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

[Colossus1574]

Cool, looks like there were different experiences for the TG16, i thought i was the only one who couldn't find a place to rent....

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!

Wow...looks like Denver was the lucky one, 3 different chains doing rentals is pretty damn impressive! Were they all Huey's or did they dare to rent the back then "HI-TECH" CD games as well!?!? Considering the price of the CD unit, i'm betting HuCards were the norm? 

[Vecanti]

I remember several of the video stores put stickers on all the NES cartridges.  "Be Kind, Rewind" 

[Joe Redifer]

Mostly it was just HuCard rentals.  I think Power Play Games did a few CD rentals, but since the system hadn't sold much back then they didn't feel it was worth it.  I did borrow a few CD games from the used games case once with the manager's permission, games like "The Manhole".

[GameFreak]

I had a Blockbuster that had about 8 or 9 TG16 games to rent. It looked so pathetic next to the rows of dozens of NES and Sega games. It was funny they actually rented the TG16 Console without the CD unit. They also rented sega and nes consoles...and a really strange looking plastic suitcase blue VCR for those people that didn't have a VCR yet.
I already owned a TG16 so I rented a few games. I think it was $2-$3 for 2 nights.

[blueraven]

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!

How come only like 3 people in Denver know how to drive?

[Joe Redifer]

Only 3 people in any given city know how to drive.

[BlackandBlue]

The video stores in the town I group up in in Jersey only had nintendo and genesis.  They didn't know how to obey.

[Vecanti]

The video stores in the town I group up in in Jersey only had nintendo and genesis.  They didn't know how to obey.

 

[_joshuaTurbo]

had a little shop in town that rented 16 turbografx games.  When they went out of business in 2000 I bought all 16!!  they were around $5 each.

Of course they had beat up cases/ instructions and black marker with be kind rewinds stickers all over them

[nat]

How do you rewind a HuCard? I haven't been doing this-- are my HuCards prone to failure as a result?

[blueraven]

How do you rewind a HuCard? I haven't been doing this-- are my HuCards prone to failure as a result?

Carefully.

[Colossus1574]

How do you rewind a HuCard? I haven't been doing this-- are my HuCards prone to failure as a result?

How do you rewind a HuCard? I haven't been doing this-- are my HuCards prone to failure as a result?

Carefully.

Carefully, save your game if neccessary, press SELECT + RUN, then turn off power switch on system = properly rewound HUCARD 

[kenomac78]

the local supermarket/drugstore/video store rented TG16 games! There was a toy store about 4 shops down from there that carried tg16 and so the rental store carried everything! i played most tg16 cards, and every tgcd game released up to about fall of 92 when the toy store shut down. they kept the games there till about 96 but never had a sell off so the owner must have kept them! after that there was no more tg16 available in the area, and had to go to a bigger mall way on the other side of the city.

side note i always HATED the stores that only sold "top 20 NES games" only!! it got a little better but still frustrating when it became nes/genesis only. now i just buy online so i can get what i want wooo

[finerion]

I grew up in Southern Mississippi in a small town that did not have any chain video rental stores for many years. The only place I was ever able to find TG16 games was in a gas station that had a video rental section. Only had 5-6 games and they wanted 6 bucks a piece to rent for a week. Only ever convinced my mom to rent from them once and that was my first experience with Dungeon Explorer.

[Eltigro]

There was a Hastings store that rented TurboGrafx games in my area.  When they got out of the TG renting business I bought World Class Baseball and Psychosis from their old rental stock.

A more interesting place was a little "arcade" in the same shopping center.  It was a small place with a small game sales business up front with a register and a place to sit, but the back 2/3 of the store was an "arcade" of sorts.  All it was was about fifteen televisions with TurboGrafx-16's and Genesis' hooked to them.  You would buy time, like an hour or something, and then go back and play whatever games they had running.  I specifically remember playing Boxy Boy, China Warrior, Legendary Axe, and Ninja Spirit there.