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

[Marll]

Got my TG16 in 1989, which is all I wanted for xmas that year. Screw that Genesis nonsense, I KNEW the Turbo was THE system 

My parents skrimped and saved and I got a TG-CD the next xmas, which was one of the best xmas mornings ever. I never owned any of the other systems of that time because to me they were all inferior, and why waste the money?

[xelement5x]

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... 

Heh, one of my favorite things in going through my old games is finding the maps I made on graph paper along with notes I'd written.


I'm new to the Turbo/PCE land, I got my Duo-RX in an ebay bundle from a cool guy in Wisconsin maybe around 2009.  The main drive was actually just so I could play the Working Designs games I'd collected for the Turbo

[turbokon]

We picked up a TG-16 around Christmas time in 91. We had it for a couple years before the video started to fail. I eventually took it outside and stomped the shit out it out of anger. Thinking back, I regretted doing that as the booster with have solved my problem. I still remember where we picked up some of the games. I bought Aero Blasters and Andre Panza Kickboxing from toys'r us. Bought splatter house, china warrior, legendary axe and both bonk's from a guy in our neighborhood for $10 each. Sinistron, r-type and space harrier from the flea market. Ninja spirit, dungeon explorer, turbo tab and a couple of turbo pads from a classmate. And finally Super Star Soldier from a pawn shop. We also got the VHS promo for lords of thunder. We watched the hell out of it.

[BenG76]

First played one maybe five years ago. I hate I missed it back in the day.

[SNKNostalgia]

Got my TG-16 when it was on sale at Toys R Us for $99 on x-mas of '91. It was with Keith's Courage pack-in and Final Lap Twin ($20). I asked for a SNES and my mom went the cheap route when visiting my grandmother in CA. I lived on the Navy base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico at the time and the NEX was the only place to get games, which did not sell TG-16 stuff at all. At the time there was nowhere to buy games until they opened a EB store off base around mid '92 in Fajardo. I ended getting Cadash from there and then never got a game for it after, until I bought my own Turbo Duo new from TZD in 2000 with Ys 1+2 and Final Zone 2. I already found the 4 in 1 disc in CD bargain bin for $2 in '99 (get this) at a place called 'Hudson's Treasure Hunt' discount outlet... Success.

So, my experience was rather limited through the 90's with it with my 3 games. By the time I moved back to the states in late '93 the market for TG-16 was pronounced dead and got me a SNES in the spring. Hell, we only had a Wal-Mart and K-Mart anyway. They never sold TG-16 stuff there to begin with. I asked some friends of mine that lived here in MS and they never have seen any of it. We didn't even get a real game store until '96 in my town, lol.

[roflmao]

TG, TE, DUO all at launch.

Pretty much this.  I even picked up a CD unit bitd.  Long time fan.

[Necromancer]

I eventually took it outside and stomped the shit out it out of anger.

PC LOAD LETTER?  What the f*ck does that mean?!?   

[Shadow]

Well, as I live in Switzerland, I remember as a kid (around 1988 or so) walking around in Zurich and seeing that cute little white PC-Engine sitting there in the display window... R-Type / Galaga was playin... I was starin' at it and suddenly realising what it was and how much better than the NES it looked... got it same day and bought every system and probably almost every game I could get ...

heard of it before from a friend which had it, but I didn't get a chance to see his system yet, so I got it a few days after he did. Same week it was featured in a german video game magazine "VIDEOGAMES" that I always bought here and it was introduced to the reader as brandnew from japan

best experience of all the systems out there... only Mega Drive and Super Famicom/Famicom came close. Love.

[gekioh]

I first got my own personal Turbo set up back in 2001, but my playing experience with Turbo goes back at least another 10 years prior, back in '91. I remember one of my close buddies back in grade school got one and I had a NES and often we would trade back and forth and borrow eachother's systems often, usually for a week or two at a time, every couple of months or so. I also have very vivid memories of playing games like Bonk's Adventure and Legendary Axe on a store TG-16 kiosk display back in very early nineties at Fred Myer's and Best. Also remember playing Devil's Crush at a store called Incredible Universe back in the day, on there store display unit. I will never forget my own personal purchase though of my very own Turbo, best $100 big package deal I ever bought(well 1 of many at least).

[Jordan]

I didn't own one, but my bro bought one about 92 he didn't let us pipsqueaks play on any of his systems -but we did anyways behind his back.  :-" That was my first experience with Turbo but I don't consider myself an old Turbo gamer since I didn't get to play much.

[esadajr]

...fast forward to 2012, one day I was reading the Racketboy 101 article, and basically, one thing lead to the other. I discovered this forum, the Turboviews page, bought a region modded Duo-R from DLite and got me some cool games.

It's never too late to Obey

[Shadow]

...fast forward to 2012, one day I was reading the Racketboy 101 article, and basically, one thing lead to the other. I discovered this forum, the Turboviews page, bought a region modded Duo-R from DLite and got me some cool games.

It's never too late to Obey

very true words, sir!

[Nec.Game.head]

I first played the TG16 In 91 when I was 11 years old. An older cousin of mine that had come from Mexico to live with me and my parents purchased it at Toys R Us when it was on clearance for $99.99 I believe. Anyways I got to enjoy the Tg16 for about 7 months or so then it was time for my cousin to head back to Mexico and there went the TG16 that was in my family's house. Then when was 19 in 99" a friend of mine gave me his older brothers TG16 because at the time I was all about collecting for the Sega Dreamcast and he felt I would give it a good home which I did. I played it on and off for the next 3 years buying games for it through TZD then move out on my own and stored it away somewhere safe until recently in the past 7 months. Now I own a fairly decent collection of TG16 and PC Engine goodies thanks to a lot of you dudes from here. I'm gonna have to say I learned about it back in the day but really got into it in the present .. lol in between new school and old school PC Engine/TurboGrafx gamer ...
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[ParanoiaDragon]

Got my TG in Feb or 91 IIRC, as Bonk was already out by the time I got mine.  Then I got the cd unit when it went the price was slashed to $150, whenever that was, & got Valis 2 as my first cd game.

[syphic]

Bought my Sega Genesis at launch then fell in love with the TG-16 when I played it at Montgomery Wards. Word got around school that I had a Genesis and a friends brother had just bought him a TG-16 and he didn't like it. We made an immediate trade. And yes I took a lot of heat from a lot of kids for making the trade. I didn't care. Got a CD set up for Christmas when it was dropped down to $149.99 from Toys R Us. Then around 95 got a flyer for a trade up offer from TZD to send in my TG16 w CD set up and some cash for a new DUO.