The Arcade Experience on Turbo-Grafx 16?
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This weekend did some serious gaming. A friend came over and laid to tape the current world record for Bonk's Revenge in both the points and fastest completion variations.
The records were uncontested - he provided the initial recorded performance. I was blown back to see that of the 6 "Bonk's" related records on the TG-16, only one (Bonk's Adventure, points) has tallied scores. That game is in his sights now...he achieved 13 extra lives at one point in this weekend's performance. I have no talent at platformer games, so it truly was a treasure to watch in my own living room as the VCR rolled.
When that was done we looked through all of our combined TG-16 games; he doesn't have a console but has a Turbo Express. Such a beauty - its a shame that the TV tuner add-on has been rendered useless by recent radiological events.
Anyways, we have plenty of duplicates between our two collections but as I dug through I came across one that struck me as interesting -- Aero Blasters.
This game is espically well suited to my (not one but...) two Turbo Stick arcade style joysticks.
The damn shame is the other accessory pictured above - the Turbo Tap.
I got this dead on arrival years ago on ebay as part of some kind of bundle. I took it up with the seller at the time and he either ended up giving me some money back or a full refund, I don't remember. Anyways, the interesting this is that while the regular points variation for this game is currently unmarked, there is actually a two player variation as well!
So I'm looking into getting another Turbo Tap - and some more arcade-friendly TG-16 games. Got any recommendations? I have about 12 games, my friend more then that. Between us this was the best candidate for some dual-player fun. The interesting this is that both the single and two player variations make specific note regarding no continues being allowed. This game is quite difficult, I doubt even the best player on this obscure title could do well on only 3 lives. My friend set the virgin record at around 7 million (the game is quite generous, his credit lasted about 7 minutes) and I followed at around 3.5mil. I'm going to make a few more attempts, he left the hu-card here so I can continue to try and follow up on his benchmark. But as difficult the game is, its fun to play a mindless shoot fest with the Turbo Stick once in a while. My latest extended performances, both golf games (Power Golf and Jack Nicklaus Turbo Golf), were better suited to the standard Turbo Pad and I wondered as I saw the Orange headed 'sticks' in my heap of controllers if I would ever find a use for one, much less two.
Couldn't have been any luckier.
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