This is the first time we covered a specific system. We didn't know what we were doing. Instead we just picked a few games to talk about and called it a day. We'll talk about the Turbo again someday and Bonk as a series will also likely get his own episode. Or at least half an episode.
Can you do an episode on terns like 8bit, megabit, dithering and interlacing? I think your younger viewers would enjoy your (dave's) presentation. Keep up the good work.
When I was a kid, the only thing I could afford was a TurboGrafx 16 which was $99 (after it had failed). It came with Keith Courage and a really fun golf game. It was great for me!
I finally found a Turbo just 2 weeks ago, having a blast with it. Got Legendary Axe, Galaga 90, Kieth Courage, Ninja Spirit, Chu Man Fu, Fantasy Zone, Bonk 1, and Victory Run.
Depends on who you ask. The sound capabilities are purely technical, 6 channels vs 8 for the SNES and 10 total for the Genesis. Some argue that the Turbo is PSG or a PSG/PCM hybrid. SNES is pure PCM and Genesis has 6 FM with one channel doubling for PCM and 3 PSG and one noise channel. Explaining this in a video isn't as easy as explaining the number of colors, for instance. I love the way the Turbo sounds. I don't necessarily think it sounds "better" but I still love it.
When I was a youngin, for some reason, I actually wanted this system over every other one on the market. It was when it first came out and I guess it was because it WAS so different thats why I wanted it. I loved it and hung on to it , defending it until the end lol ....cool to see it get SOME props!😁
man im glad i held on to mine. I still remember i bought this one too. Toys R Us back in the early 90s had an incredible deal for the turbo. I remember buying this system for 50 bucks and NEC was running a promo where you would get a mystery game included with the system. So thanks to good grades, dad bought this bundle and he threw in Bonk's Adventure as an extra. I got Final Lap Twin as mystery game. The RPG mode in Final Lap Twin made me lose hours on end. I loved it. I still have my turbo hooked and will play games of Moto Roader or Bonk's Adventure on it.
@Zero Cool Relaxing in the year 2137. We've just discovered time control and have made it readily available to the masses. The first thing I've done is check out some old Game Sack videos on UA-cam. UA-cam was shut down by the Universal Government (led by the planet Nysti) in 2082. BTW, Do NOT take the Nystians to your leader! HACK THE PLANET!
Joe and Dave, great video. I just did one myself a few weeks ago. I hope you can take a look at it. The TurboGrafx was vastly underrated and I was one of the very few people in school, during my junior high and high school years, to own one. I'm always glad to see videos made by those who are truly huge fans of the system.
This video is 10 years old but as usual you're my go-to guys for finding games on obscure (to me) systems. I'm on a roll with retro games at the mo and I'm always down for your recommendations. So glad you're still doing your thing, GameSack.
As always, I love your show. I am one of the lucky ones that saw the writing on the wall and purchased one years ago. It's a good console and has some excellent titles on it, sadly it did not do well in the US. Growing up I was a diehard Sega fan and almost completely wrote the console off completely. When the Playstation made it's debut and was vying for the number one spot against the Sega Saturn. I was completely and totally lost trying to decide which system to buy. I was so lost that I purchased both on the same day (I continue to do this today). When I was leaving the store I noticed a Turbo Grafix 16 sitting all by itself covered in dust out of box. I inquired about the machine (it had a controller port stuck in the socket, apparently someone broke it off inside the console). They sold it and 10 games for $100.00, I even got Splatter House with it in box...Score. ;)
a very underrated system! I had a lot of good times with the awesome games it had! I still have the Turbo I bought in 1989 and the CD rom setup I got around 1990. I remember being blown away by Ys books 1 and 2 back then and Dracula X in 1993 and of course when I got Gate of Thunder with the super system 3.0 card in 1992. Gate of Thunder's sound track is still one of the best I ever heard in a game.
Super System Card just came in and just played the hell out of Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, amazing game and playing it on the original system for the first time just makes it that much sweeter.
One of my al time fav systems.Still have my original I got back in the day when I was 10 years old.I have a modded duo that I still use almost daily and my original tg-16 sits on my shelf.
I lent mine to a friend at the time with my games for his genesis and games we all used to lend each other our systems no big deal. This asshole moved and didn't tell anyone. My system and games gone. I had both alien crush and devils crush, also ninja spirt, great games. My fav was the Zelda like game neutopia. I also loved bonks, bloody roar, legendary axe, dragon spirit, and the AD&D game order of the griffin. All amazing and well ahead of its time. There was something about the color pallette on the games that was so more colorful than the genesis, I was stuck with. Don't ger me wrong the genesis had good games too, but I loved my tg16.
The production value of the show has drastically increased since this episode. And Dave got much better at voice overs. This is still one of my favorite episodes and I've watched it multiple times
Keep in mind these games can be burnt so easily and pop in and play. Like he said just buy the Turbo Duo if you’re going to collect for these. Mine is region free and you may want to get one that has been refurbished bc they have a flaw. Some type of capacitor they used will break and leak over time so be aware of that huge one flaw with the system.
People don't realize how powerful this console was! It has a advanced 8 bit cpu running at 7.16 MH with a 21 bit address bus!! And had two 16 bit graphics processors capable of 512 available colors and 482 on screen colors, 241 for backgrounds and 241 for sprites, and 16 colors for each sprite! Although only one background layer but it can put sprites in front or behind that background layer! They could put multiple sprites connected together behind the background layer and multiple sprites connected together in front of the background layer and and pull of a convincing parallax scrolling effect along with line scrolling that could easily match the two layers of parallax scrolling of the genesis and four layers of the SNES!!!!! All in all even though it is a 8 bit console it could easily make games to match any 16 bit console of that generation!!!! It's really a 8/16 bit console! U can call it a really powerful 8 bit console or a 8 bit console capable of producing 16 bit graphics!!!! What ever you call it it is and was awesome!!!!!!!!
This is for Joe Redifer: Have you ever heard of PC-FX? It was the successor to TurboGrapx-16 and all their 62 games have been released only in Japan...
This reminded me of those Johnny Turbo ads that use to run in the gaming magazines. The ones that were like comics where some guy would go around and beat up the people who worked for FEKA, (SEGA), and would get the kids to play the Turbo Duo.
It'll be worth the wait. I hear Super System cards are hard to come by. I guess you could always get a JP version of the card but the converters are getting expensive these days as well. See that everybody? Because the Turbo was ignored when it was current, there's not enough stuff to meet demand so now it's all crazy expensive!
@onetunafish The FM Towns Marty came out in 1993 in Japan. The TurboGrafx-CD came out in the US in 1990 and even earlier in Japan. I believe even the Duo came out before the Marty.
@gamesack, I loved my TG-16 when I had it! Thank you for paying homage to this under appreciate machine! Could you guys do an episode dedicated to all of the NEO GEO ports that went to all of the different systems and the difference between all of the various versions? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
AuraOfRashida 1E1 Easily one of the better gaming channels out there right now. These guys bring perspectives from both sides of the console war boundaries and are pretty in depth with their commentary and insight.
When I first saw the TG16 I was about 9 and it was running in demo mode at a Fred Meyers store. The game that was running....Splatterhouse. I was like HOLY HELL
What people don't understand is the great technological leap that 16-bit sounds and graphics are from 8-bit. Switching from 8-bit to 16-bit was just an incredible experience and the games show it. Of course today that gets lost, I went through that leap and the memories I have of the 16-bit TurboGrafx are amazing.
Turbografx-16 games are now on the Wii U Virtual Console eshop, starting with Bonk's Adventure, New Adventure Island & R-Type! If you haven't tried Turbo games, you're running out of excuses!
But I have a question though if you wanna play Japanese only games on a North American TurboGrafx CD will it actually work like Joe established CD-ROMs have no region lock-out
NEC acquired a license for those games from Sega, it allowed NEC to port games like OutRun, Shinobi, After Burner II though NEC's own NEC Avenue for the PC-Engine. Similarly, Telenet Japan got a license to port Golden Axe to the PC-Engine.
I paused the video at 1:58 to look at all the calender entries out of curiosity, and when I saw the entry "Pooty tang all up in here" on Oct 9th I couldn't help but grin. I became a fan after I happened upon the Neo Geo X video and have watched all your videos since. Keep up the great work, you two!
3:02, just for some advice, when you guys are firing off a long Japanese title like Ginga Sapphire, could you put the text up on the screen that would help. Thank you for making this video, the production, sharing your knowledge, the research and game play footage. It's always nice watching your videos.
Ys is considered to be a Legendary Game in Japan, along with Dragon Quest. If they had released a single Dragon Quest on PC Engine, NEC would have sold about 50 million units on that, alone.
Thanks for the information on JB Harold Murder Club. I have this added to my Super Nintendo classic edition and haven’t gotten around to seriously playing it.
@MrGameSack The Fm Towns Marty came out in 1991, but I stand corrected, the pc engine had the first CDROM in 1990, but as an add on, the FM Towns Marty was the first console with a built in CDROM.
It takes much more processing power to render polygons than it does to display sprites and other pre-rendered assets. Essentially it's the difference between meticulously re-typing a 20-page term paper and just scanning, copying, and turning in a three-pager. Not only is it a lot more work because there's a lot more information involved, but it has to render the polygons based on instructions from the game rather than just displaying the assets which are programmed to interact in specific ways.
@dave4shmups You'll have to mod your Turbo for video and stereo audio without it or the TurboBooster Plus. The CD unit acts as a TurboBooster Plus as well. We think this was a big mistake not to include composite video and stereo out on the basic system. At least they learned by the time the Duo came out.
I randomly found an original model Turbografx 16 in great condition at a local used game store. It was bundled with three games for $100 and had apparently been sitting there for almost a year. I impulsively bought it knowing almost nothing about the system and now I’m planning on modding it for RGB as soon as the kit I ordered from eBay from the seller RetroRGB recommended comes in.
I remember my idiot dad asked my brother and I if we still played our Turbo. At the time we were playing the Dreamcast and said 'nah'. We later found out that he dismantled it and threw it in the trash. *facepalm*
mintydog06 My Dad always had a strong distaste towards our PC and video games. My brother and I didn't really do well in school around that time, so my Dad correlated our poor performance to our prominent game time. I dunno. I figured someone at his job mentioned video games = lazy kid = no success.
yeah thats usually how it is. That's how most of the public are towards games even these days, they haven't got a clue. Hopefully you can get another Turbo now.
Yeah, I guess I could have been a better student around that time, but throwing their possessions away in front of them solves nothing. In my opinion, had he more involvement in my school life, I'd probably be more inclined to do better. Whatever, I have a BS in Chemistry and proved him wrong! Haha
LazyScoutJace Hahaha! My father likes to dismantle everything, I don't know he just wants to see what's inside anything like a little kid, but he always asks first.
I was a Genesis and later SNES guy, but always secretly earned for a Duo, drooling over all of the increasingly desperate soundings ads in EGM in the early 90s. Never had a chance to get one though. However, Magic Engine emulator came out in the late 90s and I got a chance to catch up on this library of games, some of which ended up among my 16-bit favorites. Definitely a great system with a very nice library of games. The games had their own unique look and sound, distinct from the Genesis and SNES. The system didn't really do parallax and line-scrolling that well, so most games are a bit flat looking. However, it made up for it with very large spite size and on-screen colors rivaling the SNES. Some of my favorites not mentioned here: Blazing Lasers (Gunhead), Gradius, Raiden, Soldier Blade, Bonk 3, Air Zonk, Spriggan Mark 2 and Ninja Warriors.
I hear some of the most memorable game music on game sack and the a few month later it just pops up in my head and I wonder where it came from and then I watch an awesome Game Sack episode and then I remember, which is cool.
+Shuey187 Agreed. Bonk's Adventure 1, 2 were good. I tried 3 on the Wii years later since it could only be sold via their catalogue at the time and it turned out to be not worth it.
I have the t-16,but not the CD attachment. I grew up with the Genesis, but my cousin had the t-16, and I had fun times spending the night with him playing it. Bonks Adventure, Keith Courage, Military Madness, Splatter house, and Legendary Axe bring back fond memories. I had to get one for my game room , if not just for those titles.
The TG-16 was the first video game console I bought with my own money. One of my favourites rarely talked about was Shockman. It was hard as hell and to date, I've never been able to finish it without using the code to refill your life meter at anytime, but one of these days I will beat you Shockman. One of these days!!!!! lol
a great system I totally overlooked back in the 90s. I remember seeing the turbografx releases on magazines and thinking they were rubbish because they didn't have snes graphics... what a nintendork brat. The best shoot em up library on 8 and 16 bit gen.
TG16 is a great console... Probably my favorite console-based pinball game ever is Alien Crush on the Turbo. Just a great library of games for that one... it's a shame that you can't find any at reasonable prices anymore.
I found a TurboExpress at Goodwill. $5.00 "as is" with tv tuner. It worked for a couple of seconds, then the screen would white out. I replaced a couple of capacitors, and BOOM. Perfectly good system for under $10.00 total. Easily my best deal of all time.
My favorite game console of all time (Neo Geo 2nd), 3DO (third). What can i say, i'm a sucker for the rare. I Had the Turbografx16 first, i bought it in early 1990. all my friends had Genesis and Razzed me for buying this,yes there were some gay games... But, Games like Ninja Spirit, Blazing Lazers, Legendary Axe I&II, Splatterhouse, Bonk, Valis III, Gates and Lords of thunder and DraculaX changed those haters minds. Later when i got the Duo, they all wanted to borrow my old system w/CD add on
I was the only kid in my neighborhood to have one..... My pops bought me the TG-16, bonks adventure and Splatter House for Xmas. I remember they had tons of Tg-16's stacked up in videogame isle at Toys R us.
Oh man... too sad that i was born in a time period (1995) where the tubrogrrafx-16 never ever was mentioned. i just heard of the console first like 5 years ago :( the games look super awesome.
I recently went a pawn shop in my town. Much to my surprise I saw the TG-16 for a little over a 100. A most reasonable price. Then again, a lower price is also acceptable.
I have all the 8bits & 16bits system and I have to say that turbografx-16 is my favorite system and still is. Thanks for the nice video guys. Looking forward for more:)
This is the 1st episode where the Game Sack that we know, found it’s form. What a jump in production and pacing! But man, there’s something oh so sweet about those raw doggin’ early episodes.
@xhunter143 Yes! Konami did release Dracula X on the SNES. It's kind of a port of the PC Engine version with a new paint job and differently arranged music. I'm a fan of it but a lot of people aren't.
I played Samurai Showdown on this system at a friend's house. Truly one of the best fighting games on any system!! I so would love to get a copy of the original game!
My only experience with a real TG-16 was when I rented the console with Splatterhouse when I was a kid. I wanted that game so bad. It terrified me...especially THAT scene (you know the one), but I powered through and finished the game during the weekend I had with it and it's still one of my favorite games to this day. It's only in the last several years that I've discovered how amazing the console and its games are. I adore the sound of these games.
I'm fairly certain that the original English soundtrack for the game was produced in Japan several years earlier when the game was available on PC. I think it is amusing that a lot of the dialogue that the parking lot attendant says in Japanese is played straight while the English track seems to have been produced by a person who watched "48 Hours" and assumed the game needed a vaguely Eddie Murphy-sounding character.
"Just because it wasn't popular or didn't sell well, doesn't mean it didn't have some great games" TG16, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, GameCube, Wii U, Neo Geo Pocket Color, etc.
I once saw one of these with Fantasy Zone at my local thrift store for seven bucks. To this very day, I regret not buying it. Gawd I was a cheap and stupid kid.
4:28 bear striking similarities to a game called Carnage Heart. I'm reading online that it was used as an inspiration for several games so I'm betting CH was one of them
I had a friend that had a TG16 with the CD add-on back in the day before the Sega CD came out. I remember thinking that Bonk's Adventure was the greatest thing ever. Then we just sat around playing A Link to the Past on his SNES. lol
I almost asked for a TG-16, instead of a Nintendo, for Christmas, as a kid. Almost... Legendary Axe, Splatterhouse, Lords of Thunder, Bonk's Adventure, New Adventure Island, Dracula X, Air Zonk and Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu are some of my favorites on the system.
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This is the first time we covered a specific system. We didn't know what we were doing. Instead we just picked a few games to talk about and called it a day. We'll talk about the Turbo again someday and Bonk as a series will also likely get his own episode. Or at least half an episode.
Can you do an episode on terns like 8bit, megabit, dithering and interlacing? I think your younger viewers would enjoy your (dave's) presentation. Keep up the good work.
You still don’t know what you’re doing. 😂
@@stgenerations burnnn
When I was a kid, the only thing I could afford was a TurboGrafx 16 which was $99 (after it had failed). It came with Keith Courage and a really fun golf game. It was great for me!
Dave added so much with his unique delivery... Thanks for the memories, Dave.
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@@jschildress1 Dave speaks like a good dad
@@jschildress1 I think he means that since Dave left, the show isn't the same.
Not unlike a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They are okay by themselves, but something special together, and will never be the same apart.
I finally found a Turbo just 2 weeks ago, having a blast with it. Got Legendary Axe, Galaga 90, Kieth Courage, Ninja Spirit, Chu Man Fu, Fantasy Zone, Bonk 1, and Victory Run.
2 weeks ago… 11 years ago!!!
Depends on who you ask. The sound capabilities are purely technical, 6 channels vs 8 for the SNES and 10 total for the Genesis. Some argue that the Turbo is PSG or a PSG/PCM hybrid. SNES is pure PCM and Genesis has 6 FM with one channel doubling for PCM and 3 PSG and one noise channel. Explaining this in a video isn't as easy as explaining the number of colors, for instance. I love the way the Turbo sounds. I don't necessarily think it sounds "better" but I still love it.
When I was a youngin, for some reason, I actually wanted this system over every other one on the market. It was when it first came out and I guess it was because it WAS so different thats why I wanted it. I loved it and hung on to it , defending it until the end lol ....cool to see it get SOME props!😁
I felt the same way. The games felt magical and other worldly.
Nothing but love for YS 1+2. My favorite pc engine/TG16 game back in the day and today as well.
man im glad i held on to mine. I still remember i bought this one too. Toys R Us back in the early 90s had an incredible deal for the turbo. I remember buying this system for 50 bucks and NEC was running a promo where you would get a mystery game included with the system. So thanks to good grades, dad bought this bundle and he threw in Bonk's Adventure as an extra. I got Final Lap Twin as mystery game. The RPG mode in Final Lap Twin made me lose hours on end. I loved it. I still have my turbo hooked and will play games of Moto Roader or Bonk's Adventure on it.
Did your Grades got worse cause of that?
I'm here in 2017....The Sack rocks
@Zero Cool Relaxing in the year 2137. We've just discovered time control and have made it readily available to the masses. The first thing I've done is check out some old Game Sack videos on UA-cam. UA-cam was shut down by the Universal Government (led by the planet Nysti) in 2082.
BTW, Do NOT take the Nystians to your leader!
HACK THE PLANET!
@Timothy Shawn and I'm still here, bro!
I was lucky to find a TG16 bundle last spring (2012) and that's what got me into this system. Great forgotten console!
How much was it?
@@juliusnielsen7122 Was about 30 bucks all in.
Joe and Dave, great video. I just did one myself a few weeks ago. I hope you can take a look at it. The TurboGrafx was vastly underrated and I was one of the very few people in school, during my junior high and high school years, to own one. I'm always glad to see videos made by those who are truly huge fans of the system.
This video is 10 years old but as usual you're my go-to guys for finding games on obscure (to me) systems. I'm on a roll with retro games at the mo and I'm always down for your recommendations. So glad you're still doing your thing, GameSack.
As always, I love your show. I am one of the lucky ones that saw the writing on the wall and purchased one years ago. It's a good console and has some excellent titles on it, sadly it did not do well in the US. Growing up I was a diehard Sega fan and almost completely wrote the console off completely. When the Playstation made it's debut and was vying for the number one spot against the Sega Saturn. I was completely and totally lost trying to decide which system to buy. I was so lost that I purchased both on the same day (I continue to do this today). When I was leaving the store I noticed a Turbo Grafix 16 sitting all by itself covered in dust out of box. I inquired about the machine (it had a controller port stuck in the socket, apparently someone broke it off inside the console). They sold it and 10 games for $100.00, I even got Splatter House with it in box...Score. ;)
a very underrated system! I had a lot of good times with the awesome games it had!
I still have the Turbo I bought in 1989 and the CD rom setup I got around 1990. I remember being blown away by Ys books 1 and 2 back then and Dracula X in 1993 and of course when I got Gate of Thunder with the super system 3.0 card in 1992.
Gate of Thunder's sound track is still one of the best I ever heard in a game.
Super System Card just came in and just played the hell out of Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, amazing game and playing it on the original system for the first time just makes it that much sweeter.
I bought a TG-16 just because of this video! Thanks guys!
So did I, man, so did I! The TG-16 rocks, and these guys rock, too! :)
No you didn't
now google super sd system 3. currently downloading all the cd games to my sd card for mine
@@MrLordpistoia yes they did
One of my al time fav systems.Still have my original I got back in the day when I was 10 years old.I have a modded duo that I still use almost daily and my original tg-16 sits on my shelf.
Based on rising prices I think that too many people appreciate it a little too much
I really regret selling my Turbo. I used the cash to buy a 3D0. Stop don`t look at me, I`m dirty! My favorites were Ninja Spirit and Alien Crush.
I lent mine to a friend at the time with my games for his genesis and games we all used to lend each other our systems no big deal. This asshole moved and didn't tell anyone. My system and games gone. I had both alien crush and devils crush, also ninja spirt, great games. My fav was the Zelda like game neutopia. I also loved bonks, bloody roar, legendary axe, dragon spirit, and the AD&D game order of the griffin. All amazing and well ahead of its time. There was something about the color pallette on the games that was so more colorful than the genesis, I was stuck with. Don't ger me wrong the genesis had good games too, but I loved my tg16.
The FMV between Ys I and Ys II is one of the best sequel links I've seen. I&II are pretty much one long game.
I got my tg-16 in 1991 and it still works like a charm.Great system with some fun games.
I find it amazing that the TurboGrafx's HuCards, or TurboChips, could hold games during that time.
yeah 256k - 1024k.
@@demonsty Hey, 1 MB was a lot back in the late 80s-early 90s.
The production value of the show has drastically increased since this episode. And Dave got much better at voice overs. This is still one of my favorite episodes and I've watched it multiple times
What no Devil's Crush? Sacrilege!!! Hands down one of the best console pinball games I've ever played. I love my turbo grafx 16.
Keep in mind these games can be burnt so easily and pop in and play. Like he said just buy the Turbo Duo if you’re going to collect for these. Mine is region free and you may want to get one that has been refurbished bc they have a flaw. Some type of capacitor they used will break and leak over time so be aware of that huge one flaw with the system.
So awesome that the Japanese version of Rondo of Blood/Dracula X is still available on the wii VC.
I’m so addicted to TG16 right now that I am watching everything!
People don't realize how powerful this console was! It has a advanced 8 bit cpu running at 7.16 MH with a 21 bit address bus!! And had two 16 bit graphics processors capable of 512 available colors and 482 on screen colors, 241 for backgrounds and 241 for sprites, and 16 colors for each sprite! Although only one background layer but it can put sprites in front or behind that background layer! They could put multiple sprites connected together behind the background layer and multiple sprites connected together in front of the background layer and and pull of a convincing parallax scrolling effect along with line scrolling that could easily match the two layers of parallax scrolling of the genesis and four layers of the SNES!!!!! All in all even though it is a 8 bit console it could easily make games to match any 16 bit console of that generation!!!! It's really a 8/16 bit console! U can call it a really powerful 8 bit console or a 8 bit console capable of producing 16 bit graphics!!!! What ever you call it it is and was awesome!!!!!!!!
I agree. It's so underrated. It was my first game system and I have very fond memories of this system and it's games.
Great video! This console is DEFINITELY underrated!
thank you so much for mentioning splatterhouse! it is a true gem on the console
This is for Joe Redifer: Have you ever heard of PC-FX? It was the successor to TurboGrapx-16 and all their 62 games have been released only in Japan...
@Playstationio actually, Joe didn't. Game Sack did an episode devoted to the PCFX.
Carlos Brandão of course he’s fucking heard of it. He had a goddamn video game channel.
Rondo of Blood...
2011: "Around the $100 range."
2015: Over $250 -_- sighhhhhh....
rom
@@popespalace823 that's what I'm saying CD Rom image+Magic Engine final price $0.00.
Slobodan Lang some people want the physical copy
@@slobodanlang7135 what's magic engine an em??
2020 140€
Watching you 2 talk about games reminds me of my buddy from school! We talked,traded and sold games with each other from 4 th grade to 12
This reminded me of those Johnny Turbo ads that use to run in the gaming magazines. The ones that were like comics where some guy would go around and beat up the people who worked for FEKA, (SEGA), and would get the kids to play the Turbo Duo.
This was the best review of the TurboGrafx16 I ever seen on the internet! Great job guys!
Damn guys, your delivery really improved a lot over time. It was like watching a different video!
It'll be worth the wait. I hear Super System cards are hard to come by. I guess you could always get a JP version of the card but the converters are getting expensive these days as well. See that everybody? Because the Turbo was ignored when it was current, there's not enough stuff to meet demand so now it's all crazy expensive!
@onetunafish The FM Towns Marty came out in 1993 in Japan. The TurboGrafx-CD came out in the US in 1990 and even earlier in Japan. I believe even the Duo came out before the Marty.
@gamesack, I loved my TG-16 when I had it! Thank you for paying homage to this under appreciate
machine! Could you guys do an episode dedicated to all of the NEO GEO ports that went to all of the different systems and the difference between all of the various versions? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
I just bought my second turbografx this was my favorite console
holy crap 2011 how did i just find your channel......FUCKING awesome now i have your whole library to watch.
AuraOfRashida 1E1 Easily one of the better gaming channels out there right now. These guys bring perspectives from both sides of the console war boundaries and are pretty in depth with their commentary and insight.
That's exactly what I said
When I first saw the TG16 I was about 9 and it was running in demo mode at a Fred Meyers store. The game that was running....Splatterhouse. I was like HOLY HELL
Now with Konami about to release a mini, it will get it's due appreciation.
@DejaVoodooDoll Man, I wish more people have the same mentality as you.
Because that's truly what those people are. They're desperate to see failure.
I loved my TG16 back in the day.
What people don't understand is the great technological leap that 16-bit sounds and graphics are from 8-bit. Switching from 8-bit to 16-bit was just an incredible experience and the games show it. Of course today that gets lost, I went through that leap and the memories I have of the 16-bit TurboGrafx are amazing.
This is and will be one of my favorite system awesome!
Turbografx-16 games are now on the Wii U Virtual Console eshop, starting with Bonk's Adventure, New Adventure Island & R-Type! If you haven't tried Turbo games, you're running out of excuses!
But I have a question though if you wanna play Japanese only games on a North American TurboGrafx CD will it actually work like Joe established CD-ROMs have no region lock-out
NEC acquired a license for those games from Sega, it allowed NEC to port games like OutRun, Shinobi, After Burner II though NEC's own NEC Avenue for the PC-Engine. Similarly, Telenet Japan got a license to port Golden Axe to the PC-Engine.
I got TurboGrafx because I wanted to play Cho Aniki, and it introduced me to many good games esp shmups
I paused the video at 1:58 to look at all the calender entries out of curiosity, and when I saw the entry "Pooty tang all up in here" on Oct 9th I couldn't help but grin. I became a fan after I happened upon the Neo Geo X video and have watched all your videos since. Keep up the great work, you two!
Would love another TurboGrafx episode ;)
3:02, just for some advice, when you guys are firing off a long Japanese title like Ginga Sapphire, could you put the text up on the screen that would help. Thank you for making this video, the production, sharing your knowledge, the research and game play footage. It's always nice watching your videos.
Would love to see you guys revisit the TG16. Still lots of great games to check out.
Will do.
Ys is considered to be a Legendary Game in Japan, along with Dragon Quest. If they had released a single Dragon Quest on PC Engine, NEC would have sold about 50 million units on that, alone.
Thanks for the information on JB Harold Murder Club. I have this added to my Super Nintendo classic edition and haven’t gotten around to seriously playing it.
_Ys Book 1 & 2_ is, hands down, my favourite Turbografx game.
@MrGameSack The Fm Towns Marty came out in 1991, but I stand corrected, the pc engine had the first CDROM in 1990, but as an add on, the FM Towns Marty was the first console with a built in CDROM.
I think I'd have a real shock if I met these guys in person. Every video I watch is at least 8yrs old lol. I've got so much to catch up on!
It takes much more processing power to render polygons than it does to display sprites and other pre-rendered assets. Essentially it's the difference between meticulously re-typing a 20-page term paper and just scanning, copying, and turning in a three-pager. Not only is it a lot more work because there's a lot more information involved, but it has to render the polygons based on instructions from the game rather than just displaying the assets which are programmed to interact in specific ways.
I've gotta get me one of these for my collection.
@dave4shmups You'll have to mod your Turbo for video and stereo audio without it or the TurboBooster Plus. The CD unit acts as a TurboBooster Plus as well. We think this was a big mistake not to include composite video and stereo out on the basic system. At least they learned by the time the Duo came out.
I randomly found an original model Turbografx 16 in great condition at a local used game store. It was bundled with three games for $100 and had apparently been sitting there for almost a year. I impulsively bought it knowing almost nothing about the system and now I’m planning on modding it for RGB as soon as the kit I ordered from eBay from the seller RetroRGB recommended comes in.
I remember my idiot dad asked my brother and I if we still played our Turbo. At the time we were playing the Dreamcast and said 'nah'. We later found out that he dismantled it and threw it in the trash. *facepalm*
LazyScoutJace I it's hard enough understanding throwing away a perfectly good working games console, but why did he feel the need to dismantle it?
mintydog06 My Dad always had a strong distaste towards our PC and video games. My brother and I didn't really do well in school around that time, so my Dad correlated our poor performance to our prominent game time. I dunno. I figured someone at his job mentioned video games = lazy kid = no success.
yeah thats usually how it is. That's how most of the public are towards games even these days, they haven't got a clue. Hopefully you can get another Turbo now.
Yeah, I guess I could have been a better student around that time, but throwing their possessions away in front of them solves nothing. In my opinion, had he more involvement in my school life, I'd probably be more inclined to do better. Whatever, I have a BS in Chemistry and proved him wrong! Haha
LazyScoutJace Hahaha! My father likes to dismantle everything, I don't know he just wants to see what's inside anything like a little kid, but he always asks first.
I was a Genesis and later SNES guy, but always secretly earned for a Duo, drooling over all of the increasingly desperate soundings ads in EGM in the early 90s. Never had a chance to get one though. However, Magic Engine emulator came out in the late 90s and I got a chance to catch up on this library of games, some of which ended up among my 16-bit favorites. Definitely a great system with a very nice library of games. The games had their own unique look and sound, distinct from the Genesis and SNES. The system didn't really do parallax and line-scrolling that well, so most games are a bit flat looking. However, it made up for it with very large spite size and on-screen colors rivaling the SNES. Some of my favorites not mentioned here: Blazing Lasers (Gunhead), Gradius, Raiden, Soldier Blade, Bonk 3, Air Zonk, Spriggan Mark 2 and Ninja Warriors.
I hear some of the most memorable game music on game sack and the a few month later it just pops up in my head and I wonder where it came from and then I watch an awesome Game Sack episode and then I remember, which is cool.
I'm shocked that Bonk wasn't mentioned!
Shuey187 I was about to say the same thing! Bonk's Adventure was the MASCOT game of the system!
+Shuey187 Agreed. Bonk's Adventure 1, 2 were good. I tried 3 on the Wii years later since it could only be sold via their catalogue at the time and it turned out to be not worth it.
I like how the part 2 is only 189 episodes away!
Awesome!
I had to come back to watch this one first!
I have the t-16,but not the CD attachment. I grew up with the Genesis, but my cousin had the t-16, and I had fun times spending the night with him playing it. Bonks Adventure, Keith Courage, Military Madness, Splatter house, and Legendary Axe bring back fond memories. I had to get one for my game room , if not just for those titles.
"I would recommend this game to anybody, even Michelle Obama"
... What?
that's why i ended up liking these guys, they're so strange and awkward :)
just like your mom
That was so random. I laughed.
@steroidsR4losers gtfo with that shit
@@lilelbee423 yeah right steroids are not for loosers!
The TG-16 was the first video game console I bought with my own money. One of my favourites rarely talked about was Shockman. It was hard as hell and to date, I've never been able to finish it without using the code to refill your life meter at anytime, but one of these days I will beat you Shockman. One of these days!!!!! lol
Wow, watching this old video, you guys have come a long way in quality.
a great system I totally overlooked back in the 90s. I remember seeing the turbografx releases on magazines and thinking they were rubbish because they didn't have snes graphics... what a nintendork brat. The best shoot em up library on 8 and 16 bit gen.
TG16 is a great console... Probably my favorite console-based pinball game ever is Alien Crush on the Turbo. Just a great library of games for that one... it's a shame that you can't find any at reasonable prices anymore.
I just found one of these at my local pawnshop for 10 bucks!!
nice
Does it work?
lying sack of F@CK
@@BILLCOSBYSC0CK im serious, the guy at the pawn shop didn't know what it was.
@@Apprentice_of_the_Leonine Yes, I sold it after learning how expensive the games were.
I found a TurboExpress at Goodwill. $5.00 "as is" with tv tuner. It worked for a couple of seconds, then the screen would white out. I replaced a couple of capacitors, and BOOM. Perfectly good system for under $10.00 total. Easily my best deal of all time.
My favorite game console of all time (Neo Geo 2nd), 3DO (third). What can i say, i'm a sucker for the rare. I Had the Turbografx16 first, i bought it in early 1990. all my friends had Genesis and Razzed me for buying this,yes there were some gay games... But, Games like Ninja Spirit, Blazing Lazers, Legendary Axe I&II, Splatterhouse, Bonk, Valis III, Gates and Lords of thunder and DraculaX changed those haters minds. Later when i got the Duo, they all wanted to borrow my old system w/CD add on
I was the only kid in my neighborhood to have one..... My pops bought me the TG-16, bonks adventure and Splatter House for Xmas. I remember they had tons of Tg-16's stacked up in videogame isle at Toys R us.
my friends did too, and turned out that system was awesome and i have unforgettable memories from it.
Oh man... too sad that i was born in a time period (1995) where the tubrogrrafx-16 never ever was mentioned. i just heard of the console first like 5 years ago :( the games look super awesome.
Probably one of the best video game shows on the net.
That guy might lead a dull life, but he sure as hell doesn't have a dull voice.
I recently went a pawn shop in my town. Much to my surprise I saw the TG-16 for a little over a 100. A most reasonable price. Then again, a lower price is also acceptable.
Oh wow... I had no idea that Micheal Bell was in Y's I and II. I LOVE him as a voice actor! Thanks for letting me know!
I have all the 8bits & 16bits system and I have to say that turbografx-16 is my favorite system and still is. Thanks for the nice video guys. Looking forward for more:)
This is the 1st episode where the Game Sack that we know, found it’s form. What a jump in production and pacing!
But man, there’s something oh so sweet about those raw doggin’ early episodes.
When did this second guy leave the show?
@@sillkthashocker hmmm I’d say maybe a year and a half ago?
@@gilpiper3564 any reason why
How did I miss this video until now?! Great!
@xhunter143 Yes! Konami did release Dracula X on the SNES. It's kind of a port of the PC Engine version with a new paint job and differently arranged music. I'm a fan of it but a lot of people aren't.
I played Samurai Showdown on this system at a friend's house. Truly one of the best fighting games on any system!! I so would love to get a copy of the original game!
My only experience with a real TG-16 was when I rented the console with Splatterhouse when I was a kid. I wanted that game so bad. It terrified me...especially THAT scene (you know the one), but I powered through and finished the game during the weekend I had with it and it's still one of my favorite games to this day. It's only in the last several years that I've discovered how amazing the console and its games are. I adore the sound of these games.
I'm fairly certain that the original English soundtrack for the game was produced in Japan several years earlier when the game was available on PC. I think it is amusing that a lot of the dialogue that the parking lot attendant says in Japanese is played straight while the English track seems to have been produced by a person who watched "48 Hours" and assumed the game needed a vaguely Eddie Murphy-sounding character.
I'm thinking of shelling out some cash for a PC Engine Turbo Duo-R. You guys' videos make me want to collect PCE and TG-16 games so badly.
Joe & Dave, thank you for an enjoyable and interesting episode, as always.
"Just because it wasn't popular or didn't sell well, doesn't mean it didn't have some great games" TG16, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, GameCube, Wii U, Neo Geo Pocket Color, etc.
Thanks for video, I do have some catching up to do on the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
I once saw one of these with Fantasy Zone at my local thrift store for seven bucks. To this very day, I regret not buying it. Gawd I was a cheap and stupid kid.
4:28 bear striking similarities to a game called Carnage Heart. I'm reading online that it was used as an inspiration for several games so I'm betting CH was one of them
I had a friend that had a TG16 with the CD add-on back in the day before the Sega CD came out. I remember thinking that Bonk's Adventure was the greatest thing ever. Then we just sat around playing A Link to the Past on his SNES. lol
I almost asked for a TG-16, instead of a Nintendo, for Christmas, as a kid. Almost...
Legendary Axe, Splatterhouse, Lords of Thunder, Bonk's Adventure, New Adventure Island, Dracula X, Air Zonk and Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu are some of my favorites on the system.
A Game Sack so early on in the week? I approve of this!