"I don't think there ever was a Strip Fighter 1." Actually there was! It was released 7 years AFTER Strip Fighter 2 was released. I'm not entirely sure how they did that, I'm assuming a time machine was involved.
Hang on a frickin' second. This thing was released in *1990*? Just one year after the Gameboy? 8 years before the Gameboy Color? And it's got hardware on par with a SNES, a big bulky non-portable console also released in 1990? How did this thing NOT take the world by storm and immediately completely dominate the market? O_o
In America Nintendo have a stranglehold on rights for 3rd party games. The US got only 94 games released. That is just a fraction of the entire library and full of duds. The marketing technique they used in Japan was to just advertise in the Big Cities. It worked well over there because of how compact Japan is. They thought the same would work in the US. That was not the case. The ads they did have were horrible too.
what u smoke'n?. the game gear beat the crap out of this in sells. and killed it off along with the lynx, game.com and wonder swan. the game gear was the only real competition 2 the game boy. the game gear made this and other handhelds look like crap. even though both the game boy and game gear had 8-bit graphics, the game gear still looked better in every way. the only reason the game boy won in the end was because the game boy had more games and sold more systems and carts by the time the game gear came out. also, the game boy had alot of 3rd party support. screen-wise, the game gear looked better in every way compared 2 the game boy. it had a lighted-up screen, it was in color, and packed in the power of sega's own 8-bit master system. infact, the the game gear was basically a upgraded sega master system turned into a portable, with more colors. but as powerful as the game gear was, it wasn't about the graphics back then. it was about the games. and the turbo express din't have its own games. it was just a portable turbograffx16/pc engine. the game gear had its own games, plus it had a converter cart attachment that even let u play sega master system games on the game gear with more color. adding what little usefulness the turbo express had. playing your sega master system's console games on the go. it also had an attachment that let u watch tv on your game gear and a shit load of other accessories that the game boy also had. like a screen magnifier, rechargeable battery packs and an ac adapter.
Not rare. It was only Nintendo who didn't use a backlight. Sega game gear, Atari lynx, Sega nomad, all used backlights. It's just you poor Nintendo kids who thought backlights are for rich people only. Nintendo was a big smelly pussy about battery life, AND they wanted to cheap out on parts. Took 15 years before a game boy used a backlight, that's nuts. I never could understand the game boy. Green puke, can't play in the dark, can't see the screen, worst smeary image during screen scrolling. Disgusting. I guess if it's your first handheld you don't know any better, but if (like me) you saw a game gear screen first, you never wanted to look at a game boy ever again. Exorcist vomit color monochrome, no backlight. Once you go back(light) you can't go back.
+Thomas Wallblom The best part of the design for the TG16 was the card design. You could fit a bunch of games in a wallet, and use the same cards on the portable. Brilliant design, shame about the battery life on the portable.
+Dick Fageroni For the era, it looks pretty damn good. Pretty much everything else at the time with an LCD had horrible ghosting on the screen (check out Ashens' Sega Nomad review to see what I mean).
***** I watched a Game Gear review.. cant see why you say that it has a better screen. But can be because of the video itself. I will hold on to my first thought, NEC TurboExpress has a great screen! Would love to own one!
It never ceases to amaze me how powerful hardware has become. Having every PC-engine game on an SD card is a good comparison of old and new technology-and I suppose there's still a lot more capacity on the card.
Very nice my friend had one of these in 1990/91 or so. It was seriously impressive for the time. The tv tuner attachment was very cool. Such a huge leap from the gameboy.
I do wish Everdrives and similar devices weren't so expensive. I want an SD2SNES(similar to an Everdrive, for SNES, but it has better game compatibility), but they're like $200 or something ridiculous like that. Sure, for the price compared to buying an entire collection of games, it's worth it. But chances are if I don't want to spend tons of money on real games in the first place, I don't have the $200 to spend on a flash cart. That's honestly the ONLY reason I stick to emulation. If I could afford Everdrives or whatever, for each system I have, I'd just play those instead. With the console though, for what it is, it's not bad. But I think I'd much rather get one of those clone-portable SNES systems, and an SD2SNES for that. Nothing wrong with the TG16, but there's more games on the SNES that I'd rather play. Plus more buttons means not having to press select to switch between punch/kick in Street Fighter.
They have this device called the UFO Pro 8 for SNES which is about $50. It's meant for saving games but can also run backups. I've been meaning to get one but just haven't gotten around to it. Look into it if you're interested.
This is the best looking TE I have seen in the passed 10 years. I own a sizable collection and still can't find an atari lynx or TE that is in functional quality. Grats its valuable to some collectors and you would be shocked what they would offer for the likes of this one.
These retro console reviews are my favourites of Ashens' videos. It's nice to see the history of gaming. I'd like to see more obscure consoles like the Apple Pippin if Ashens can get his hands on them.
"Consider this a stopgap until I finally get round to showing my Atari Lynx collection" *FOUR FUCKING YEARS LATER* "Hey guys I'm going to review the Atari Lynx"
***** The Lynx is older than I am by a year! I can't believe that kind of technology existed back then. Wow. Why didn't we just make flat panel color LCD TVs in 1989? The technology was there!
***** I lived in San Francisco in 2003, and they had the absolute latest products for sale. They had brand new 72" LCD TVs that were $21,995, but I think there was more to them. That was at a time when plasma screens were your only affordable flat panel option. That's about $30,000 adjusted for inflation. Prices fell sharply to $2,000 in just 4 years.
+Breadmond McLoafquinn (Mr. Breadmond) They're not even all ports - Bonk's Revenge, for one, was original to the TurboGrafX. It was the first game I ever played and it's a fantastic little platformer, if perhaps a tad easy (see ProJared's review of Super Bonk, a lot of his observations apply to Bonk's Revenge as well, though it's not as... strange). Alien Crush and Devil's Crush were both original and really fantastic as well.
ashens, your voice is very soothing not only that but your improv on everything you review are funny to hear. Alot of the things you review you say are bad or even look bad but for some reason it makes me want to own them...or have a bite of the "hot pots" stuff.
I remember seeing those at the mall when they first came out...and immediately lamenting the fact that there was no way I could afford one. It actually has a TFT Active Matrix LCD screen (which was brand-new technology for the time), Sony had a Color Watchman handheld TV that had a TFT screen as well back then, and it was expensive too. Later on I rented a TG-16 console and played Bonks Adventure all the way to the end in one weekend!
The screen is an active matrix TFT, the best of it's time. The screen is really good on this. One game you definitely want to check out is parasol stars. It's one my favorite games of the era. It's just a shame you can't play rainbow islands on a Turbo Express, because it's the best home version of the game. It's just a shame that AA NIMH cells weren't cheap and readily available back then, because 6 typical AA NIMH cells are 18 watts hours and should power this for quite a few hours.
Bonk's Revenge was the first video game I ever played, when I was about four. I finally went back and beat it last year, and it was every bit as good as I remembered. It really is worth playing, and I recommend you try it if you haven't.
The Turbo express was so far ahead of the Gameboy and only 1 year older it boggles the mind. The Game boy held us back so far technology wise it's such a shame. Imagine we all could have been playing console quality colour handhelds in 1990!! This was destroyed ALL because of battery technology being poor. Also the Lynx as a 3D/scaling powerhouse was even superior to the Pc Engine. Although vastly inferior for sprite based 2D games. Both of them nuked the Game boy.
yeah but it was expensive as heck. Nintendo played it smarter compared to NEC, Atari, and even Sony when it comes to handhelds. Seriously, even sony makes some great handhelds but they go a little too far in specs and other areas that make it too expensive that some will just end up buying nintendo instead(this is why vita is already legacy yet big n's 3ds is still going strong. These companies shoot too high only to miss the mark and fizzle out on the handheld spectrum. These other systems were great but as always too expensive in the long run...
ojideagu yeah, but it also came out before those hand helds. It was basically a portable battery eating Master System. As a direct competitor of the Game Boy that had a backlit color screen with a decent library of games, I'm surprised that you don't hear about it much...
I found my brother's old Turbografx 16 in my basement with the rf box and ac adapter. Bought a game pad on amazon for about 40 bucks, and an everdrive and gave it back to him as a gift. It's absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend the everdrive.
I remember this system, it was wildly expensive. I think it was available around the same time as Neo-Geo which was also insanely expensive. Everyone that played in the arcades at the time wanted one of each, but nobody ever got one... let alone both.
Hello Ashens. Thank you for all your interesting and humorous videos. Being and Atari Lynx fan myself, I would really enjoy seeing a review by you on this superb "portable" gaming console.
Most retro games are both challenging and creative which is something a lot of games nowadays lack, but the biggest reason people choose retro games are for the nostalgia. Just like when you play a PlayStation 1 game or any other game you grew up with.
This was officially released here in Spain at a retail price of 49.900 ptas ( roughly 300euros) back in maybe 94. Got mine in london (raven games) for roughly half of it.....it was marvelous....period
PC Engine/Turbografx-16 is definitely the king of the obscure consoles for sure. Wonderful games, library is semi small but the quality of the games is just as good as the popular consoles.
There was an annotation accompanying the part where he called the screen a CRT, pointing out that it is in fact an LCD screen. Also I've got to say, this is quite an astonishing unit.
I remember she was available in France,that was a fucking dream...just play Sf2... Like other stuff (expensive),the Combo A.V supergun... The Turbo GT,I remember the commercials on magazines,with the amazing LT... The Neo geo was called Rolls Royce of home system and the GT was the Rolls Royce of portable. Sweet 90's...vhs...laserdisc...cadridge...(but all was in 50 hertz...I was so furious with all the commercials in 60 hertz...).
maybe not in UK, but it was released in other european countries, At least I'm pretty sure seeing it in stores back in the first 90s in Spain (I think CD unit was never released, but I'm not sure). It's amazing how advanced was Turboexpress for its time.
The TurboGrafix and its components were the best system of the time. Still have mine with the CD-player add-on. Even played Air Zonk on my Express recently. Gobbles batteries, though...
I have one of these! The everdrive looks very nice :) Battery life was a concern, not sure how they do now, but when I first had it, I couldn't actually beat Vigilante before the batteries run out, and it wasn't exactly a long game. Will have to have a look for this everdrive thingy me bob!
I’m way late to the party but I just wanted to stop and appreciate how amazing it was that STREET FIGHTER II was available on a handheld in the early 90s 🤯
I'm not surprised that this console has H-games. Before releasing the TG-16/PC Engine, which was actually developed by Hudson Soft (Hu-Card = Hudson Card), NEC released the PC-98. That home computer rivals Fujitsu's FM Towns in terms of how many h-games are on it.
"You have to press select to switch between kick and punch"..yeah..that's a thing the genesis had to deal with too. I dunno why Nintendo was the only one to realize they might need more buttons.
Own one of these and a tg16 proper. Have about 20 games for it. I've already had to do the sound capacitor fix and am now fixing the dead screen capacitor.
u can get the TV Tuner for them, and u can plug other things into it, and use the built in LCD as a display, but the reason they did not do it the other way around was cause they wanted u to buy the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine and then the CD add on, which can't be used with the Handhelds.
Ah you indeed really need to get a recapped/reconditioned console if you ever want to be able to play one and enjoy it. I got the TG16 and the PCEngine including that Everdrive module and it has been sweet testing out games sampling which I want to go for and try to find at a reasonable price. This handheld is awesome indeed. A bit like the stuff of legends actually...
The audio captions were actually spot on in some places. Overall it was pretty close. Google is getting their program to function very nicely. Hats off to those chaps at Google HQ.
The gold standard of consoles back in the day. Unfortunately only in mags like Mean Machines where we could only drool over those arcade conversions. I'd like to see the Atari Lynx reviewed, too.
The TG-16 gained some more attention through the Wii Virtual Console service. I've played Neutopia (Zelda 1 clone) Ys 1&2, Dragon's Curse (Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap) and Dynastic Hero (Wonder Boy in Monster World). Was that "Strip Fighter" thing by Hacker International? Unlike on the NES/Famicom, where their titles were unlicensed, NEC and Hudson actually let Hacker release their H-Games legitimately.
The arcade version of Cadash was quite entertaining for an RPG fan like me. I'd have been in hog heaven with a home version I didn't have to constantly plug with quarters. I mean, scrolling action and RPG elements together! What's not to love about that? And the name is just plain fun and satisfying to say. Cadash. Cadash? Cadash! Cadash!
it was a mail order release in the UK, I had one in about '89ish - "The PC-Engine" looked nothing like the one you have there though...mine was white, and the games came on these odd fat credit card thingies...some good games tho, perhaps surprisingly. Came with a platform game called "Chan VS Chan"
I wanted one these so bad in 1990. I didn't know where to get one and it was at least twice as much as a game boy if I remember correctly. We weren't living large in 1990. Lol
I would recommend a good Ni-Zn charger and batteries (BPI/PKCell) for this PC GT, Game Gear, Lynx and Nomad. Nickel Zinc batteries are usually 1,500mAH and above but with an awesome 1.6v each - in a six battery device that's a whole 1.6v extra voltage.
Due to the form-factor of HuCards and the slot they fit into on PC Engines, it's very difficult to make a case for the PC Engine Everdrive. Unlike the units for the cart-based consoles, Retro Towers don't supply one.
It's nothing to do with the file system of the SD card (it supports FAT 32 formated SDs which should allow 65,534 files per folder), It's a limitation of the Everdrive's file manager. It's the same on the Megadrive version. That one used to only read the first 200 files a folder, but was updated to 512 at some point.
Excellent video Mr Ashen. Any chance you could point me in the right direction of an Everdrive card? That's of course if you get a phemto second to do so.
"Consider this video a stopgap until I finally get round to showing my Atari Lynx collection." Well done Ashens it only took you 4 years!
7 years
"I don't think there ever was a Strip Fighter 1."
Actually there was! It was released 7 years AFTER Strip Fighter 2 was released.
I'm not entirely sure how they did that, I'm assuming a time machine was involved.
It’s like a prequel but true to sequence.
so strip fighter alpha?
Hang on a frickin' second. This thing was released in *1990*? Just one year after the Gameboy? 8 years before the Gameboy Color?
And it's got hardware on par with a SNES, a big bulky non-portable console also released in 1990?
How did this thing NOT take the world by storm and immediately completely dominate the market? O_o
It has six batteries, weighs a bunch, and was pretty expensive.
In America Nintendo have a stranglehold on rights for 3rd party games. The US got only 94 games released. That is just a fraction of the entire library and full of duds. The marketing technique they used in Japan was to just advertise in the Big Cities. It worked well over there because of how compact Japan is. They thought the same would work in the US. That was not the case. The ads they did have were horrible too.
it really should have been more popular, it was just awesome. it made the game boy and even the game gear look like crap.
It cost something like $280 or something at launch and didn't have many big name games on it.
what u smoke'n?. the game gear beat the crap out of this in sells. and killed it off along with the lynx, game.com and wonder swan. the game gear was the only real competition 2 the game boy. the game gear made this and other handhelds look like crap. even though both the game boy and game gear had 8-bit graphics, the game gear still looked better in every way. the only reason the game boy won in the end was because the game boy had more games and sold more systems and carts by the time the game gear came out. also, the game boy had alot of 3rd party support. screen-wise, the game gear looked better in every way compared 2 the game boy. it had a lighted-up screen, it was in color, and packed in the power of sega's own 8-bit master system. infact, the the game gear was basically a upgraded sega master system turned into a portable, with more colors. but as powerful as the game gear was, it wasn't about the graphics back then. it was about the games. and the turbo express din't have its own games. it was just a portable turbograffx16/pc engine. the game gear had its own games, plus it had a converter cart attachment that even let u play sega master system games on the game gear with more color. adding what little usefulness the turbo express had. playing your sega master system's console games on the go. it also had an attachment that let u watch tv on your game gear and a shit load of other accessories that the game boy also had. like a screen magnifier, rechargeable battery packs and an ac adapter.
Lets all thank whoever made this for actually adding a backlight to a color LCD.
Back in the 90s, that was rare.
Didn't he say it's a crt screen
@@moonjimunji7916 He was wrong. It's LCD.
Not rare. It was only Nintendo who didn't use a backlight. Sega game gear, Atari lynx, Sega nomad, all used backlights.
It's just you poor Nintendo kids who thought backlights are for rich people only. Nintendo was a big smelly pussy about battery life, AND they wanted to cheap out on parts. Took 15 years before a game boy used a backlight, that's nuts.
I never could understand the game boy. Green puke, can't play in the dark, can't see the screen, worst smeary image during screen scrolling. Disgusting.
I guess if it's your first handheld you don't know any better, but if (like me) you saw a game gear screen first, you never wanted to look at a game boy ever again. Exorcist vomit color monochrome, no backlight. Once you go back(light) you can't go back.
Those arcade conversions are amazing. Digitized sounds, near arcade-perfect graphics. Amazing power for an older handheld system.
That's because it's a freaking portable TurboGraphics-16.
That's because it's a freaking portable TurboGrafx 16
Lovely to see this. I have a great memory of my dad finding me one of these second hand just in time for Christmas. Pre internet days too!
I'm quite impressed by the high standards of that handheld console.
The screen seems awesome!
+Thomas Wallblom The best part of the design for the TG16 was the card design. You could fit a bunch of games in a wallet, and use the same cards on the portable. Brilliant design, shame about the battery life on the portable.
+Dick Fageroni
For the era, it looks pretty damn good. Pretty much everything else at the time with an LCD had horrible ghosting on the screen (check out Ashens' Sega Nomad review to see what I mean).
+Dick Fageroni and you do realize the screen was built in the early 90's... right? Find another from that era that looks even half as good.
***** I watched a Game Gear review.. cant see why you say that it has a better screen. But can be because of the video itself.
I will hold on to my first thought, NEC TurboExpress has a great screen!
Would love to own one!
+Thomas Wallblom The Mega Drive/Genesis had a similar thing called the Nomad. About the same quality as this.
Ashens have you ever done a review of the *Nokia N-GAGE*?
I love you.
I had one. I thought it was great :/
Hey, they ported Sonic Advance to it, so there was at least that.
Tong Zou He has done 2 episodes of Game.com
Tong Zou Send him one!
I love how the most searched thing after having watched this video is Strip Fighter II.
@Satoshi Nakomoto Seven years on, dunno. I was probably referring to either the suggested videos or the suggestions in the search bar.
It never ceases to amaze me how powerful hardware has become. Having every PC-engine game on an SD card is a good comparison of old and new technology-and I suppose there's still a lot more capacity on the card.
You can still use analog television stuff if you had some reason to. You just need a digital UHF converter...
Very nice my friend had one of these in 1990/91 or so. It was seriously impressive for the time. The tv tuner attachment was very cool. Such a huge leap from the gameboy.
I do wish Everdrives and similar devices weren't so expensive. I want an SD2SNES(similar to an Everdrive, for SNES, but it has better game compatibility), but they're like $200 or something ridiculous like that. Sure, for the price compared to buying an entire collection of games, it's worth it. But chances are if I don't want to spend tons of money on real games in the first place, I don't have the $200 to spend on a flash cart. That's honestly the ONLY reason I stick to emulation. If I could afford Everdrives or whatever, for each system I have, I'd just play those instead.
With the console though, for what it is, it's not bad. But I think I'd much rather get one of those clone-portable SNES systems, and an SD2SNES for that. Nothing wrong with the TG16, but there's more games on the SNES that I'd rather play. Plus more buttons means not having to press select to switch between punch/kick in Street Fighter.
They have this device called the UFO Pro 8 for SNES which is about $50. It's meant for saving games but can also run backups. I've been meaning to get one but just haven't gotten around to it. Look into it if you're interested.
This is the best looking TE I have seen in the passed 10 years. I own a sizable collection and still can't find an atari lynx or TE that is in functional quality. Grats its valuable to some collectors and you would be shocked what they would offer for the likes of this one.
"This is the music that goes with everything"
ilu, Ashen.
These retro console reviews are my favourites of Ashens' videos. It's nice to see the history of gaming. I'd like to see more obscure consoles like the Apple Pippin if Ashens can get his hands on them.
Years later, no Atari Lynx video.
"Consider this a stopgap until I finally get round to showing my Atari Lynx collection"
*FOUR FUCKING YEARS LATER*
"Hey guys I'm going to review the Atari Lynx"
Fookie Bookie now he has to do game gear
I can't believe this thing is from 1990! It's so far ahead of its time that it surpasses standards even of 2000!
***** The Lynx is older than I am by a year! I can't believe that kind of technology existed back then. Wow. Why didn't we just make flat panel color LCD TVs in 1989? The technology was there!
***** That TV they used was probably over $100,000! They were still $21,995 in 2003 for LCD. Could it have been a Plasma?
***** I lived in San Francisco in 2003, and they had the absolute latest products for sale. They had brand new 72" LCD TVs that were $21,995, but I think there was more to them. That was at a time when plasma screens were your only affordable flat panel option. That's about $30,000 adjusted for inflation. Prices fell sharply to $2,000 in just 4 years.
The Turbografix is actually an 8-bit system, with a 16-bit GPU.
I should know, Wakko took ours apart and ate it!
It was yummy! ^U^
***** I guess it didn't begin as much as was expected.
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Fluttershy Uhhh, where are your rainbow equine buddies at? Dot likes you guys.
Great timing. Right as you mentioned Liam Neeson's mother, the trailer for Tak3n appears on my T.V. at the same time.
these games look REALLY good.
they are lol they're just ports not rip offs
+Breadmond McLoafquinn (Mr. Breadmond) They're not even all ports - Bonk's Revenge, for one, was original to the TurboGrafX. It was the first game I ever played and it's a fantastic little platformer, if perhaps a tad easy (see ProJared's review of Super Bonk, a lot of his observations apply to Bonk's Revenge as well, though it's not as... strange). Alien Crush and Devil's Crush were both original and really fantastic as well.
Breadmond McLoafquinn I meant they looked good despite running on emulation and on a handheld device.
jekblom123 oh lol
+jekblom123
They're not running on emulation.
ashens, your voice is very soothing not only that but your improv on everything you review are funny to hear. Alot of the things you review you say are bad or even look bad but for some reason it makes me want to own them...or have a bite of the "hot pots" stuff.
1:02 oh god, you've caught the Americans
Assuming your not from the usa...
I remember seeing those at the mall when they first came out...and immediately lamenting the fact that there was no way I could afford one. It actually has a TFT Active Matrix LCD screen (which was brand-new technology for the time), Sony had a Color Watchman handheld TV that had a TFT screen as well back then, and it was expensive too. Later on I rented a TG-16 console and played Bonks Adventure all the way to the end in one weekend!
People who play Hyperdimension Neptunia remember the Turbografx 16! Peashy Engine ftw
Chen Neptunia is otaku trash
IanC14 accurate
I had one. And honestly I like the "tank" design and how big it was. Plus the card games was cool back then
Pause at exactly 3:26
what happened?
such a lovely face
The screen is an active matrix TFT, the best of it's time. The screen is really good on this. One game you definitely want to check out is parasol stars. It's one my favorite games of the era. It's just a shame you can't play rainbow islands on a Turbo Express, because it's the best home version of the game. It's just a shame that AA NIMH cells weren't cheap and readily available back then, because 6 typical AA NIMH cells are 18 watts hours and should power this for quite a few hours.
+GameBoyLegacy Yep. Make that mistake too often. The fingers can be quicker than the mind.
Whatever happened to that Atari Lynx collection?
It got shot in the fucking head...
Lol!!
*Four years later...*
Bonk's Revenge was the first video game I ever played, when I was about four. I finally went back and beat it last year, and it was every bit as good as I remembered. It really is worth playing, and I recommend you try it if you haven't.
The Turbo express was so far ahead of the Gameboy and only 1 year older it boggles the mind. The Game boy held us back so far technology wise it's such a shame. Imagine we all could have been playing console quality colour handhelds in 1990!! This was destroyed ALL because of battery technology being poor. Also the Lynx as a 3D/scaling powerhouse was even superior to the Pc Engine. Although vastly inferior for sprite based 2D games. Both of them nuked the Game boy.
ojideagu game gear tho
The game gear was primitive compared to the Turbo Express and Atari Lynx
yeah but it was expensive as heck. Nintendo played it smarter compared to NEC, Atari, and even Sony when it comes to handhelds. Seriously, even sony makes some great handhelds but they go a little too far in specs and other areas that make it too expensive that some will just end up buying nintendo instead(this is why vita is already legacy yet big n's 3ds is still going strong. These companies shoot too high only to miss the mark and fizzle out on the handheld spectrum. These other systems were great but as always too expensive in the long run...
ojideagu yeah, but it also came out before those hand helds. It was basically a portable battery eating Master System. As a direct competitor of the Game Boy that had a backlit color screen with a decent library of games, I'm surprised that you don't hear about it much...
The Game Gear came out AFTER the Atari Lynx and Pc Engine GT/Turbo Express.
I found my brother's old Turbografx 16 in my basement with the rf box and ac adapter. Bought a game pad on amazon for about 40 bucks, and an everdrive and gave it back to him as a gift. It's absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend the everdrive.
he has nice looking hands.
I TOTALLY FORGOT THIS THING EXISTED! But I remember seeing it in the Christmas Sears Wishbook catalogs we got over on our side of the pond.
what the fuck, these things on ebay are like 300-400 USD.
+samljer they are collectors pieces now
"collectors" says to me "speculators" which can only mean... "quick jack the price up before we can't make money off of people"
if you had this when it came out in the early 90's you would be the coolest kid in town!
03:25 why does this face keep coming up in your videos ***** ???
I remember this system, it was wildly expensive. I think it was available around the same time as Neo-Geo which was also insanely expensive. Everyone that played in the arcades at the time wanted one of each, but nobody ever got one... let alone both.
Also the worst game to demonstrate because without a 6 button controller it's basically unplayable.
i honestly didn't expect the graphics to be this good, quite a nifty thing, reminds me of the old sega handheld :)
It's 2015 and you still have not shown your Atari Lynx collection. Reported.
6 years later, and I just noticed today that Wonder Momo seems to use the same sound effects as Galaga.
Wow, these actually seem really cool! Loads of games you can play with just that tiny chip, it's cool.
Hello Ashens. Thank you for all your interesting and humorous videos. Being and Atari Lynx fan myself, I would really enjoy seeing a review by you on this superb "portable" gaming console.
Most retro games are both challenging and creative which is something a lot of games nowadays lack, but the biggest reason people choose retro games are for the nostalgia. Just like when you play a PlayStation 1 game or any other game you grew up with.
This was officially released here in Spain at a retail price of 49.900 ptas ( roughly 300euros) back in maybe 94. Got mine in london (raven games) for roughly half of it.....it was marvelous....period
At one point it was only £75 at raven games in 1995
+ojideagu : think i paid 99 quids. but it came bundled with a coupke of games. at that point it was a bargain
Great video ashens! You got a TurboExpress that's in MINT condition! That thing looks fantastic!
Brilliant semi 16-Bit graphics chip power on an 8-Bit system power handheld. It mixed it's 8-Bit system power and 16-Bit graphics power really well.
This was US$300 when released in late 1990. Much of the cost was the active matrix LCD- the first in a handheld.
PC Engine/Turbografx-16 is definitely the king of the obscure consoles for sure. Wonderful games, library is semi small but the quality of the games is just as good as the popular consoles.
It was not obscure in Japan and was well known in the UK in magazines in the 90s even though it had to be imported
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Library is semi small?
Lol, the PCE has a bigger library than the snes.
"Back in the day it would only last 0.8 femtosecond before turning dark" Died laughing at that.
DAMMIT IM SO LATE COMMENTING CAUSE MY HANDS WERE FULL OF GUM AND GIANT FOAM HANDS, AND I HAD TO WAVE AT EVERYTHING FIRST!!!!!
There was an annotation accompanying the part where he called the screen a CRT, pointing out that it is in fact an LCD screen.
Also I've got to say, this is quite an astonishing unit.
Imported mine when it came out in japan. Paid a fortune, still love it...even though the DUO-R gets more playtime these days.
it is an active matrix LCD
"Display: 400x270 screen resolution, 512 colors, 481 colors on-screen"
I remember she was available in France,that was a fucking dream...just play Sf2...
Like other stuff (expensive),the Combo A.V supergun...
The Turbo GT,I remember the commercials on magazines,with the amazing LT...
The Neo geo was called Rolls Royce of home system and the GT was the Rolls Royce of portable.
Sweet 90's...vhs...laserdisc...cadridge...(but all was in 50 hertz...I was so furious with all the commercials in 60 hertz...).
I'd love to see more of Ashens playing TurboGrafx/TurboExpress games. Always wanted one as a kid but being in good ol' Blighty they never appeared!
maybe not in UK, but it was released in other european countries, At least I'm pretty sure seeing it in stores back in the first 90s in Spain (I think CD unit was never released, but I'm not sure).
It's amazing how advanced was Turboexpress for its time.
The TurboGrafix and its components were the best system of the time. Still have mine with the CD-player add-on. Even played Air Zonk on my Express recently. Gobbles batteries, though...
I can't stop watching ashens. the humor is so dry.... water...water
The TG-16 was my favorite console of all time!
FEMTO SECOND! I had never heard that term until I started watching Ashens
I have one of these! The everdrive looks very nice :) Battery life was a concern, not sure how they do now, but when I first had it, I couldn't actually beat Vigilante before the batteries run out, and it wasn't exactly a long game. Will have to have a look for this everdrive thingy me bob!
I’m way late to the party but I just wanted to stop and appreciate how amazing it was that STREET FIGHTER II was available on a handheld in the early 90s 🤯
I'm not surprised that this console has H-games. Before releasing the TG-16/PC Engine, which was actually developed by Hudson Soft (Hu-Card = Hudson Card), NEC released the PC-98. That home computer rivals Fujitsu's FM Towns in terms of how many h-games are on it.
Must be said that the sound emulation on that unit is second to none
I neither expected a Spaceballs reference, nor do I regret being reminded of it :)
A youtuber his last video was about his 12 favourite youtubers and Ashens was one so here we are.
Late to this party but damn, Ashens, that TurboExpress looks like it was new out of the box.
Ashens is love Ashens is life
"You have to press select to switch between kick and punch"..yeah..that's a thing the genesis had to deal with too. I dunno why Nintendo was the only one to realize they might need more buttons.
Own one of these and a tg16 proper. Have about 20 games for it. I've already had to do the sound capacitor fix and am now fixing the dead screen capacitor.
u can get the TV Tuner for them, and u can plug other things into it, and use the built in LCD as a display, but the reason they did not do it the other way around was cause they wanted u to buy the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine and then the CD add on, which can't be used with the Handhelds.
This thing looks so cool. Like that hack tool from alien isolation. Love the bulky dezine
just saw one of these at my local retro store and was blown away
Ah you indeed really need to get a recapped/reconditioned console if you ever want to be able to play one and enjoy it. I got the TG16 and the PCEngine including that Everdrive module and it has been sweet testing out games sampling which I want to go for and try to find at a reasonable price.
This handheld is awesome indeed. A bit like the stuff of legends actually...
The audio captions were actually spot on in some places. Overall it was pretty close. Google is getting their program to function very nicely. Hats off to those chaps at Google HQ.
TurboExpress is awesome. I play TG-16 games more often on the Express than on the console itself.
Well damn, the graphics are better than in gameboy advance, and that console was released 11 years later I'm impressed.
I remember wanting one of these after seeing it in the first Independence day movie
Enjoying getting that turbo fix on the go via the analog pocket it’s great sadly not as chunky
I knew this guy before nerd! I lost him and thanks to nerd I found him again! Thanks Dan!
Never knew they made a Everdrive for the Turbografix/PC engine. Now i have to get one for my TurboExpress!
I learn a lot from you. I never know this thing existied.
The gold standard of consoles back in the day. Unfortunately only in mags like Mean Machines where we could only drool over those arcade conversions. I'd like to see the Atari Lynx reviewed, too.
Clearly an Ashens movie is coming out
The TG-16 gained some more attention through the Wii Virtual Console service.
I've played Neutopia (Zelda 1 clone) Ys 1&2, Dragon's Curse (Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap) and Dynastic Hero (Wonder Boy in Monster World).
Was that "Strip Fighter" thing by Hacker International?
Unlike on the NES/Famicom, where their titles were unlicensed, NEC and Hudson actually let Hacker release their H-Games legitimately.
Looks great. No blur on the screen then?
The arcade version of Cadash was quite entertaining for an RPG fan like me. I'd have been in hog heaven with a home version I didn't have to constantly plug with quarters.
I mean, scrolling action and RPG elements together! What's not to love about that? And the name is just plain fun and satisfying to say. Cadash. Cadash? Cadash!
Cadash!
it was a mail order release in the UK, I had one in about '89ish - "The PC-Engine" looked nothing like the one you have there though...mine was white, and the games came on these odd fat credit card thingies...some good games tho, perhaps surprisingly.
Came with a platform game called "Chan VS Chan"
According to eBay, a new-in-box Turbo Express is over a thousand Australian dollars (roughly parity with US Dollar).
Others are around 400.
You used to be able to watch TV on this if you had the additional TV tuner card - was highly advanced for its time.
"Nostalgia is getting people deluded"
FINALLY someone who speaks sense!
I wanted one these so bad in 1990. I didn't know where to get one and it was at least twice as much as a game boy if I remember correctly. We weren't living large in 1990. Lol
I would recommend a good Ni-Zn charger and batteries (BPI/PKCell) for this PC GT, Game Gear, Lynx and Nomad. Nickel Zinc batteries are usually 1,500mAH and above but with an awesome 1.6v each - in a six battery device that's a whole 1.6v extra voltage.
Oh my God, if my NES was still working today, I'd get that Everdrive thing in a heartbeat.
Ashen's drinking game! Take a shot every time he says the word 'nifty'!
Due to the form-factor of HuCards and the slot they fit into on PC Engines, it's very difficult to make a case for the PC Engine Everdrive. Unlike the units for the cart-based consoles, Retro Towers don't supply one.
It's nothing to do with the file system of the SD card (it supports FAT 32 formated SDs which should allow 65,534 files per folder), It's a limitation of the Everdrive's file manager. It's the same on the Megadrive version. That one used to only read the first 200 files a folder, but was updated to 512 at some point.
Excellent video Mr Ashen. Any chance you could point me in the right direction of an Everdrive card? That's of course if you get a phemto second to do so.