Wasn't Buster Bros. a 1993 release, not 1992? Also, wasn't the CD version of Bonk 3 released in late 1994, and not along with the cart version in 1993? Wikipedia lists those as you do there, but is certainly wrong about those. Also weren't Fighting Street and Monster Lair released in 1989 along with the system, not in 1990?
Buster Bros might have been 1993, I think it was 1992 though.
The title screen and box say 1993, certainly. Dates can be too low (such as those 1994 games dated 1993), but I've never heard of a game which says one year but actually was released earlier...
Here's some more evidence for 1993:
http://archives.tg-16.com/archive-four/TF-03-28.jpgAlso, you didn't mention Bonk 3 CD. Wasn't that only released by TZD, at the end of '94?
The TurboGrafx CD didn't come out until a little ways into 1990, it did not come out at the same time as the core system. Nor did any of the games.
Oh, really? I see that Wikipedia says that too, but I know I've read 1989 before. Is there proof for the 1990 date, form magazines and such? And yeah, I knew it didn't come out at the same time as the main system, but the main system was August; I thought it was at the end of the year. Fighting Street and Monster Lair are both dated to 1989 in their US packaging and title screens, while all those other 1990 titles you mentioned are dated 1990. I mean, you could be right, but there is a clear difference between those two games and the other releases. Fighting Street was a 1988 release in Japan too, so it doesn't have anything to do with their release dates there either. Monster Lair was 1989 there though.
Ah, that makes sense. It's just odd because I'd think the Japanese versions would be the originals, so why go in and put an earlier date in the US release? Were they planning to release them in the US first for some reason or something?
Those two games were Japanese originals, some games like Shape Shifter were not. And some other games like Air Zonk actually came out here first though only by a month or two.[/quote]
Huh, I didn't know Air Zonk came out here first. Interesting. They were pushing Bonk and Zonk a lot though, so if they were going to do it with anything it does make sense that it'd be that.
You're right that it isn't, but are there any good sources for this information other than this forum?
Unfortunately, back then exact shipping dates weren't tracked very well. Games didn't really have "release dates" back then either. One of the first games I remember with a concrete release date was Sonic 2 for Genesis in 1992. So a lot of this information is based on recollection of when it shipped.
Sure, but TG16 dates seem even sketchier than most SNES or Genesis games. The system didn't do nearly as well, so there's a lot less info out there about when the games actually released...
Good point. They announced lots of titles that never got anywhere... but still, changing the release year on the title screen then delaying it out of that year seems a little odd. Oh well, it happened. 
I'm pretty sure if it was changed it was changed when the English version was created by the developer. I know Godzilla is missing some of the mini-games for example, so the US version isn't exactly the same as the final Japanese one. It might have actually been finished earlier as it came from an earlier build.
That definitely could be.
