Introduction of a newbie (long overdue)

[bonoedgey]

Hello everyone,  I should have sat down and did this a while ago. I have been looking through this forum for some time. Been a member for a slightly shorter time. I have in fact put some posts up before doing this.. and saw that sometimes introductions are given so here we go.

Bonoedgey, from Canada. I consider myself a pretty avid collector. Until recently I had yet to dive into the TG-16/PCE scene. I was aware of it as I had played it a few odd times here and there. I had mainly 2 hip friends  that had TG-16s. One mate had a few games that I played, the other had only 1 game and never played the system much. (*note to esteban* it was dungeon explorer, thank you for your suggestions to compare). 

When I think of it I should have just had my one friend sell me his TG-16 since he didn't use it much.  I was able to get an understanding better with my other friend. He had some other games like China Warrior, JJ and Jeff, imagine Keith Courage, and a few I can't think of at the moment. I mainly played JJ and Jeff at that time. (I am having a hard time cause faint past memories of playing his system back in around '90-91. Time to make my new memories anyways    )

I recently managed to get a in my opinion "steal of a deal".  I got a TG-16 (with KC). Multitap, PCE (white), multitap too, few controllers for PCE (including Ave 6 6-button), Rtype 1, SF2, and Kato Chan & Ken Chan (yah!!). 

I have been reading lots here and there on this forum. I make comments once in a while but pretty darn new so far. I did pleasantly see that some like Tatsujin which is great. I actually think I heard of one of the forum members here before I heard of the forum.  He doesn't really probably need an intro but I will anyways cause he was recently very nice to me and I am grateful.. I heard of Keith Courage and how he can work his magic on the system.  Well I recently bought a CD-Rom2 with the briefcase to go with my white PCE from KC.  It just arrived yesterday and I am excited to try it out. I have to wait though as my first Super-CD should be coming fairly soon.. Its Shadow of the Beast. I am excited... so Mr. Courage.. thank you once again. I truly appreciate it.

I am looking at this forum's various threads and I must confess bit overwhelmed but that is just because I am rather new to the whole TG-16 PCE  scene.  I know that everyone has their own favs when comes to games and that is natural.  I have picked some of my games based on my limited experience with the hardware. Growing up a nintendo/sega guy , then sony/microsoft.. I kinda just went and thought the time was right.  I know to some Shadow of the Beast will not make the radar... lol I got it cause it was cheap, and I remember playing on the Amiga.

Well I blabbed all too much already.. I would like to thank everyone that I have been in very limited (at this point) contact with. I look forward to contributing more to this forum. Thanks for listening or having a read of my intro..

Thanks everyone 

[Necromancer]

Welcome aboard!  I hope you got a Super System Card from Keith instead of the usual 2.0 card, else you won't be playing that Shadow(land) of the Beast.

[bonoedgey]

Thanks   Mr. Courage hooked me up with a System card 3.0. Yah he had me all set   I am starting to think that I will probably want something else soon.. cause I know that I will get frustrated probably with the Beast... but I just know that cause of the amiga days.  Any suggestions on a fun game on CD (basically that isn't at this point Arcade cause as you know I would need a card for that)?
Something that isn't too gouging to the wallet but still pretty darn fun.  I realize gouging is a relative term so .. I mean I won't have to give my right or left kidney lol

thanks for the welcome Necromancer

P.S: I see that Arcade Card Pros can be gouging too lol 

[wyndcrosser]

I bought my arcade card from a guy one here, nice fellow. There really aren't a lot of games for it, that aren't japanese heavy language. A lot of fighters from the neo geo hayday.

Exile
Exile 2
Ys I/II
Ys III
Ys IV translated
Dragon Slayer
3in1 Collection
... just to name a few I'm working on now.

Welcome.

[esteban]

Dungeon Explorer!

[Niko49]

Welcome, I'm also new.

Some of my recommendations for CD games would be:

Kaze Kiri ( I think some people dislike this game, but i find it enjoyable )
Pop'n Magic
Shubibinman 3 ( kinda like megaman )

[foobarry81]

Hi!

Also brand new (joined this very day)!

I recently bought my friend's entire PC Engine collection, who was looking to get rid of it for a while apparently. Maybe I should point out (since in retro gaming communities people always seem to be sad to see one of their own go) that he didn't want to sell it because he got bored of it. Because he's still very enthusiastic about so many of the games, recommending me all kinds of stuff. ;-) He just doesn't have time for it anymore. 

Anyway, my newly acquired setup is the original white PC Engine, with the Interface Unit and CD-ROM² Unit. Also have a Super CD-ROM² Unit and an Arcade Card Pro. And some games of course.

I wasn't familiar with the system or its games at all tbh. I've never owned a console in the 8, 16, 32 or even 64-bit era. (But I've been collecting for MSX and for SEGA Mega Drive for some time now.) So I've been researching the PC Engine in recent weeks, and seems like there's quite a bit to discover! Looking forward to reading up on it a bit more here on the forums. 

[Necromancer]

Welcome aboard, niko and foo.

[Black Tiger]

I bought my arcade card from a guy one here, nice fellow. There really aren't a lot of games for it, that aren't japanese heavy language. A lot of fighters from the neo geo hayday.

If you're talking about the ACD, there simply isn't a lot of games period. But of those, most are English friendly.

Whether or not you meant Japanese PCE games in general, here is a list for newbies of 160+ PCE games which are English friendly:

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=14497.0