Was it nostalgia or curiousity

[LINK398]

How did the everyone first try out the TurboGrafx 16 and then decide to buy it and really get into it. For me personally it isnt nostalgia at all. While I do like 16 bit graphics I never had this console back in the day and didnt even know about it at all. I had a Sega Genesis and later got a Nintendo 64 along with other consoles that I bought myself. I was just curious about this one and decided to buy it and really like it a lot. While I dont own the CD attachment Im happy with the regular console

[Necromancer]

Since I bought it when it was new, it certainly wasn't nostalgia.  I bought it because it had cool games I wanted to play, some of which were sampled in store and others I'd only seen in magazines.

[johnnykonami]

I got it for Christmas when everyone else was getting a SNES or Genesis instead.  I was pretty impressed by Keith Courage from the TV commercials I guess!  They really sold the underworld part where you fight in a mech.  To be fair, I still think KC is pretty cool.

[wildfruit]

I didn't know of the console til last year so no personal nostalgia

[kentuckycc]

My rich friend had one when I was little and I always wanted one. The HuCards were so cool. Fast forward 20 years and I finally buy one to try out some working designs exclusives. Turns out the WD games are pretty average among some other really great titles for the system. This console was, by far, the biggest missed opportunity in the US.

[Opethian]

it was...the games

[munchiaz]

curiosity for me. I got my turbo graf back in 2011. But i knew of it, and i had gate of thunder on my Wii VC. I did some reseatch after playing gate, and found so many other games i wanted to play. Fast forward to now, and i love everything about the console (except KC)

[majors]

Got my TG a year after I got my Genny just 'cause I could not stand seeing all the TG-16 games at TRU that I could not play. Same reason I got a SMS after my NES. I was on the Nintendo hate train by then, so SNES was not an option. Been loyal ever since.

When Saturn and PS came out, I fell from the turbo-wagon a little bit but my TG-16 CD-ROM w/ ACD setup was always in my entertainment center. PCFX forums brought me back to my true love about 6 years ago and meeting all the obeyers at cons solidified my faith again.

[esteban]

I loved NES, played SMS at friends' homes, then BAM!

16-bit consoles just dropped from the heavens out of nowhere in September 1989.  I had not been paying attention to the next generation of consoles, and 100% of folks I knew were going with Genesis.

Genesis was awesome, but then I saw a commercial for Blazing Lazers and a bunch of TG-16 launch titles.

BLAZING LAZERS was reason for choosing TG-16 over Genesis. Had there been a gorgeous, intense shoot-em-up like BL available as launch title for Genesis, my decision would have been much more difficult.

Truxton/Tatsujin is a great game (I love old skool Toaplan), but even if it was available at launch, BL would have edged it out.

Trü storie.

[LS650]

'Back in the day', I was a broke university student.  I remember seeing the TG16 and the Turboexpress for sale in Radio Shack all the time, but there was no way I could even think of affording a purchase.

I didn't really get back into gaming until about 2000 or so.  Over the last ten years I've collected quite a wide variety of older systems, mostly 8-bit era items such as the Atari 2600 or the Intellivision.  I've seen quite a few folks commenting in various forums over the years that they really liked the TG16, so I tried out a few ROMs via emulation and liked what I saw.  I bought a TG16 eventually and I am really enjoying it.

[toymachine78]

It was curiosity for me. I got my TG16 for Christmas in 1990. I remember how awesome it looked in the ads and commercials. Especially the footage of Legendary Axe and the Jagu boss fight. Plus I was a huge horror fan and Splatterhouse was as enticing to me as crack to a junkie.

All my friends had or were getting the Genesis. I planned on getting a Genesis too cause you couldn't find the Turbo around my town. Alas, I opened the wishbook that year and there it was.. the turbo. It was so sleek and sexy. But I was more torn than ever... Genny or Turbo? Always being the black sheep, I chose the turbo. So that year I got the turbo, legendary axe, splatter house, and TV sports football. Best Christmas ever!!!! Thank god for the other games... Had I been stuck only with Keith Courage, I would have died, and would have been very embarrassed to show my friends lol The story would have probably turned out a lot differently.

Shortly after I got RType for free through a mail in promo. I later(1992) bought the CD unit once they slashed its price in preparation for the release of the duo.

So that's my story!

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[mossman43]

When I was in 5th grade my best friends father worked for NEC here in Massachusetts. My friend was obviously the first of the group of us to have it, but his dad showed us a pricing list that he could get the systems and games for. I asked my mom (I love you mom!) to get me a system and she did because it was better than buying NES games for their retail prices. All of my games came right from his dad and ranged in prices from $10-$20 for the employees, so I had the opportunity to get whatever was coming out. The best day was when I got Splatterhouse and Ninja Spirit in the same order. It was f*cking amazing playing those two back to back! Unfortunately his parents ended up getting divorced and he moved to Pennsylvania and I haven't heard or seen him since. Anyhow, I've loved the system ever since!

[Bklyn4ever]

My parents bought my brothers and I the system for Xmas one year.In addition to the system we got Vigilante, Blazing lasers, Legendary Axe, Victory Run, and China Warrior. Needless to say it was one of my best gifts ever. Twenty years later I am still playing the same system. 

[mossman43]

When I was in 5th grade my best friends father worked for NEC here in Massachusetts. My friend was obviously the first of the group of us to have it, but his dad showed us a pricing list that he could get the systems and games for. I asked my mom (I love you mom!) to get me a system and she did because it was better than buying NES games for their retail prices. All of my games came right from his dad and ranged in prices from $10-$20 for the employees, so I had the opportunity to get whatever was coming out. The best day was when I got Splatterhouse and Ninja Spirit in the same order. It was f*cking amazing playing those two back to back! Unfortunately his parents ended up getting divorced and he moved to Pennsylvania and I haven't heard or seen him since. Anyhow, I've loved the system ever since!

dude... you should absolutely reconnect with your childhood friend...

* nullity looks around to make sure nobody is eavesdropping...
shhh...

* nullity whispers...
there's this thing called Facebook that you can probably find him on. You and me, we're from the same generation and I've gotta tell ya, pen pals I never thought I'd hear from again are on this thing aplenty. You should cyberstalk him, lure him to this community (or the non-community at DoxPhile.com) and catch up on old times. Once an obeyer, always an obeyer!

* nullity looks around again and gives the all clear sign.
So, yeah, that sports event, eh? Nothing like that! Wow!

lol, you are one funny dude!! That Facebook thing.....I tried, but no luck. I'm sure I will eventually find him.

[imparanoic]

I didn't know of the console til last year so no personal nostalgia

that's because pc engine or turbo grafx was never released in UK, thus, import only, in fact, it's the first Japanese console which was desirable enough to enable the hardcore gaming import niche industry in UK ( then Megadrive, then snes, then ps1, and so on)

the fact that previous generations of consoles (nowadays ntsc and pal difference are almost non -existant, unless wii which is still inferior) designed for UK is inferior, 17.6% slower with massive black borders, or consoles and games released two years later compared to the release dates in us or japan, helped the import industry