Yeezy about to give our console a bad rap.... (ie: Kanye West and the Turbo)

[SignOfZeta]

Would you retards quit it with the "gang" shit? You're basically waving a giant flag that says "I'm clueless."

Btw, Kanye is a complete dick. f*ck him and all his sycophantic dick sucking hero worshippers.

[Mathius]

I can see both sides of the argument here but if prices skyrocket even more because of this I don't have to be happy about it. Regular gamers are already in the midst of the worst price hikes in our history. Kudos to Kayne for showing his love for the Turbografx-16. To hell with the resellers taking even more advantage of it. 

[Gentlegamer]

"Blazing" Lazers

Get it?

[Arkhan]

I can't wait for the flood of posts on here

AY YO LIKE, WHERE THAT THING IS THAT YEEZY BE UP ONS

and then they interrupt our posts to tell us about Beyonce

[BigusSchmuck]

And? Seriously, who cares? The guy is a schmuck. Enough said.

[Joe Redifer]

Got 3 or 4 comments on my Turbo video so far from Kanye fans and maybe 200 new views. Shit is spreading like wildfire and it's out of control. There are now more Kanye fans who are now Turbo fans than us REAL Turbo fans who have dibs on everything Turbo. f*ck it, I'm banning Aaron.

[TheClash603]

My girlfriend only listens to top 40 music and Kanye is one of the few artists on her stations I actually kind of enjoy.  I must've been connecting with his obey-ness on a subliminal level for years now, I am okay with this.

[780racer]

Got 3 or 4 comments on my Turbo video so far from Kanye fans and maybe 200 new views. Shit is spreading like wildfire and it's out of control. There are now more Kanye fans who are now Turbo fans than us REAL Turbo fans who have dibs on everything Turbo. f*ck it, I'm banning Aaron.

People don't get banned here. lol

Serious note, I doubt this will do much but make the "buy it now" higher for a few weeks until the posted time runs out and no one pays the extra #Kanye fee.

[ClodBuster]

And? Seriously, who cares? The guy is a schmuck. Enough said.

Yo bro.

[NightWolve]

Good one! Yeah, I was real surprised when I heard this, my first natural reaction was, "Oh great, now I gotta change my opinion on this jerk ?" There's obvious novelty to learn someone so famous was a Turbo fan, but I would've preferred if it wasn't this embarrassing, obnoxious jerk. I think South Park already answered the question of why he's a jerk and/or worthy of criticism, that point doesn't need to be defended...

[DarkKobold]

Another side effect-  Non-gaming journalist writing about the TG-16...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/27/why-kanye-west-right-recommend-turbografx-16-console

However, the sheer variety of versions that hit the market left consumers confused. At least 17 distinct core models made their way to game shops through the 90s. There were handheld versions like the Turbo Express and the PC Engine GT, base console revisions including the Core Grafx, SuperGrafx and PC Engine Shuttle, and all manner of expansion cards and add-ons. And then there were CD-Roms.

I was super confused in the 90's, by consoles like the Super Grafx and PC Engine Shuttle. I took a wrong turn at Albequrque, ended up in Tokyo, and was like, what are all these options?!?

[VenomMacbeth]

Surprised his favorite game isn't Deep Blue, considering his love of fish..

[esteban]

Another side effect-  Non-gaming journalist writing about the TG-16...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/27/why-kanye-west-right-recommend-turbografx-16-console

However, the sheer variety of versions that hit the market left consumers confused. At least 17 distinct core models made their way to game shops through the 90s. There were handheld versions like the Turbo Express and the PC Engine GT, base console revisions including the Core Grafx, SuperGrafx and PC Engine Shuttle, and all manner of expansion cards and add-ons. And then there were CD-Roms.

I was super confused in the 90's, by consoles like the Super Grafx and PC Engine Shuttle. I took a wrong turn at Albequrque, ended up in Tokyo, and was like, what are all these options?!?

Indeed. The natural progression of items marketed OVER TIME (organic evolution) is very different than ALL PRODUCTS EVER RELEASED.

I can't imagine how confusing SEGA's offerings in the 80's and 90's  would be for this author.

[Black Tiger]

Another side effect-  Non-gaming journalist writing about the TG-16...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/27/why-kanye-west-right-recommend-turbografx-16-console

However, the sheer variety of versions that hit the market left consumers confused. At least 17 distinct core models made their way to game shops through the 90s. There were handheld versions like the Turbo Express and the PC Engine GT, base console revisions including the Core Grafx, SuperGrafx and PC Engine Shuttle, and all manner of expansion cards and add-ons. And then there were CD-Roms.

I was super confused in the 90's, by consoles like the Super Grafx and PC Engine Shuttle. I took a wrong turn at Albequrque, ended up in Tokyo, and was like, what are all these options?!?

Indeed. The natural progression of items marketed OVER TIME (organic evolution) is very different than ALL PRODUCTS EVER RELEASED.

I can't imagine how confusing SEGA's offerings in the 80's and 90's  would be for this author.

When you go by the stretching standards that people use to make the PC Engine line seem massive and confusing, the SNES and Genesis quickly catch up and the Sega line goes much further than the Turbo/PCE combined.

SNES hardware:

2 NTSC models for North America -square carts only
2 NTSC models for Japan -round carts only
1 PAL model for Europe/Australia -round carts only
1 PAL-M model for Brazil -square carts only

Game formats with various video speeds: Square carts, Round carts, Gameboy carts, Satellaview roms.

And although SNES fans like to say that extra chips in carts bitd doesn't count as hardware addons, just try playing most of the popular games on a standard flash cart and you'll be disappointed by how many don't work on the main hardware. There's probably a dozen different chip/misc addons that are functionally unique formats.

With PCE, you only need to worry about HuCards (2 regions), CD2, SCD and ACD. LaserActive is arguably a standalone platform like SuperGrafx.

The Genesis line has the following game formats: Sega Mark III carts, SMS carts, Sega My Cards, Genesis-shaped carts, Japanese MD shaped carts, Sega-CD, 32X carts, 32X CD, Mega Modem games, Sega Channel games.

When you add in all of the regional lockouts and video variations, there's probably as many as 30 - 40 formats and more hardware variations than any console to date.

The 80's/90's was a bad time to be an easily confused person.

[MrBroadway]

Or, you're intentionally obfuscating things by including backwards compatibility as something to "worry" about. No one would have confused Master System and Genesis, especially in the American markets, because the two were long delineated. And to mention regional variations is a ploy and nothing more. At best, mid-90s Genesis might have added confusion with the introduction of the 32X, but that's it. No one was "confused" by a different Brazil system in the US, and the only people who cared about Japanese consoles were those who were importing and therefore presumably already had the knowledge about the systems. And chips on carts don't count since Everdrives were *not* on the market.

The journalist may be way exaggerating how confusing the Turbgrafx was in the US, but in Japan it was far more confusing than any console either before or after. To say otherwise is just sticking your head in a sand.

Instead of this disingenuous denial and tu quoques, why not embrace it? NEC was dedicating to bringing out the best of the best for its customers, and until the Supergrafx a regular PC Engine and PC Engine CD/Turbografx-16 and Turbo CD needed to play the revised games were special cards. Not great, but certainly better than the 32X BS that Sega pulled.

No one can deny that there are way more revisions for NEC's line of consoles than any of the competitors at the time. It's not only easy but even understandable that some consumers would be overwhelmed with options, and to make fun of them for that is just dickish.