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Warbucks

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Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« on: June 24, 2015, 12:05:09 PM »
I am doing a road trip from FL to NY (yes, I know it is a long and sucky drive) and would like to know if there are any good places to pick up some Turbo games on the way?


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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2015, 12:46:28 PM »
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esteban

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Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2015, 01:27:32 PM »
I am doing a road trip from FL to NY (yes, I know it is a long and sucky drive) and would like to know if there are any good places to pick up some Turbo games on the way?

Listen to PCE/TG-16 tunes on the journey and you won't find it nearly as brutal. :)
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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2015, 02:48:18 PM »
You may want to check out the various PA/DE stores. I hear good things about some of them. DigitPress is pretty infamous to boot, but I don't know if they have any Turbo. Drexel apparently has some.

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2015, 11:40:40 AM »
haha, I did Jacksonville to NY two weeks ago.

Long drive, but an easy one.
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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2015, 03:12:29 PM »
I just went today to a store in Manhattan called Video Games New York. Here's a photo of what I saw today.


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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2015, 03:27:08 PM »
^ yeah! that's a nice place...but mostly ebay prices

jeffhlewis

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2015, 04:55:36 PM »
I was at that store a couple of years ago - the prices on some things are nuts but there's a lot of stuff that's reasonably priced. Fun to look around at the very least.

esteban

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2015, 12:35:04 AM »
I just went today to a store in Manhattan called Video Games New York. Here's a photo of what I saw today.




I do not think you should travel to New Jersey simply for Digital Press (there are many better reasons to visit NJ, which is the best state in the damn nation, of course :) ...like, you can finally go to a REAL deli, a REAL diner, get some REAL pizza, get some REAL bagels, etc. and that's just because food is on my mind)...

BUT, if you can take better pictures of the store (and to see if things have changed in the last 8-9(!!!) years:

 
 
 

These were taken with my old flip phone on 09-15-07, so you can do better :)

Anyway, the display case is pretty neat if you have never seen any of this hardware in person.

I don't think I will ever get closer to a real PCE LT or DUO monitor, personally.   
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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2015, 02:44:41 AM »
This is the only display box I saw there.


tool

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2015, 07:23:39 AM »
^ wow is that sealed? :clap: :clap:

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2015, 07:41:12 AM »
Nice display box


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jeffhlewis

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2015, 08:39:08 AM »
This is the only display box I saw there.




Does the placard for the PC-FX still reference the fact that it's the successor to the "TurboGarfx"?

o.pwuaioc

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2015, 09:11:41 AM »
I just went today to a store in Manhattan called Video Games New York. Here's a photo of what I saw today.



I'll second what tool said. VGNY is always overpriced. 8bit isn't really better, either. Game Champ had good prices, but I don't think any are in Manhattan, adn they closed the one I went to in Brooklyn. Never saw any Turbo in them anyway.

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Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2015, 09:52:40 AM »
Esteban.  Digital Press looks mostly the same.  The only big difference I can see is that the turbo to buy section is now almost non existent.
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