So once again, I gave up on TG16. This makes strike two.
It's now about two years later and I'm up to bat still with two strikes, so I still have one good strike left before I'm out. I was commonly posting on this arcade emulation and video game message board called "Geoshock", and I met some cool online people to talk to there. Two of them (one who I later met in real life and became good friends with) were Duo fans and kept saying how much it ruled, so it encouraged my enthusiasm for the TG16 scene again. Since I actually had some help this time with these two online mates, I was able to get into the scene a lot better and I started downloading various HuCard games immediately, specificly some Japanese ones like Bomberman '94, Bubble Gum Crash, and Bonk 3.
I was totally digging this system now but I was still curious about CD games. So I got some help on how to run them and immediately I was downloading this game called "Dracula X", which I had no idea what it was really, I just thought it had a cool name. I was going to download Ys Book I & II first but I asked my brother which one I should download first, and he said Dracula X because we both thought it sounded cooler :D . I downloaded Dracula X and needless to say, I thought it was great. Now I had heard great things about Ys Book I & II, yet I had NO idea what it was about and from the info I was able to gather, I thought it was some kind of detective game :lol: . When it was done downloading, I played it and to sum it up, that game changed my life in the video gaming world forever :) . I had hit the home run.
From there own I was being a dirty pirate and downloading more and more games and enjoying them so much. Most of my gaming was going into those games and I loved every bit of them. When I was 16 and able to get a job, I was finally able to buy all these games I loved since I said I wouldn't be such a pirate if I had money.
Those were the days :) .
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Yep, I still have all of my Duo and tg-16 games, and I never plan on selling any of it. One I forgot to mention was the 3 in one cd pack in (4 in one if you count the hiden bomberman game) that came with the duo. I would have bought more back in the day had I known how expensive, and consequently, hard to obtain these games were going to get.
You thought Ys Book I & II was a detective game? :lol: I find that hilarious, yet with a name like Ys the game could be anything.
I'm glad you finally did hit a home run, because you would have really missed out on a great system and some really great and innovative games. It's too bad the majority of the world is missing out, most haven't even heard of the PCE (at least those of us outside of Japan), even some who were born before its time, and those who have usually write it off as "just another quirky system that failed and consequently must have failed for a good reason."
Hopefully PCE games being included in the Revolution's download service will raise awareness for this underappreciated system and counteract the misconception of it.
Man, if only TTi had better marketing strategies, they could still be in the console market today. Think of all the other great games they could have come out with (looking on a list of 100's of games planned to be ported to or developed for the U.S. makes me want to cry). I will never keep wondering what Neutopia III would have been like.
Keranu, I hear you and the people at Frozen Utopia are working to remedy that (I am not mistaken am I?). I really wish you all the best of luck in realizing the creation and completion of it as well as Mysterious Song and any other games you are all are working on. They all sound kick ass.
I really appreciate the fact that you all at Frozen Utopia are dedicated enough to take on such massive undertakings as creating new and porting existing games for this great system. I know it is not easy work especially if you go to school, have a job, family, friends, or basically have a life, and I get scared enough at the prospect of thinking about the amount of work that goes into making a game, let alone actually doing it. I will patiently wait for the day when we all may reap the fruits of your and the rest of Frozen Utopia's labor. Even if no game is finished I will still be happy knowing that you all at least made an effort.
Dang it, I'm ranting again! Oh well, I'm sure no one really minds. :D
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Thanks for the kind words. All of us at Frozen Utopia have had lots of busy an d trouble real life moments which have lacked us from work, but we haven't gave up and two games are close to completion, and Neutopia III with a very long way to go. It's very nice to know how patient you are and we hope to match your expectations :) . I myself am proud of the work we have done so far and I honestly do think our stuff looks professional. Don't forget about MindRec, the original indie PCE developers :D . There latest projects look amazing and I am eagirly aniticpating their releases, most especially PC Gunjin. The PCE scene has never received so much love before.
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Hahaha, you're all a bunch of tadpoles!
I was born in 1978, and I grew up with the 2600 and NES... I remember going to the electronics store up the street when I was about 8 years old, and MARVELLING at Legendary Axe 2 and Bonk's Adventure. I bought one when they were still like 200$, and they came with Bonk's Adventure free. ;) One controller, RF only, you gotta buy a Turbobooster if you want RCA video! Haha!
I got those same print ads in the mail offering the 299.99 Duo, telling me how I could use it as a 4x CD-rom for my PC... and man, I still have TWO different VHS tapes that were basically half-hour long commercials for the Turboduo... Maybe I should encode em and post em online for nostalgia's sake! :)
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Hahaha, you're all a bunch of tadpoles!
I was born in 1978, and I grew up with the 2600 and NES... I remember going to the electronics store up the street when I was about 8 years old, and MARVELLING at Legendary Axe 2 and Bonk's Adventure. I bought one when they were still like 200$, and they came with Bonk's Adventure free. ;) One controller, RF only, you gotta buy a Turbobooster if you want RCA video! Haha!
I got those same print ads in the mail offering the 299.99 Duo, telling me how I could use it as a 4x CD-rom for my PC... and man, I still have TWO different VHS tapes that were basically half-hour long commercials for the Turboduo... Maybe I should encode em and post em online for nostalgia's sake! :)
Well, I can say that I am not a tadpole as I was born in 76, so I too grew up during the golden age of the console market! I still would love a copy of those tapes. That would just be bad ass! :lol:
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tadpole huh?
I was told men went to moon when I was born... heh
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Hahaha...well, you know...compared to the kiddies born in 1987... ;)
I guess that simile makes you guys...um...frog eggs?
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tadpole huh?
I was told men went to moon when I was born... heh
Yay! I'm not the oldest person here :)
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was born in 1978, and I grew up with the 2600 and NES... I remember going to the electronics store up the street when I was about 8 years old, and MARVELLING at Legendary Axe 2 and Bonk's Adventure.
That math doesn't added up, are you sure you were 8 ? :wink:
I was born in '76 as well and I got my first turbo in '90 when I was a freshman in highschool. I do remember Pac-Man and Donkey Kong when they were new arcade games. My first sysem/computer was a 64k CoCo, when I was 8yrs old :P
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was born in 1978, and I grew up with the 2600 and NES... I remember going to the electronics store up the street when I was about 8 years old, and MARVELLING at Legendary Axe 2 and Bonk's Adventure.
That math doesn't added up, are you sure you were 8 ? :wink:
I was born in '76 as well and I got my first turbo in '90 when I was a freshman in highschool. I do remember Pac-Man and Donkey Kong when they were new arcade games. My first sysem/computer was a 64k CoCo, when I was 8yrs old :P
Yeah, I can acyually agree with all that you said, except my first system was an Atari 2600, so yeah, the days of gaming have comer a long way, but my Turbo is still my favorite system of all time.
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Man, after reading all these "back in the day" stories, I'm starting to remember my own! :) In my early years, I played the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and Odessey 2 a lot. I never owned any of them, but my friends did. My first console was Colecovision. I loved that thing. Managed to get a few games for it and my brother knew some people that had pretty much everything that Coleco put out. Got to borrow a lot of stuff I never would have been able to play, let alone buy. Eventually the Colecovision stopped working, but by that time the market already crashed. Nobody was really into consoles until NES came out like a year or so later.
It wasn't until Christmas '86 - early '87 that NES was starting to pick up steam. Got it that Xmas... seemed like everybody did. Then in June '87, I moved to Japan. Ironically, I had no access to NES stuff for a long time. That's when I was forced (oh the pain! :lol:) to check out the Japanese game scene. Of course I learned about Famicon and Sega Mk III. When I started school that year, that's pretty much when I found out about the PCE coming out only a month or two later. And the rest is history. :)
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Man, after reading all these "back in the day" stories, I'm starting to remember my own! :) In my early years, I played the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and Odessey 2 a lot. I never owned any of them, but my friends did. My first console was Colecovision. I loved that thing. Managed to get a few games for it and my brother knew some people that had pretty much everything that Coleco put out. Got to borrow a lot of stuff I never would have been able to play, let alone buy. Eventually the Colecovision stopped working, but by that time the market already crashed. Nobody was really into consoles until NES came out like a year or so later.
It wasn't until Christmas '86 - early '87 that NES was starting to pick up steam. Got it that Xmas... seemed like everybody did. Then in June '87, I moved to Japan. Ironically, I had no access to NES stuff for a long time. That's when I was forced (oh the pain! :lol:) to check out the Japanese game scene. Of course I learned about Famicon and Sega Mk III. When I started school that year, that's pretty much when I found out about the PCE coming out only a month or two later. And the rest is history. :)
Hey man, that's cool. At least you got to see the PC Engine in it's original release, I wish more Americans had. I fell in love with the Turbo Grafx-16 the minute I saw it. I had no idea about import games at the time though as I was a kid, but man, I thought that it was cool. I wanted one so bad, but didn't get one until a few years later and was laughed at because Sonic had just releassed that Christmas season. Didn't bother me too bad though as I had my TG, Keith Courage, Cyber Core, and Splatter House to keep me company. I was happy, and it only went up from there!
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was born in 1978, and I grew up with the 2600 and NES... I remember going to the electronics store up the street when I was about 8 years old, and MARVELLING at Legendary Axe 2 and Bonk's Adventure.
That math doesn't added up, are you sure you were 8 ? :wink:
Haha, you're right. Grossly incorrect.
This is likely why I ended up as a graphic design major. ;)
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Well I may be the oldest gamer here. I was born in 1968 (yes, 1968). I still have my earliest systems, the Odyssey 2, and the 2600 both, as well as just about every system thats come out since then. This post was originally about a VHS promo video for TG16, and I think hes talking about a different one than the one I have. The summer before the TG was released, I went to the State Fair of Texas and NEC had a tent set up there displaying the upcoming system. I played some of the launch games, and filled out a card for a promo video, and some coupons and stickers that they were going to mail to me. I was sent everything twice, for some reason, so I have two of these promo videos, talking about the features of the upcoming TG16, the games, and even some of the imports that could come over to the US in the future. One of them I have watched, and the other I've never even taken out of the shrinkwrap. Its just a plain black video with an orange label in a black sleeve. Did anyone else get one of these?
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Hahaha, you're all a bunch of tadpoles!
I doubt it i was born in 72 so i've seen it all myself.
I remember when i got the promo tape from, TTI in the mail still i never did keep it though :oops:
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Thirty-something gamers unite! I try to refrain from commenting on younger gamers since...there's always someone older who thinks you are the young'un that doesn't remember the good ol' days. :) For example, I recently discovered my brother-in-law (who is around 43) had an Odyssey when he was a kid. Not the Odyssey 2, the original one that came out in 72. The very first home console, predating Pong, Atari, and everything else. Certainly made me feel a bit less ancient. Sheesh, it's the only console I can think of that came out before I was born (just barely). :wink:
Somewhat off-topic, who is the oldest gamer you've ever met? I remember my aunt playing Super Mario Bros. back in the 80s, when she was in her fifties, but that was an exception. The manager at my first job out of college (back in the mid-90s) was a hardcore flight-sim enthusiast. He was around 45 at the time. I remember going over to his house for a company gathering during the Super Bowl and how proud he was was of his monster 486 rig and crazy joystick setup that he used for the flight sims.
Of course, now that I'm in my thirties, I've got a few friends pushing forty that still play games. They're all the Xbox-owning Joe Sixpack mainstream types that "hardcore gamers" tend to sneer at. Funny thing is they seem to enjoy games a lot more than most people I've ever run across on game forums. :lol:
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I haven't read this entire thread.
I have some form of TTI video tape. Does anyone care?
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The summer before the TG was released, I went to the State Fair of Texas and NEC had a tent set up there displaying the upcoming system. I played some of the launch games, and filled out a card for a promo video, and some coupons and stickers that they were going to mail to me. I was sent everything twice, for some reason, so I have two of these promo videos, talking about the features of the upcoming TG16, the games, and even some of the imports that could come over to the US in the future. One of them I have watched, and the other I've never even taken out of the shrinkwrap. Its just a plain black video with an orange label in a black sleeve. Did anyone else get one of these?
I would defintely be interested in seeing this video since I absolutely love old Turbo promo stuff. Is it possible for you to capture the video and upload it? Also, would you be interested in selling that extra copy you have? :D
I haven't read this entire thread.
I have some form of TTI video tape. Does anyone care?
I care :D ! Same thing I wrote for NFERNO1 here.
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Damn. Now I'm gonna have to digitize and upload it. You leave me no choice! Gimme a day or two.
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Well I may be the oldest gamer here. I was born in 1968 (yes, 1968).
You're not the oldest.
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Damn. Now I'm gonna have to digitize and upload it. You leave me no choice! Gimme a day or two.
Sweet, thanks a ton!
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Here ya go!!
I tried to upload it to Youtube, but they have some retarded 10-minute limit. a$$holes.
Anyway I am able to upload this QUICKTIME version. You don't have Quicktime? TOO BAD! It should work with Quicktime 6, but you might need Quicktime 7 to hear the sound.
(Right) click here to download (http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/Turboqt.mov)
63.8 MB
Quicktime
320x240
15 fps (had to cut corners somewhere)
Sorenson 3 Pro video codec
MPEG4 audio (AAC) - mono
17 minutes, 53 seconds
The video features this little dipshit:
(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/dipshit.jpg)
Awesome!
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Thirty-something gamers unite! I try to refrain from commenting on younger gamers since...there's always someone older who thinks you are the young'un that doesn't remember the good ol' days. :)
:)
Seriously, though, it is very tough to relate to folks that feel that NES (or the 16-bit era) marked the beginning of video games... but even I am put in my place when folks talk about the various games and coin-ops that were around in the 60's / 70's (i.e. my uncle is really into old-skool pinball; he's also the one who got me into Atari VCS/2600 back in the day).
I know the times-are-a-changin' but it is still very difficult to tell my real-life peers that I like video games without feeling somewhat embarrassed (I'm talking about non-gamers and folks in the "professional" sphere). The fact that an overwhelming majority of message boards are populated by teeny-boppers only makes things worse (i.e. I feel as if everyone else in my age cohort "grew up" and moved on with their lives).
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Here ya go!!
I tried to upload it to Youtube, but they have some retarded 10-minute limit. a$$holes.
Anyway I am able to upload this QUICKTIME version. You don't have Quicktime? TOO BAD! It should work with Quicktime 6, but you might need Quicktime 7 to hear the sound.
(Right) click here to download (http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/Turboqt.mov)
63.8 MB
Quicktime
320x240
15 fps (had to cut corners somewhere)
Sorenson 3 Pro video codec
MPEG4 audio (AAC) - mono
17 minutes, 53 seconds
The video features this little dipshit:
(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/dipshit.jpg)
Awesome!
Cool dude, now we need a version that is downloadable and burnable to DVD or VCD! :D
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I know the times-are-a-changin' but it is still very difficult to tell my real-life peers that I like video games without feeling somewhat embarrassed (I'm talking about non-gamers and folks in the "professional" sphere). The fact that an overwhelming majority of message boards are populated by teeny-boppers only makes things worse (i.e. I feel as if everyone else in my age cohort "grew up" and moved on with their lives).
To me, video gaming is just another hobby - pure and simple. I'd rather get some gaming time in, then watching the crap they put on TV networks these days. Unless ofcouse it's cartoon network - that's about the only thing my sons will watch on TV.
As kids, we spend our whole childhood pretending to be and imitating adults - now that I'm older I actually get to play as an adult :D Gotta be true to your inner child, my man 8)
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Cool dude, now we need a version that is downloadable and burnable to DVD or VCD! :D
So you want me to upload an M2V + AC3 version which you can mux yourself to burn a DVD?
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I got the Lords of Thunder video back in 1994.
I think it was from a company called Gadgets N' Games.
They were doing a three games for 19.99 deal. I believe the three I got were Last Alert, Valis III, and Fighting Street. And with that deal you got a cool DUO carrying case(allthough, I don't know where it went too...:( ) and the video.
crap, now I better find that case....
TurboSage
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So am I the only one who has noticed the "game" that little dipshit is playing in his Turbo Express in that picture?
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Joe, thanks a lot for the video, but I have actually seen this one before and is talked about in another thread somewhere. Black_Tiger sent me a awesome VCD copy he made of it and I enjoyed that video very much. It's always good to spread around this video :D .
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Oh yeah and that kid is hilarious as hell, especially how he is playing the System 2.0 card in his Turbo Express and having a hell of a time. My favorite part though is him rocking out with the Turbo CD player :D ! I took a screenshot of that and made it my wallpaper for awhile.
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PARTY TIME!!! EXCELLENT!!
I just made this GIF about 3 minutes before I saw your post.
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Oh HELL YES! ROCK ON!!! :D :lol:
Hahahahaha, thanks even more for that!
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PARTY TIME!!! EXCELLENT!!
Dear god I miss those times circa-1990. I'm serious. That's pure cheese, yet somehow I can feel the coolness of the times. Video needs more parachute pants and "Can't Touch This" music.
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Good times indeed.
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(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/dip.gif)
PARTY TIME!!! EXCELLENT!!
Dear god I miss those times circa-1990. I'm serious. That's pure cheese, yet somehow I can feel the coolness of the times. Video needs more parachute pants and "Can't Touch This" music.
Is that the opening credit sequence from "Saved By the Bell" ?
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Bahaha, I love those eighties designs with triangles and other weird shapes in the background with wild vibrant colors. I used to try to design those during one of my computer classes in school. Such a great style they were.
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Here ya go!!
I tried to upload it to Youtube, but they have some retarded 10-minute limit. a$$holes.
Anyway I am able to upload this QUICKTIME version. You don't have Quicktime? TOO BAD! It should work with Quicktime 6, but you might need Quicktime 7 to hear the sound.
This was EXCELLENT! Thanks very much for going through the effort.
Are there any other promo tapes known to exist? OP, is this the same one you had?
I love stuff like this.
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Cool dude, now we need a version that is downloadable and burnable to DVD or VCD! :D
So you want me to upload an M2V + AC3 version which you can mux yourself to burn a DVD?
Hell yeah dude, if it ain't too much trouble. If it is dude, don't worry about it!
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Thirty-something gamers unite! I try to refrain from commenting on younger gamers since...there's always someone older who thinks you are the young'un that doesn't remember the good ol' days. :)
:)
Seriously, though, it is very tough to relate to folks that feel that NES (or the 16-bit era) marked the beginning of video games... but even I am put in my place when folks talk about the various games and coin-ops that were around in the 60's / 70's (i.e. my uncle is really into old-skool pinball; he's also the one who got me into Atari VCS/2600 back in the day).
I know the times-are-a-changin' but it is still very difficult to tell my real-life peers that I like video games without feeling somewhat embarrassed (I'm talking about non-gamers and folks in the "professional" sphere). The fact that an overwhelming majority of message boards are populated by teeny-boppers only makes things worse (i.e. I feel as if everyone else in my age cohort "grew up" and moved on with their lives).
Eh, don't feel embarrassed. Everyone around me knows I collect video games & Transformers, & watch cartoons(mainly anime)& I'm proud of it. :D
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Thirty-something gamers unite! I try to refrain from commenting on younger gamers since...there's always someone older who thinks you are the young'un that doesn't remember the good ol' days. :)
:)
Seriously, though, it is very tough to relate to folks that feel that NES (or the 16-bit era) marked the beginning of video games... but even I am put in my place when folks talk about the various games and coin-ops that were around in the 60's / 70's (i.e. my uncle is really into old-skool pinball; he's also the one who got me into Atari VCS/2600 back in the day).
I know the times-are-a-changin' but it is still very difficult to tell my real-life peers that I like video games without feeling somewhat embarrassed (I'm talking about non-gamers and folks in the "professional" sphere). The fact that an overwhelming majority of message boards are populated by teeny-boppers only makes things worse (i.e. I feel as if everyone else in my age cohort "grew up" and moved on with their lives).
Eh, don't feel embarrassed. Everyone around me knows I collect video games & Transformers, & watch cartoons(mainly anime)& I'm proud of it. :D
Yeah, doesn't everybody? :twisted:
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(First Post, yay!)
As per the original topic, I actually have *2* of those old promo tapes.
One with a buncha games, and another where they *really* hyped Lords of Thunder(along with some others).
For thier worth, I imagine they're either worthless or worth alot, I imagine if you found a very hardcore collector you could probably get a fair chunk of change for it, Since if you consider the responses to this post any indictation, it seems barely anyone got these tapes, so I'd imagine they're quite rare.
Now that I think about it I'm gonna go dig them out of a box and digitize them, VHS doesn't have a long shelf life, so working copies(of those that exist still) may be even rarer.
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One thing I love about that scene with the kid holding the TG-CD is that no way in HELL would music be playing if you were holding the unit like that. The TG-CD had no skip protection technology so the CD lens would skip like crazy if it was moving.
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not to mention that neither the power cord nor the headphones are hooked up to the unit. In fact, if you look closely its probably just a plastic jewelry box. That little dipshit must have had some rockin tunes in his head.
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The headphones are indeed hooked up. You just can't tell because the GIF is not in super HDTV. The CD also has a little plastic cover that can go on the back to cover up the connection port. I'm pretty sure it's the real TG-16 CD player. I used to use mine to listen to CDs at night before I went to sleep. NEC demands you use the TG-16 AC Adapter and not the one for the TG-CD.
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Seriously, though, it is very tough to relate to folks that feel that NES (or the 16-bit era) marked the beginning of video games... but even I am put in my place when folks talk about the various games and coin-ops that were around in the 60's / 70's (i.e. my uncle is really into old-skool pinball; he's also the one who got me into Atari VCS/2600 back in the day).
I know the times-are-a-changin' but it is still very difficult to tell my real-life peers that I like video games without feeling somewhat embarrassed (I'm talking about non-gamers and folks in the "professional" sphere). The fact that an overwhelming majority of message boards are populated by teeny-boppers only makes things worse (i.e. I feel as if everyone else in my age cohort "grew up" and moved on with their lives).
My family's first real game system was Intellivision. We played it for years until it finally died and then replaced it with an Intellivision III.
Back then, both my parents played with us and at first, they were the best, but I quickly surpassed my Mother but never did get quite as good overall as my Dad on games like Lock N Chase.
I remember Space Invaders arcade machines, and might've seen the odd Pong cabinet, but they were already old 'n moldy by that point.
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I just picked up my third unique Turbografx-16 promo tape tonight.
Keranu, you're going to love it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen part of it online before. Two guys get "turbo charged" and make asses of themselves playing TG-16 games and rockin' out to CD tunes.
But the end is a crazy kalaedoscope of rapid cuts of PC Engine game footage, which is very cool and is a good way of showing what the system can do, but some of the stuff that comes up looks hilarious, in a UHF kinda way.
Anyways, I'm going to put all 3 videos onto DVD and should have the last 2 up on my site by the end of the weekend.
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(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/dip.gif)
PARTY TIME!!! EXCELLENT!!
I just made this GIF about 3 minutes before I saw your post.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Damn and i thought the SFII promo for the genesis was bad :P
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Here ya go!!
I tried to upload it to Youtube, but they have some retarded 10-minute limit. a$$holes.
Anyway I am able to upload this QUICKTIME version. You don't have Quicktime? TOO BAD! It should work with Quicktime 6, but you might need Quicktime 7 to hear the sound.
(Right) click here to download (http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/Turboqt.mov)
63.8 MB
Quicktime
320x240
15 fps (had to cut corners somewhere)
Sorenson 3 Pro video codec
MPEG4 audio (AAC) - mono
17 minutes, 53 seconds
The video features this little dipshit:
(http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/dipshit.jpg)
Awesome!
Down loaded it but the video is no good!? wtf
Man i wish you could get it onto youtube.com :cry:
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I just picked up my third unique Turbografx-16 promo tape tonight.
Keranu, you're going to love it.
I'm pretty sure I've seen part of it online before. Two guys get "turbo charged" and make asses of themselves playing TG-16 games and rockin' out to CD tunes.
But the end is a crazy kalaedoscope of rapid cuts of PC Engine game footage, which is very cool and is a good way of showing what the system can do, but some of the stuff that comes up looks hilarious, in a UHF kinda way.
Anyways, I'm going to put all 3 videos onto DVD and should have the last 2 up on my site by the end of the weekend.
RADICAL! I will download as soon as you have them up, you certainly know how much I love this stuff :D .
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Alright, all three of the Turbo promo tapes I own are now up in both low and high quality versions in the Videos section of my site.
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Although I HATE WMVs with a rather intense passion, I downloaded the first video anyway. The audio seems a tad distorted in the high quality version. Was it like this on the original tape, too? I must mention first that the WMV abruptly stopped when they were showing off Ys for the PC Engine at approximately 10:30. Downloaded it again and it did the same thing. The low quality version played all the way through.
And now for my eagerly awaited comments about the HILARIOUS "Get Turbocharged" video (the first one on the site):
0:30 - These guys are really fascinated by the dude on the TG-16 box!
1:43 - Turbobooster to put out unbelievable sound and vicious pictures! Try not to be too blown away by their example! I agree that composite video out of the TG-16 is rather "vicious" with its fuzzy scrolling and color bars. RGB is the way to go.
2:05 - I imagine that the dude on the right is REALLY helping his friend beat Mike Bison or Balrog or whatever his name is in Fighting Street. Keep waving your hand there, buddy. Your friend can't win without it!
2:19 - No need for a description here. Just laugh the night away at these two dorks listening to the TG-16 CD player.
2:31 - OK waitaminute. The case was stored vertically on a shelf. Dude picks it up and opens it yet the HuCard (without a sleeve) and it looks like it is still aligned almost perfectly in the center. HuCards without a sleeve flop around like a bitch!
2:43 - The close up of this dude and his goofy laugh is classic. I want to buy 5 more TurboGrafx-16's!
3:25 - In Legendary Axe, I must penetrate the "evil place". Ooooooo!!!! Not the evil place! Anything but that! Noooooo!!!!
3:40 - I need to be a skilled marksman to survive R-Type? I didn't know this was a light gun game. Did the PC Engine even have a light gun?
4:17 - It seems like this dude just squeezed out a quick fart, then the camera pans over to the dude on the left who begins to enjoy the smell.
4:48 - There they are again! These guys will never get laid.
4:53 - Wow these guys are sure excited that they defeated the first spider at the very beginning of level 1 in Legendary Axe. Yeah, it took me weeks to get past that part, too. :roll: They even have 50% of their life left. Man, they're good!
6:24 - Ordyne is an exciting space shooter? Is there even a space level anywhere in the game?
7:29 - NEC invites us to write them with our opinions of the PC Engine games that follow. That's going to be kind of hard since the games don't show any titles and last for only about 4 seconds each. I guess we could write in and say "I liked that one game... the one with the space ship. Bring that over as it looks cool. Don't bring over that game with the guy in it, though. That looks boring. So does that one game with the space ship. The other game with the space ship is still cool." It is amazing how few of the games shown made it over. Most of them looked like crap.
9:03 - Waitaminute... isn't that a SuperGrafx game? I can tell just by all of the incredible SuperGrafx power displayed.
9:12 - Hang-On on the Sega Master System looks better than this. Ug.
9:56 - I don't think American audiences would EVER be interested in something like this.
The End.
Thanks for uploading that!
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Damn, I can't watch WMV files right now, but I had a grand time reading Joe's comments! I can't wait to watch this tape, Black_Tiger :)
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Great comments joe, especially 0:30 ;) . I had the same exact problem as Joe where the high quality version cuts off when showing the PCE Ys but the lower quality showing the full thing. I absolutely love this video! It's about indenticle to the one featured on Aaron's PC Engine FX TV episode, but there seems to be some slight differences, like the sponsor voice saying some new things and the extra PCE footage at the end (which Aaron might've just cutted out to save space). I wonder where Aaron got his version from?
TOAST!
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My favorite parts are when the 'good looking', 'cool'(er) guy(not the nerd/dork) says "toast!" and "huh hoo, hyeah!"
Apparently, the last 10% of the "high quality" video didn't get uploaded, so I'll reload it tonight.
The sound isn't much better in the original dvd video I captured, but I didn't have the audio quality cranked up all the way either.
I was forced to switch to wmv's after divx stopped encoding properly. No matter what I set it to, it only made huge sized files, which got larger in size as I turned down the bit rate. This made it impossible to make videos just under youtube's 100 meg limit. Plus they seemed to get slightly less butchered when filtered through youtube.
I've got a divx of the first promo video rendering right now. If it turns out alright, I'll put it up later tonight.
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My favorite part is when they show how you can use the TGCD as a REAL CD player and when they put in some random CD, it plays this hilarious song and the 80's teen duo start dancing on their couch! Although to be honest, this scene was even funnier in the video Aaron added to PCEFX TV because it didn't have the sponsor talking when they were just about to play the CD and it made it sound funnier with the quiet pause. I also love how the setting seems to take place at dawn, though it's probably intended to be night. Nothing cooler than playing Turbo at dawn.
God this is so 80's-tastic, there is just too much too explain and some of it can't even be expressed! :lol:
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You need to try and express your thoughts! Do a timeline like I did.
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I might give it a shot, please give me some time to think ab00t it.
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I swapped the high quality wmv for "Get Turbocharged!", so it's now full length and added divx alternatives for all 3 promo videos(the Lords' divx is just the old file I had up before).
The divx's are almost the same size as the high quality wmv's, but the picture quality is poorer and the sound is not quite as nice.
0:30 - These guys are really fascinated by the dude on the TG-16 box!
I like how the dork shrugs and give the cool guy a look that says, "go ahead, what's the worst that could happen?" and seconds later they're both electrocuted by orange energy bolts. :P
1:43 - Turbobooster to put out unbelievable sound and vicious pictures! Try not to be too blown away by their example! I agree that composite video out of the TG-16 is rather "vicious" with its fuzzy scrolling and color bars. RGB is the way to go.
The Turbobooster made a big difference for me, since it eliminated the fuzzy scrolling and color bars that I got from using an RF switch. But I didn't know anyone with an RGB TV back then, let alone even knew what RGB was.
2:05 - I imagine that the dude on the right is REALLY helping his friend beat Mike Bison or Balrog or whatever his name is in Fighting Street. Keep waving your hand there, buddy. Your friend can't win without it!
It looks like they're having a VS game and the dorkier guy is playing with an Activator.
2:19 - No need for a description here. Just laugh the night away at these two dorks listening to the TG-16 CD player.
Makes me wonder if the whole thing even had a real director on the set, or if some guys from NEC just told them to play a few games, act "excited" and then show off their best dance moves.
2:31 - OK waitaminute. The case was stored vertically on a shelf. Dude picks it up and opens it yet the HuCard (without a sleeve) and it looks like it is still aligned almost perfectly in the center. HuCards without a sleeve flop around like a bitch!
This probably ate up half of the special effects buget.
4:17 - It seems like this dude just squeezed out a quick fart, then the camera pans over to the dude on the left who begins to enjoy the smell.
That's hilarious man. Everyone needs to read that and then check the video at 4:17. :lol:
4:48 - There they are again! These guys will never get laid.
I think that these guys would have no trouble getting laid. Just not by women.
7:29 - NEC invites us to write them with our opinions of the PC Engine games that follow. That's going to be kind of hard since the games don't show any titles and last for only about 4 seconds each. I guess we could write in and say "I liked that one game... the one with the space ship. Bring that over as it looks cool. Don't bring over that game with the guy in it, though. That looks boring. So does that one game with the space ship. The other game with the space ship is still cool." It is amazing how few of the games shown made it over. Most of them looked like crap.
It would've been nice if NEC actually had listened to their customers and if it really was true that they were commited to only bringing over the best PC Engine titles(as the announcer states just before that).
A lot of those PC Engine games looked like they could be fun and back then, everyone I knew wasn't so concerned with playing games that were state of the art graphics wise, we just wanted more games to play for our new systems.
I remember how it seemed like forever to get some more Genesis games after the initial batch, which I rented to death. The draw of new games is part of what got me to buy a Turbografx in the first place.
Which is why NEC's "It's easy to beat the competition when you've got them outnumbered" campaign was a good idea... if only they'd kept bringing over a steady number of quality games.
As for graphics, back then we didn't all have the benefit of hindsight from 20 years in the future, where we now judge all games for any console against the entire generation of it's time.
Everyone I knew back then just wanted something that they thought looked/sounded good compared to an NES game. Even though the Sega Master System already offered that(at least I got to enjoy the SMS in it's day).
It's ironic when I think of how many ugly games were thought of as awesome and how many beautiful games were ignored as ugly back in the day.
Anyways, I know that at the time, I would've been impressed by the overload of clips.
9:03 - Waitaminute... isn't that a SuperGrafx game? I can tell just by all of the incredible SuperGrafx power displayed.
That made me wonder for a minute if NEC had even made the PC Engine collage or if it was put together in Japan for PCE demos.
9:12 - Hang-On on the Sega Master System looks better than this. Ug.
I actually thought that it(Bari Bari Densetsu?) looked pretty cool for the 2 seconds it was up.
9:56 - I don't think American audiences would EVER be interested in something like this.
No, but it's a good 3 second example of how CD games can offer digitized graphics and clear voice.
At that point, there was only Fighting Street and Monster Lair and as a Turbo CD owner back then, I know how badly I wanted a game to use english CD voice and to do more than those first 2 games did.
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Haha, 4:17 comment was hilarious. I watched the video to see more what Joe was talking ab00t and it synced up very well :D .
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You forgot my comment about the dudes beating the spider in Legendary Axe.
Also, to this day I freakin' love the voices in Fighting Street. Funny thing is that they sound just like the arcade. Instead of "Round One" it's "wound won!" And every enemy says with the same voice "You've got a lot to learn before you beat me try again kid eh heh heh heh heh heh!"
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By the way, does anyone know what that PCE game is displayed around 8:23 into the video that shows a pair of fists punching a Japanese dude's head is? I've played every PCE ROM at least once before and can remember every other game shown in the video except that one. Looks hilarious, I am assuming it's a mini game of some other game.
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Oh crap! Look at 2:27 when he pulls out his Keith Courage game case. Look at the game that was right next to it on the shelf... KEITH COURAGE! What kind of sick, twisted, perverted individual has multiple copies of Keith Courage just in case one of them breaks down due to overplaying?
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Oh crap! Look at 2:27 when he pulls out his Keith Courage game case. Look at the game that was right next to it on the shelf... KEITH COURAGE! What kind of sick, twisted, perverted individual has multiple copies of Keith Courage just in case one of them breaks down due to overplaying?
I have multiple copies of Keith Courage, but no, I don't keep them together on a shelf, just in case.
I took a look at the dvd video of that scene, because the game next to it definately didn't say Keith Courage on the side. After a close look, it appears that the shelf is full of cases with different names on the spine, but all (except one?) of them have a Keith Courage manual.
I snapped a few pics of it-
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/tpv1.jpg
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/tpv2.jpg
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/tpv3.jpg
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You forgot my comment about the dudes beating the spider in Legendary Axe.
Once again, you pretty much summed it up.
Also, to this day I freakin' love the voices in Fighting Street. Funny thing is that they sound just like the arcade. Instead of "Round One" it's "wound won!" And every enemy says with the same voice "You've got a lot to learn before you beat me try again kid eh heh heh heh heh heh!"
I have every line and every voice of Fighting Street/Street Fighter memorized to this day.
Some of the best are-
"I never win!" (I'm number one?)
"You a big who!" (something about a fool?)
" Oh gay baby!" (Okay baby?)
I like that the Turbo CD Fighting Street kept the japanese names of Ryu & Ken's special moves. I was surprised when one day, years after mastering the Turbo CD game, I found a Street Fighter arcade with the giant buttons intact, pulled off a hadouken and Ryu yells out "Street Fighter!".
Playing through the arcade did at least confirm that the voices were faithful to the arcade, like with Forgotten Worlds.
By the way, does anyone know what that PCE game is displayed around 8:23 into the video that shows a pair of fists punching a Japanese dude's head is? I've played every PCE ROM at least once before and can remember every other game shown in the video except that one. Looks hilarious, I am assuming it's a mini game of some other game.
Keranu the first couple of times I saw that, I thought that it was a bonus round to the mahjong game, which would be pretty cool.
Like if you were to ask a North American gamer, "what would it take for you to try a mahjong video game?", their answer would probably be something like, "I don't know, maybe if you could beat the crap out of your opponent's face every time they have to king you."
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After a close look, it appears that the shelf is full of cases with different names on the spine, but all (except one?) of them have a Keith Courage manual.
Perhaps he just REALLY likes the Keith Courage comic and wants to read it before he plays any game since it inspires him to be all he can be.
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I snapped a few pics of it-
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/tpv1.jpg
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/tpv1.jpg
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/tpv1.jpg
You forgot to label the last two links as tpv2.jpg and tpv3.jpg :) .
Like if you were to ask a North American gamer, "what would it take for you to try a mahjong video game?", their answer would probably be something like, "I don't know, maybe if you could beat the crap out of your opponent's face every time they have to king you."
Hahahahaha, so true :D . I'll have to try finding this game, I would love to play that.
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I just noticed that at 2:07 in the video, where they're playing Fighting Street, Mike kicks their(Ryu's) ass. Then it cuts to the dorks high fiving each other shouting "ya!".
And then, at the last second, the "cool" guy does a gay wave (the kind of gesture one would make while saying "oh behave!") at the TV, while mouthing "ow!".
Also, the two clips of the guys 'dancing' are actually different. And in the last one with the "Sensational Sound!" subtitle, the dork is making a gesture that can only be...
anyone sensitive should stop reading now------------------------------
-giving a blow job while tickling the guy's balls. I'm not being sarcastic, check it out 4:47 in the video.
In case this post is one step away from being banned, I won't say what it is clearly obvious the same guy is doing with his other hand.
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Hahaha, I love that dance the nerd does in 4:47, though to be honest with you, I believe he is playing air guitar and not tickling a sack of balls :D .
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I just put together a new video inspired by and made from the "Get Turbocharged!" tape, called "Turbo Goofs!"
WMV-
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/turbo_goofs.wmv
Divx-
http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/turbo_goofs.avi
You certainly have a much more active imagination than I do Keranu. If that guy is playing air guitar, he's terrible at it. :P
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Hey guys, i have all these videos in one VOB file on my hub. I got them all from Aaron Nanto.......the dude that owns this incredible site.
My brother put them all on DVD for me, and then i ripped it, and rar'ed it.
it is kinds crazy.......the old ass clothes styles, and the stupid ass faces these kids make playing the games. TOTAL cheese. I don't think i ahve ever seen a cool ass home video. All of them must have the casting call for "total dorks apply only" sign in front of the audition room, with some amateur director that thinks he's the next Martin Scorsese, when he couldn't direct traffic if he had instructions.
Nostalgia sake is the only asset to keep you watching these goofy ass video's. Even if i had seen these back in the day i would have thought "Lamers".
I was so happy when Aaron made me these video's. I didn't even ask him to, and he sent me some free stickers, and a refrigerator magnet i believe.
I bought something other than merchandise from his website, and he sweetened the deal.
Aaron is a darn nice fella! :D
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I checked out the Turbo Goofs earlier today and got a huge kick out of! The music match up you did with the Lords music fit the scene perfectly, I was laughing my ass off! Great job dude!
You certainly have a much more active imagination than I do Keranu. If that guy is playing air guitar, he's terrible at it. :P
Hehe, well actually come to think of it, he could be playing an air bass guitar since he's picking the strings with all of his fingers :D . I can easily see how another person would think he's scratching a sack of marbles though :lol: .
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We need to find these dudes and get them to join up here on the forum so we can interview them. Maybe they can even make a new Turbo video with updated special effects, HDTV video and 6.1 DTS ES surround sound. We also need to find the li'l dipwad who dances with the Turbo CD player. I bet that's Keranu, though. His age seems about right now. :D
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Dude I only WISH I could dance half as good as that kid!