Classic Game Room - PC-ENGINE TURBO DUO console review 

Hey Mark! I'm really happy that you decided to move the channel back here on RU-vid. I've been subscribed to the channel for two years now and I just wanted to say that I always look forward for reviews of video games, consoles, toys and sometimes bananas to start my day! Keep up this awesome content. I really enjoy this channel so much!

PC-ENGINE What a name for console

Making the PC Engine itself into a playable character was genius.

0:11 OMG I can't believe it. You actually managed to insert the cartrdige/card in the proper console for once.

Awesome review! Love the TurboDuo! I noticed your loaner PCE Duo had an LED mod on the CD tray. Looks great! :)

Your show brings a good balance of humor and info. Cheers!

Of all the consoles I've never owned, I always wanted this one the most. This would look awesome sitting next to a JVC X'Eye.

Always fun to watch your videos. There is so much eye and ear candy enjoyment watching your stuff. Keep it up please.

Man, that's one hell of a donation. PC Engine Duo? That's at least a $500 console right there. At least.

That looks pretty sweet, and the music and sound fx sound great too. I wonder why these weren't more popular.

Does this mean we're going to get a proper review of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood?

the Characters in Star Parotia remind me of BomberMan

Sad that you don't make these videos anymore Mark

Man these videos are great. Literally the most zen thing on youtube. Also you remind me of david rees.

This may be my favorite background music CGR has used.

I always like his reviews.. he reminds of that back to the future era... Even thou now we look back at that time with that wannabe future technologies. They are still cool. Like back to future series..you still watch it. He brings back that time. Thumbs up buddy. I hope you continue and earn good money doing this.

I miss these days of CGR

I love how he compares everything to the sega genesis. He can be trying a new type of beer and be like, it's good but it's no sega genesis.

you could do the voice overs on 'The Price is Right'! You really have a knack for describing products.

Love to see a review done of Akumajou Dracula X: Chi No Rondo for this system. Or as it's otherwise known, Castlevania X: Rondo Of Blood!

+Trusteft The Turbo Graffix was a 16-bit console, around the mid/end of the NES cycle.

Ohya, great to see more TG/PCE love!

I don't have the duo, but do have the Turbografx with Turbo CD attached. Both have a great library of games, many of which are unique. Splash Lake is one I strongly recommend. How often do you get to play as an overweight ostrich with no legs?

My Taiwanese bro had these in new zealand in the 90s no one had one was amazing to play save me so much money instead of arcades

I love marks t-shirt, it's awesome!

I finally got one of these back in my collection the other day after a sad sell-off a few years ago. My old one was a US model, but this Japanese one I have now has had its capacitors and laser both replaced so it should last a long time. The CD part is region free so I think I got a better setup anyway. Alongside my USA TurboGrafx-16 which plays USA HuCards, I also now have the option of buying Japanese HuCards to play on my Japanese Duo. And when it comes down to market success and failure in the past, I think what made/broke this system in its respective regions was the game library. While there were plenty of good US releases available (IMO the US CD library has more good than bad out of the 44 or so titles), there were so many great games that only got released in Japan. The high price tag also probably discouraged some gamers in the USA too. The same reason I didn't get a Sega CD or 32X for my Genesis until I managed my own gift money in high school, years after it was discontinued. Whose parents bought them a TurboGrafx-16? I assume most TurboGrafx-16 owners were adults or teens who bought them themselves.

Lords of Thunder and Gates of Thunder are awesome shumps on this system.

I think the turbo cd had someslight improvements like extra ram and multi scrolling background,wich was only possible on the original system trough ram expansion and DMA acces.

Can you mood the US duo to play pc engine imports? I'd like to play some Japanese only shmups like sapphire (probably have to get a bootleg for that one...) and Castlevania Rondo of Blood.

The voice in that Insanity game sound exactly like CATS from "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."

There are sooooo many great games on the PCE CD Play em on my phone all the time with a bluetooth controller.

love this music so calming

How are you guys receiving games and consoles if your in space? Does the wind squid deliver it?

CGR is love!

It's nice to know at least a lot of PC engine games have gotten collection releases. But what about the games I don't know about?

Can anybody recommend a good AV switcher for the PC Engine Duo? For games with composite video I plug them into a switcher so that I can switch between them. For whatever reason, the PC Engine Duo won't cooperate with the switcher. There ia always noise in the video when I connect it into a switcher. It only looks clean when plugged directly into the AV ports on my DVD recorder or HDMI adapter.

PC Engine master race!

Hey, I've just noticed that you told somethign wrong in your mini review. The PC-Engine Turbo Duo does NOT use the same Cables as the Sega Genesis Model 1!. Only if you mod it it does, but in the original version it doesn't. Just try it out it won't fit!.

I'm eating some ridged potato chips whilst watching this review.

I have a Turbografx with 3 games. None I'm really interested in playing but I do want a cd attachment just for Castlevania. Man those cd attachments are no joke when it comes to cost

Average price on ebay for a good, working Turbo Duo console alone is around $260-300 USD,There is a mint condition, in box, unopened for $4,500 (Nov 14,14)!

Some of the best 8bit/18bit shumps every made exist only for this system, for instance, Gate of Thunder.

CGR MADNESS!

Insanity looks like Berserk with Samus as the main character...

I want more Mark.

Cool, thanks does this have better sound and graphics than the PC Engine CD add on and SNES? How about the AES? Thank you. God bless, Proverbs 31

I need this machine in my life!

You had me at *_IN SPAAAAAAAAAAACE_* subbed

I have the core II not sure what the difference is? they look the same just the printed grafx are orange not blue,, Still havnt been able to find a cd add on for a reasonable price though..:-(

Great machine, all versions of it.

hi Lord Karnage, I have a Japanese Turbo Duo, can you help me on the power adapter? It comes with one, can I use that one on US outlets? or know how could I get one that works?

Is this the only 8-bit system with a CD-ROM drive?

Insanity = Berzerk

Once day I shall upgrade to a Duo, very hard to get in working condition at a wallet friendly price though :(

Great system, great video.

OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED You look a hell of a lot like Nathan Fillion

What's that the same as the turbo grafix 16?

Could you do a last Play Station Home review now that is shutting down forever?

best console. gunhead, last ninja,motor roader, genjin, multi-tap, etc etc

So what's the difference between the tg-16, the turbo duo, and the PC engine?

Man I would really like to get myself a turbo grafx system soon but for now I will just play the games on my psp 3001 which is actually pretty much like playing a turbo grafx express but better.

Insanity looks an awful lot like Berzerk. I wonder if it's as good.

You should review Soldier Blade!

Is that an S-video port on the side?

I wonder how much his light bill cost lol alot of arcades

I love this show

Awesome thanks 👍

i like CGRundertow better, you should get them doin console reviews as well (more views right?)

Did these consoles come out in the UK?

is this what the PC master race are going on about?

Retro misses his turbo graphicx 16 and Cd attachment I had some odd systems as a kid

The Japanese TurboGrafx.

Much love

The CD side of the Duo is region free, but the Hu Card side is not.

listen, once i can afford a ticket to space, will you be running a galactic arcade up there?

"CGR lives on" *cries*

ITS BOMBERMAN!

Is it Region free?

Pc console master race

Bomberman turned into a space shooter.

I-is that Bomberman..? I-it is! :D

I want that shirt!!!!!!!!

isnt this the character from bomberman

Man! The PC Engine Duo looks identical to the american Turbo Duo!

Man so much less AV Out than the Genesis, I bet it hasn't rgb. Btw. Was it trough that the PC Engine had about nothing to do with the IBM PC? Meaning that it doesn't have an x86 struktur which technically doesn't make it a PC (And I use PC for the commonly used term for x86 Computers).

I. WANT. THAT. SHIRT!!!!!!

You know there is such a thing as a TurboDuo for the West. It must not have been available in your area or you may not know much about retro consoles

That's bomberman?

This guy!

This is seaman. Do game reviews !

It looks like a CD-I combined with an original Playstation. lol

i wonder if it will play games like MOLE

Mark, go back to the old intro.

Isnt that bomberman?

PC engine cartidge can be broke easily because of them using thin card that can bend.

I has great shooters? I WANT ONE!! But here in Uruguay is going to be impossible to find one of those consoles :/

Finslly PC gamers can finally play true console games

I want one so bad....

Wait that insanity game does not own its rights because its a rip off of berserk for the atari 2600

#PCEngineMasterRace