Are you in it just for the CD ROM games?

[BEERS AND VIDEOS]

Just curious to know how many folks on here are just here because they like the CD ROM classics and not so much the HuCard titles. Why are you here? Let us know!

[Bernie]

I am in it for both the Hu-Cards and the CD games.  Not ALL of them, but the ones I will actually play.  Now, I may just get the entire TG-16 collection just for the sake of collecting.  For the PC Engine side, I will only get the ones I pick and choose. 

[Necromancer]

I'm in it for fun games, format be damned.  That said, developers favored discs more and more as time passed, so many of the best games are on CDs.

[SignOfZeta]

I used to be, but then I realized how much I was missing. At least half of the best games are HuCards. This isn't so much because of the difference in format but more because the system trended to heavily to RPGs and sims in the later years as CD became dominant. I like RPGs and sims, but I also like platformers, shooters, etc.

[vestcoat]

I split my time playing hucards and cds 50/50.  I like hucards because they play like spiffed-up 8-bit games, while the CD's satisfy my 16-bit cravings.  Without junk like Falcon, Andre Panza, and random sports titles, the CD library is slightly stronger overall.  On the other hand, I find hucards easier to pick up and play.  I can play them on my TE and I have a dedicated TG16 w/TB+ so I never have to hassle swapping out Tennokoe Bank slots.

[Black Tiger]

CD-ROM games tend to be more technically advanced and have more content aesthetically and in general, but if you appreciate good games, you can't ignore the HuCards. There's gotta be like 100 fun HuCard games that aren't mahjong, pachinko, digital comic, text heavy war sims, etc... which stereotypical "westerners" should enjoy.

[BlackandBlue]

When you are without HuCard, you are without chiptunes (mostly).  Why would you do that to yourself?

[majors]

CD was a big draw early on, but I enjoy the purchase of a loose Hu a lot nowdays. I got or had all the CDs I ever wanted, and cards are just too cool a format!

[Black Tiger]

When you are without HuCard, you are without chiptunes (mostly).  Why would you do that to yourself?

I think that there are more chiptunes in CD games than HuCards. Many CD games have more chip tunes than the average HuCard.

[_joshuaTurbo]

I started out being mainly interested in CD games (especially SCD) But I've grown to love the Huey's just as much!

I mean really, what other console has games that can span from 8-bit Nintendo all the way to NEO GEO?!

[td741]

I was a bit of a CD-only snob when I first started out [with a preference for SCDs].  (Sound was a big thing for me and I didn't like the sound of TG's chip-tunes.  I generally like chip tunes but there was something about the TG's "twang" that didn't work for me).

Then I started to look into more and more Hueys to pad the time between CD releases.

Shockman, Blazing Lazers and Soldier Blade turned me around.  However, it still doesn't mean that I appreciate all chip-tunes, for the most part the music in Bonk still grates my nerves...  Bonk 3 CD softened the blow, but they still kept that annoying out-of-tune end of level chime as chip-tunes.

[sheath]

I have an even mix.  Since I don't care about cutscenes and I like to hear chip tunes push the hardware, I think I generally prefer HuCard games.  Plus, there just aren't any platformers as good as Legendary Axe and Ninja Spirit for the CD. 

[_joshuaTurbo]

Shockman, Blazing Lazers and Soldier Blade turned .....

Finally another guys that appreciates Shockman!!
Shockman, Order of the Griffon, and Air Zonk totally made me fall in love with Hueys! 

[Necromancer]

Plus, there just aren't any platformers as good as Legendary Axe and Ninja Spirit for the CD. 

I take it you haven't played Dracula X or Schbibin Man 3?

[sheath]

I haven't played Schbibin Man 3, I own Rondo of Blood I just wasn't thinking when I chose the word "any".