Best Turbografx-16 Games SNES and Genesis Owners Missed Out On - SNESdrunk
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Konami (who bought out Hudson Soft years ago) announced they will be creating a TurboGrafx-16 Mini at the 2019 E3. No release date has been announced yet, but so far R-Type, New Adventure Island, Ninja Spirit, Ys Book I & II, Dungeon Explorer and Alien Crush have been announced as titles.
Games featured:
[0:56] Bomberman series
[1:34] Keith Courage in Alpha Zones
[2:02] Bonk series
[2:45] Zonk series
[3:22] New Adventure Island
[3:55] Legendary Axe series
[4:31] Splatterhouse
[4:51] Ninja Spirit
[5:18] Shockman
[5:52] Military Madness
[6:14] Neutopia series
[6:37] Alien Crush, Devil’s Crush
[7:02] Blazing Lazers
[7:43] Super Star Soldier/Soldier Blade/Final Soldier
[8:13] R-Type
[8:24] Magical Chase
[8:48] Gate/Lords of Thunder (CD)
[9:45] Ys I & II (CD)
[10:17] Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (CD, Japan only)
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Honestly, in the last few years I've just been falling in love with the TurboGrafix library. Ys blew me away when I first played it, Bonk is just pure fun, I've even started to discover new favorites. It's like a whole world of classic games I missed out on, it's like finding a hidden box of treasure
Devil's Crush is easily one of the greatest pinball games ever made. That soundtrack is absolutely godlike and the visuals are outstanding. It's also on the Genesis under the name "Dragon's Fury" if you don't have a Turbografx...
I recommend Slamtilt on the PC. Holy hell it blew me away
I LOVE Devil's Crush. Played Alien Crush a LOT, and DC is even BETTER!!
I still have the code to give a two player game a shit ton of lives and devil's crush was definitely better of the two.
Alien Crush with 3 floors wouldve been better than Devil's
Knight Rider Special on TG16
"I'm sure I deliberately missed your favorite game just to spite you..."
*mentions rondo of blood*
Nope. You did good.
meh. i prefer Castlevania Dracula X on snes.
@@nunyabaznus7851 That's a very unpopular opinion my friend
@@CONYOADAMS the updated english HD rerelease on PSP, and now PS4 with the requiem collection, are acceptable as well. it's just the TG-16 game that is too over hyped and overrated considering all the problems involved. being Japan only release is a huge problem. plus the fact it's CD based. i never could get it working on an emulator. it took me until 2020 with the TG16 Mini until i could actually play the dang thing legitimately. even on real hardware, its a nightmare from what I've heard. there is the Super CD, the CDRom 2 squared, the "Arcade CD plus alpha omega pie x the square root of the radius", plus the different System Cards required for specific games. it's just an absolute nightmare trying to deal with this antiquated complex hardware, that's breaking down and failing constantly. even CDs themselves don't last forever, and Disc Rot is becoming common with these old systems.
Snes games just play easily and flawlessly. so simple they can even be emulated on 3DS eshop. the simplicity and ease of use puts the Snes version Dracula X over the top, despite being technically limited compared to the TG16 game.
@Zodiac Griller i was specifically referring to physical media. yes, anyone with a PS4 should definitely just buy "Requiem Collection", and play the updated english translation of Rondo. But, when it comes to the PC Engine CD, the whole thing is an absolute nightmare. scratched discs, bad laser lenses, non working hardware, compatibility issues, the fact its in Japanese, so you cant understand the dialogue. Even emulation was a nightmare back in the 2000's. TG-16 emulators didn't even run CD based games. i waited over 10 years to play Rondo of Bl**d, on the Wii virtual console in 2011 finally after years of trying and failing. Dracula X just works, on any emulator, on any hardware. that's all im saying.
@@nunyabaznus7851rondo of blood is overrated because... it's japan-only and CD based??? those things have literally _nothing_ to do with the quality of the game wtf
but considering you censored the word "blood" for some reason, I doubt that anything you say is worth taking seriously.
You can't miss Galaga '90!
It's something I always come back to. It's a fantastic port of Galaga '88, which is the ultimate Galaga game and a must play.
... I guess you did. Can't argue with that.
You may have made the mistake of missing Galaga '90 this time, but it should have been included!
I have it on Virtual Console... Using an auto fire mod for Wii controllers makes it even better
Galaga ‘90 is the bomb. It also has my favorite easter egg: if you don’t bother the little space monsters during the bonus stage and just let them do their cute “galactic dance” in peace, you get a ton of points.
I didn’t even know this was a thing! I love Galaga and this version looks awesome.
Had it on Atari 7800, loads of fun!!!
Military Madness stole scores of weekends from me as a kid. Simple, yet surprisingly deep and addictive strategy goodness
I said the same exact thing when I watched the video
The Keith Courage game is actually based on the anime series Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru (at least in the Japanese version). Blazing Lazers is actually a tie-in game to the movie Gunhed (the game was also known as Gunhed in Japan)
in name only the game has nothing to do with the movie at all really
"I'm sure I deliberately missed your favorite game, just to spite you!"
HAHAHA yeah I lost it there!. Same stuff I would be saying if/when I ever start my own channel.. people in the comments are brutal.
@@daren79 That's the perfect way to unarm them.
The way he passive aggressively trolls the comment trolls on his videos is perfect.
Ordyne was a good side shooter IMO
@@HighFiveGhost50 perfect,yes..and so just!
As a little girl the Turbografx was always really mysterious to me. British gaming magazines and shows would occasionally mention it, but it never saw an official release here so was a pricey and niche system for import gamers only. The Neo Geo was similarly mysterious, but I'm not sure whether that was released over here or not, either way it was an absurdly expensive console few people would get to play.
The Neo Geo, as far as I know, is basically a home arcade. So it was crazy expensive. The TurboGrafx was just unlucky though. It launched before the SNES and Genesis which blew away anything else at the time
The UK newsagents in my small town would import EGM and Gamepro magazines bizarrely, so I used to stare in awe at the screenshots of Turbografx games, until one day my friend took me round to his friend who had imported a PC Engine of all things! That was the only time I ever got to play on an original system, the game that stood out for me was called Gunhead, only years later did I discover that Gunhead is in fact Blazing Lazers! =) And Yeah, Neo Geo game prices lol!!
Hi pixel girl :) what's your favorite game
Zayaan, I do get _why_ the Neo Geo was so expensive, it was an incredibly impressive machine hardware-wise that was literally arcade spec since it was a modified version of SNK's standard arcade platform, yeah 😊 I gotta say though, after delving into emulation I'm disappointed. Not in the capabilities of the machine, but in the fact 99% of the game library appears to consist of sports games or scrolling shooters (none of which that I've seen grabbed my attention as much as my most beloved shooter series/games, Thunder Force, Gradius/Parodius, and GG Aleste II, really should look into the other Alestes). The PCE fairs a little better, most of its game library hasn't so far gripped me (again far too many generic shooters) but I'm far more interested in diving into the part of its game library that strays outside shooter territory. Or, even, discovering truly excellent PCE/Neo Geo shooters! But my first shooter was Thunder Force IV, so there's some stiff competition in my brain 😄 Live long and prosper, my fellow gamer nerd! 🖖
Zenithfilms, you have actually TOUCHED the holy console relic? Le gasp! 😂 That is genuinely pretty cool though. My current favourite PCE game is only a "by default" thing, Dynastic Hero, since I adored its Mega Drive counterpart (Wonder Boy in Monster World) as a little girl.
Great games. I bought TG16 for $35 back in 1992. I loved the system. Underrated and under appreciated at the time.
Finally Rondo of Blood getting some love! One of the Best classic style csstlevanias if not the Best 😍
Rondo of blood is my favorite old Castlevania by far.
luís eduardo pereira mine too, super castlevania IV on SNES second.
Mine are Castlevania 1 & 3, Super Castlevania IV and Belmont's Revenge.
The question that begs to be asked is where to find the ISO to run it on a PCE/TG16 emulator
Can’t get it running on retroarch...
@@grubber1072 There is a way, I don't remember how but I have it up and running. Even with the translation patch. Sorry I can't help but the answer is out there, if I could figure it out you can. If you have given up by now, try again the game is worth it.
Bloody Wolf was great military shooter that was similar to games like Contra and Imari Warriors.
Don't you mean Ikari Warriors, not Imari Warriors? But yeah, Bloody Wolf is a great game for the PCE/TG16. The port was only one-player (unlike the arcade machine) and only gave you one life but added more of a plot as well as inventory items and health upgrades and reordered most of the stages after stage 2 and added a new, open-ended area.
I got bloody wolf and last alert around the same time both great military games.
Better than, you mean to say..
@@arlenburgin2392 no, according to linguistics, the way a person speaks, is correct. Academic institutions have placed those rules on us.
I love Bloody Wolf. Still one of my favorite games and I bust it out every now and again.
Always happy to see the TurboGrafx getting some love.
Thanks for taking the time to watch
"I know it's pinball, so it's not all that exciting..." TO EACH HIS OWN MANNNNN! :) Great vid!
Final Lap Twin and Moto Roader, in addition to many of the games you mentioned, were a part of my morning ritual before school. I would wake up extra early just to get some time in on my brother's TurboGrafx16.
Veigues Tactical Gladiator! I played this game for hours with my brother. Your character gets so overpowered later in the game, it's so rad
That is probably the hardest game on the system
Man, played a bunch of these over the years thanks to re-releases on the Wii and PS3 (on the Japanese PSN, Sony had PCE titles as the third line of "Classics" alongside their digital PSOne and PS2 games for download. I swear, making a fake JP region account for that system should've been mandatory - so much great stuff available to play thanks to that having no region lock). Always a treat to see someone show some love for titles like Shockman, Lords of Thunder and Soldier Blade :) Great list, dude!
wait what? Sony had games other than there own on PSN? What the heck?!
An amazing underappreciated system.
Definitely underappreciated. I'm not familiar with it at all, besides on UA-cam.
It was kool. I played bonks but system was 2 much money
graphics and sound as good as the snes, yet came out 4 years earlier. The problem was it was too expensive for the US and Europe. like the neo geo. The expensive TurboGFX did well in Japan since in 1987 Japan was relatively rich.
But odd to think that at the same time Amigas and Ataris were selling well in Europe at the same high prices. Europe consumers were more tuned into computers, they didn't really know what consoles were until the cheaper MD and SNES came.
I saw it getting played in a store when it first came out. I thought it looked so cool so I told a friend maybe I can convince the parental to get me one. Then someone said it was seven hundred bucks. I then laughed and said there goes that plan.
Very much. My best friend as a kid had one along with the cd system and I would loan him my SNES for his Turbo. I loved it.
in a weird way the CRT arcade style grahpics on the TG16 sometimes look better than genesis and snes. more arcade looking anyway. freakin sweet system
Exactly my thoughts as I tour the Mini's library. Feels like being able to walk down a dark and forgotten corridor of the Galloping Ghost Arcade from home. So many incredible shooters!
It supported less, but larger sprites and had more onscreen colors than the Genesis. It helds its own fairly well.
TG-16 graphics always struck me as having bolder colors.
Well said! If it weren't overpriced and bad marketing then everyone who bought snes or megadrive would've bought this system.
It's interesting to note that this was Sega Genesis/MegaDrive biggest competition before the SNES came out in the U.S. And we all know how that ends.
Vigilante
Samurai Ghost
Riot Zone
Galaga 88
Bloody Wolf
Just tossed in more great TG-16 games.
Pinball games for the Turbografix 16 are incredible! Castlevania for the Turbografix 16 made my jaw dropped!
Like victor ortiz come on. Walk it off Marty!
Aero Blasters is another a fantastic shoot-em-up arcade port worth mentioning. It's also on the Genesis as Air Buster.
Parasol Stars. Spent WEEKS on that game when I was like 8.
Love your picks. Ys Book I & II, Military Madness, Blazing Lazers, Legendary Axe.... This system had so many amazing early titles.
Alien/Devil's Crush were two of my favourites. Incredible music!
Love every single game you mentioned here!! The sounds that come out of the TG16 are so original and nostalgic. Just last night I was playing a lot of Blazing Lazers and Air Zonk attempting to beat them. Came close on Air Zonk, but I struggle on level 5 of Blazing Lazers still. Great video, brother!
I only struggle on Area 9 (the final level) of GunHed (the same game as Blazing Lazers). Area 5 is actually pretty easy.
Yes I'm glad your showing turbografx love I hope you review more game from it and super CD games as well 😁
I just picked up Super Air Zonk on your recommendation and look forward to playing it. Formation Armed F is a great shooter based upon a 1988 arcade game that has captured the gameplay of the arcade well. Enjoyed your video, well done.
Im so excited they are making a mini turbografx 16 . look it up people
The games are watered down compared to the SNES if you discount the shooters.
Had a lot of fun playing the TG16 at a friend's house way back in the day, and funny enough the three games I remember most you mentioned in this video. Bonk, Bomberman, and my personal fave co-oping Shockman was so much fun. Great vid as always!
Your reviews are always so enjoyable to watch. Thanks a lot for making these great videos.
Thanks for taking the time to watch
One of my favorite TG16 games was Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble 3
My first experience with it was playing it on an NES emulator, then I got the Gameboy version. I'm glad it's been announced for the TG16 mini.
Another great vid. Rondo of Blood is AWESOME :-)
I'll post recommendations for other games here:
TurboGrafx-16:
Cratermaze - A puzzle game in which each stage consists of a maze filled with various enemies and items. The player must collect all of the keys on the stage to open the exit door while avoiding or eliminating enemies. The primary method of dealing with enemies is to dig holes; if an enemy walks into a hole, they are momentarily trapped and the player can then fill the hole to kill the enemy.
Final Lap Twin - A racing game in which there are two basic modes: Grand Prix and Quest. Grand Prix consists of a multi-race points championship, while quest mode functions like a racing RPG and has the player travel from town to town finding challenges and winning them to gain money and special items to improve the player's car. As the player moves around the game world, which is presented in an overhead view, the player will encounter random challenges, much like random battles in a traditional RPG.
Side Arms - A shoot-'em-up in which the player controls a Lieutenant, named Henry, and is armed with crude weaponry and protective jump-suits. The player must save the earth from the mercenary invaders of Bozon by reaching Bozon’s territories in order to wipe out its forces hidden in caverns and lurking in underground seas, before destroying the main invasion ship.
Timeball - A puzzle game in which each level is composed of a number of tiles and each of them has a part of a pipe (straight or angular) on it - except one which is just a black hole. On one tile, a red ball starts rolling and all tiles it rolls through become blank. The goal of each level is to let the ball roll through all pipe parts without meeting the hole or a blank tile, and the player has to ensure this by moving the tiles around.
TurboGrafx-CD:
Buster Bros. - An action game in which the goal is to destroy the balloons which bounce around the playfield, and this is accomplished by shooting hooks which travel upwards, and blow up any balloon they touch. Depending on their size, they either split on two smaller ones, or evaporate if they're at their minimum size. Apart from balloons, some levels also have barriers that have to be destroyed with the hooks, as since they often block access to the balloons.
Cosmic Fantasy 2 - A role-playing game set in a mixed sci-fi and medieval world. Player-controlled characters can learn and use various offensive and healing spells; however, enemies are restricted to physical attacks. Characters join and leave the party frequently, as dictated by the plot; the party may contain up to four active combatants. Story progression and overworld exploration is linear; dungeons are usually fairly complex and maze-like.
Final Zone II - A shoot-'em-up in which the player controls a soldier on some levels and vehicle on other levels. As a soldier the player dons a "New Age Power Suit" and has a choice of playing several different characters, though it is only a one player game. The object of the game is to fight an enemy army led by "ZOD,", and killed some of the player's commando friends, and there are various armaments and shields the player can pick up along the way.
Lords of the Rising Sun - A strategy game set in 12th century Japan, where, after the player's father has been murdered, the player sets out on a quest to become Shogun to restore the honor of their family. Troops will be moved through the big map of Japan and fight enemies in action sequences, such as a Gauntlet-like fortress attack or defending against a Ninja assassin. If two troops collide, a battle might ensue in which the player will have to use all of their strategical wits to guide their men to victory.
Splash Lake - A puzzle game in which each round consists of a single screen play area composed of tiles suspended over a lake. The player controls an Ostrich that can crack the tiles and cause them to fall into the water. The goal is to use this ability to make all the bad guys on the screen fall into the water.
Great comment, thanks
You're welcome! These aren't super expensive either, as they can be gotten for less than $40 I recall.
Can we stick World Court Tennis in there since we're recognizing the greatness that is Final Lap Twin? THANK YOU for mentioning the Crush games, I played those for hours. Wish I still had my TG-16.
Also, if I can chime in SNES drunk:
Chew Man Fu
Flash Hiders (ok, it's a LITTLE goofy)
Legend of Hero Tonma (Ninja Spirit for the younger kids)
Parasol Stars
Silent Debuggers
Just trying to tidy up the list with the most fun stuff to play.
Cosmic Fantasy 2.. Totally forgot about that one. I used to have it. Man. Memories.
Thanks for the recommendations
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu is a must-play. It doesn't do anything crazy, but it does everything it sets out to do really, really well. Great graphics, good tunes, and tight controls.
Agreed.... Jackie was much better than any Bonk game imo...
Graham Bell GREAT game indeed!
*The NES copy is expensive too!*
Lords of Thunder was my first Turbografx game. I scooped it up on the Wii virtual console after hearing how good the soundtrack was and it made me a BELIEVER, holy shit. I'm sad I missed out on a lot of these gems, but I'm really looking forward to the mini console coming out so I can finally experience a bunch of these!
Great video, by the way. Really well-edited and you summed up your points on each game very succinctly :)
Had a turbografx as a kid. Dead moon and Impossimole were my two favorites.
Haha great vid, and you featured most of my fave games! Shout out to Spriggan though (Compile) which you left out DELIBERATELY to spite me :(
Awesome!!! Love the Turbo GrafX ! Definition of the pinnacle of retro gaming! Thanxx! Loved the video
I remember a rpg/racing style game called final lap or something to that effect. They had some really neat ideas at that point that really set themselves apart but I suppose the turbo just wasn’t accessible enough (or have the backing) to push on. Great video.
I know it has been a while, but you are on target. Final Lap Twin had a RPG mode where you traveled the world Dirt Track racing, upgrading your car, and random encounters were races. The "Dad" in the game I always thought looked like Hulk Hogan.
Dungeon Explorer, Moto Roader, Vigilante, Bloody Wolf, and a game where you control a power ranger type character were also awesome
Probably your most appropriately titled video that i can recall .... Mad Love for Hudson, NEC, and the Turboooooo! 😻
Don't know about best, but there was a tennis game that had an RPG option where you could fight random tennis matches to get money, buy better tennis gear, and seek out bosses. I really enjoyed that back in the day.
World Court Tennis :)
@@deionbeeldenstormer7498 That's it! Man, I'd grind so much just to afford the next tier of... sweatbands I think? It's been a long time...
Still have my TG16 and it works flawlessly. Have adventure island , all the bonks , both Alien Crush and Devils crush and more. Love it.
That sure is a killer selection! The only essential game you've missed was Dragon's Curse, which is Hudson's *superior* version of Wonder Boy III, but yeah, other than that one these are pretty much all the must play titles for beginners in the TurboGrafx's library, but of course there are tons more great games on the system that people should get to after playing these...
Some of them include the fighting games on the system, sure the PCE wasn't exactly known for its fighters, but it has a fair few which are pretty competent, if not outright great! There's obviously Street Fighter II, which is good in any of its 16 bit console incarnations and you can't go wrong with any of them, and then there's Asuka 120% Maxima Burning Fest which might just be the best fighter on the system, even with Street Fighter in there!
The thing about Street Fighter and Asuka 120% that sets them apart from the other fighters on the system is that neither of them requires the Arcade Card (which was an expensive 2MB RAM expansion for the CD unit), whereas pretty much every other (good) fighter on the system does... But still, 2 extra megs mean that they could make near arcade-quality fighters on the system! Which include World Heroes 2, Ryuuko no Ken (Art of Fighting), Garou Densetsu 2 and Garou Densetsu Special, all of which are pretty damn close to their Neo Geo counterparts and totally wipe the floor with their SNES and MD counterparts!
Other than Fighters the system also has the best version of Cotton, Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Star Parodier (Star Soldier's answer to Parodius), some neat Sega ports like Space Harrier, Outrun and After Burner II (The latter is perhaps the best 16 bit version), and of course, the Konami shooters, you know the ones, Gradius 1 and 2 (the 2nd one is on CD and it RULES!), Detana TwinBee (This game is Beautiful!), Parodius Da and Salamander...
Great comment, thanks
No problem! Thanks for replying ^^
Asuka 120% rules
hmmm..i might have to disagree with u here senpai....the tg16 version of wonderboy 3 was no better than the sega master system version. honestly i was disappointed only in the sense that i expected the tg16 to blow away the sms version. as far as the sega system goes....wonder boy 3 is a defining system title, on the short list of best titles for sega. on the tg16, it loses alot of luster and is honestly a mid tier port.
although we disagree on this small issue..the third paragraph of ur post is nothing but truth!!!!! i would argue that space harrier is better on the tg16 (since the genesis version is a weak sauce SEQUEL to the original) and as far as i am concerned after burner on the tg16 is definitive for the era (genesis version has downright broken controls). arguments can be made for either version of outrun...but the tg16 take is an admirable effort. Gradius, twinbee, the og parodiuus, and salamander are nothing short of AWESOME ports.
i might give the salamander NES version the win for nostalgia and some extras thrown here and there...but the TG16 version of that game is NOTHING to scoff at and is a competent port and arguably the choice for shooter heads in the sense that its slightly the fastest version in terms of game speed. Def the version for hardcore score peeps.
While it's true that Wonder Boy 3 is one of the better SMS games (if not the best) that doesn't mean the TG-16 version isn't superior...
Sure, the graphics may not be that big of a step up, and the gameplay is pretty much exactly the same, but the TG-16 has 2 major advantages over the SMS original: It runs at 60 fps whereas the SMS original runs at 30 fps (25 in PAL regions) which means the Turbo version scrolls a bit smoother and is slightly more responsive, and the soundtrack in the Turbo version is the best one by a wide margin! And that is including the HD remake's soundtrack! Heck, the sound in general is far superior on the Turbo, for one it doesn't cut out half of the instrumentation whenever sound effects need to be played (all thanks to it having more sound channels) and the sound effects themselves are a lot more varied and interesting-sounding! They can use a lot of different waveforms to synthesise their sound effects with after all...
Honestly, in my opinion, the only reason anyone would ever have pick the SMS version over the TG-16 one is nostalgia... The only other argument I've seen in the SMS's favour was "The character designs are better", which is a subjective thing that I can respect, but even that argument is flawed, because you know, the overwhelming majority of the character designs are exactly the same between the two versions, except they have more shading on the TurboGrafx so they look better in there...
Not to discredit the SMS original, as it is still worth playing, but calling it "better than the TG-16 one" is just not right... To be fair, the whole "better sound" argument is just as subjective as the character designs one, but that doesn't change the fact that sound effects don't clip-out the instrumentation in the Turbo version...
I recently completed the Turbo chip (HuCard) set. I need 11 more games to finish the CD set... someday I’ll get there. This was a good list, but you should have mentioned Dungeon Explorer I and II those are unique entries in the series. Bloody Wolf is worth a mention, as are CraterMaze, Chew Man Fu, Cadash (even though it has a Genesis port, this is the only port where you can play all 4 classes), Dead Moon, JJ and Jeff, Legend of Hero Tonma, World Court Tennis and Final Lap Twin (which both have an RPG mode), Sinistron, Veigues Tactical Gladiator, and even World Class Baseball is a fun little arcadey baseball game.
Love your work man never stop!
I just recently bought a Turbo Grafx 16 console. I was a big Sega and Super Nintendo guy myself back in the day. Thanks for the share.
My favorite system of all time,I still play it daily! 💯
Watching this channel always makes me wanna have a great rest of my day
Oh man next time please do the intro with tuuuurbo drunk! That will be awesone! And yeah my favorite game is castlevania rondo of blood! That game blow my mind on nintendo wii! Nice video as always!
Nice ‘gar profile pic. 👍
same I love rondo, by far the best castlevania game ever imo (I havent played sotn tho so I could be wrong)
PCEEEEEEEEEEEEDRUNK
Nope, you covered my favorites and then some. Thank you for this awesome video
You definitely missed Parasol Stars. That's probably my favorite game on the TG16.
i love all these videos- it shows how many forgotten games are good. thanks man!
It's 2018 , and I still have the this hand held game system, and with some games. I love it because I watched TV on it as it was not mentioned here. 👍
The Turbo Express is AWESOME!!! Portably play the literal EXACT same games as your home console? Almost UNIMAGINABLE at the time, and a real money saver, to boot!!! I love my Turbo Express!!!
I played the one "Thunder" game that was on SNES - Thunder Spirits. it was one of those games my parents got me for my birthday out of nowhere that ended up being amazng.
I remember in 94 when i got my 1st Turbo..at a yard sale for $50...
"I'm sure I deliberately missed YOUR favorite game, just to spite you" hahaha I got a good laugh out of that one!
It's a shame the TG16 got squeezed out and overshadowed by the competition.
Im so glad you mentioned the Bonk series! I didn’t know there were so many other Bonk games. I beat Super Bonk on the SNES and fell in love, it was an extremely fun game with original and fun pixel art!
Final Lap twin was amazing with its quest mode. Also Jackie Chans adventures and Yo Bro
My guy! This is the comment I was looking for! I literally had all three of these games, and final lap twin was such a fun play through for me! I searched this completely blacked out dark cave for hidden items in the over world map for hours finally finding some racing glove upgrade haha! Beating that game was so satisfying because it was the only game of its kind. An RPG racing game?! I was blown away.
Dude. JACKIE CHAN!! Love that one..
Legendary axe and Bomberman '93 are awesome games. Thanks for showing them some love.
Keith courage was awesome ; I had a turbo graphx 16 😁
My brother got a Jaguar for Christmas. I convinced him to return it and get the Turbo. Best decision ever.
Avner Chaim Gate of Thunder and Lords of Thunder were my 2 favorites.
I gotta say i was pretty let down when i picked up the TB16 and Keith Courage was my intro to it. Fortunately i had JJ & Jeff to at least get me through to my RType purchase!
I remember playing some of these games in electronic stores because nobody I knew had a console. I just got a PC engine mini and absolutely love these games.
Dungeon Explorer.
Highly underrated game.
Loved this game and played it to death. I had a turbo grafix and pretty much all of the American released games sadly I sold it all in the 90s 😭
The music alone is worth the price of admission.
Hell yeah
Plus The Super CD Dungeon Explorer II. this is another great one!
This will be the perfect list to try and find TurboGrafx games. Thanks a million, bud
Thanks for watching
My dad: spends months on Blazing Lazers, and no matter what, can't get past the fourth level.
Me: finally decides to play the game... gets to the 7th level my first try. My dad was... Annoyed. Lol.
Ah... Memoires.
As stated above my dad was addicted to the slot machines on JJ and Jeff..Weird freaking game and I'm glad we beat it together
Pretty short memoir.
Awww Splatterhouse. I was the only kid on my block with the Turbografx-16 and I loved that game. The gore was crazy for back then.
Also Dungeon Explorer should have got a mention I think. Thanks for missing MY GAME!
serene.velocity I feel you bro, it's my favorite game too :D
Yeah, Dungeon Explorer 1 and 2 are certainly my favorites. I mean sure it's a Gauntlet clone, but the music is far more awesome.
Mine too. Loved the Dungeon Explorer games. The music is still epic. The TG-16 version looks and sounds better than the SFC version, which is called, uh, Magical Beans.
Loved playing DE with a couple friends. Motoroader was another fun "rowdy group of friends" game
B00M, there it is. How can you miss one of the best Gauntlet style games ever made. Essential for any PCE collection. And if your big on the CD quality music, play the sequel.
Personally I highly enjoyed Galaga 90 from the turbo Graphics 16 which I had downloaded to my Wii sometime ago. Bomberman 94 was definitely the game I played the most though because of its really fun multiplayer and on the weed and make it really easy to set up five players on that.
I was the only kid I knew who had one of these growing up - it was more or less a hand-me-down by way of a Christmas present from my older cousin, but it was super cool having a system no one else had. The only problem was that my mom GAVE IT AWAY when I got an SNES the next Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't agree more with you about Blazing Lazers. That game still holds up today.
Best soundtrack of its time... Dungeon Explorer!
Dungeon Explorer and Parasol Stars both deserve to be on this list. The TG16 was a great little console that was criminally underrated back in its day, no thanks to the terrible marketing for it in North America.
"i'm going to avoid ports," 5 seconds later, "this bomberman is one of the best ports"
R-Type was another port but one of the best ones and it was essentially a clone of the arcade and I think they added an extra level, too.
No, I think you nailed it. I can't think of anything you missed. I don't know what filters you are using, but all your videos always look better than I remember them...
It's just the Retroarch emulator + OBS
06:22 Neutopia 1 came out 2 years before Zelda Link to the Past. It looks obvious that Link to the Past copied Neutopia, not the other way around.
When did Zelda come out for the NES?? BOom. Mic drop
This is my favorite series from you
Best game is rondo of blood. You didn't mention the arcade card and sapphire :p
My best friend bought the TurboG16 when it first came out. While he went to work, I would play most of these games you showed. Then he bought a PS1 and I played that all the time. Later I bought my very first PS2 while stationed in Japan. And the DreamCast came out. My roommate had it and I would watch him play it.
1:46 So that's where the Frank transformation sequence from Pat the NES Punk's Flea Market Madness series comes from!
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LHCGreg I had the same realization!
My mom worked at the cafeteria for NEC's office in the 90's. I was in elementary school back then and there was a nice man who used to hook us up with games for super cheap. TG16 games had a totally different vibe compared to other systems at the time. Dungeon Explorer was my favorite game.
Bring on the mini!!!
Yea i know right i want one so bad
Splatterhouse is my most favorite game ever. I found out about it like a years ago, and i still play it
Bonks revenge and r-type were and still are awesome
Yes!! Thank you so much. Its the video I didn't know I've been wanting.
God I hope we get either a collection or a "classic" for turbo games.
F*ck yeah, my top 5 must play non-CD games
-Bonks Revenge
-Soldier Blade
-Bomberman 94
-Air Zonk
-Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Also, speaking of graphics, I would argue the PC Engine "Super CD" format was ahead of both the SNES and Mega Drive, although, yeah, the original PC Engine was like a NES with 16 bit sprites and a lot more colors....and the original CD format was a tad better.
You know what's interesting? The only thing the SCD added was RAM, and it wasn't even that much more RAM than the stock SNES had...
Everything is still being processed by the same 8 bit CPU and all the other specs are still the same, no extra sprites, no extra layers, no nothing...
So you know, the "NES with 16 bit sprites and a lot more colours" you just described is totally capable of being ahead of the SNES and MD even without the CD ;3
I mean, the graphic capabilities don't change from one format to the next, it's all a matter of how devs worked with what they had... Although to be fair, the CD did allow them to store a lot more graphics than a cart could...
Air Zonk forever!
Even though it never got released where I live, I brought one over from my trips to Japan and it's an amazing little system. I'd love to get a TurboExpress one day so I can play Air Zonk, Blazing Lazers or Alien Crush in the train though.
Bloody Wolf is a great game for the Turbo
Nice to see the Turbografx getting some love on your channel ! As for titles left out to spite me (^_^), the Turbo CD edition of Loom (Lucasfilm adventure classic) and Compile's Spriggan (shmup similar to MUSHA) are also well worth checking out. Additionally Ys IV has a full fan translation, and is different (and widely considered superior) to the SNES version.
Neutopia has some really cool music.
Also, Zelda clones are awesome!
That Castlevania Rondo of Blood is so underrated! Great video.
Great picks!! I love all these games! TG16 was extremely underrated...
I totally agree! if only they brought over more games from Japan here.
I found Devil's Crush on the Wii Virtual Console, and ever since I take a little time every winter marathoning it.
“Ninja Spirit” reminds me most of “Legend of Kage” for the NES.
The only complaint I have about Ninja Spirit is if you got powered up it could get a bit choppy or flicker. That game could really do with a modern remake with some beefy graphics, a lot of other games are being redone (see: Ghosts and Goblins).
It’s so cool that so many of these are on the Wii U virtual console!
As usual, extremely solid and well made video. Really like the look of the Legendary Axe games, might have to emulate them!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
Couldn't agree more with your top pick. In Japan GunHed was revoluntionary for the time of its release in 1989 and I'll never forget the time I first saw it.
star parodia is my favorite
Blazing lazers is the GOAT for the turbo. I remember the first time playing this as a kid and just being blown away by the soundtrack and the gameplay.