Oddities & Surprises on the PC Engine 

I would love to see the odds and oddities format for other systems in the future.

Always up for some quality PC Engine content! I think the system has aged _incredibly_ well. I like that you kept coming back to the chronological context for these games. When you realize it launched in Japan barely a year after the NES hit the US & Canada, you understand how amazing it is that it punched as far above its weight as it did in the hands of a programmer who really knew what they were doing. And when you realize at that same time the Famicom had been around for four years in Japan and its mapper chips hadn't come along yet, while the Mega Drive was probably barely still a blueprint let alone an announced product, you realize why it had as much appeal in Japan as it did. On the subject of Ninja Gaiden, it was reportedly farmed out to an inexperienced dev house in Hong Kong. It may have been one of those situations where it was ordered because the US office really wanted it (hinted at by the English text) but handed to a cheap studio because the series had nowhere near as much impact in Japan at the time. Why it still saw the light of day I have no idea though, aside from hoping they could still recoup the low investment based on the fans the series did have there.

I definitely hope there's a part 2 of this. Great look at the PC-E library!

I'd really like to see more coverage in your particular style on the PCE. *Particularly* regarding the literally hundreds of titles that are genuinely good, but haven't been videoed to death by western channels. There are a ton of really neat things on the platform (particularly outside of the usual western-friendly arcade-y suspects), and it would be cool to see them represented in the rather unique SLX way of doing things :)

I've been going through a recent SEGA revival, which is how I discovered this channel. I'm very much enjoying this content. Growing up in a rural community my access to gaming was limited, but I was very lucky to grow up with two friends who had a Master System and Turbo Grafx-16 respectively, so I at least got a chance to check out both. This was a great retrospective! This system never gets the respect it deserves.

That background scrolling in Ninja Guiden makes it look like the entire foreground is a moving train in the 1st level lol so bad, it kinda hurts your eyes

I bought a Japanese PC Engine with a 6 button controller just to play Street Fighter II. It was worth it.

I am surprised Toilet Kids didn’t make the list! It’s a juvenile, absolutely crass shoot ‘em up with a BUNCH of toilet humor and even flying p*nises! It’s also incredibly tough, even with two players, but it’s also incredible fun with a friend!

Any Double Dragon fans need to check out Matt McMuscles' 10 hour DD retrospective, where he plays every single DD game released on every console from the Brazilian Zeebo to the ZX spectrum and the Jaguar. DD games were licensed out to any developer who paid for it and no checks or balances were imposed on the devs, which is why you get so many incredibly different ports of what should have been the same game. Pac Land's control just goes to show, that in the early days of gaming, for every good idea, there was an equally bonkers idea like using the buttons to walk left and right! Blasphemy!

I absolutely love your content. I’m not sure what your day job is, but you’ve found your calling for sure!

I was a TG16 owner back in the day and loved going to Toys R Us and looking at the back of the flip cards on my lunch break from work. Still got my Turbo, its a great system. I remember my buddies and i would get together for Military Madness and Victory Run sessions. 😁 Great times.

Yes please do more PC Engine content. This deserves a part 2. I do want to experience more of the PC Engine library and my most wanted game to play is Legend of Xanadu II. And hey, that Godzilla game on the PC Engine did get a superior follow-up on the SNES but sadly a Japanese exclusive. And the creators of the 2 Godzilla games on SNES and PCE also made Psychic Storm also for the PC Engine and Castle of the Shikigami just to name a few. Wish CoS3 would get released on Steam already. Come on Cosmo Machia.

Heck yeah. Tg-16 needs love. Cho aniki... I think i first played it on Saturn back in the day. Goodness! I loved it though! XD

I remember importing the PCE version of Street Fighter 2 CE along with 2 Hori 6-button gamepads and it all cost a fortune at the time, but I honestly liked it way more than even the Turbo Edition SNES release. Visuals were nice and crisp and I was pretty blown away the game was ported to that hardware with such amazing results.

I had a Duo back in the day. I loved it then, and I love it now!

The PC Engine/Turbo GraFx 16 is indeed one of the best obscure 16 bit gem. Even it didn't compete against the big leagues. It's still an amazing console to play.

Such a great console for hidden gems. I especially like it for all the shmups.

Everyone leaves out that NEC reasonably expected Hudson to remain as invested as they were only for Hudson to value their standing as a Nintendo licensee more.

That last game, Steam Hearts, is a perfect example of the meme as to what happens during the game when you are playing along and what happens during the game when your parents came into your room 😂🤣

Awesome thanks Sega Lord x

Please please please more PC Engine content! I got the PC Engine mini a few years ago and I cherish it for all of its weirdness but I want to know more about what other games are out there.

R-Type still holds up today, it's a classic!

I got my Analogue Duo pre-ordered. The PC Engine was a beast and I want to play all those games I missed back in the day.

That Pacman soundtrack was hitting pretty good haha

I look forward to more vids on this. Great list.

What an amazing video! Great stuff man!

Toilet Kids and Strip Fighter for the next episode. Weird games…

Glad we got the full R-Type and not split into two Hu cards! 🎉

The PCE/TG16 is a special system. It just has a different vibe than the Genesis and SNES.

Sega Lord X is alright by me.

Riot Zone gives major "we have Final Fight at home" vibes

No Supergrafx games 😭😭😭Daimakaimura is a perfect conversion 😍😍😍

Aspect's of Steamheart's are certainly suspect compared to other game's and shooter's of the time's.

Ghouls n Ghost on the super grafx is amazing

Part 2 already pls Lord 🙏

Yup! I played Jackie Chan on the PC Engine at my friend's place circa 1994.

The Godzilla SNES sequel Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters was a big improvement.

I love my PC Engine. I got it mostly for SHMUPS. Yes, we want MOAR PC Engine content!

The arcade card games from SNK are awesome

SF2 was really outstanding!

More PC Engine/ Turbografx/ CD Please Good Sir Anytime!

I never had a nostalgic feeling for the turbo Grafx 16 since I never knew anyone to own one,even though it went down in price i still didn’t know anyone…I definitely wanted one because of splatterhouse and then SFII champion edition I will never forgive Konami for not releasing a US version of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (SNES doesn’t count)until the PSP in 2007 I think it should have came included with Symphony of the Night when it initially came out to make up for that oopsie back in 1993

Funny enough Riot Zone was a SEGA first party arcade and was not ported to Genesis but was ported to the snes and pc engine i think

18:45 SAY WHAT AGAIN?

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I wondered if there's a fan rom hack, that fixes the Ninja Gaiden port, looked for one a while back. Nothing. I assume, still nothing. It can't be that hard to fix. ... you have this, and the SNES trilogy, lol.... idk

Its library of shmups makes it the best console ever and that... forever.

Check out photograph boy😂😂

Seems you send any semblance of being family friendly to fuck off, lmao. Great video as always, SLX!... and forgive me for being late at the party.

How the heck did Ninja Gaiden actually end up being worse than the NES original? 🤦‍♂️ Tecmo: "We want this ported over, but only by the lowest bidder." Hudson: "Oooh pick me! Pick me! We promise to do a shitty job!"

a) I never understood why so many people (claim to) like Pac-Land. Now it makes a _little_ more sense. b) I never noticed the janky background scrolling in Ninja Gaiden. I was too busy trying to survive past the second level to notice such things! It seemed like a decent port to me, but now I won't be able to unsee the backgrounds. (Ninja Spirit is a better game anyways...)

The PC Engine is an impressive piece of tech for it's time as I understand it beat Mega Drive and SNES to the market with their graphics, but I see games like Ninja Gaiden and hear R-Type was on two cards who probably cost a pretty penny, and combine it with the games having little presence in Europe at the time, and I can't really muster much enthusiasm for it. Would've liked to play the Cho Aniki games though, if only so I could've said I could. Also I laughed to myself when Steam Heart showed up and I saw the girl design with one cheek showing and then saw thw SHMUP gameplay. "LOL", I thought, "They have horny character designs you'll never even see in gameplay since you're just looking at the ship, what a ploy." Little did I know how wrong I was...

7:54 I have no idea what happened with this version of ninja gaiden

Correction, I think it didn't not started the 4th gen instead it was a generation of it's own

Where to find the fan edit of R-Type with reduced flickering?

I never expected to see futa hentai in a Sega Lord video.

Unfortunately, R-Type in the US was not 2 Hu-Card in 1 compared to Japan. The US version was downgraded with a lower resolution and less sprites per scanlines.

Why no mention of Sega Master System having R Type? Didn't know?

Cool 😎 👍

15:30 or so you say that SF2 is in Japanese but I see English. Is this footage of a rom hack?

I used to play Pac Land a lot back in the day. To me, the system's strength are the shooters. Unfortunately,.it had a lot of downplay in the states. Regardless, it out sold the Geneisis in Japan

Enjoyed the video, but a content warning about the pornographic game would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Love my PC Engine. I'm always here for Sega content, but PC Engine stuff is always welcome. It's like the 4th Generation's Saturn with it's deep Japanese library to explore.

That last game, Steam Hearts, is a perfect example of the meme as to what happens during the game when you are playing along and what happens during the game when your parents came into your room 😂🤣

I gotta say I have never seen a version of Double Dragon 2 run so smoothly.

I feel Ninja Gaiden could benefit from a ROM hack, considering the Saturn version of Symphony of the Night is getting one, why not this one? Seriously, think about it. Have the music redone to be rearrangements of the NES game that take advantage of the PC Engine's soundtrack and also fixes the janky scrolling in the background. I'd welcome it.

The PC Engine was such a nice design. Why did they had to screw it up by doubling the size in the USA?!? I believe it would have been a bigger hit had they kept the original design.

So Godzilla needed 6 button support, a full playable roster, better graphics and speed? Great news! Alfa ported/remade this game as Godzilla: Kaiju Daikessen for the Super Famicom, and they addressed all the issues you laid out. It was slated to be released for the SNES as Godzilla: Monster War, but was cancelled for unknown reasons. Which is a shame; it was the fighting game every Godzilla kid wanted in the 90s. Far better than Super Godzilla.

Great picks as always! The PC Engine rabbit hole just gets deeper and deeper lol.

If I recall, R-Type was $80 when it came out. Possible $70. Super expensive.

I can't stop laughing at those jittery mountains in Ninja Gaiden. A plain black background for the entire time would have been preferable to that.

few channels go in depth about the PC-Engine/TurboGraFX, so i'm all for hearing more.

It was the shoot em ups like forgotten worlds and gates of thunder as well as the pinball games like devil's crush and alien crush that drew me to the pc engine plus its compatibility with the turbo express & hopefully you'll cover more games & history of this and the pc engine super cd.

Toilet Kids qualifies as an oddity. This PCE/TG16 obscure game by Bits Laboratory (and published by Media Rings Corporation) had the player/players shooting squat toilets, urinals and other toilet related enemies in a mysterious world. The game has only four stages and makes heavy use of toilet humor and scatological references.

Here's a question for impressive visual effects - how on earth did the Jackie Chan game do those silhouetted sprites with only one layer and no blending modes? They're vertical drapes, too, so you can't even fake it with palette switching on the scanlines.

i love the pc engine. I have an area at PGX Gaming expo where the public can play systems from my personal collection and the Duo-R is one of them and I usually have Rondo of Blood for them and it's fun to see people playing it and are "wow this is Turbografx/Pc Engine" they just don't know, PC-Engine/Turbografx is critically underrated, many many great games, and yes when you get the "it's 8-bit" you can pop in SFII and say "yeah this is 8-bit".

Wow... someone just got demonitized. 😐

Im still amazed at the SF 2 port on The PC Engine, those programmers are incredible!

As a side scroller beat em up fan, I was extremely disappointed /wRiot Zone. I had high expectations, because it was marketed as a super CD. The graphics are a cheap rip off of Final Fight. For a super CD, I find the sound below average w/very little voice overs, and the music mediocre. The poor gameplay makes the game worse, because it’s only one player! Moreover, there are no weapons to use, and I find the levels repetitive at times. Not to mention the challenge was almost non existent, because I beat the game in one sitting. I own both Final Fight CD and Streets of Rage 2, and they are way better in terms of graphics, gameplay, music, and challenge. If, this was in turbo chip format I would give it more credit. Riot Zone had so much potential, and could have been better, if the developers had put more time and effort into development.

Never had a PC Engine (never heard of it in Ireland when I was growing up) but to see Street Fighter 2 running on it in that quality was amazing. I had it on the SNES when I was about 14 years old. They look very similar and those two consoles were years apart.

Going back to Champion Edition after playing Hyper Fighting in the arcades was really hard. Slow and unbalanced.

Nop. I tried several times to like the iconic games from PC engine, but ...its a lost battle. Something seems so off with the graphics, they present huge undetailed sprites, backgrounds are usually static and lame. Also games are nothing near as good as for example, the supernes. Main problem is the lack of detail and also good games. A let down. Not bothering even to play emulated.

The Ninja Gaiden background looks like it would be easy to fix. It's probably just the scrolling and drawing routines are run in the wrong order.

If street fighter 2 was released in the states It probably would've sold a million units and put the TurboGrafx 16 on the map!

Really love that SLX is covering other areas of gaming. Always enjoyed his delivery and format.

If you ever do a part 2 for this SLX, please add Gekibo: Gekisha Boy, as it's a very cool 2D Pokémon Snap style game, with the most absurd things going on. There is also an English translation for it as well, but it's one of very few games I ever played in Japanese(wasn't sure an English patch would ever happen), as it was just so fun and unique.

Anything PCE/TG16/CD is appreciated! Thank you!

15:18 Yeah, SFII is a decent port of Champion Edition. It's shortcoming is that it's just Champion Edition. Both the Genesis's Special Champion Edition and the SNES's SFII Turbo include both Champion Edition and Turbo: Hyper Fighting. If you're used to Hyper Fighthing, this is going to feel slow and lacking a lot of move you expect to be there. It's an amazing port to be sure, but you're better off with the other 2 16-bit ports. Play Fatal Fury instead.

Can never get enough of PC Engine. Love my collection 😎

Turbogarfx-16 version of Double Dragon 2 should have been released in the USA in the first place. 😀👍🎮

The parallax scrolling floor is amazing in Street Fighter 2

15:30 Yo, that line scrolling on the floor tho! I don't remember the SNES or Genesis versions having that! 18:37 PC-98? Uh oh, that means.... 19:00 And there it is.

Steam Heart's: "Hermaphrodite" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Intersex", if you will.

It’s high time we recognize SLX can play him some Ryu.

I still like Master System R-Type better. Have both...just a me thing.😂

17:22 Good news is that the SNES Godzilla Fighting game pretty much corrects most of those flaws, sadly it never came over to the US

I’m lucky to have played most of these games (besides that weird game about grape). I actually enjoyed the Ninja Gaiden port as well as the Godzilla fighter. Even though the Godzilla fighter is a little clunky it has a ton of fanservice for Godzilla fans. As for Ninja Gaiden, it’s a decent port once you adjust to the jank. The music really grew on me and it has this almost Arabian sounding feel to it which I eventually became a fan of.

I had never even heard of NEC until around 12 years ago when I discovered them through HappyConsoleGamer. Even Hudson Soft as a Hardware Manufacturer was a novel concept for me. I knew them solely from Bomberman and Adventure Island. I never had a friend talk about the PC-Engine at all during the 90s or 00s, and don't recall seeing hardware or software on the shelves during relevancy. I remember seeing a PC-Engine in an underground market in the late 2000s, maybe early 2010s but paid it no attention really. I've only played the Valis games, Bomberman games and Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes - primarily through familiarity with the IPs on other devices. I enjoyed all of them, and definitely look forward to you covering more content.

Pls do a part 2, what else would like to see?