Who was lucky enough to have TG16 rentals in your area?

[Colossus1574]

Just read the "who still needs MC thread" and saw that many of them actually just wanna play the game!
which kinda dawned on me a good question....

Who was lucky enough to have TG16 rentals in your area?

One of the reasons i jumped to the PCE after 2 years was i had more friends to swap/borrow games off of then stores with TG16 rentals!!!  Every game rental place in Vancouver only did NES and Genesis games back then! (obviously were talking early '90s) I'm sure it didn't help TG16s marketing and appeal.... Mind you, the stores aren't dumb they'll look for marketshare for each system...and research probably told them NES and Genesis were the safe bets 

[KingDrool]

We had a neighborhood rental place that rented every active system of that era, including Turbografx. It was kind of awesome. Even more awesome was when they went out of business ten years later I was able to buy all their Turbo games for $4 a pop.

[Gogan]

Had a few places that rented em around town. Not much selection, and I owned a lot of what they rented already. Oh well

[pixeljunkie]

We had a neighborhood rental place that rented every active system of that era, including Turbografx. It was kind of awesome. Even more awesome was when they went out of business ten years later I was able to buy all their Turbo games for $4 a pop.

hahaha same here

[TheOldMan]

Only had Blockbuster that rented them here. Several places that rented NES/Genesis games
pointed out the notice in the front of the manuals

Any duplication, copying or rental of this software is strictly prohibited

Lots of businesses took it very seriously.

[Necromancer]

I don't know of any places that rented 'em, but I wasn't really into renting at the time, so I may have just overlooked the Turbobs.

Any duplication, copying or rental of this software is strictly prohibited

Lots of businesses took it very seriously.

Funny how times change; I recently bought a couple DS games for my nephews and they specifically allowed rentals.

[Obfuscate]

Rented turbo games near every weekend. Marios in Brooklyn Center, MN. RIP.....

[TheClash603]

I didn't have a TG16 growing up, so I do not recall if they had those games...

But the one place did rent to me 3DO and Jaguar games, so I imagine they had them if anyone did.

I kick myself to this day, because when that place when out of business, I had Earthbound SNES CIB in my hand for $10.  Instead of buying that, I bought Darkstalkers for the PS1.

[TurbografxKid]

I had to drive to the next state in order to purchase anything TG16 back in the day. TG16 never came to my area. 

[SignOfZeta]

There was a Diehard Game Club in Auburn Hills (later moved to Waterford) that was half way between where I lived (Midland), and where my girlfriend went to school (Detroit) so I rented quite a few PC Engine and Super Famicom games during that period.

I never rented any US titles from them (most of which you could just buy for under $20 at TRU anyway) but it was great to be able to rent Macross 2036 any time I wanted since it was really hard to find/expensive back then. I would also rent stuff like Super Robot Wars EX and keep it for a month until it was beat. $25 in late fees wasn't such a bad deal, IMO, since new SFC games were sometimes over $120 each.

[nat]

There were places around Seattle that rented Turbo games, but then again Seattle was a major market for the Turbo during that period.

[Joe Redifer]

Since Denver is the best city on the planet, OF COURSE we had places that rented Turbo games.  3 different chains of stores, in fact, all over the metro area.  It was so awesome.  I rented Cratermaze and it created a save file on my CD interface unit.  That save file stayed there for many, many years.  I felt like I stole it!

[Frank_fjs]

Hmm, I didn't have TG16 in my country (Australia) let alone games in a rental store.

[blueraven]

A place called VideoMaxx that also went "Laserdisc Only" to try and corner an exclusive market on the West side of town. That's the only place I remember, I rented Sidearms and Splatterhouse there. 

When They went out of business I bought all of their mylar Laserdisc covers for my records.

[Vecanti]

Every video store around rented Nintendo games and many carried Genesis games after a while, but never saw any TurboGrafx games for rent.

Would be cool if http://www.gamefly.com/ started carrying them.