Top 10 reasons why I HATED the Turbografx-16

[Rockabilly Paradise]

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you have blasphemed the name of keith courage!

Sorry, I just think it's merely only a average game at best.

yeah but not keith himself! just because they made a shitty game about him doesn't mean he deosn't kick major ass! lol i'm thinking about doing a live action movie of keith courage and calling it ALPHA ZONES. i know it was an anime or whatever but i don't care. look for it to hit youtube in the next few months!

[Colossus1574]

Des: you're 10 things are all legit reasons! Man....box to box....the artwork was just so consistenly shitty! They all look like they were done by 3rd rate artists who got hired for cheap....it's pretty sad when Magical Dinosaur Tour has better art then Dungeon Explorer.....blame the marketing dept again! 

Anyways, my annoyance probably was that the core machine just required too much add-ons to compete with the SNES and Genesis bases systems. We needed things like the Booster but more importantly the CDrom to get the better stand-out titles (extra $200 investment...for a teenager??? that's alot of paper routes my friend!)  And like u mentioned, just to play a simple 2 player game (which the Turbo lacked in the 1st place) we needed to throw in another $35 for the Tap? arghs.....

[Tatsujin]

I will watch that after coming home. LOL. I could list 101 things hating about the TG-16

[DesmondThe3rd]

Des: you're 10 things are all legit reasons! Man....box to box....the artwork was just so consistenly shitty! They all look like they were done by 3rd rate artists who got hired for cheap....it's pretty sad when Magical Dinosaur Tour has better art then Dungeon Explorer.....blame the marketing dept again! 

Anyways, my annoyance probably was that the core machine just required too much add-ons to compete with the SNES and Genesis bases systems. We needed things like the Booster but more importantly the CDrom to get the better stand-out titles (extra $200 investment...for a teenager??? that's alot of paper routes my friend!)  And like u mentioned, just to play a simple 2 player game (which the Turbo lacked in the 1st place) we needed to throw in another $35 for the Tap? arghs.....

Ohya, it wasn't easy to talk my parents into getting me both the Turbo Tap and another Controller back then for a gift. I knew there was no way in hell I would get a Turbo CD especially with our weak Canadian dollar back then.

[ceti alpha]

Des: you're 10 things are all legit reasons! Man....box to box....the artwork was just so consistenly shitty! They all look like they were done by 3rd rate artists who got hired for cheap....it's pretty sad when Magical Dinosaur Tour has better art then Dungeon Explorer.....blame the marketing dept again! 

Anyways, my annoyance probably was that the core machine just required too much add-ons to compete with the SNES and Genesis bases systems. We needed things like the Booster but more importantly the CDrom to get the better stand-out titles (extra $200 investment...for a teenager??? that's alot of paper routes my friend!)  And like u mentioned, just to play a simple 2 player game (which the Turbo lacked in the 1st place) we needed to throw in another $35 for the Tap? arghs.....

Ohya, it wasn't easy to talk my parents into getting me both the Turbo Tap and another Controller back then for a gift. I knew there was no way in hell I would get a Turbo CD especially with our weak Canadian dollar back then.

Yeah, the CDROM was pretty much unattainable unless you had parents willing to shell out the dough. I can't remember if Radio Shack here even had clearance on the Duos.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Well, I don't know about ya'll, but, I just saved up for the CD Rom, & got it when the price dropped to $150, I don't recall how long it took, but, I was able to get that & Valis 2 for $30.

[Arkhan]

yeah but not keith himself! just because they made a shitty game about him doesn't mean he deosn't kick major ass! lol i'm thinking about doing a live action movie of keith courage and calling it ALPHA ZONES. i know it was an anime or whatever but i don't care. look for it to hit youtube in the next few months!

will it star a like, 9 year old boy like the anime? lol

[TurbografxKid]

Lets see.........
I had to drive out of town and out of my state in order to purchase my Turbo Grafx 16 from a Toy-R-Us. Had to do the same thing whenever I wanted as new game. This was back when there was really no internet. There was only mail order from the back of game magazines. And the SNES hadn't hit the store shelves yet. Arcades was where everyone met. 

I'm the only one that had one around me and I was the only one who knew what a TG16 was.

It has already been said, the poor support that NEC gave the system in the US. So many games that should have been released here. Which leads me to say that, it should never had region lock on the system.

Hated myself for not picking up the rare Turbo booster back then. Why wasn't that in the system in the first place? 

I agree with the turbo tap as mentioned. It was a bit irritating to get one so that others could play.

Other than those few things, I fell in love with the TG16 as soon as I got home and pulled it out of the box. And I am still on a honeymoon with it. I treat mine with kid gloves and seemly treasure the TG16 above all of my other consoles.

[Colossus1574]

Ohya, it wasn't easy to talk my parents into getting me both the Turbo Tap and another Controller back then for a gift. I knew there was no way in hell I would get a Turbo CD especially with our weak Canadian dollar back then.

Yeah, the CDROM was pretty much unattainable unless you had parents willing to shell out the dough. I can't remember if Radio Shack here even had clearance on the Duos.

Backthen....i was buying my stuff in the mall at a computer store called CompuCentre (wow....genius who came up with that one) and behind the counter way up on a heavenly pedestal...was the box for the CD Rom unit...i always dreaded seeing all the CD games i couldn't buy and walked out with my Hucard (no loading time so eat that bitches! haha)....    Ya...i think our Cdn was only worth 65cents to a US dollar those days 

[Colossus1574]

Other than those few things, I fell in love with the TG16 as soon as I got home and pulled it out of the box. And I am still on a honeymoon with it. I treat mine with kid gloves and seemly treasure the TG16 above all of my other consoles.

Well the TG16/PCE has a very special place in my childhood too, it was my graduation from the ol' NES! Plus, how could u resist those cute little hucards vs. the bulky cartridges hahaha

[ceti alpha]

Ohya, it wasn't easy to talk my parents into getting me both the Turbo Tap and another Controller back then for a gift. I knew there was no way in hell I would get a Turbo CD especially with our weak Canadian dollar back then.

Yeah, the CDROM was pretty much unattainable unless you had parents willing to shell out the dough. I can't remember if Radio Shack here even had clearance on the Duos.

Backthen....i was buying my stuff in the mall at a computer store called CompuCentre (wow....genius who came up with that one) and behind the counter way up on a heavenly pedestal...was the box for the CD Rom unit...i always dreaded seeing all the CD games i couldn't buy and walked out with my Hucard (no loading time so eat that bitches! haha)....    Ya...i think our Cdn was only worth 65cents to a US dollar those days 

Yup. Canada was pretty much on the brink of becoming a banana republic until we started paying down our debt like mad in the 90s.

[turbogrfxfan]

I spent my whole summer at 14 years ols sweeping warehouses in Newark nj to get that cd. thats prolly the only thing i hated about turbo cd

[rag-time4]

It has already been said, the poor support that NEC gave the system in the US. So many games that should have been released here. Which leads me to say that, it should never had region lock on the system.

I don't think any system should ever have region lock. Region lock is absolutely retarded.

[turbogrfxfan]

It has already been said, the poor support that NEC gave the system in the US. So many games that should have been released here. Which leads me to say that, it should never had region lock on the system.

I don't think any system should ever have region lock. Region lock is absolutely retarded.

i agree rags but i think they do it to controll the market

[Firebomber7]

The PCE has an 8-bit CPU with 16-bit GPUs
The Genesis has a 16-bit CPU with an 8-bit GPU

NEC did nothing wrong at all.

I'm pretty sure the Genesis CPU is 32-bit, but sits on a 16-bit data bus.  Sega could have written 32-bit across the top of the Genesis/MD and they would not have been wrong.

Writing 16, 32 or 64 on anything was never anything other than marketing.