Poll- Are you a new or old PC Engine/TurboGrafx gamer?

[PUSH RUN BUTTON]

Old timer here.

First saw the Turbo at the Montgomery Wards when I was scoping out the Genesis.

It wasn't until I saw the PC Engine write up in EGM #4 (which explained the orgins of the Turbo) that I first became curious about the card-based system.

When I saw the Turbo initially, I didn't know anything about it, who NEC was, or why it was coming out of nowhere to compete with Sega. That article cleared things up, made the connection to the wildly successful Japanese PC Engine, and the Turbo suddenly seemed like it had the weight to take on Sega and win. We all know how that turned out...

After collecting Christmas and birthday money and combining it with allowance and mowing/car washing income, I was able to pick up a CD unit. Again, EGM played a big role in convincing me to buy the CD attachment, with it's raving review of Ys. Ed, one reviewer giving it a 10 and declaring that the perfect game had finally been made...

After years of lusting over a Turbo Express for 10 years, I finally picked up one from eBay in 2000.

I got back into the Turbo in 2009 and have been collecting steadily since, really focusing on the PC Engine, Super Grafx and Super System Card games.

[Tatsujin]

What if I am not the super oldtimer, but also not new to the system?

I know and adore the PCE since her first appearance in a German video game mag back in early 88. But due to being only 13 at that time and having no income whatsoever, approx. 600 swiss francs for an import PCE was waaaay out of my range at that time.

I first played the PCE at a buddys home around 1989. he was an only-child, his parents were out of house a lot, and he could get anything he wanted.

since there was never any official release of the pce in europe (switzerland), we always had to rely on expensive importers.
arround 1992 I got my first own 2nd handed core with few cards, like pc genjin and super star soldier.

later I got an imported US turbo duo with RGB mod and huey adaptor, which was my prime system until 2005.

around end of the 90s I also got some brief case, SGFX, LT and stuff. also when I finally got my very own income.

Now I am using my S-Video modded DUO-R, since RGB is such a rare ware here in Japan.

[Otaking]

necrobumper

[MNKyDeth]

Wowza Necro

I voted old gamer. Had the system when it released. Then when the Duo's came out my dad bought one of those instead of the cd-rom attachment.

[Jason_dicarlo85]

I never had one as a kid... My grandfather did I got to play frequently ... He only had three games so for 15 Years the only three games I had ever played for it were Keith courage.. Victory run and tvsportd baseball

[lukester]

Been playing it for over 6 years. Started with bomberman 93 on PC, and a couple years later I started buying virtual console games.

[Marto_Jo-ing]

           OLD TIMER                                                                                                                                                                 I was a super lucky kid in the summer of 89 at the young age of 13. My best friends mom worked in the marketing dept. (i don't know who for) in the computer/video game industry and somehow she acquired a Turbografx about a week before public sale. I remember going over to my buddies house to spend the night and play games and watch movies when his mom walked thru the door holding the Turbo. We had only seen a couple of articles about the Turbo in some videogame magazines. We completely lost our shit. Even though we only had Kieth Courage we didn't stop playing all weekend. It is one of my best gaming memories. I ended up getting my turbo for Xmas 4 months later. I played turbo for years.I never got the turbo cd attachment but I did pick up a turboexpress thru a trade with a buddy in high school in 94.  When I turned 20 I sold all my video games and systems thinking about the future and using the money toward moving out of my parents house. After a couple years of regreting selling my stuff I found a web site selling NIB TurboGrafx and NIB Turbo Express. I pretty sure it was in the year 2000. Turbografx were about $50 and the Express about $60. I purchased one of each, I should have bought all I could but I didn't ever think the Turbografx prices would climb so high. I picked up a Pc Engine Duo in 2010 because I wanted to play turbo cd games I had and start collecting Japanese hucard games. Last year I pulled the trigger on the Supergrafx, cool system. I only need 1941 to complete Supergrafx collection and Darius Alpha since it upgrades the graphics. But those games are very expinsive. Thanks for reading. Cheers!!!

[TheOldMan]

Old timer (In both senses)

Took my nephew to We-Be-Toyz to pick up a nintendo for XMas. (nes. He was pissed they didn't have the one with the robot anymore.) And a few games.

Just got a nice-paying job at the time, so I asked my finance manager (aka, his mom) If I could get me something. Walked out with a tg-16, cd-rom, and all the games they had at the time. (It was only about a half-dozen)

[Necromancer]

..... his mom walked thru the door holding the Turbo...... we completely lost our shit.

Story checks out.  Carry on. 

[kosko99]

Newbie, totally a newbie over here... in fact, I played for the first time ever on a real system like... 1 month after I registered here, on emu I played few months ago.

Only seen it on magazines when it was new or youtube vids ages later.
The system didn't exist over here and neither saw any shop getting one as an import device. A pity and I really regret not to have got it earler.

[ginoscope]

Old school had the turbo in 1990.

Added cd in 1992 and enjoyed most of the US super cd and Dracula X.

Sold it like a fool and this year got a pc engine duo and a turbo express.  Reliving the teen years and learning a lot from the community.

[martinine]

I got my turbo when it was first launched. Once I saw the turbo on the cover of VGCE, I knew I had to get it.

I first fell in love when this issue of VGCE came out as well. I can still see the cover in my mine. I marveled at how they could put something which pummeled the NES into the tiny HuCard. I had to wait a little while, but it was before NEC packaged Bonk with the system. A friend bought one shortly after I purchased mine. His came with Bonk's Adventure and he thought Keith Courage was so awful. He loved joking me about how I only got KC with mine. God I still love Keith. I'm going to go play it as soon as I hit post!

[ParanoiaDragon]

I never had one as a kid... My grandfather did I got to play frequently ... He only had three games so for 15 Years the only three games I had ever played for it were Keith courage.. Victory run and tvsportd baseball

Woah woah, your grandfather had TV Sports Baseball??  I'll assume you either mean World Class Baseball or perhaps TV Sports Basketball.  Otherwise, you need to track that game down, as it was finished, but never released!  That'd be a great find, but I don't have high hopes.

[johnnykonami]

Got my TG-16 the Christmas it was released.  A couple years later I upgraded to the Duo (cut a bunch of lawns that year saving up for it) and been a life long fan ever since.

[ClodBuster]

Not an old timer by any means. I saw pictures of the PC Engine for the first time in 1999, in a German videogame magazine called "TOTAL!". It was featured along with the SuperGrafx in an article about the history of videogames.

I got my Turbo Duo in 2013.