Turbografx arcade system?

[shubibiman]

Some friends told me that they found a mame rom of Gunhed. It appears that there was an arcade system based on a turbografx and made by United Amusement, a bit like Nintendo's Playchoice. Have you heard of such a thing?

[jboypacman]

Looked up United Amusement over on KLOV and there were only 3 arcade games listed from them but no Turbografx arcade machine shown.

There was no info on the 3 arcade listed from them so maybe there could be a T-16 arcade machine floating out there somewhere.

[Turbo D]

It exists! Some dude on here acquired the components of one. To my knowledge, they were sold as kits containing the marquee, cpo and jamma board (which looked like a naked Pc-Engine getting butt-raped by a jamma harness.) I'm too lazy to search for the dudes thread, but its somewhere on this forum.



Edit: found it
https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=3536.0

[esteban]

Years ago, I lost an auction for a TG16-cum-Jamma kit that was, indeed, commercially released.

Read through the thread if you want a play-by-play as the drama unfolded.

And for the folks who want to read the documentation:

TurboGrafx-16 Installation Guide and Service Manual for Coin Operation



Some juicy excerpts:

Dear Operator:

            CONGRATULATIONS!!!

And welcome to the world of TurboGrafx-16, the Next Generation in video game technology.

Your TURBOGRAFX-16 purchase represents the first step down a road which promises to return profits from your video game operations. We salute you for your wisdom of your choice, and we thank you for your business.

...and go to page 12 of the .pdf to see what the kit included. It's pretty standard.

[shubibiman]

Thanks for your fast repies

[Tatsujin]

but that means that there are not special turbo roms for that system. just the normal us turbo chips.

[jboypacman]

Wow that is cool that they would have something like that for the arcades maybe someone should let KLOV know about this.

Was this released in the U.S.? Or was this more for a overseas market?

[termis]

I do recall playing KCKC on a playchoice-type arcade cabinet in Korea long, long time ago (over 20 years ago).  Each credit bought you certain amount of minutes before the machine started beeping and would ask for more coins.

[Tatsujin]

in technical point of view, the pce 2 jamma (as well sfc, md 2 jamma) board is just the same, not?

[Black Tiger]

Lots of console games got turned into arcades unofficially. I remember some Genesis variations and once played a SMB2 NES arcade.

[ccovell]

Is it this?

[Joe Redifer]

Is that Rush Limbaugh?

[shubibiman]

Nice pictures! It actually reminds me of an article in a French magazine back in 1990!

[guyjin]

Is that Rush Limbaugh?

if it is, I will find every copy of power league I can and destroy them.

Hell, I might do that even if it isn't him.

[esteban]

Is it this?

Hey, you gotta tell us the source of those images! I saw them before, many moons ago, but they were never credited.