- The "TurboGrafx-16 in 1989" episode will be out in just a few days! - If you stick around after the end credits, I put in a little blooper reel of me having trouble recording the intro. - I tried to have more fun with the Dollar Shave Club spot in this episode. Hopefully it's more entertaining to watch. - Thanks to Bryan from Chapel Hill, NC for lending us his copy of TurboPlay #1.
Of course! You are always welcome to whatever is on my website. I am currently scanning some old SNK newsletters. There isn't much to them, but I guess they are hard to find.
Thank you Chris for the new episode I was dying for it and wondering when it would pop in my notifications. i work overnight at cracker barrel and weirdly enough listening to your shows are great to put me to sleep. Thank you again sir. Not that I want to sleep through your video but they are very relaxing and I go back watch them over and over too.
I totally get that. There are RU-vid channels that I love to watch while I'm falling asleep. Keep an eye on your notifications, because you should be getting another one by the weekend.
I have mentioned the very same thing! Not to suggest the content isn't exciting, because it is, I appreciate the timbre, and delivery, and the absence of annoying loud music and yelling etc... Thanks Chris! Enjoy your summer
I really appreciate what you do, man. You help me relax and wind down, and that means a lot. (Good job working the ad into the episode, BTW. Very unobtrusive.)
Just noticed for the first time while re-watching: in TV Sports Football, it's the Buzzards vs the Blizzards. I don't know why, but that's hilarious to me. ;)
I disagree, this should not be 100% of his content. I really like the "Launch of" videos. He could do it for every console and I would watch. The Launch of The Odyssey, The Vetrex, The Game Gear, or even The 64DD in Japan, idc what it is. Please more launch videos, or something other than magazine readings.
@@maarekstele2815 I agree, these videos are excellent and bring great memories at least for me. I dont know where Bo Jackson got the impression that you wanted only magazine coverage...I think Bo has taken to many helmet to helmet collisions. That joke is really age dependent.
Nice job on being creative with the DSC ad; definitely got a chuckle or two out of me. I also sat through it whereas I almost always skip that type of content.
Thanks for the lovely relaxing episode as always and thanks for the fun advert! Also thank you for not being the 7th or 8th retro youtube show to refer to them as "butt wipes" ;)
Damn, the TurbGrafx-16 was criminally overlooked in the West. I only knew one kid that had one growing up, but even then I thought it looked awesome. Years later I now have a sweet PC Engine collection and it’s a bit saddening yet understandable why the system didn’t take off in the West.
Not only that, us Genesis snobs (I was one admittedly) turned our noses up at them for very stupid reasons. My mother offered to buy me one on teo seperate occasions for birthdays or Christmas (cant remember) and each time I said, yuck. Now I finally have one and know how cool they really are. God I was a stupid fanboy as a kid. That finally started to break at the launch of the Snes and while I preferred my Genesis I did like my Snes. This is more than likely why I have to own every console now and a gaming PC. I think back on all the great experiences that I could have had if I put petty my console is better than yours mentality aside....wow. Thankfully, I only missed out on the Turbographx 16 because from that point foward, I owned everything.
Awesome video! I miss these TurboPlay magazines. In regards to pronunciation of Valis, it's pronounced Valis, not Valeese. I also noticed you pronounced Galaga a little different than I'm used to hearing. It's normally pronounced Gal-a-ga, not Gala-ga. I apologize in advanced for being a nit-picker. lol Anyway, I'm a recent subscriber and just love your videos! Keep up the awesome work! :)
Many memories! In Pittsburgh the TG16 held its own over the Genesis until the SNES came along and that was pretty much it. But in the early days I don’t know Anyone who had a Genesis but lots had a TG16. Personally I consider TZD mailers to be a Turbo Grafx magazine
cool, don't think I ever came across this magazine bitd but TG-16 was pretty scarce overall at least in my part of Canada. Of course I love my TG-16 now really should hook it up more often especially since I have an Everdrive and could load up any TG-16 / PcEngine game........hmmmmm.........
I could never really put into words as to why I really preferred the Turbografx 16 over the SEGA Genesis, and in most cases over the Super Nintendo even, especially when I was playing the Turbo Duo, the graphics and the overall cosmetic look of the games just looked more colorful like you said, the sound was something I readily noticed back when I was a kid to be far more superior to that of the Genesis with its sometimes annoying beeps and buzzes, and when considering the PC Engine library along with the US Turbografx16 library it just seemed to be of a more interesting and quality line-up to me..way underrated system to say the least, and not a failure, it just didn't catch on here in the states but it's success in Japan even threatened the NES, and kept the Mega Drive at bay for quite some time, gamers here in the states simply sucome to marketing ploys, hype, and other such non-sense much to often as was the case during this time, and Nintendo & SEGA had the marketing muscle NEC unfortunately didn't.
I use to have a few issue of turbo play.Sure it was a thin magazine but it cover enough.Far as splatterhouse,being sanitize mostly it was the TG16 version while the PCE one was more uncut.Speaking of Ys 1&2 i was a early adopter for that game in the 90's.I remember when the egm buyers guide rated the game highly,which sold me on it.Sure it's game play was simple but i had no problem with it.Beside it's outstanding ost and well produce cut scenes.
being a 45 year old collector and gamer, I remember those days well. I didn't know what to think of the tg16 when I first saw it. younger people need to understand that back then, name brand meant more then with kids. Sega had its strong arcade line and home ports, Nintendo had Mario and several successful franchises by 89'. the tg-16 to me was a copycat, trying to be cool and cash in on the videogame craze. every game I saw that they released I felt was a copy or reply to a more famous Sega or Nintendo franchise. example. Ninja spirit was their ninja game because ninjas were cool. I felt like they needed their ninja game because Sega had Shinobi, Nintendo had ninja gaiden. little did I know at the time that a lot of tg-16 games were irem arcade ports. I hardly heard of irem back in the day the company apparently was more famous in Japan than here. that makes more sense considering pc engines success in Japan. it wasn't until 92' when stores were clearing tg-16 inventory to make room for the duo that I bought a new tg-16 in its box for 60$. it was a curiosity to me. so I fired it up for the first time and was impressed by its sharp image on my tv despite being rf.lol I was a fan soon after that through I was primarily a Sega fan. my collection has grown steadily since and its in my top 3 retro consoles, maybe of all time. there are very few horribly poor games on the system, but the games rarely got the recognition and or had the brand name for kids to want them.splatterhouse a rare exception. Just some of my recollections of a better time and gaming life. lol Thanks for the trip down memeory lane!
That Legendary Axe ad was instantly recognizable even after all these years of not seeing or thinking about it. Back then it was always something I "drooled" over because I liked to daydream about having a 16-bit system and ads like this did a good job of showcasing the superior graphics of such systems.
Also you're going to have a better time with Ys 1 and 2 if you run into enemies off-center, not directly. That's how you get attack priority. You only do damage attacking them directly if your attack and shield are good enough to power through their strength, which stops working as well later into the game. They're fairly short games, both of them being about 5-6 hours tops, so I'd recommend giving them another shot sometime.
Doraemon (pronounced do-rai-mon) is the robot cat from the future! He has a magic pocket that he can pull anything out of and came to the 20th century and became friends with Nobita. It’s on tv every Friday at 7pm right before Shin-chan
Hello sir, I know I'm four years behind. But I would just like to say. That I really enjoy your Let's reads'. They are wonderful. I really appreciate what you do.
Oh man, I still have a few of these in my magazine archive. I luckily have every Gamefan except the first issue. This was great, I feel sad for today's kids as there is no wonder left. I so looked forward to my monthly magazines and the wonders within.
I got my TG16 in Xmas of1990 if a remember correctly. Myself and two cousins were obsessed with it, and the three of use ended up getting it in the same Xmas. We were convinced that it was the thing to have, and that no console had better graphics and sound (by looking and comparing screenshots in magazines). One of the reasons I was personally infatuated and was looking forward with getting one was Bonk's Adventure (which I never owned back in the day, never found it in stock .. although bought it in 2000) and ... Pac-Land!!, which I did own, and somehow loved it. Perhaps a bit biased because Pac man was a really beloved character through out my childhood. Anyway, I also got Splatterhouse back in the day, which was great, but eventually stores stopped selling games, and my cousins and I ended up getting very disappointed when the TG-16 faded away. Eventually we got a S-NES, but for me getting it, if I remember correctly, I had to sell my NES and game collection, because since I already owned a TG-16, my parents were not really sold on the idea of me getting yet another console. I still have my original TG-16, which I hold very close to my heart. Great episode by the way!
Awesome video Chris! You're definitely right, part of the TurboGrafx's library certainly looks like more colorfully enhanced rip offs of NES games like Zelda and Kung Fu for sure. But I'd also agree that the TurboGrafx's colors and overall display seems just extra sharp in comparison to NES and Sega Genesis. Bonk looks especially sharp and that was the one TurboGrafx game I remember seeing being marketed on a few commercials as a kid. Yet, unfortunately...I didn't know anyone that had that system. I never saw it anywhere. Its a shame, because I think you've definitely shown that it had a lot to offer, especially in its day and age. By the way, I loved the Dollar Shave Ad, you certainly put some energy and creativity to it. I look forward to the next episode whether its here or on CGQ+.
And yes I owned neutopia 1 and 2. It did feel very zelda like. But to me the player control was what was really good. And in the first one it was the 4 way stuff like zelda 1. But neutopia 2 was more like zelda 3 on snes as far as player control. So I kind of felt like zelda 2 on nes should have been more like neutopia 2 on tg16. It improved on the first without changing the whole game. Zelda didn't do that until link to the past on snes. So while neutopia is considered a zelda clone, they got their sequel right. The original zelda dropped the ball on their part 2 and picked it up with their snes retelling of the original story. Legend of zelda link to the past. But compairing the 2 games by player control. Neutopia 2 is more like link to the past. But I will say.. It feels kind of slow compaired to link to the past. But that makes sense because of hardware. the tg16 was an 8bit processor with a 16bit video card. So some of the chip games have snes quality graphics but nes speed. But tg16 was still competing with 8bit nes and sega master. so it still looked better than both. It just never seemed to sell in USA, So even in the late 90;s it was hard for me to try and collect it. I relied heavily on TZD, Before that there was this one place that had chip games new and were trying to get rid of them so I remember buying double dungeons dungeon explorer1 and silent debuggers, and I think all three games total were maybe 30 something bucks. And a store called Phar Mor who had a rental was going out of business so they were selling all their used cart only rental stuff cheap. I got a ton of tg16 chip games from them. But no manual or case just the chip. But 2 and 3 dollars a piece. I remember going in one day and coming out with 8 or 9 games for maybe 12 bucks. I also had fighting street. I think it was the only cd game I got from phar mor. I know i got it used, and I know I had the same issue where the special moves for me were hit or miss. But my friend seemed to be able to do it any time he wanted. so yeah.. The controls are akward but not impossible. And as for valis. Yeah basic side scroller. good music. I owned and beat YS book 1 and 2 it was one of the pack ins I got when I ordered my turboduo from TZD. and yeah the combat. Its ported from an older japanese home computer so that is kind of why it's like that. But the tg version on cd is so worth playing for the music... wait music.. that honestly is the reason to play all these old turbo grafix and turboduo cd games. AWESOME MUSIC! This system had very good music especially the cd games.
I loved the Turbographix16. I only had 3 games for it when I was a kid. Splatterhouse my favorite Turbo game. Ninja Spirit was an awesome Ninja Gaiden 3 clone. Legendary Axe good game awesome music.
The Turbografx really did have a chance. According to Al Nilsen at Sega, the NEC America people were pretty aggressive in their sales attempts, though they apparently created a large inventory and claimed to have sold it all in the first year (then having to spend the rest of their time actually getting rid of it). I think the main problem was focus. Nintendo had their focus, Sega had their's, but the Turbografx never knew who it was marketing to. They seemed to assume the markets were the same in Japan and North America, that you'd have obsessive gamers playing shooters as the core demographic.
My biggest complaint about Alien Crush is not the flipping screens from top to bottom but that it's just to easy. I can play it for 30 minutes without losing a single ball. I owned the Japanese versions of both Alien and Devil's crush. The Japanese version of Devil's Crush had actual pentagram's not the North American wanna be pentagram.
I remember emulating Neutopia a long while ago because I wanted to experience some clear Zelda 1 clones and was really surprised at how good the game was. Sometimes being a very direct copy of something isn't too bad.
Oh yeah. I ordered a TurboDuo from TZD back in the late 90's it came with one of those magazines in the pack in. It was the issue that had the lords of thunder cover art, and it mostly covered the new "SCD" games. But it was well done and had nice art and game reviews. Felt kinda advertisey though
I used to play sidearms at Randall park mall, the greatest place in the world when I was a kid. I bought my TG16 at electronics boutique at the same mall, just for sidearms. It’s damn difficult compared to the arcade version.
Speaking of the Turbo Graphics game Vigilante if you don't like the hugging, you ought to see the moment in WCW when Hulk Hogan was being double hugged by the Giant AKA The Big Show and the Yeti the Yeti Yeti Yeti Yeti the Yeti!
Devil's Crush did indeed have the pentigram on the PC Engine version. And you recall the PCE Splatterhouse had the upside down cross as well... would never happen today.
Super fun episode! I love flipping through old gaming magazine and looking back on what gaming was like when I was youngin'. I especially find it fascinating to see these magazines based around consoles I know very little about. I mean, I remember seeing advertisements for the Turbografx but I never had the opportunity to get my hands on one and play it. Getting one of my very own is still on my gaming bucket list!!!
Page 30: - Aww, you skipped over J.J. and Jeff, the Westernization of a Japanese show called Fun with Kato and Ken, which featured a segment that inspired the now long-running America's Funniest Home Videos! :P
Yeah man, I meant to talk about it and then for some reason I missed it when I did the actual read-through. Didn't notice that I had skipped it until the episode was uploaded already.
I remember begging my parents for a TG16 and used the argument that it was down to $125! Sure enough, my brothers and I got home one day to see my parents weren't home. When they pulled up my mom was carrying a box with the sweater covering it! Could it be? It was! We couldn't hook it up fast enough! It was packed with Keith Courage and they also bought a copy of Bonk. We also got Pacland, and yes I really enjoy it! It wasn't necessarily a platformer but rather a "run and jump adventure".
I wouldn't take their sponsorship money if I thought what they were selling was of low quality, just because I would find it unethical to encourage the show's viewers to waste their money on garbage. That being said, you are obviously 100% entitled to your opinion.
