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Gogan

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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #30 on: April 27, 2012, 06:38:16 AM »
Keith Courage ca. 1989

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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #31 on: April 27, 2012, 07:45:41 AM »
In 1990, I entered and won a contest for a TG-16 system with 2 games, "Keith Courage" and "Bloody Wolf", so it'd be one of the two... I would bet that at the first glance of Keith Courage, given the way the first level starts, I probably didn't give it a chance initially (not yet knowing that you transform into a robot and the real action begins), so I'd bet that I started playing Bloody Wolf first, an obvious, kickass-looking action game that was easy to get in to! So yeah, Bloody Wolf!
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #32 on: April 27, 2012, 07:52:45 AM »
Bonk on a store demo unit at the local mall in the early 90's. Might sound pretty mundane, but keep in mind this was in Europe. That was the only time I ever saw the Turbo or any games for it.

Memory of that single game all those years ago brought me back when shitty current gen standards pushed me to start buying older gen games a few years back.
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #33 on: April 27, 2012, 08:01:04 AM »
Keith Courage, Christmas 1990. I knew little-to-nothing about the console, but my Dad got it for me because it was a whopping $20 cheaper than the Genesis at the store he went to. The only things I had seen about it were the cartoon ads for Bonk and Splatterhouse, which I thought were bad ass.

I remember popping in Keith Courage for the first time and thinking it looked pretty awesome graphically. I was a little disappointed by how one-dimensional it seemed, though. No real hidden areas, etc. After playing Super Marios 2 and 3, I was hoping for a bit more depth, I guess.

The only Christmas that topped that one was the year I got a Turbo Duo. Best-Christmas-EVER!
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #34 on: April 27, 2012, 05:58:28 PM »
I got a Turbo Grafx 16 from Babbages with Keith Courage of course. But shortly after that I ordered some used games from Game Dude. There was Bonk's Adventure, Neutopia, Ninja Spirit, and maybe a couple others. Not a bad lineup. I had a SNES at that point but kept coming back to the Turbo. Still do.
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #35 on: April 27, 2012, 10:42:46 PM »
My first time was with my next door neighbors around 91. The first one I tried was Battle Royale, of which my only memory (from that session) was the character select screen. I just remember being disgusted by the gameplay. We made it a trifecta that day with China Warrior and Axe II.
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2012, 02:21:03 AM »
Mine was Keith Courage in 1989. I got a TG16 at launch. At first KC blew me away with its graphics. But its gameplay soon underwhelmed me.
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #37 on: April 28, 2012, 03:21:22 AM »
First for me was Bonk's Adventure at a game store kiosk when I was a kid. Then my neighbor who's mom owned a game store let him take home a duo with Super Air Zonk
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #38 on: April 30, 2012, 09:21:45 AM »
My first play would have been Chan and Chan in early 1990 on the PCE.
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #39 on: May 01, 2012, 06:24:09 AM »
Bloody Wolf at a friend of my brother's house in the early 90s. Hadn't touched a TG-16 since I finally bought one in 2010, and the first game I played then was Keith Courage. I've played Bloody Wolf, since (mainly for nostalgia, yet strangely I hardly remembered it), and it's nothing like I thought it'd be, hahaha!
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #40 on: May 01, 2012, 11:59:09 AM »
First game I played was Keith Courage back in Dec 89'. My parents chose the Turbo over the Genesis that year for a Christmas present. They also got me Blazing Lazers along with the system... what an awesome Christmas that year!

To this day, I still have that original Turbo system that I got over 22 years ago... it still works and I play it regularly!
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #41 on: May 01, 2012, 02:06:07 PM »
The first game that I ever played was Bonk's Revenge. I believe that was in 1995. I recently bought a turbo grafx, I'm mostly a super nintendo collector but really enjoyed my friends tg16 when I was younger.been playing bonk's revenge again :D
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #42 on: May 01, 2012, 03:09:38 PM »
My first wasn't until 2001 or so when I discovered that TZD.com still sold new Duos. I bought a Duo with the Gates 4 in 1 disc, and I'm pretty sure Bonk's Adventure was the first game I played. I didn't really care for it, so I quickly switched to Gate of Thunder and was blown away.

Oddly enough, I didn't really appreciate Bonk's Adventure until sometime last year when I gave it another chance. I really like it now!
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #43 on: May 02, 2012, 02:52:37 AM »
Quote from: JKM on May 01, 2012, 03:09:38 PM
My first wasn't until 2001 or so when I discovered that TZD.com still sold new Duos. I bought a Duo with the Gates 4 in 1 disc, and I'm pretty sure Bonk's Adventure was the first game I played. I didn't really care for it, so I quickly switched to Gate of Thunder and was blown away.

Oddly enough, I didn't really appreciate Bonk's Adventure until sometime last year when I gave it another chance. I really like it now!

They didn't start selling them til around 2001, they had kept a backstop of new ones to swap out as part of their repair program. When the repair program ceased via TZD they started selling their inventory of Duo's and Expresses.
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Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
« Reply #44 on: May 02, 2012, 06:15:59 AM »
How much were new systems and such on Turbo Zone Direct?
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