- Some places rented the Turbo Grafx. The only place I recall encountering it was Video Nation, in Seabrook, Maryland. There is a post around here of someone who bought a game that had a manual with that store's sticker on it, hhahaha. Originated from me.
Most of the TG-16 there didn't rent much. They had 2 systems with hard palstic cases for rent. I also recall the store had a poster on the wall, that was a combination of words and pictures. I = Eyeball picture, etc. It was an advertisement that basically said rent X amountffo games, rent the system for X Price. And the catch at the bottom was, "It will (Picture of a person with a leaf blower) you away!".
Unique poster.
That store also rented NES, which it did for a while before it carried Turbo Grafx. Later on it carried a few Genesis and Super Nintendo titles. Though, the place focused on "general" videos and porn for the most part.
I never rented games from the store, however when it changed owners, and names, the Turbo Grafx stuff left the shelves!. By the mid 90's, it wasn't moving. It took up space where videos and such could be. I enquired about what happened with them, and was told they were boxed up. Many of the games found a home with me, and some years after that, with others!
About the A/V cables. The family had an NES, that I recall coming with A/V cables (mono). I never used them, as there was a floor console television (wood cabinet!) which was only "cable ready". As mentioned in another post in this thread, those cables got shoved in a drawer, box, many places.
Genesis 2, from what I recall, has a port for A/V, however you have to buy the special cable, it's similar to how the stock Duo A/V cable works. I don't recall it in the box.
Super NES, same deal as above, however it came in the box.
That's about as recent I get game systems, besides the TG/Duo and Sega CD.
Though, by that time (mid 90's) I'm sure A/V became the standard and was packaged with all following game systems (Saturn, Play Station, etc).
