5 Truly Terrible TurboGrafx-16 Games You Must Avoid 

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I'm one of those Moto Roader fans. I can't play it like when I was younger, but here is my $0.02. Always use Steering B. Get good with the hopper, you can cut corners with it. The warp when you fall behind can be used to your advantage to avoid some obstacles. Memorize the maps (and especially use the preview before a race) Stay on the inside of curves. When you get really good there's nothing more fun than drifting through a track like it's nothing.

That artwork for Ballistix was used for the front cover of the first Judas Priest album, Rocka Rolla, when RCA reprinted it in 1984.

You sound just like JOhn C Reiley, love all the reviews!

Still have my original TurboGrafx-16 with the CD attachment. Years ago I bought the Turbo Duo and a SuperGrafx. Good thing I kept them because I could never afford to buy them now.

I don’t know how big a PC Engine collection you have, but would love to hear you do a worst games video on that console sometime. Another awesome video as usual. Keep up the kick *** work & I’ll keep watching & sharing.

I miss my TG-16. China warrior was kinda fun when I was a kid. Definitely doesn't hold up

MotoRoader is one of my favorite games on the console. You can fix the control by buying the B+2 handle in the upgrades section. My top 5 worst games for the Turbo would be Falcon, Gunboat, Drop Off, Jack Nicholas Golf, and King of Casino. I can actually somewhat enjoy the 5 games you mention.

I absolutely LOVED the Turbo Grafx-16. Great memories!

Moto Roader's okay, but it's a poor man's knock off of Sega's Hot Rod. Also we were spoilt by Micro Machines too, so this never stood a chance.

Always appreciate seeing turbo stuff. As a kid I grew up with NES and Genesis. So turbo is a unicorn in my mind. Great stuff John.

We love you John! You're our boi! Hopefully we'll see you at the PRGE swap meet in March.

You forgot to mention TaleSpin. One of the banes of my childhood.

John Hancock... Complete collection of Sega Genesis cartridges. Complete collection of gaming baseball caps! Darkwing was a major disappointment.

I wonder how many takes John has to do for these thumbnails they are funnier every time lol. Great video, I've been getting into TurboGrafx a bit more, what I'd really love is to get my hands on a Turbo Duo someday.

Great video! This was a great review! Thanks again John!

Great content. Thanks for doing your thing!!

This guy is jollier than Santa, even when he’s talkin bout ish games😂👍

Great video, John. I miss my TG16; bad games and all.

Great video, made me laugh cause I have 4 out of these 5. I want to put out JJ and Jeff also. Lost weeks of lawn mowing money on that turd.

When I saw the title I thought to myself, ugh China Warrior. And laughed out loud seeing it the first game shown here. Excellent video as always!

Man, seeing all these great retro videos makes me sad. I was never able to get a 16-bit or 32-bit console. I went from Atari 5200 to NES to N64. My neighbor had an SNES and my best friend had a Genesis and PlayStation so I didn't entirely miss out, but I had never heard of the TG16 when I was a kid and I didn't have one of these great consoles in my house until I was an adult (and I still don't have a TG16...just the mini).

China Warrior I find to be a decent game, yes it's a bit too simple but, I do find it decent. I do play Altered Beast more over China Warrior. Darkwing Duck: The version where you die by the piano for standing around too long, got to love that punishing moment. Ballistix is like an attempt to bring over Crossfire board game into a videogame that falls flat. Other two you mentioned I never played before and they do look bad looking at the gameplay. For one of my favorite TurboGrafx-16 games are Splatter House and Neutopia.

One of my friends in elementary school had Ballistix on the PC and we thought it was a cool vide9 game version of that board game Crossfire. We had a lot of fun playing it versus against each other so I have fond memories of it. Though I never played the TG-16 version, so I don’t know if they messed something up in the conversion or if it’s only fun in one on one with a friend.

Always look forward to a new Immortal video !! Please consider doing a worst of the Dreamcast video!!!

There are few terrible games for pc engine/turbografx but you found them dude, congrats 🥳. Cheers for the video and keep on gaming 👍

Thanks for another great walk through gaming history. Although, I can't say that I agree with you about China Warrior. I still play it today. I did go into it as a better version of Kung Fu when I first played it back when it was first released. I loved it when I would get a super punch in on a boss with the big fist. (I totally agree with you about the other games on the list. As a veteran of the original Console Wars, I used to argue that my TG-16 was King above the Genesis . China Warrior, Blazing Lazers, and Legendary Axe were my "go to's" for that. :) Keep on doin what you are doin!

Blessup...as a youngin & after getting Snes, for Xmas....I went another route & asked for a turbo G, got Neutopia with it....my cuz would laugh that it was his cup of tea...but I was all in lol!

I knew deep blue would be on here when I saw the tittle of the video. It is an EXTREMELY hard game. I liked it and still play it once in a while. Very frustrating, but it is possible to beat. I liked the music in the game :-) Ty for the video

0:50 That was an awesome time in gaming history to most of the time choose a game looking at the little screenshots at the back of the box. It definately wouldn't work today and back then there were dissapointments too but overall i loved that part the most when i was at my local computer store scrolling through what seemed like an endless wall of Amiga, Master System and Mega Drive games and being able to choose one.

Some real stinkers you found here John! Loved it great stuff

I remember playing Deep Blue when I got it along with my TurboGrafx. I was so disappointed when I played it that I sold it a few days later. Thankfully the other game I got with my system (Legendary Axe) was much much better.

Pong but you shoot the ball? Wow, interesting concept!

I just subscribed to your Channel I think you're awesome bro I'm born 1980 I know about some games I got some old game systems Neo Geo Neo Geo CD Nintendo's a lot of the Sega Genesis all those that one call television and television

Moto Roader; the unintentional innovator of rubber-band AI.

Good choices. I have Victory Run for the PC Engine and remember being really disapointed with it. Really thought it looked like a great game, but the difficulty was through the roof.

Third🙄 never had a turbo graffix they pretty hard to find in the UK would you recommend the turbo graffix mini John 😉

Deep blue looks like it should have been on the 2600

China Warrior looked so amazing to me as a kid back in the day. But then I was a kid, and I didn't know any better.

I don't know which you'd remove but JJ & Jeff needs to be on this list.

Love the TG-16. Great video!

In Motoroader, there are 2 different steering control styles. The one where you press where you want your car to go and another that works more like actual steering using just the left and right d-pad buttons. You need to upgrade to a steering wheel that gives the control style you prefer.

Owned a TG16 back in it's day. This list is spot-on. Very entertaining video. What a waste of good Psygnosis art, Ballistix is.

7:42: btw. the original Ballistix game for the Amiga was the first game (not counting their first games under a different name for the Spectrum) from Reflections of Driver fame. But I'm not sure who did the port for the TG16.

The Turbografx has bad games??? What?! I didn't even think China Warrior was that bad, haha.. 😁 Ok Ballistix is god-awful, I'll give you that!

The TurboGrafx was very uncommon in the UK, I have the UK version and unfortunately its just the American versions, which plays the American games but forces them to run at 50hz (without adjustments, so slow) and it can't use the CD attachment! But at least some of the games I did have were great!

First thought when seeing this video; China Warrior better be on this video. China Warrior is first game mentioned; pause video, comment, and like.

Surprised that Double Dungeons wasn't on this list. I bought that at Toys R Us for 50 bucks and I was devastated. I popped it in my Turbo Express on the way home and it was soon apparent that I had made a mistake.😂

I love this series and I bought a Turbografx a month ago, so very useful info!

I couldn't afford a TurboGrafx-16 then, I can't really afford one now, but did enjoy this review. The Atari 2600 game Indy 500 is actually fun and seems way better with the game play than the MotoRoader.

I really enjoyed Side Arms but when you would die they would put you back on screen right in the middle of an impossible enemy swarm, many times (read: almost all the time) making it just not possible to survive long enough even with temporarily invincibility to continue on without dying immediately because you can't get your bearings to make it out of the swarm before invincibility ran out. It simply made an otherwise fun to play shmup unplayable.

China Warrior's graphics blew me and my friends away back in '89. But, yeah, horrible game. A year or so later we had a similar experience with Veigues Tactical Gladiator. Though better than China Warrior, it had nearly identical game play. And like many games from that era, both had limited continues. That was usually the deal breaker for us.

Toilet Kid was bad but interesting but I remember a maze RPG that was literally almost featureless. You pushed a button, the monsters died and you moved on.

When I had a TG-16 as a kid, I basically had to make the most out of the games I had...including Ballistix and Darkwing Duck (and a lot of really great games too). So I played Darkwing Duck over and over until I kinda sorta even liked it. Would definitely play that and China Warrior today over Fighting Street, that's for sure!

China Warrior is actually a favorite of mine because my grandma gave it to me for my Birthday back in the day.. I learned to like it I guess.

China Warrior and Moto Racer were the only two games on the TG16 mini that I thought “why the hell are these on here?”

Does ballistic have a 2 player mode, and if so, is it more fun? I can imagine that being fun if not playing against the cpu.

I've wanted a tg16 since the day I saw the first one in radio shack as a kid

I always look forward to the expressions in the thumbnail.

China warrior kicks ass

Can't even find a Turbografx lol. The only one I found asked $600 eff dat

I just started playing DEEP BLUE 2 days ago and my Gawd please make the pain stop! Thank goodness for Save States!

Bad TG-16 games I think are Bravoman, GunBoat and Impossamole (though Impossamole gets a bit of a save with the high score music, which I use as a ringtone on my phone)

Still waiting on hitting a garage sale to find more games for my system (like that will ever happen ha) I sold the one I bought at sale many years ago and regretted it. Later i bought the Turbo Duo with stack of games on eBay for $300 many years ago to get it back in my collection. I don't remember playing any terrible games but my fave was Devil's Crush

I will avoid those like the plague! 🤣 honestly I only have Keith courage and bonk. The rest of my fix come from my mini. For me the TG16 was a novelty so I only wanted a game or two to play anyway.

One of my biggest regrets in gaming. Was selling this console. Bought it with Christmas money the year it came out. Would love to have it again. But so expensive online 😭

For those wondering if Psygnosis published or developed this title, here’s the answer. 07:56. They loved that font. Also I had big problems following what was going on. Way too busy.

I don't think that I ever heard of this console. Was it sold only in North America?

i picked up a turbo grafx - 16 year's ago & a friend gave he's turbo grafx cd & he's turbo express. then i went to some junk shop and picked up a turbo duo for $2 no hook ups or ac adaptor just the unit.

I like Moto Roader. I also like Ballistix, probably because I spent tons of time playing the board game Crossfire which it seems to be inspired by. (The computer is really cheap, though, no denying that.). My bottom 5 HuCARDs are: Darkwing Duck Talespin Impossamole Timeball and yes Deep Blue

On moto roader looked like no collision detection as u was just driving through them

China Warrior is like a Tiger electronics game in a weird way (not scrolling to see if someone else said this)

As bad as Motoroader is, I still bought it when it arrived on Wii Virtual Console back in the day and had fun with it! While its flaws cannot be ignored, I do give it points for being a weapons based racer, predating Super Mario Kart by a few years, even having up to 5 player multiplayer compared to Super Mario Kart's 2 player! It wasn't until another 2 years (or a year and a bit in the PAL regions) that Street Racer would come along with up to 4 player multiplayer! I actually beat the first 2 tournaments in Motoroader, but even after trying the 3rd one again upon getting my PC Engine CoreGrafx last year, I just can't do it, no matter what weapons and upgrades I buy.

IMO the only redeeming feature for Deep Blue was the "Fin" message instead of "Game Over".

Lol hey 7:49, its the same art used for Judas Priest's Rocka-Rolla

As for the some of the Worst, I agree with you on Ballistix. You can't expect Darkwing to be the same as the NES version. Moto Roader is a LOT of fun with 5 Human players, buy the max steering at the beginning, and you get RC Proam like steering. My Worst are Fighting Street, Vasteel, Deep Blue, Andre Panza Kickboxing, my #1 hate: JJ and Jeff

China Warrior looked interesting graphic-wise, but it looked like very stiff with the way he's kicking those Druids, I guess, in the nuts, lol. I could imagine if I played that game for real, it WOULD feel like the controls are stiff. I also had a feeling DW would be on the list: I still sometimes flash back to when AVGN reviewed it and him saying "GET THE F*** UP THERE!" when he was trying to get on to a platform, or "I don't know what kind of f***** up duck can't f****** duck." when he was trying to crouch down. Lol, just freaking hilarious.

Just got done playing Soldier Blade. 😄

While I do acknowledge that China Warrior is a terrible game and it was certainly the worst of the launch titles and is in the running for worst game on the system. I do hold a certain nostalgia for it from my youth. I have many fond memories of going over to my buddies' house and playing China Warrior with the sound off, making our own Bruce Lee kung-fu sound effects while Carl Douglas' Kung Fu Fighting was blasting on the stereo at a soothing billion and a half decibels. Ah good times.

I had high hopes for China Warrior; hoped it would've been as good as Blackbelt for the SMS.

When I saw the title of the video the first thing that came to mind was Deep Blue.

such a shame that many great turbografx-16 games were not released outside of japan. :(

Could've swore I saw China Warrior as a top 50 for TG-16.. thats why I downloaded the rom and played it one time

Some of these games were included in the TG Mini for some reason. I can play China Warrior and have fun with it, but that top view racing game... ewww... I'd change CW and place that platform game with the dudes in suits instead (forgot its name, it's THAT boring)

when you said "the power-ups have to match what you're able to avoid in a level", I immediately thought about "Starship Hector" on NES hahaha. that game's only power up is, health refill...... yeah, you can only trust your main shot and there are enemies and bullets everywhere, which I consider this game the hardest shmup on the console. it's even harder than Recca in my opinion.

Both China Warrior and Moto Roader were included on the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. Why?! It's not like Nintendo put Super Play Action Football on the SNES Classic. I was very surprised when I found out there was Darkwing Duck game on the TG16. By the time that show debuted that system had clearly flopped in America so I would never assume it would get a game based on a Disney show, particularly over the SNES or Genesis. Heck, back at that time period I didn't realize this "Turbo Duo" thing that got the occasional review in Gamepro was the same console that had those Bonk games a few years back. It felt like the TG16 got TV commercials for a few years but I stopped seeing them so I assumed it had been discontinued. I only knew one kid at my school that had one and he never had the CD attachment and had switched to the SNES once it came out.

The reason why China Warrior reminds you of Kung-Fu is because it is Kung-Fu... more specifically the Japanese version is called The Kung-Fu. I felt that you beat this game up a little too much. I still enjoy this game. Gunboat could most certainly take the place of that game on the list. All the other games, I completely agree with. And you don't know how happy I am to see you didn't put Keith Courage on your list.

China Warrior reminded me of the Amiga game Sword of Sodan initially, but China Warrior looks a lot more basic. Ballistix on the ST & Amiga was a budget title that did not review well (and I didn't like it)

I guess ballistic plays off popularity of crossfire board game which I thought was awesome. Unless it came out first. Either way I have played both and I agree with you its a difficult to control game where it is difficult to see what is going on

Honestly Ballistix was fun with 2 human players. It's the Terrible CPU opponent that ruins that game.

Back to Future on NES is my #1 game to hate. Probably because I bought on day 1. I soon learned to fear the rainbow after Roger Rabbit. I knew about and experienced sun burn many times but rainbow burn was new to me back then.

I'm going to enjoy sneering at the bad games for each console!

I love my TurboGrafix16. I got one 3 years ago with an everdrive cartridge and downloaded every game ever made into a single SD card in separate, alphabetically-categorized folders. The only games I did not include were the adult-oriented titles with sexual content.

I didn't have the turbo Graphics 16 when I was a kid but I haven't now and I'm a 40 and I got Splatterhouse I think one more and that's it for the turbo Graphics 16 I got to get Bonks Adventure though

I always held China Warrior in the same low esteem that I did Keith Courage. Just kinda dull relatively pointless games. Billistix looks like Crossfire turned into a video game. Strip Fighter was awful. Never especially liked JJ and Jeff.

Ugh, there's something about that moto roader art but idk about that game play

I missed the "ohhhhh boy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

China Warrior looks like a mockup game from a cartoon show.

I agree with all those! I actually owned Ballistix and Moto Roader. The game Yo Bro! also really sucked.

I had two of these games. China warrior and darkwing lol Impossimole comes to mind that should be on the list