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WTF! I am in you video!!!! Woooooooooooow I am so happy with my Jailbreak Analog Duo that I may even buy another one, just because I don't want to live without it, ever. PS : today was my first time playing Lords of Thunder, after 30+ years of drooling over screenshots and youtube videos. I lost my Lords of Thunder virginity today and it feels good.

My biggest take-away from this is the intro to The Liquid Tension Experiment! Thanks for mentioning them. I honestly don't know how else I would have found such great music, that just sounds like great session musicians having fun. And the Turbografx stuff was a nice bonus too, of course :)

I'm loving these videos! Thank you! Valis I (The Legend of a Fantasm Soldier) was not released in North America. It was only released on the PC Engine. For whatever reason several sites list it under "Turbografx CD", so I get the confusion. Valis I was actually released for the PC Engine nearly a year after Valis IV. It's pretty heavy remaster of the 1986 original. It might be my favourite of the series. It certainly was when i was playing the Valis series more religiously years ago. I should revisit them and see if that opinion still holds.

I don't remember the music being drowned out in Gate of Thunder. But it has been a long time since I played it on my system. I also had it on the 3(4) in 1 CD. Maybe that was different? Riot Zone had a glitch my friend discovered. If you get rid of all your health, and land a hit, (i think the turbo switch must be on) your enemy will remain in contact with your fist until his/her health depletes.

Check out the voice acting in Fighting Street. "What strength. But don't forget there are many guys like you, all over the world."

I had to subscribe after hearing the sound effects for the like, subscribe, and bell animation. Pure gold right there.

Only Valis 2 & 3 got localizations for the Turbo CD. Valis 1 was actually the final release of the series for the PC Engine after Valis 4.

A fun video all the way around! I need to play some of these. Could your editing be more awesome? And you know I was giggling throughout! 😂

Also, using the Turbo Stick slow-mo in Fighting Street, the CPU wont fight back.

Dude great list!! I love your videos because I know so little about the turbo graphics alot of these games look very interesting

Asuka 120% on the PC CD should be a blast to play for anyone familiar with the games on PSone & Saturn.

Your content is so good- editing, audio and video quality, writing and presentation... excellent! Why you no have more likes and subs!?!?

Absolutely fantastic vid! I hope to be on this level one day!

i would like to point it out that castlevania rondo of blood ( the og version ) is hidden inside the Psp remake, making also a great another plataform to play ( on the legal way of things that is ) cause its a good emulation ( i think even better than the requiem kinda poor job ) and it runs on a psp so, rond of blood on the go.

Pretty sure it was Duran Duran who made the music under a pseudonym for “Gate of Thunder”. Excellent video. Subscribed.

I'm not that big of a music nerd but I'm proud of myself for knowing what Liquid Tension is.

yea never a huge dream theatre guy but liquid tension had a few jamz I can spin now and again .

Just what I need, I love to see recommendations from people who've actually paid for the games, nothing worse than paying a fortune for a game that someone's played through once on an emulator praised it's fun gameplay but has neglected the replay value, rendering it a bad purchase once completed. And no I am not against emulation these games are expensive, hench when I purchase one I like it to be worth the £50 to £150 I've been spending on them.

Awesome !

if you double-tab the gun button in “Gate of Thunder” you can spin your options to shoot backwards

Kind of left out a few bigger details one Sapphire requires an arcade card also Bonk 3 is two-player co-op and god damn bonk 3 has some big as sprites on screen that was impressive for the day..

what a great video!

There's only ONE reason to include Last Alert on a best list, it's GUY KAZAMA and then also the Voice Acting!!!!

MEMORIES!!!

Good video, you could make 1 more or even 2 more :) Also PS the reason Gate of Thunder feels so much like a Thunder Force game is because a lot of the original team left Techno Soft to make it and Lords.

Such a underrated system!

Ah, Asuka 120% I really enjoy the gameplay and the music. Also, Asuka does not support the 6 button controller. It will only use buttons 1 and 2.

Props to bring LTE into the discussion XD Now time to listen to Acid Rain.

In regards to what you were mentioning on Last Alert about the fair at best graphics and being a little underwhelming for a CD format, pretty much all of the early CD games had merely decent or good enough visuals but not attention grabbing. The draw was definitely the music and intermissions for the first couple of years. It wasn't until the Super Card was implemented that the aesthetics were elevated across the board with beauties like Lords of Thunder. Now having said that the only glaring exception to this was Spriggan which was not a Super CD game, but that's just Compile pushing the limits on any system that they made games for. The arcade card on the other hand was very underutilized besides a small handful of exceptions like Sapphire and some of the Neo Geo fighting game ports, and in some cases all it did was reduce loading times.

Definitely better than my Sega CD.

Lords of Thunder needs some love

I had a TG-16. I found a PCE interface with the PCE, and a broken CD for $150. I got the CD fixed. I sold my TG-16 console (recapped), and made a profit! Great list. I needed suggestions!

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You forgot to mention on Gate Of Thunders options/satellites can shoot in reverse by tapping the the button to shoot backwards.This comes in REAL handy at times. On Bonk 3 I prefer the hucard and there are differences. I want Last Alert! Still haven't added it to my collection, but cant wait to hear that ridiculously famously bad voice acting, lol. Love the old Turbo-Engine!

Nexzr, the levels are difficult but fair, it also has great music! You also don't have to restart the whole game from losing your powerups on one death. YIs book 1 & 2 is another banger, its a simple but great rpg.

I definitely need to pick up Asuke 100% for my collection! Looks like a great 2d fighter!

18:10 I have Asuka 120% and a 6 button controller. I can confirm that it doesn't work with it. It is, unfortunately, a 2 button game. The Sega Saturn version is 6 buttons, and has better graphics, so I usually play it there.

Asuka Maxima Burning Fest 120% unfortunately is NOT compatible with the 6-button controller, despite what is claimed elsewhere online. Also: Those are supposed to be high school girls. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

omg Rondo of Blood is exactly what I need since I do not like RPG and open world, give me my action

Dracula X, Sapphire, and Gate of Thunder are good picks, but the others? Not so much. Also TG-16 CD had Ys1-3 in th west and 4 was Japanese only. Legend of Heroes Dragon Slayer (precursor to the Trails series). Shadow of the Beast was pretty good too. Want fighters? Neo Geo ports were on the PC Engine CD through Arcade Card (playable game son Analogue Duo and Polymega). Also Lords of Thunder was a good game too. Spriggan 1 was great, Spriggan2 not so much.

Yes. College level. Yup. *deletes browser history*

Rondo better than Symphony? I don't think I agree with this take at all. Symphony took the series to new heights while still retaining the games soul. My only complaint with Symphony of The Night is the difficulty was far too easy.

I hate to break it to you, but Lords of Shadow is NOT castlevania... They are simply an alternate reality set of garbage that should never have been realized. I'm quite ashamed to admit that I have beaten the first one and it has no real connection to the real lore of castlevania.

The sound effects on Sapphire are horrible. Game play is excellent though.