How old were you when the Turbo Grafx came out?

[Nando]

I was 1

lol by the time I was 2 we already had Nintendo, Genesis, and gameboy

f*ck yeah grandma who worked at Sears!

I looked forward with great expectation to Sears Christmas catalogs every year, during the 80's. 

THE TOY SECTION, MY GOD MAN!

[glazball]

why with exclamation mark?

He was 7 Factorial.  So 5040 years old.

lol  Holy shit that was funny.  Wasn't expecting that....  NERD!

obligatory response: 14 at release, got my TG around 25, but only recently filled that Duo-sized hole in my life at 36

[geise]

I was only 12. when it got released.   My brother and I got the TG-16 pretty close after launch, thanks to me saving my lunch money, and my brother getting a jobby job.

[_joshuaTurbo]

I got mine in '94 as result of 3 weeks saving from hard labor in the Christmas Tree sheering fields.  spent the rest of the summer working to buy moar gaemz!!

When I jumped in, I got a Duo w/ 1 controller, Gates 3 in one, Ninja Spirit, Ys 1&2, Sonic Spike, World Class Baseball, Legendary Axe, Victoly Run, and TV sports Football. All that for $200.

[turbokon]

So it came out one day after I turn 11. I think we picked it up a couple years later.

[Necromancer]

When I jumped in, I got a Duo w/ 1 controller, Gates 3 in one, Ninja Spirit, Ys 1&2, Sonic Spike, World Class Baseball, Legendary Axe, Victoly Run, and TV sports Football. All that for $200.

Not a bad haul for only 200 monies. 

[tg16manaic]

So it came out one day after I turn 11. I think we picked it up a couple years later.

It came out on my 11th birthday. You're 1 day older than me lol.

[esteban]

12 at the pce and 14 at the TG release.

Ha! I was 14 when TG-16 was released (and I got it the day after XMAS 1989).

 

[Tatsujin]

whats your birthday esty?

[esteban]

whats your birthday esty?

01.31.1975

Oh, wait, that will be confusing. Here you go:

31.01.1975

 

[Tatsujin]

hahaha..lol. I got used to the silly US of A time format

so that makes you exactly 35 days older than me, damn.

[esteban]

hahaha..lol. I got used to the silly US of A time format

so that makes you exactly 35 days older than me, damn.

That's why we need more members like CAS—so we won't feel like we are the oldest bastards here. I still have a hard time seeing lilgrafx (who is 4.5 years old, max) posting comments here. I wasn't nearly as literate as he is when I was 4 years old.

[BlueBMW]

I was 5 in 89.  Didnt get a turbo til I was in High School in 1999 or so.

[BigusSchmuck]

Wow! I didn't expect such a diverse age group when it comes to turbo/pce gaming! I was 7 years old when the turbo came out here in the U.S.

hahaha..lol. I got used to the silly US of A time format

so that makes you exactly 35 days older than me, damn.

That's why we need more members like CAS—so we won't feel like we are the oldest bastards here. I still have a hard time seeing lilgrafx (who is 4.5 years old, max) posting comments here. I wasn't nearly as literate as he is when I was 4 years old.

 
Does it help that I learned how to read while playing Dragon Warrior at age 5?

[TheOldMan]

Wow! I didn't expect such a diverse age group when it comes to turbo/pce gaming! I was 7 years old when the turbo came out here in the U.S.

Bah. Whippersnappers. I was 27 in 1989. Bought a tg16 that Christms, or the next.

Does it help that I learned how to read while playing Dragon Warrior at age 5?

That's partly how my nephew learned to read, though not on Dragon Warrior.
His first grade teacher flipped when he read Winnie The Pooh to her. She thought he memorized it.
So she gave him some old kids reader she had, and almost died when he read that to her.

("Did you know Jason could Read?!?!".  "Of course he can. Did you think he was stupid?".
 "Most kids his age don't even know their ABC's!". "That's their problem..." )