I seen a magazine article. I think I still have it. I remember the TV commercials. Game magazine's. I also think I saw a news broadcast on CNN or another network. Nickelodeon talked about it all the time. I was addicted to games in the day. My family rented one for the game Battle Royal. I was big fan of wrestling. I still am to a point. Loved wrestling games. Tecmo World Wrestling, WWF Wrestling Challenge, and all the wrestling arcade games are still my favorite. Love wrestling belts. Zinc and gold plated. I always looked at the magazine add 100 and 1 reasons to own a Turbo Graftx 16.
I went to Toys R US and saw Battle Royal. I was in love with the machine. I asked a school teacher about it. he also loved video games. He said his family member worked at a store and told him it was not as good as a NES. I played it at Radio Shack. I played Keith Alpha Courage. I then saw magazines selling left over games and imports. I saw the Turbo Express at a flee market with the box and games. My school teacher that loved games had a assistant school teacher that sold used and new games, comic books and toys sold it. My friend stole a Turbo Duo and I touched it. KB Toys sold the Turbo Duo for a cheep price when they quit selling the machines. They blew them out. liquadtion price. I still have comic books that have the game adds about the machine. I just had to hold a Chip Card, Hue Card, Sega Chip Card, and Turbo Chip Card. Sega's Chip Cards are all most the same. Made by the same company. I have yet to touch a Sega version.
Years later I still thought about the games. I got a computer. I found this site in 1998. I studied about the machine. I downloaded the game Battle Royal. I could not believe I could download games for free. Arcade games Sega Genesis etcc.... It had no sound. The emulator did not produce sound. I tried to sign up here. But could not due to the Verification catch program. This club was hard to get in. I read the forums a lot. jorpho at ClassicGaming.Com helped me with emulation back in the day. Fast forward a few years I found Ebay when it was new. I saw the prices of the CD machine, PC Engine, PC Engine Lab Top, games, controlers, Etcc..... The brand new Turbo Grafix sold through Telegames. Fast forward a few years a lady I worked with told me she had the Turbo Grafix and the CD unit in the carrying case. She told me about buying it at a yard sell. she said they tried to beat Boink. Had not played it in years. The case has on snap broke.
I talked her into selling it to me for 20 bucks.
I then cleaned it up. It was dirty but in perfect condition. It was real dirty. Still looks dirty. It the plastic it is made of. I thanked God for it. I'm a Christan. I still could not believe I had one plus the Hue Cards. The games I got was Boink, Vigilant, Keith Courage In Alpha Zones, Silent Debuggers, Real Sports Football, Ball, Tricky Kick, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Exile, Fighting Street, Final Zone 2, and Vesteel.
I then a year later Bought off Ebay Battle Royal, Blazing Lasers, Boinks Adventure, Bravoman, Devils Crush, Double Dungeons, Impossmole, Keith Courage In alpha Zones, The Legendary Axe, The Legendary Axe 2, Neutopia, Ninja Spirit, Pac Land, Psychosis, Raiden, R-Type, Bomber Man, Alien Crush, Aero Blaster, Taking it to the Hoop, and Veigues Tactical Gladiator that game dose not work.
The guy on Ebay was a great seller. I bought a few repeats because it was a bulk lot. Paid almost 200 for it all. 10 dollars a piece. It is my favorite machine of all time. I just had to have Battle Royal. dreamed of the game forever. It is a real fun overlooked over hyped game. Boink is real great. The CD games rock.
