Let me tell you a story:
Long, long ago when dinosaurs walked the earth, and people still dressed in polyester, I had a Turbografx 16. It took my town forever to even sell the darn things, but I'd always wanted one ever since the egm review of Legendary Axe. My folks were kind of poor, and not very into the video game thing, but my brother picked one up at Toys R Us right before the Turby got the royal boot from the marketplace. A system and ten games for about $70. The dummy hated it. Lucky for me, he loved the SNES, which I loathed, and so we traded systems. Ha!
I fell in love with the thing right off. Games like Legendary Axe II, Silent Debuggers, and Military madness became beloved classics I returned to time and time again. There were never very many games in the small town where I lived, but I grabbed all of them I could. I played the system for about a decade, before real life drew me on to other interests.
With the dawn of the new millenium, I sold off a bunch of my old game stuff. Must have been the post Y2K hysteria. I was an idiot. The Turby was the last to go, to a guy I met at a game store who five years later, became one of my best friends. I always regretted selling the system. I never tried to get another one because I figured I'd never be able to track down all the cool stuff I'd lost. I kept my old Atari stuff, and started collecting that.
Until a week ago, that is. The same friend I'd sold my deck hooked me up with a HUGE pile of hucards (I'll post details later). I also recently managed to find a system, a Turbo Express, and about ten games on my own. Basically, I'm going from zero to a full on collection in one fell swoop! Awesome. I also scored a Coregrafx II off of evilbay to play all of the cheap PC-Engine cards.
I'm a long-time collector of the older 8-bit systems, but I never really much liked the 16-bit stuff. Neither the Genesis or the SNES ever really captured my attention, though I played them back in the day. I'd forgotten all about the TG-16 until recently, and I find myself playing it constantly now. There are so many unique and different games on it, and it's shooter heaven (which is a genre I'd almost forgotten about). I'm loving it. I guess I finally found a '16'-bit system that I really like.
Anyways, nice to meet all of you. I'll post my swesome score in a couple of weeks when I get the details worked out.
Topic: Saying hello to an old friend (Read 348 times)
