Best Turbografx-16 Games SNES and Genesis Owners Missed Out On - SNESdrunk 

Honestly, in the last few years I've just been falling in love with the TurboGrafix library. Ys blew me away when I first played it, Bonk is just pure fun, I've even started to discover new favorites. It's like a whole world of classic games I missed out on, it's like finding a hidden box of treasure

Devil's Crush is easily one of the greatest pinball games ever made. That soundtrack is absolutely godlike and the visuals are outstanding. It's also on the Genesis under the name "Dragon's Fury" if you don't have a Turbografx...

"I'm sure I deliberately missed your favorite game just to spite you..." *mentions rondo of blood* Nope. You did good.

You can't miss Galaga '90! It's something I always come back to. It's a fantastic port of Galaga '88, which is the ultimate Galaga game and a must play.

Finally Rondo of Blood getting some love! One of the Best classic style csstlevanias if not the Best 😍

"I'm sure I deliberately missed your favorite game, just to spite you!"

Vigilante Samurai Ghost Riot Zone Galaga 88 Bloody Wolf Just tossed in more great TG-16 games.

Great games. I bought TG16 for $35 back in 1992. I loved the system. Underrated and under appreciated at the time.

Rondo of blood is my favorite old Castlevania by far.

The Keith Courage game is actually based on the anime series Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru (at least in the Japanese version). Blazing Lazers is actually a tie-in game to the movie Gunhed (the game was also known as Gunhed in Japan)

As a little girl the Turbografx was always really mysterious to me. British gaming magazines and shows would occasionally mention it, but it never saw an official release here so was a pricey and niche system for import gamers only. The Neo Geo was similarly mysterious, but I'm not sure whether that was released over here or not, either way it was an absurdly expensive console few people would get to play.

"I know it's pinball, so it's not all that exciting..." TO EACH HIS OWN MANNNNN! :) Great vid!

Parasol Stars. Spent WEEKS on that game when I was like 8.

Pinball games for the Turbografix 16 are incredible! Castlevania for the Turbografix 16 made my jaw dropped!

Bloody Wolf was great military shooter that was similar to games like Contra and Imari Warriors.

in a weird way the CRT arcade style grahpics on the TG16 sometimes look better than genesis and snes. more arcade looking anyway. freakin sweet system

Final Lap Twin and Moto Roader, in addition to many of the games you mentioned, were a part of my morning ritual before school. I would wake up extra early just to get some time in on my brother's TurboGrafx16.

Veigues Tactical Gladiator! I played this game for hours with my brother. Your character gets so overpowered later in the game, it's so rad

Always happy to see the TurboGrafx getting some love.

An amazing underappreciated system.

Aero Blasters is another a fantastic shoot-em-up arcade port worth mentioning. It's also on the Genesis as Air Buster.

Yes I'm glad your showing turbografx love I hope you review more game from it and super CD games as well 😁

Had a lot of fun playing the TG16 at a friend's house way back in the day, and funny enough the three games I remember most you mentioned in this video. Bonk, Bomberman, and my personal fave co-oping Shockman was so much fun. Great vid as always!

So happy we have the Mini coming next year!

Alien/Devil's Crush were two of my favourites. Incredible music!

Had a turbografx as a kid. Dead moon and Impossimole were my two favorites.

Love every single game you mentioned here!! The sounds that come out of the TG16 are so original and nostalgic. Just last night I was playing a lot of Blazing Lazers and Air Zonk attempting to beat them. Came close on Air Zonk, but I struggle on level 5 of Blazing Lazers still. Great video, brother!

Another great vid. Rondo of Blood is AWESOME :-)

Im so excited they are making a mini turbografx 16 . look it up people

Awesome!!! Love the Turbo GrafX ! Definition of the pinnacle of retro gaming! Thanxx! Loved the video

YES! you covered all my favorite classics from my childhood. Glad to have grown up with turbo grafx 16, my favorites are Splatterhouse, Ninja spirit, Legendary axe 1 , Bonks adventure, I liked Keith Courage but I never finished that damn game its tough

Your reviews are always so enjoyable to watch. Thanks a lot for making these great videos.

Man, played a bunch of these over the years thanks to re-releases on the Wii and PS3 (on the Japanese PSN, Sony had PCE titles as the third line of "Classics" alongside their digital PSOne and PS2 games for download. I swear, making a fake JP region account for that system should've been mandatory - so much great stuff available to play thanks to that having no region lock). Always a treat to see someone show some love for titles like Shockman, Lords of Thunder and Soldier Blade :) Great list, dude!

I'll post recommendations for other games here: TurboGrafx-16: Cratermaze - A puzzle game in which each stage consists of a maze filled with various enemies and items. The player must collect all of the keys on the stage to open the exit door while avoiding or eliminating enemies. The primary method of dealing with enemies is to dig holes; if an enemy walks into a hole, they are momentarily trapped and the player can then fill the hole to kill the enemy. Final Lap Twin - A racing game in which there are two basic modes: Grand Prix and Quest. Grand Prix consists of a multi-race points championship, while quest mode functions like a racing RPG and has the player travel from town to town finding challenges and winning them to gain money and special items to improve the player's car. As the player moves around the game world, which is presented in an overhead view, the player will encounter random challenges, much like random battles in a traditional RPG. Side Arms - A shoot-'em-up in which the player controls a Lieutenant, named Henry, and is armed with crude weaponry and protective jump-suits. The player must save the earth from the mercenary invaders of Bozon by reaching Bozon’s territories in order to wipe out its forces hidden in caverns and lurking in underground seas, before destroying the main invasion ship. Timeball - A puzzle game in which each level is composed of a number of tiles and each of them has a part of a pipe (straight or angular) on it - except one which is just a black hole. On one tile, a red ball starts rolling and all tiles it rolls through become blank. The goal of each level is to let the ball roll through all pipe parts without meeting the hole or a blank tile, and the player has to ensure this by moving the tiles around. TurboGrafx-CD: Buster Bros. - An action game in which the goal is to destroy the balloons which bounce around the playfield, and this is accomplished by shooting hooks which travel upwards, and blow up any balloon they touch. Depending on their size, they either split on two smaller ones, or evaporate if they're at their minimum size. Apart from balloons, some levels also have barriers that have to be destroyed with the hooks, as since they often block access to the balloons. Cosmic Fantasy 2 - A role-playing game set in a mixed sci-fi and medieval world. Player-controlled characters can learn and use various offensive and healing spells; however, enemies are restricted to physical attacks. Characters join and leave the party frequently, as dictated by the plot; the party may contain up to four active combatants. Story progression and overworld exploration is linear; dungeons are usually fairly complex and maze-like. Final Zone II - A shoot-'em-up in which the player controls a soldier on some levels and vehicle on other levels. As a soldier the player dons a "New Age Power Suit" and has a choice of playing several different characters, though it is only a one player game. The object of the game is to fight an enemy army led by "ZOD,", and killed some of the player's commando friends, and there are various armaments and shields the player can pick up along the way. Lords of the Rising Sun - A strategy game set in 12th century Japan, where, after the player's father has been murdered, the player sets out on a quest to become Shogun to restore the honor of their family. Troops will be moved through the big map of Japan and fight enemies in action sequences, such as a Gauntlet-like fortress attack or defending against a Ninja assassin. If two troops collide, a battle might ensue in which the player will have to use all of their strategical wits to guide their men to victory. Splash Lake - A puzzle game in which each round consists of a single screen play area composed of tiles suspended over a lake. The player controls an Ostrich that can crack the tiles and cause them to fall into the water. The goal is to use this ability to make all the bad guys on the screen fall into the water.

Love your picks. Ys Book I & II, Military Madness, Blazing Lazers, Legendary Axe.... This system had so many amazing early titles.

I just picked up Super Air Zonk on your recommendation and look forward to playing it. Formation Armed F is a great shooter based upon a 1988 arcade game that has captured the gameplay of the arcade well. Enjoyed your video, well done.

One of my favorite TG16 games was Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble 3 My first experience with it was playing it on an NES emulator, then I got the Gameboy version. I'm glad it's been announced for the TG16 mini.

Haha great vid, and you featured most of my fave games! Shout out to Spriggan though (Compile) which you left out DELIBERATELY to spite me :(

Lords of Thunder was my first Turbografx game. I scooped it up on the Wii virtual console after hearing how good the soundtrack was and it made me a BELIEVER, holy shit. I'm sad I missed out on a lot of these gems, but I'm really looking forward to the mini console coming out so I can finally experience a bunch of these! Great video, by the way. Really well-edited and you summed up your points on each game very succinctly :)

i love all these videos- it shows how many forgotten games are good. thanks man!

Love your work man never stop!

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu is a must-play. It doesn't do anything crazy, but it does everything it sets out to do really, really well. Great graphics, good tunes, and tight controls.

Legendary axe and Bomberman '93 are awesome games. Thanks for showing them some love.

Awww Splatterhouse. I was the only kid on my block with the Turbografx-16 and I loved that game. The gore was crazy for back then.

Dungeon Explorer, Moto Roader, Vigilante, Bloody Wolf, and a game where you control a power ranger type character were also awesome

Don't know about best, but there was a tennis game that had an RPG option where you could fight random tennis matches to get money, buy better tennis gear, and seek out bosses. I really enjoyed that back in the day.

This is my favorite series from you

Probably your most appropriately titled video that i can recall .... Mad Love for Hudson, NEC, and the Turboooooo! 😻

I remember a rpg/racing style game called final lap or something to that effect. They had some really neat ideas at that point that really set themselves apart but I suppose the turbo just wasn’t accessible enough (or have the backing) to push on. Great video.

The Turbografx never came to my country back in the day, but I would read about it in EGM and Gamefan. Years later I have played alot of the games through an emulator. For me Dragons Curse was the best overall game on the Turbografx, and as much as I loved Blazing Lazers (Gunhead) I liked Soldier Blade a little bit more. SB had awesome Hu Card music too :) The Arcade card made some incredible ports on the Super CD2 as well and I just feel if more games were released in the west the Turbo-Duo could have give the Genesis and Snes a run for their money. Rondo of Blood is also an awesome game. Great music! Thanks for this video :) Any chance you could do videos on other gaming systems like FM Towns Marty X68000 etc?

Watching this channel always makes me wanna have a great rest of my day

Love your videos man!! I'm glad these games don't get lost to time

I remember in 94 when i got my 1st Turbo..at a yard sale for $50...

It's a shame the TG16 got squeezed out and overshadowed by the competition.

Im so glad you mentioned the Bonk series! I didn’t know there were so many other Bonk games. I beat Super Bonk on the SNES and fell in love, it was an extremely fun game with original and fun pixel art!

Really good video. Trying to get more into NEC stuff having played Ys and Castlevania on CD, and you really convinced me

You definitely missed Parasol Stars. That's probably my favorite game on the TG16.

My favorite system of all time,I still play it daily! 💯

Nice to see the Turbografx getting some love on your channel ! As for titles left out to spite me (^_^), the Turbo CD edition of Loom (Lucasfilm adventure classic) and Compile's Spriggan (shmup similar to MUSHA) are also well worth checking out. Additionally Ys IV has a full fan translation, and is different (and widely considered superior) to the SNES version.

This will be the perfect list to try and find TurboGrafx games. Thanks a million, bud

It's 2018 , and I still have the this hand held game system, and with some games. I love it because I watched TV on it as it was not mentioned here. 👍

Keith courage was awesome ; I had a turbo graphx 16 😁

Thank you for making such a great episode.

Nope, you covered my favorites and then some. Thank you for this awesome video

I was the only kid I knew who had one of these growing up - it was more or less a hand-me-down by way of a Christmas present from my older cousin, but it was super cool having a system no one else had. The only problem was that my mom GAVE IT AWAY when I got an SNES the next Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Final Lap twin was amazing with its quest mode. Also Jackie Chans adventures and Yo Bro

As usual, extremely solid and well made video. Really like the look of the Legendary Axe games, might have to emulate them!

Military Madness stole scores of weekends from me as a kid. Simple, yet surprisingly deep and addictive strategy goodness

Dungeon Explorer.

That sure is a killer selection! The only essential game you've missed was Dragon's Curse, which is Hudson's *superior* version of Wonder Boy III, but yeah, other than that one these are pretty much all the must play titles for beginners in the TurboGrafx's library, but of course there are tons more great games on the system that people should get to after playing these... Some of them include the fighting games on the system, sure the PCE wasn't exactly known for its fighters, but it has a fair few which are pretty competent, if not outright great! There's obviously Street Fighter II, which is good in any of its 16 bit console incarnations and you can't go wrong with any of them, and then there's Asuka 120% Maxima Burning Fest which might just be the best fighter on the system, even with Street Fighter in there! The thing about Street Fighter and Asuka 120% that sets them apart from the other fighters on the system is that neither of them requires the Arcade Card (which was an expensive 2MB RAM expansion for the CD unit), whereas pretty much every other (good) fighter on the system does... But still, 2 extra megs mean that they could make near arcade-quality fighters on the system! Which include World Heroes 2, Ryuuko no Ken (Art of Fighting), Garou Densetsu 2 and Garou Densetsu Special, all of which are pretty damn close to their Neo Geo counterparts and totally wipe the floor with their SNES and MD counterparts! Other than Fighters the system also has the best version of Cotton, Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Star Parodier (Star Soldier's answer to Parodius), some neat Sega ports like Space Harrier, Outrun and After Burner II (The latter is perhaps the best 16 bit version), and of course, the Konami shooters, you know the ones, Gradius 1 and 2 (the 2nd one is on CD and it RULES!), Detana TwinBee (This game is Beautiful!), Parodius Da and Salamander...

No, I think you nailed it. I can't think of anything you missed. I don't know what filters you are using, but all your videos always look better than I remember them...

I just recently bought a Turbo Grafx 16 console. I was a big Sega and Super Nintendo guy myself back in the day. Thanks for the share.

Best soundtrack of its time... Dungeon Explorer!

Neutopia has some really cool music. Also, Zelda clones are awesome!

"Bark's Adventure, Bark 3." Great video.

That Castlevania Rondo of Blood is so underrated! Great video.

Also Dungeon Explorer should have got a mention I think. Thanks for missing MY GAME!

With people no longer able to add Wii points to their account anymore, Nintendo should really let people select whatever game they want, regardless of points, since the shop's going to close next year anyway. That just shuts people out who are unaware of what's happening with the Wii, but with the Switch being a big deal nowadays, what do you expect, I guess.

Yes!! Thank you so much. Its the video I didn't know I've been wanting. God I hope we get either a collection or a "classic" for turbo games.

Still have my TG16 and it works flawlessly. Have adventure island , all the bonks , both Alien Crush and Devils crush and more. Love it.

Oh man next time please do the intro with tuuuurbo drunk! That will be awesone! And yeah my favorite game is castlevania rondo of blood! That game blow my mind on nintendo wii! Nice video as always!

Bring on the mini!!!

Bloody Wolf is an awesome game I saw for the TG16 I don't own one myself but I'm hoping to pick one up soon. Thanks for the awesome video! Keep up the good work!

Great list! Gates of Thunder and Castlevania was my favorite on the Turbografx CD. Ninja Spirit, Bonks Adventure, Hit the Ice and Blazing Lasers on Turbografx 16.

My dad: spends months on Blazing Lazers, and no matter what, can't get past the fourth level. Me: finally decides to play the game... gets to the 7th level my first try. My dad was... Annoyed. Lol. Ah... Memoires.

Bonks revenge and r-type were and still are awesome

Great video yet again!!!!!

The first stage music in Legendary Axe is what made me want to get a turbo graphics when I was a kid. One of my classmates had one and a Turbo express. Yeah he was one of those kids. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a Neo Geo back then. I never did get one, but finally got my chance to play a lot of the games in the download age. Great system.

06:22 Neutopia 1 came out 2 years before Zelda Link to the Past. It looks obvious that Link to the Past copied Neutopia, not the other way around.

"i'm going to avoid ports," 5 seconds later, "this bomberman is one of the best ports"

This really needs a part 2!

Thank you for mentioning Rondo of blood!!! My fav game by far!!

Best game is rondo of blood. You didn't mention the arcade card and sapphire :p

Bloody Wolf is a great game for the Turbo

"I'm sure I deliberately missed YOUR favorite game, just to spite you" hahaha I got a good laugh out of that one!

Another great vid! Thanks!

“Ninja Spirit” reminds me most of “Legend of Kage” for the NES.

1:46 So that's where the Frank transformation sequence from Pat the NES Punk's Flea Market Madness series comes from! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--kX502TaD8E.html

i missed out on BOTH = ( luckily i have your channel to let me know on everything i missed = D

Air Zonk forever! Even though it never got released where I live, I brought one over from my trips to Japan and it's an amazing little system. I'd love to get a TurboExpress one day so I can play Air Zonk, Blazing Lazers or Alien Crush in the train though.