Where was tg16 popular?

[johnnykonami]

I'm from MD (grew up in Baltimore County) and I got a TG-16 and a Duo as soon as they came out.  I had three friends who all also had a Duo once I joined a Anime club in my teens, also had some exposure to Mega Drive and SFC games for the first time there.  I don't think I ever met another TG-16 owner, and the common opinion from my friends was that I had backed the losing console, but I never felt like that.  I always had different and interesting stuff to play than everyone else, and I still got to play SNES/Genesis through my friends so I don't feel like I missed out at all.  Major bragging rights when Drac X came out too.  That was fun, it was the "told you this was a good platform!" game for many people who were previously unimpressed.

[TR0N]

I'm from MD (grew up in Baltimore County) and I got a TG-16 and a Duo as soon as they came out.  I had three friends who all also had a Duo once I joined a Anime club in my teens, also had some exposure to Mega Drive and SFC games for the first time there.  I don't think I ever met another TG-16 owner, and the common opinion from my friends was that I had backed the losing console, but I never felt like that.  I always had different and interesting stuff to play than everyone else, and I still got to play SNES/Genesis through my friends so I don't feel like I missed out at all.  Major bragging rights when Drac X came out too.  That was fun, it was the "told you this was a good platform!" game for many people who were previously unimpressed.

Pretty much what i went through as well.My friends at the time thought the same thing that i backed the wrong console by going with a TG16+Turbo CD.

[DragonmasterDan]

Semi on topic, apparently Konami had a Wooddale IL office too.  Anyone have any hint sheets like these from NES?  Didn't realize so much went on in Wooddale.

Wood Dale is right by O'Hare airport. It was/is relative to its small size a pretty popular location for foreign companies to operate their US operations from as it has easy access to railways to ship products and such a large airport in a central location.
 

[otterboxer]

in the uk it was almost non existent. I knew about the pcengine express before i knew about the pcengine. I remember seeing it in a magazine and being amazed at the thing and the price tag.

Up here in Cheshire was mega drive country. quite a few peeps had a super nintendo but sega had the edge sale wise imho

[johnnykonami]

Pretty much what i went through as well.My friends at the time thought the same thing that i backed the wrong console by going with a TG16+Turbo CD.

To this day I have a friend from way back then who still insists the SNES is superior to everything.  He never bought any Turbo stuff but he often laments the Sega CD he received and even poo-poos the poor Genny too even though we share many good memories of Lunar, Splatterhouse 2+3, and playing around with his Super Pro Fighter copier (I believe that's the one that did both Genesis and SNES).  25 years later he still insists on fighting the 90's console war!  It's cool though, no one else's opinions held much sway with me, I was always pleased with my alignment to the Turbo.

[DragonmasterDan]

in the uk it was almost non existent. I know about the pcengine express before i knew about the pcengine. I remember seeing it in a magazine and being amazed at the thing and the price tag.

Up here in Cheshire was mega drive country. quite a few peeps had a super nintendo but sega had the edge sale wise imho

It only had a very limited test market release in the UK. So no surprise there

[Bonknuts]

I had all three systems; tg16, gen, snes. Then got a Duo. Almost got the SegaCD, but a friend had it and it took forever for anything I wanted to come out on it. A handful of friends and I would order import games for our systems when the US wasn't delivering stuffs we wanted or just wanted the exotic games. A lot of my Duo collection were imports. Except for Genocide, we usually got good games on import for the Duo (even RPGs we played through like Xanadu, Ys IV, Emerald Dragon, and others).

 So maybe for some, the Duo and TG16 line up dried up during the SNES and Genesis battle as it raged on, but for my circle of friends - it continued on. I liked all three, but because of all the imports we did - the Duo was my favorite console.

[technozombie]

In my small town of <10k people it was non-existent. I remember seeing it for sale at EB in a neighboring city, but I dont remember seeing it at TRU. That could have to do with my age, I would have been 9 in 1989. I got my first TG16 from a garage sale. I don't remember when it was, but I do know it was  during the 16bit era. I read a ton of gaming magazines in the grocery store while my mom shoppes and I always wanted one. Primarily I remember seeing Bonk commercials on TV.

[henrycsc]

I was in college when the turbo came out.  Babbages, Service Merchandise, EB and TRU were really the only retail outlets locally in SC.  A couple mom and pop rental stores had games as well.  I had about 10 people into turbo just because of showing it off, but it never caught on.  Once NEC stopped the advertisements, availability really went downhill.
My buddy and I would occasionally drive up to Raleigh, NC to check out import games at Buy-Rite (we found out about it through the Turbo List.)  The guy sold things mail order too, but he was a piece of work dealing with over the phone.  His was by far the best selection of stuff, so I assume Raleigh had some market.  We ended up getting Drac, Shubibinman 3, Nexzr, Spriggan, Cho Aniki, Metal Stoker, and a bunch of other great games from him over several years.  He gave us each a hucard converter when we bought our first import hueys.

[TR0N]

Pretty much what i went through as well.My friends at the time thought the same thing that i backed the wrong console by going with a TG16+Turbo CD.

To this day I have a friend from way back then who still insists the SNES is superior to everything.  He never bought any Turbo stuff but he often laments the Sega CD he received and even poo-poos the poor Genny too even though we share many good memories of Lunar, Splatterhouse 2+3, and playing around with his Super Pro Fighter copier (I believe that's the one that did both Genesis and SNES).  25 years later he still insists on fighting the 90's console war!  It's cool though, no one else's opinions held much sway with me, I was always pleased with my alignment to the Turbo.

You do have fans that like to put snes on a pedestal.Say any thing bad about it and they freak out and all.Though i don't get any more flack by any one for having a pce collection.Was,obscure console isn't any more now that the pce has gotten more exposure over time.I'm not loyal any more since i have all three again a snes,pce,genesis and i play whatever i'm in the mood for.

[DragonmasterDan]

My buddy and I would occasionally drive up to Raleigh, NC to check out import games at Buy-Rite (we found out about it through the Turbo List.)  The guy sold things mail order too, but he was a piece of work dealing with over the phone.  His was by far the best selection of stuff, so I assume Raleigh had some market.  We ended up getting Drac, Shubibinman 3, Nexzr, Spriggan, Cho Aniki, Metal Stoker, and a bunch of other great games from him over several years.  He gave us each a hucard converter when we bought our first import hueys.

I bought from Buy Rite a few times as well. I was fortunate and didn't have any issues but I know a lot of people did.