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

[turboswimbz]

I played it when I was about 4, which was in 1992.  That's close enough.  It was still a current system at the time.

I didn't get my own until I was 12.  But, it was the same one that I grew up playing.     It's awesome when your aunts and uncles get too old and busy to play games.

Same story almost as Arkhan I played when I was 3 in 1990 when my dad brought it home from a newspaper. $80 bucks with some games. Bonks Adventure, Bonks Revenge, legendary axe, Splatterhouse. Boxy Boy, ect.  In fact for the longest time I though all games were this good for the system. .  Although we had deep blue and got tricky kick (the only game I ever bought new for the system with my Dad).  I didn't have my "own" console until 2012 when I joined up here, but I played on that deck my dad got the whole time (and I still do!).

[Bernie]

God I feel old now.....

[bt]

I (wisely) decided to hold off on buying a console until after I was done with college and happily employed (well, getting paid, maybe not happy about having to work).

So in 1990, after moving from Seattle to Alabama (yeah) I was scoping the current systems: SNES, Genny, TG-16.  I really like the TG-16 and the stuff that they were doing with the PCE in Japan, so I jumped on board at that point.

[galam]

TG, TE, DUO all at launch.

[majors]

Bought my first TG-16 off a guy that won it in a contest. He had got the base, booster+, stick, tap and 5 games and sold it to me for $150 IIRC. Picked up the CD-ROM when the promo with the demo CD+G was released for $300.

[retroguy]

I first played the Turbo at a friend's house. His older brother had one and I remember thinking how cool and different it was. Then his brother moved away and I didn't see one again for years and didn't even think about it really. I bought my system after discovering Chris Bucci's Turbo Views and marathoning all the episodes hed'd done up to that point (This was right after the second dvd had come out and I bought both volumes). I've been a fan ever since.

[Necromancer]

I picked up a TurboDuo shortly after launch.  Prior to that I lusted after Turbobs in stores and had to make due with playing whatever was being demoed.

[_joshuaTurbo]

I got my Duo in the summer of '94 when I was 15.  I realize that this was after the 'prime' of the Turbo's life cycle, but I had a blast picking up clearanced games from gamer/video rental shops in the area and waiting patiently for TZD to release titles like Beyond Shadowgate and Bonk 3 CD.    Also, kept up with new released imports during that time.

The SNES started to collect dust. 

[FiftyQuid]

Got a TG-16 in 1990. A Turbo Express in 1991. A Turbo-CD with PCE CD imports in 1991/92. A TurboDuo at launch (1993?).

Sweet Jesus.  I got a TG-16 when it was first released and dreamed about owning a TE, and TG-CD.  Your childhood must have sucked BT.  You poor little rich boy! 

[Jack Burton]

I played turbo cd when it first came out over a friends house.  I would borrow the whole setup whenever he would let me.  I had a turbo express around the same time. 

Still one of favorite systems.  Right up there with neo geo. 

[MrFlutterPie]

I first got my Turbo in 2007.  I was at the local game store and saw  it and was intrigued.  Picked it up and fell in love.  The rest is history.

[fsa]

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.

[Deletion]

I arrived extremely late to the party. I played the TG16 just once at a friend's house circa 1992, so it was largely a system I only read about in EGM. Nearly 20 long years passed before I finally picked up a TG16 in 2011. That brought me here and now I'm finally able to enjoy a system that I could only dream of as a kid.

[csgx1]

Got my Turbo Grafx around '92 when the price dropped to $99. 

[SeymorOnion]

I got my first TurboGrafx 16 the same year Neutopia came out; 1989 iirc.
I think that was also the same year that the TG16 was released in the USA.
I was about 13, and had to mow an insane # of lawns to earn the moneys.

I got the CD Add-on a year or so later, for Ys Book I & II.
Once again, more lawn mowing ensued, but this time my siblings helped; we pooled our moneys.
We've been sharing games and systems ever since.  

Edited to add:
That reminds me!
My little sister beat Neutopia II while I watched, because it came out shortly after I sprained my wrist.
I had fallen out of a tree in someone's yard, that wanted their tree trimmed.  
But still, it was a cool experience.
My sis had lots of Zelda experience, and had already beaten Neutopia I, using my maps of the overworld and dungeons.
Neutopia II was a great treat for us both; the world was so massive, compared to N1, and she also got the opportunity to map it by hand.

Good times, good times...