So I have a few random questions that didn't seem worth creating separate topics for each one.
here goes:
1) Were Turbo games ever available for rent anywhere? The town I grew up in had about five places that rented video games and none of them ever had even one TG16 game. The one other Turbo gamer in town and I figured this was due to those warnings on the inside of manuals that said "The duplication, copying or renting of this software is strictly prohibited."
When the video store chain "Superior Video" opened up in my hometown, they rented Turbochip games. They came in a special clear plastic sort of sheet, at least 4 times as big as the game. There was a black (and maybe white?) TG-16 logo printed on part of the sheet thing, about the size of a Turbochip. I think that it may have been printed on the sleeve at corner of the sheet where the game sat inside.
It was there I got to try most of the titles I never got to buy back in the day. After renting Aeroblasters and ninja Spirit, I demanded both as Christ-mas and birthday presents and soon wound up with both. If I hadn't gotten to rent them, I probably wouldn't have wound up owning both back then.
The also had a couple Japanese Megadrive titles mixed in with the Genesis games. monster Lair and Chiki Chiki Boys.
The one real video game sales store in town eventually started renting the old stock from their main electronics store across towm, which had sold TG-16 stuff when it first came out. They also brought in some worn out used Turbo CDs like Shermatlock, even though I was the only kid in town who could play CD games.
They ordered most of their stuff through Chips N Bitz(or whatever), who advertised in game mags back then. I also caught the owner ordering through the Sears cataolgue a few times.
3) How is it that Syd Mead's Terraforming is both a SCD and CD game? I finally got the US version and a 2.1 system card. Playing into the first level for a minute there are no differences that I could detect.
I think that all Turbo CD2/SCD hybrids are just CD2 games that were released after the Super CD format came out. You could slap an Arcade label on Fighting Street and say is ACD/SCD/CD2 tri-compatible.
I think most hybrid/multi-format CDs for PC Engine are the same, even though lots of people
swear they can tell the difference.
EDIT: Forgot this earlier...
4) Did all Japanese CD games come with white plastic trays? All of my US jewel cases came with black plastic on the inside. All of my SGX games and early Japanese Hucards come with black plastic on the inside. All of my imported CD's, SCD's ACD's and later period Hucards come with white plastic, except for one of my copies of L-Dis and Daisenpu Custom. Are these two replacement cases or exceptions to the rule?
I'm pretty sure that at least one PCE CD game came with a non-white case, but I can't remember which one.[/quote]