Best Turbo Story Aka Good Memories

[blueraven]

well done mr. genno

Seconded

[RR1980]

I guess I'll bring out my Ninja Spirit story, again. lol

It was only a month or two after I received my TG for Christmas ('89) and I needed to have Ninja Spirit. I was a little kid and didn't have very much cash on hand, so I emptied out my big bucket of pennies and started the rolling process. Radio Shack didn't exactly have discount prices on the TG, at that time - I think the average price of a game back then ranged from $60 to $80, if not more. The Canadian dollar sucked donkey dick at that time, so that could have been why things were priced so high. I don't know, maybe that was pretty standard pricing. It just seems high looking back.

Anyway, it took me roughly two days of continuous rolling to get enough money together. I wasn't using any type of fancy schmancy As Seen on TV coin sorter, either. It was just me, my pennies, scissors and a ton of looseleaf and scotch tape.

The fun wasn't over yet. Then I walked over a frozen over lake to get to the mall, carrying over $80 worth of rolled pennies in the middle of the winter. It was a cold winter, hence the frozen lake. When I finally got to the mall, the sales guy actually took my pennies and I had Ninja Spirit! Woot!

It was totally worth it.

aww that story was so cute! You could have asked your parents to go to the bank and gotten paper rolls to roll pennies for you and also you could have just make one roll and then use that one roll as a standard and just stack up other rolls against that one! I used to have to roll hundreds of dollars worth of coins daily so I learned a few tricks hehe it was also very impressive that you had $80 worth of pennies at that age! when I was reading your story I was afraid that you might have slipped and fell and the rolling paper you used might have broken and pennies would have been everywhere on that frozen lake! Actually I believe there is a law (dunno if it's provincial or federal) that states you are only allowed to use  up to I think $10 worth of pennies at a time so it was really nice of that guy at radio shack to accept your pennies and the story had a good ending since you got to play Ninja Spirit!

[ceti alpha]

I guess I'll bring out my Ninja Spirit story, again. lol

It was only a month or two after I received my TG for Christmas ('89) and I needed to have Ninja Spirit. I was a little kid and didn't have very much cash on hand, so I emptied out my big bucket of pennies and started the rolling process. Radio Shack didn't exactly have discount prices on the TG, at that time - I think the average price of a game back then ranged from $60 to $80, if not more. The Canadian dollar sucked donkey dick at that time, so that could have been why things were priced so high. I don't know, maybe that was pretty standard pricing. It just seems high looking back.

Anyway, it took me roughly two days of continuous rolling to get enough money together. I wasn't using any type of fancy schmancy As Seen on TV coin sorter, either. It was just me, my pennies, scissors and a ton of looseleaf and scotch tape.

The fun wasn't over yet. Then I walked over a frozen over lake to get to the mall, carrying over $80 worth of rolled pennies in the middle of the winter. It was a cold winter, hence the frozen lake. When I finally got to the mall, the sales guy actually took my pennies and I had Ninja Spirit! Woot!

It was totally worth it.

aww that story was so cute! You could have asked your parents to go to the bank and gotten paper rolls to roll pennies for you and also you could have just make one roll and then use that one roll as a standard and just stack up other rolls against that one! I used to have to roll hundreds of dollars worth of coins daily so I learned a few tricks hehe it was also very impressive that you had $80 worth of pennies at that age! when I was reading your story I was afraid that you might have slipped and fell and the rolling paper you used might have broken and pennies would have been everywhere on that frozen lake! Actually I believe there is a law (dunno if it's provincial or federal) that states you are only allowed to use  up to I think $10 worth of pennies at a time so it was really nice of that guy at radio shack to accept your pennies and the story had a good ending since you got to play Ninja Spirit!

Yeah, I definitely could have made things easier on myself, but I did eventually get a convoluted system going. lol

I think I was really lucky that the sales guy accepted my pennies. Eighty dollars in pennies is rather excessive. haha

[bernielindell]

This story is how I cam to be the owner of a Turbo Duo.

I had wanted this system for a LONG time, and my mom knew it.  So, she actually let me show her what I wanted, and she bought it about a month before Christmas.  I want to say it was the year 1992, but it could have been 1993.  Anyway, she bought the system and like 20 games or more to go with it.  Ones I remember in that bunch were Dragon Slayer, both Exiles, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Riot Zone, Shapeshifter, and a bunch of other CD/Super CD games.  My father had a TG-16, so I wasnt interested in Hu-Card games at that time.  I had fallen in love with Dragon Slayer after seeing a friend play it and witnessing for the first time, speech and CD quality music, with animation/cinemas.  She also bought this CD storage cabinet for me to keep my games in.  The catch was I could NOT have it till X-mas, and she wrapped it up and placed it under the tree. 

Needless to say, the package called to me every day.  It wanted me to play it.  So...I carefully opened the Turbo, and took the system out of the box.  I then placed some of my jeans in the empty box to give it some weight, and put it back under the tree.  I dont remember how I got Dragon Slayer unwrapped tho, but I know its the one I got out to play.  Anyhow, I then had to hide the damn thing.  So, my TV was on this entertainment system I had bought, and it had drawers at the bottom, which is where I kept my clothes.  At this time, I had turned my bedroom into my own little living room.  I had a sofa bed that I closed up during the day, and my TV was set up right across from it.  I ended up taking the bottom out of the lower drawer, and hooking the system up under there.  I would just hook up the A/V cables when I wanted to play.  Christmas morning was interesting.  Apon opening the present, she expected me to rip open the box and everything..  Of course I couldnt do that, so I just casually put it aside and took it in my room a little later.  I got away with this, until last year.  I finally fessed up, cuz I felt terrible.  lol.  Aint that crazy?  I was 15 maybe 16, and now I am 35 but I had to tell her.  But, thats my Turbo story.  I loved that system, and still do!!

[ceti alpha]

This story is how I cam to be the owner of a Turbo Duo.

I had wanted this system for a LONG time, and my mom knew it.  So, she actually let me show her what I wanted, and she bought it about a month before Christmas.  I want to say it was the year 1992, but it could have been 1993.  Anyway, she bought the system and like 20 games or more to go with it.  Ones I remember in that bunch were Dragon Slayer, both Exiles, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Riot Zone, Shapeshifter, and a bunch of other CD/Super CD games.  My father had a TG-16, so I wasnt interested in Hu-Card games at that time.  I had fallen in love with Dragon Slayer after seeing a friend play it and witnessing for the first time, speech and CD quality music, with animation/cinemas.  She also bought this CD storage cabinet for me to keep my games in.  The catch was I could NOT have it till X-mas, and she wrapped it up and placed it under the tree. 

Needless to say, the package called to me every day.  It wanted me to play it.  So...I carefully opened the Turbo, and took the system out of the box.  I then placed some of my jeans in the empty box to give it some weight, and put it back under the tree.  I dont remember how I got Dragon Slayer unwrapped tho, but I know its the one I got out to play.  Anyhow, I then had to hide the damn thing.  So, my TV was on this entertainment system I had bought, and it had drawers at the bottom, which is where I kept my clothes.  At this time, I had turned my bedroom into my own little living room.  I had a sofa bed that I closed up during the day, and my TV was set up right across from it.  I ended up taking the bottom out of the lower drawer, and hooking the system up under there.  I would just hook up the A/V cables when I wanted to play.  Christmas morning was interesting.  Apon opening the present, she expected me to rip open the box and everything..  Of course I couldnt do that, so I just casually put it aside and took it in my room a little later.  I got away with this, until last year.  I finally fessed up, cuz I felt terrible.  lol.  Aint that crazy?  I was 15 maybe 16, and now I am 35 but I had to tell her.  But, thats my Turbo story.  I loved that system, and still do!!

hahaha. You were a little sneak! Great story, though.

How did your mom react when you fessed up?

[RR1980]

yeah it was a little much to let a kid know there's this great gaming system here but you can't play it for another month hehe

[alexsduo]

I know I got mad turbo gear from TRU, back in the day.  They had those cards where you took it to the front, and they then gave/sold you the game.  I bet that cut down on a lot of fraud...