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

[kosko99]

Turbo didn't even exist in my country lol.
Would have been nice to see those around...

[gekioh]

I didn't have my own TG-16 yet back than but I remember when I was a kid there was a couple of places in my town that had TG16 games for rental. Alligator Video and Syd's Video both on lancaster. I think the local Albertson's Grocery store in my area may have had some too for a short while at least. I vaguely remember looking at the back of the box for Bonk's Revenge inside an Albertson's. Could have been another grocery store but Im pretty sure it was Albertsons.

[RyuHayabusa]

I was fortunate enough to have a rental shop that sold all their TG-16 stuff for dirt cheap when they went out of business. I bought 2 TG16s for $10 each and 8 or 9 games for $5 each. Bloody Wolf, R-Type, Splatterhouse, Legendary Axe, Tiger Road, Vigilante, Double Dungeons, Alien Crush, maybe one or two more I can remember if I got then or later.

[Dicer]

Had a place downtown that rented turbo and NeoGeo, was pretty awesome...

[BigusSchmuck]

I believe Blockbuster over in Yakima WA had Turbo games for rent, but at the time I got my Duo in 94 those were long gone.

[JoeQuaker]

Huh. I don't recall any store ever carrying NEC stuff around the NC/SC area. I remember one store having Sega Master system stuff when most others only had NES but that was it.

[jelloslug]

There was a Phar-Mor in my town that rented TG-16 games.

[wilykat]

There was only one store that has TG-16 games and it was a 20 minutes drive.  So if my parents were to go to Canton area Meijer, it was a rare opportunity to go for video rental.  until they screwed me a year later claiming I broke a game for Genesis.  They said it didn't work when I returned and they claimed I somehow cracked the board so I was out some $50.  When I got home and did some cleaning, it worked fine. The crack was only on the ground plane. I guess the crack formed from too many kids slamming the cart in and I guess the store (which went out of business a few months later) were idiot for not considering dirty connector.

There was only 1 other store of interest, in north part of Flint off Corunna rd there was an used game seller but they closed a few years later. There wasn't any local source of TG-16 (rental or used sale) until Disc Replay came in west side near Toys R Us and Buffalo Wild Wings.

[Warbucks]

I don't remember seeing any Turbo rentals growing up.
Come to think of it, I was the only kid who had one growing up.

[GoldenWheels]

Turbo Rentals? Never even saw them. 

I was happy to have ONE friend who had a Turbo Express. That was the entirety of my childhood turbo experience.

[JoeQuaker]

I was happy to have ONE friend who had a Turbo Express. That was the entirety of my childhood turbo experience.

I owned a Turbo Express before some *person* stole it when I was a teenager.

[grendelrt]

None of my friends had a turbo growing up.  One of my friends did rent one and bloody wolf from a movie rental store.  He told me how awesome bloody wolf was and I tried to rent it but none of the stores near us rented turbo games.  Sucked so bad haha. 

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[ginoscope]

There were no turbo rental stores that I knew of in the early 90s in the Dallas area.  Sucked because no one I knew had a turbo so I was limited in what I could play.  We did have an awesome import store that had a lot of the PC Engine CD games but they were so expensive at the time.  I only ever got Dracula X for $99 lol.

Around the time the super cd and Lord of Thunder came out I had some friends that got a turbo duo and finally got to trade around and play more stuff.

[EvilEvoIX]

I was happy to have ONE friend who had a Turbo Express. That was the entirety of my childhood turbo experience.

I owned a Turbo Express before some *person* stole it when I was a teenager.

Same here.  So sad.

[Groover]

I didn't have TG16 rentals but I had my best friend that had one. Also he kind of was spoiled for a time and had tons of toys and video games. I remember going to his house all the time and watching Police Academy videos pausing to play TG16 games and playing Thundercats.