At what moment did you realize the PCE was magical and/or awesome?

[SamIAm]

"...and now, the mystery unfolds."

[esteban]

"Dr. Garcia, how is the development of your ultimate weapon, INDRA, coming along?"

[NightWolve]

"Dr. Garcia, how is the development of your ultimate weapon, INDRA, coming along?"

Brings back memories... Nice that somebody wrote something like this to properly honor it for all time.

[esteban]

"Dr. Garcia, how is the development of your ultimate weapon, INDRA, coming along?"

Brings back memories... Nice that somebody wrote something like this to properly honor it for all time.

HahHhahahaja.

[kosko99]

Unfortunately way too late for me. I bought the system around the same month I joined this site.
Been several months checking videos, reviews, trying some roms on emulators.... but once I got the system here, aww man that was awesome.

I spent a zillion of hours the first week, it might be an old system... but not having seen a PCE ever in my life (besides videos) was amazing to have one in front of me after all those years, plus I only saw around 2% games and every single thing I tried on the system was new to me.

So, topic question:
When? The first time I plugged it to my TV

[esteban]

Unfortunately way too late for me. I bought the system around the same month I joined this site.
Been several months checking videos, reviews, trying some roms on emulators.... but once I got the system here, aww man that was awesome.

I spent a zillion of hours the first week, it might be an old system... but not having seen a PCE ever in my life (besides videos) was amazing to have one in front of me after all those years, plus I only saw around 2% games and every single thing I tried on the system was new to me.

So, topic question:
When? The first time I plugged it to my TV

I actually envy you, because all that matters is that you found it *before* becoming too old and feeble to play games.

[shubibiman]

"...and now, the mystery unfolds."

I get goose bumps just by reading this

[kosko99]

I actually envy you, because all that matters is that you found it *before* becoming too old and feeble to play games.

Yeah, I guess so haha. Anyways, it's a system I don't regret to have bought. Only thing I regret is not having thought about purchasing one way earlier, now everything is quite expensive I buy one game once in a while... but I hope to get a nice small collection eventually :-)

[MisterCrash]

I had a friend who had a TurboGrafx back in 1989. He had also had a Genesis, but had returned it. I remember being shocked that he had returned the Genesis, because I had thought the Genesis was supposed to be the pinnacle of home gaming. When I asked him why, he said that Dungeon Explorer was the best game he had ever played. Not long after, I got a TG16, and could see what he was taking about.

The same friend got a CD attachment later, with two games: Final Zone II and Ys Book I & II. When I played Final Zone, I was stunned that the opening music had actual lyrics. "Watching them fall, burst into flames, with bazookas." Then he fired up Ys, and it was game over. I was amazed by the difference in quality between Ys and any game I had ever seen. I knew I had to get one. I got my own CD attachment for my birthday the next year, and played Ys to death.

[sanjo]

When I saw the Dragon Slayer demo on the Turbo-cd.

When I first saw the Turbo, it was just the hu-card, and the demos available were always Keith Courage, which was kinda meh.

Dragon Slayer didn't have great graphics or anything, but it was the sound that impressed me.
It was the first time I heard CD audio on a game. Plus I was heavily into RPGs so that was also a plus.

[xelement5x]

Late 2000s. I was mainly introduced through the Working Designs games and then won a system and games bundle off ebay that gave me a ton of titles that were fun and diverse.  After that I got sucked in and kept researching/buying/playing games.  D

[HuMan]

The OBEY occured to me in two stages.

Stage 1:

I got a TurboGrafx-16 back around 2010 I think. Even at that time, TG16 game prices were getting to be very high. This limited what I got to play, which wasn't much. I liked Keith Courage, Victory Run, Dungeon Explorer and Bonk's Adventure, but this isn't what the TG16 really had to offer. I parted with the TG16 and thought I could live happily ever after with Neo Geo.

Stage 2:

Fast forward to 2015, I had experienced Neo Geo, it was good, but the OBEY guilt crept up on me. I righted my wrongs, I bought a white PCE, Turbo Everdrive, a Duo-R and a pack of CD-Rs. I've been very happy ever since. I hooked a friend up who was looking for PCE happiness with my Duo-R, I then proceeded to get a plain Duo which I have been greatly enjoying ever since fixing.

As for when I realized it was magical... Well, I had a faint feeling of it with the TG16, but it was fleeting. Once I had a real PC Engine and access to any game via Everdrive/CD-Rs, I was engulfed in the magic.

I think Ninja Spirit was the game that pushed me over. As good as Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden are, there was something awesome about Ninja Spirit that I hadn't found in a Ninja game before. I thought to myself, "this is Hudson Soft". As I played each Hudson Soft game, I kept wondering how they could possibly have made so many quality games. There must be some magic in that old 6502.

I feel ashamed for having ignored the PC Engine for so long, but I am definitely a fan now.