Was the TurboGrafx-16 or any of it's variants your first 16-bit quality console?

[Shrapnoid]

Dang man, you made out.

Bitch, I had NES, SNES, Genesis, GameBoy, Game Gear, an Amiga 500 and a C64 AND an atari 2600 by the time I was 6!

WHO MADE OUT NOW.

Dang. I'm surrounded by rich kids.

Really! My first system was a little Coleco Gemini that my mom got on clearance at Zayer *after* the great vg crash of '83-'84.
I didn't get another system until Christmas of '87 when one of my bro's surprised me with an NES/SMB pack-in and a copy of Akari Warriors.

After that, I started buying my own stuff.

[frozenintears]

Back when i was a little kid, my dad bought me the TG-16 for my birthday. He could have bought any of the other consoles out at the time. Recently I asked him if he could remember why exactly did he choose to buy me a TG-16? and all he said was, he liked the design of the console. He liked the way it looked lol.

I am glad for his decisions.

[Shrapnoid]

Back when i was a little kid, my dad bought me the TG-16 for my birthday. He could have bought any of the other consoles out at the time. Recently I asked him if he could remember why exactly did he choose to buy me a TG-16? and all he said was, he liked the design of the console. He liked the way it looked lol.

I am glad for his decisions.

I know just what you mean. One of the ad scans I posted in another thread jogged my memory.
Now I recall that it was near the end of 1990 when I got mine.
The way I remember, I was 18 at the time and me, my bro and mom went shopping and I had a little over 200 cash that I was determined was going to be spent on either a TG16 or Genesis.
We went to Roses (a rapidly vanishing department store) first and that's when I saw it.
I saw the difference in the price and the option to send off for a free game in addition to having a pack-in game.
I made my decision then and there.
My mom and bro tried to shame me for not hanging on to that money to buy Christmas presents for people but, it was just so much of a better deal compared to what Sega was offering that I couldn't pass it up.
 

[soop]

I've told my story before, but here it is again.

There's a second hand chain int he UK called Cash Converters.  I happened to pop into one a few weeks before my birthday many years ago, and saw a boxed GT with 7 games for £70.  They clearly didn't know what they had there, and I begged my Dad to get it for me for my birthday.  He went to get some cash (this was before most stores had card machines) and it was the longest 5 minutes of my life.  I stood there "guarding" the glass display case, terrified that someone was gonna beat me to it.  Well my Dad asked me if I was sure that this is what I wanted.

Never been so sure in my life.  Best present ever.

By the way, the games were Afterburner II, Shinobi, PC Kid 2, Cyber Core, Altered Beast, Bari Bari Densetsu, and Son Son II.  Next I would get Street Fighter II and The Kung Fu, and it would be many years until I found eBay and bought Puzznic and Shubibinman II.  Sadly, although I dtried, I never actually paid for those games; it was a bad bad time financially and though I sent him a postal order he sent it back to me as he couldn't cash it in Japan somehow.  By that time I was flat broke (as in actually no money at all, moved back in with my parents and owed back rent), and the eBay account is long gone.

Anyway, that console, my precious first GT.  I think I'm gonna have it buried with me.  Even now I own 2 boxed GTs and the new one is in better condition, I'm never selling the original.  I'm even terrified of getting the caps replaced.

[Shrapnoid]

That's a pretty cool story. I know that kind of anxiety when you find something for sale and suddenly feel that it's yours and anyone who so, much as glances at it while passing by seems to activate some primal instinct within you that says "Move on! I saw it first! Stop looking over here!"

I had those feelings in my younger days too but, I try not let them drive me like that anymore.
As far as having it buried with you, just remember the old saying: "You can't take it with you when you go."

[frozenintears]

As far as having it buried with you, just remember the old saying: "You can't take it with you when you go."

lol, tell that to the pharaohs!!

I mean comon, wouldn't you want someone to build you a pyramid, mummify you, stuff you into a sarchophagus and lock it all up with all your consoles, video games, memorabilia etc.?

I know you would love that.

[Shrapnoid]

As far as having it buried with you, just remember the old saying: "You can't take it with you when you go."

lol, tell that to the pharaohs!!

I mean comon, wouldn't you want someone to build you a pyramid, mummify you, stuff you into a sarchophagus and lock it all up with all your consoles, video games, memorabilia etc.?

I know you would love that.

Nah, not me. I just want my stuff to go to someone who will take care of it, play with it, display it and study up on it's history so, they can tell everyone about what a great system it and it's games were. 

[soop]