How often do you find TG-16 and TG-CD in the wild?

[pdiggitydogg]

Never. Not since the early 90s

[esteban]

In the 90's I looked at garage sales and Salvation Army / etc. And the places I went to rarely had video game stuff, and definitely NEVER a Hint of Turbo.

I hoped to find a game hidden amongst CD's (I spent too much time looking for decent music/games in millions of crappy CD's...to be honest, I think my time was wasted. Ha!)

In LAS Angeles /Southern California, late 90'same sorts of places, never found turbo. Other popular consoles (SNES, NES, Genny) were always around.

I just figured I wasn't looking in the right places. I was more interested in music during most of the 90's, so I gravitated to music nearly all the time.

[Miracle_Warrior]

2 or 3 times in the past. 

Recently I was at a flea market and one of the vendors had a Turbo inside one of those hard rental cases (branded with TurboGrafx 16, which was pretty cool).  When I asked him how much he wanted for it along with about 6 loose hueys (Dragon Spirit, Keith Courage, Final Lap Twin, Bonk's Adventure, J.J and Jeff and one of the TV Sports games) he said $500. 

It's painful watching stuff like that just rot away in a vendor's booth for eternity because they are out of their damn minds.  What kills me is that you know some dude probably traded that stuff for a poop-stained nes with duckhunt and mario. 

[Desh]

2 or 3 times in the past. 

Recently I was at a flea market and one of the vendors had a Turbo inside one of those hard rental cases (branded with TurboGrafx 16, which was pretty cool).  When I asked him how much he wanted for it along with about 6 loose hueys (Dragon Spirit, Keith Courage, Final Lap Twin, Bonk's Adventure, J.J and Jeff and one of the TV Sports games) he said $500. 

It's painful watching stuff like that just rot away in a vendor's booth for eternity because they are out of their damn minds.  What kills me is that you know some dude probably traded that stuff for a poop-stained nes with duckhunt and mario.

This!  We talk about ebay gougers but many times when I see stuff in a resale environment it's priced higher than ebay tards with teh rarez.

[Necromancer]

I don't scour thrift shops, garage sales, etc. but I've seen the odd loose huey at a local game store from time to time. 

[DragonmasterDan]

I've seen HuCards and even the occasional CD game at used media stores (one that sells DVDs, BluRays, CDs and games, another that specializes in books) occasionally but they're almost always common undesirable games. Some stores I've visited to that specialized used games have quite a bit of inventory, but obviously in order to maintain stock their prices are on par with what you find online.

The actual hardware I practically never see outside of stores specializing in used video games.

[SignOfZeta]

I bought my Turbo Duo new from the EB in Midland; Mi, also purchased there; Dungeon Explorer 2, Riot Zone; Sim Earth, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Lords of Thunder, Cockwing f*ck. From the Diehard Game Club in Waterford, Mi; Yuna 2, Startling Odyssey 2, Dragon Ball.

Oh, you mean in the last 10 years? Well, it happens. At the Midwest Gaming Classic there was actually quite a bit of Turbo and PCE. Working CD systems are always a problem, always have been, but basic games are not. Price is the issue. People always say, "I saw Blazing Lazers for $200" or whatever. This is because they wanted to actually have a Turbo thing in their store for a minute. If they charged anything like a reasonable price then it would be gone in seconds. As a store owner those are your choices; charge 8x what it's worth so it will be there, or charge a fair price and see the first customer who walks into your store by it.

There were plenty of Turbo games to go around originally. What happened was that now the power collector is the standard. Everyone who owns a Turbo feels the need, for some f*cking reason, to own every game. They will NEVER play this stuff, they just want to own the "complete" collection before they inevitably dump the whole thing on a new generation of complaining noobs. With every system owner now hoarding 20x as much software as NEC manufactured, scarcity has been artificially made real.

[SplatterTrigger]

Occasionally I'll find a loose huey but that's about it. I live in CT so shops are slim in general.

[cjameslv]

some of my local game stores have tg stuff from time to time but not much. i guess im lucky that i can even find anything nec related.

Yeah were kinda lucky we have a few stores that have them. Prices aren't too bad either.

[csgx1]

So you guys consider game store finds as stuff "in the wild"?  That's like seeing an exotic animal at a pet store.  Those animals are definitely not living in the wild.

Now days it's almost shocking to see any Turbo stuff being sold in the wild.

[Medic_wheat]

So you guys consider game store finds as stuff "in the wild"?  That's like seeing an exotic animal at a pet store.  Those animals are definitely not living in the wild.

Now days it's almost shocking to see any Turbo stuff being sold in the wild.

Due to the leg break lack of mass appeal/owner ship of TG-16 when it was new yes. 

As odd as that may seem

[Necromancer]

So you guys consider game store finds as stuff "in the wild"?  That's like seeing an exotic animal at a pet store.  Those animals are definitely not living in the wild.

As opposed to finding a copy of Soldier Blade sitting on an old stump out in the woods?  Much like buying that exotic animal and taking it home as a pet, finding a game at a garage sale doesn't make it any more "wild".

[CPTRAVE]

In Georgia, just once, I got the Turbografx , along with 4 games. But other than that never

[cjameslv]

So you guys consider game store finds as stuff "in the wild"?  That's like seeing an exotic animal at a pet store.  Those animals are definitely not living in the wild.

As opposed to finding a copy of Soldier Blade sitting on an old stump out in the woods?....

f*ckin right he did!!

[graffias79]

The only thing I've ever found was a boxed TG-16 with a Montgomery Ward sticker on it with a price of $199.99.  It was only missing Keith Courage.  I found it at Goodwill with the puzzles and board games.  It was priced at $6.99.  This had to be about 2012-ish. I scoured that store for the CD attachment if it was there and games but there was nothing else.  I recently bought a complete Keith Courage (luckily the only affordable game) and added it to the system to complete it.