Does anyone have a Gate of Thunder 3 in 1 demo disc?

[Tatsujin]

I remember seeing a demo disc at trader honkan about 3 years ago for 100 bucks around. the disc was all silber on top and had a green imprint on it (font). the green was kinda jade-green.

also do not know whether it was a Japanese or US disc. IIRC it was only written in English letters.

never saw another one so far.

it wasn't the japanese for sure because we do not have a 3-1 disc. you have to buy the games indiidually. moreover, there is no cd version of bonk 1-2-3 in Japan.

what do you mean with "we"? and I am certainly aware of the fact that there is NO commercial release of such a disc in japan as the US had it, hence it obviously was/must have been a "hibaihin" disc. maybe it existed even before the US got its commercial release.

but as I said, I can't remember all the details of that disc, other than it was completely different to the US commercial version, but still it was a pressed/printed version an no cheap CD-R with edding doodles on it.

[toktogul]

You stated you didnt know if it was a japanese version or not, i simply answered that it was never released.

As for the we, i've been living here in a small town, speaking and living my japanese life for too long, i tend to include myself as a japanese citizen when i speak english. english isnt my main language, and in French i would have you "on" instead of the "nous". they both mean "we", but "on" is less inclusive as "nous". once again, sorry if you took it personal, i simply wanted to share with you the information regarding what i knew about the 3-1 cd in Japan.

[Medic_wheat]

EDIT Nullity pointed out I don't, I don't, I don't :oops:

Not to be the dumb blonde that I typically am but didn't all the US Gates of Thunder games look like this?

I mean that's what mine does as this is the game I got when I bought my turbo duo ......sure mine is missing the bonks revenge book and the gat of thunder booklet looks like some sweaty fat kid had it under his arm put in the 90s but let's not talk about what happened in the 90s .....

[synbiosfan]

Not to be the dumb blonde that I typically am but didn't all the US Gates of Thunder games look like this?

And here I thought my faux pas couldn't get worse!

[Black Tiger]

Obviously Japan didn't receive a demo disc talking about the "TurboDuo" (not that it was released anywhere "commercially"), but there is more than one PCE demo disc using the multi-game "Me Bonk" scaling demo. Those discs make the name of the main character in PC Genjin games officially "Bonk".

[jelloslug]

Obviously Japan didn't receive a demo disc talking about the "TurboDuo" (not that it was released anywhere "commercially"), but there is more than one PCE demo disc using the multi-game "Me Bonk" scaling demo. Those discs make the name of the main character in PC Genjin games officially "Bonk".

The 3 in 1 Demo disk has Zonk rather than Bonk.

[tggodfrey]

Here is Thibaults FS ad with a 3 in 1 demo disc

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=11268.msg213538#msg213538

[Tatsujin]

You stated you didnt know if it was a japanese version or not, i simply answered that it was never released.

As for the we, i've been living here in a small town, speaking and living my japanese life for too long, i tend to include myself as a japanese citizen when i speak english. english isnt my main language, and in French i would have you "on" instead of the "nous". they both mean "we", but "on" is less inclusive as "nous". once again, sorry if you took it personal, i simply wanted to share with you the information regarding what i knew about the 3-1 cd in Japan.

hehe. I see and sure no harm done

As for myself, english is not my mothertongue, but german (swissgerman) is. I do also remember a little bit of french. can read most of the stuff, but as for speaking/conversations I'm mostly lost these days.

what I meant to say is, that I am aware that there was never an official release of the 3(4)in1 disc here in japan, but that it might have been used as a demo disc bitd in japan as well for some promotion purposes etc. that's the point where I was not sure whether it was a disc made for japan or for somewhere else. I didn't see this disc neither anywhere else before.

[syphic]

Here is Thibaults FS ad with a 3 in 1 demo disc

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=11268.msg213538#msg213538

Wow he had 2? Awesome never seen pics of these. Thanks for reposting.

[vestcoat]

All of you noobs need to stop surfing ebay and do your homework exploring the homepage of these very forums. Turbo gaming is more than blowing money and owning games your friends haven't heard of, it's also about sleuthing, reading dusty EGM's, digging through listserv archives, and acquiring forbidden, arcane lore. Not everything made the transition to youtube.

Our own Aaron has one of these demo discs and featured it on PCENGINEFX TV. Full video documentation, history, disc ring numbers, and gameplay videos of the GoT demo have been available on this site since 2003. I'm not going to say which episode because there's only seven of them and they should be required viewing for any johnny-come-lately ebaying his way through the U.S. set. Get to it:
 
http://pcenginefx.com/main/pcenginefxtv.html

EDIT: why does Aaron pronounce the console "Turbo Dual"? Drives me crazy.

[HailingTheThings]

Our very own Aaron has one of these demo discs and featured it on PCENGINEFX TV.

I've watched these a while back, good stuff. Anyone who hasn't seen them, do yourself a favor and check 'em out. :3

[galam]

... johnny-come-lately ebaying his way through the U.S. set.

Single best statement this forum has seen in a long time. Well done, sir.

[Black Tiger]

Obviously Japan didn't receive a demo disc talking about the "TurboDuo" (not that it was released anywhere "commercially"), but there is more than one PCE demo disc using the multi-game "Me Bonk" scaling demo. Those discs make the name of the main character in PC Genjin games officially "Bonk".

The 3 in 1 Demo disk has Zonk rather than Bonk.

I know, that's why I referenced "TurboDuo". But the six+ variants of that demo are built off the same engine.

The 3-in-1 Zonk demo was never commercially available and isn't part of any proper collector's "complete list". The PCE variants were sold with magazine books.

[vestcoat]

... johnny-come-lately ebaying his way through the U.S. set.

Single best statement this forum has seen in a long time. Well done, sir.

Necro was the first to start slinging "johnny-come-lately" around here.

[esteban]

We should write up a short "noob guide" and sticky it. It can consist of Vestcoat's post here, but speaking in general terms.

Then, when noobs invariably fail to read it, we post a link.