Which announced but unreleased Turbo game are you most disappointed about?

[MotherGunner]

I remember that.  I posted some screenshots for Ziria 360 back in the day.  These are great games.  I put them up there with Ys and its sad they never made it here.

Speaking of which, have you guys seen this article?

It does correlate with what has been happening for a while now.

http://www.1up.com/features/japanese-games-breaking-west

[DragonmasterDan]

I remember that.  I posted some screenshots for Ziria 360 back in the day.  These are great games.  I put them up there with Ys and its sad they never made it here.

Speaking of which, have you guys seen this article?

It does correlate with what has been happening for a while now.

http://www.1up.com/features/japanese-games-breaking-west

Yeah, I read through it.

Really though, it is reversed. Westerners were buying Japanese games, that were for all intents and purposes just as Japanese as they were before. It's just that there's so much more Western stuff out there specifically aimed at Westerners that the Japanese and Western markets have started to split significantly.

[MotherGunner]

Agreed.  Luckily most games are easy to import as they contain english.  It's the RPGs that are a PITA.

[henrycsc]

I don't think there's any way it could've been Spriggan 2, there's lot's of dialogue in it, which means lot's of translating, even if they left out the voices.  Terraforming was probably either cheap, or free for them to bring over. 

I only said it because this was what my friend and I believed back in the day.  With efforts like Beyond Shadowgate, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to think that they could have aimed higher.  Once we got Terraforming, my friend and I just looked at each other and asked "how did they pick this game?"  It's a great game, but free or not, it did little to expand the market of the Duo in the US.

Even a US Dracula X or Sapphire wouldn't have saved the system by that time, but it could have sent it off with a bang.  I suppose they could have released a US Virtual Cushion and Hi Leg Fantasy.  Take the Wii marketing scheme to a whole new level.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Found the pics of Riftwar Saga, I know it's not absolutely incredible looking, but, I've always had an interest in it none the less


As for Japanese gaming.  While today I do buy more Western games then BITD, most of my games are from Japan.  I still love Jp games more over Western in general, though the gap between them is smaller. 

[_joshuaTurbo]

wow PD, that looks amazing!!  I've never heard of Riftwar Saga till this moment.

[DragonmasterDan]

wow PD, that looks amazing!!  I've never heard of Riftwar Saga till this moment.

BTW, I found a few other games TTI showed off at CES's. These include Snatcher (yes, I'm serious), Image Fight II, I also found very brief video of King of the Monsters 2 and World Heroes along with some others. I may put up pictures in a little bit.

[DragonmasterDan]

Here's some pictures from a CES of some unreleased games or banners for unreleased games.

[Necromancer]

Once we got Terraforming, my friend and I just looked at each other and asked "how did they pick this game?"

I think they were banking on Syd Mead's name to help to sell the game.  Didn't work.

[Arkhan]

Once we got Terraforming, my friend and I just looked at each other and asked "how did they pick this game?"

I think they were banking on Syd Mead's name to help to sell the game.  Didn't work.

the flaw in that plan is Syd Mead fans didn't buy the Turbob because it wasn't called Syd Mead's Turbob Grafx-16

[KingDrool]

Ah yes, I remember seeing stuff for Ranma 1/2 and Snatcher. It was Snatcher that really got me excited back in the day. Years later, I eventually got it on the Sega CD, weeping for my poor Turbo Duo and that it missed out on such a great game.

That last batch of announced-but-unreleased games was really great. Thanks for the post, Dan.

[DragonmasterDan]

Ah yes, I remember seeing stuff for Ranma 1/2 and Snatcher. It was Snatcher that really got me excited back in the day. Years later, I eventually got it on the Sega CD, weeping for my poor Turbo Duo and that it missed out on such a great game.

That last batch of announced-but-unreleased games was really great. Thanks for the post, Dan.

No problem, I figured photo evidence of some of these would be useful. For World Heroes and King of the Monsters 2, all I had were title screens.

[Senshi]

Was dracula X announced or just not thought about?

[Mathius]

Was dracula X announced or just not thought about?

I doubt it was even considered due to the Turbo being on life support at that time.

[DragonmasterDan]

I doubt it was even considered due to the Turbo being on life support at that time.

It looks like TTI licensed two games from Konami that never got released. One of the Gradius games, and Snatcher. Neither of which saw the light of day. Dracula X came out almost a year after all those games I showed you below were shown off by TTI. TTI had enough trouble releasing games they had the rights to before they could worry about ones they didn't.