Was it nostalgia or curiousity

[wolfman]

Both, in my case.

First, I collect certain types of games (handhelds), second I like 8/16 bit graphics for their "analog" feel vs "modern" games, similar like people preferring analog photography to digital for its "feel". And third I was curious, what the LT would be like as a gaming platform. And I quickly fell in love with interchangeability of components...that IFU concept is really cool.

The great thing with this concept is - I can play portable multimedia games AND connect to TV if I wish to (though I have to RGB-mod it first...).

Well, this couldn´t have been any better in 1991, right? 

[Tatsujin]

I choose: best system ever!

[Dicer]

I choose: best system ever!

I concur

[Gogan]

It was neither for me as I bought it new bitd, and really, have never stopped playing it. My 11-yr old self would be proud. (And probably drool over the games I have now )

[munchiaz]

These stories are so awesome. I wish i would have discovered this console at a younger age.

[Black Tiger]

I got my TG-16 within the first year and Turbo/PCE has remained my number one console ever since. I still got and played everything else as it came out, but I always had a Turbo/PCE system hooked up and used regularly. Same deal with video games in general though. I've been playing everything I can get my hands on since about 1980.

[esadajr]

I knew about the TG16 back in 89 thanks to a department store. At the time I was happily playing my NES and didn't pay much attention.

Sometime in the late 90's thanks to the internet I read a bit more about the TG16, got an emu and a few roms but never really paid much attention to it, I remember playing some Cadash, Bonk and Ninja Ryukenden.

Sometime in the late 90's thanks to the internet I read a bit more about the TG16, got an emu and a few roms but never really paid much attention to it, although I spent good time playing some Cadash, Bonk 1 and Ninja Ryukenden.

Mid 2012 , out of curiosity, just like that I researched on it and really learned about all of the good games released for it and its Japanese counterpart, I just felt attracted to the platform (pretend you transport yourself in time and feel that "wow" factor). That's when I found out about Turboviews, the PCEFX forum and the conventions and decided it was the time to expand on my retro "collection".

[roflmao]

I got it because all my friends had mainstream alternatives.  NES, Genesis, eventually SNES.  I had friends with good taste in games bitd so I didn't feel the need to acquire what they already had. I wanted to have something worth playing that they didn't have at their house. That was also the reason I picked up a SMS.

[Tatsujin]

good one rolfmalol.

i also prefered the sms bitd over the nes. it had so much nicer colors.
at some point it has even nicer colors than the mega drive. lol.

now, the music was a bit of a different rabbit hole.
but im enjoying it a lot today through its much more lissenable FM musics.

[esteban]

Roflmao and Tats: You both crazy. NES has such a great library of games. Crazy. 

[Tatsujin]

i didnt say it hadnt. but since the sms also had its fair share of very good games, i went more with the sega stream, and also because most of my frens already had a NES at homey, which i could play there or borrow

[pulstar]

It was a strange mix of nostalgia ad curiosity I remember seeing the PC Engine (and the Supergrafx) in the UK gaming press when in the late 80s and I always remember wanting one of them because the games looked awesome and so did the machine. I didn't actually pick one up until 2000's (a duo) and started picking up all of the cool games I had seen in the magazines decades earlier.

I did eventually sell that Duo and bought another last year.

[SuperDeadite]

Piracy.  Once I got that old iso of Dracula X to work on MagicEngine, I started downloading all isos I could fine, by chance Sapphire was one, and then I had to own it.

[Tatsujin]

trü störy?

[SuperDeadite]

yupe.  This was back when I was a poor university student.  Had no money, but my Japanese classes got me wanting to play imports.  So I started with SegaCD as it was cheap, but couldn't afford to import la PCE, so it was le piracy.  I took what I could get, man hearing Super Raiden for the first time blew my mind.  Wasn't until I moved here that I started to buy.  And now I have over le 100.