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Portal Forza 4 and a demo for some Spelunker game or something... All on the 360 because all my other systems are packed up. Moving soon.

Yeah, looks like Dragon Spirit to me. I was more familiar with the TurboGrafx version, but pretty much the same as the video ed1475 posted.

If you check my post above, the link has a video where he briefly talks about how they are hooked up and the switches.

It depends on the game for me. There are games which play great on a smart phone with a touch screen and some that don't. Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies are two great examples of games that do very well. However, there are lots of games that try to use an onscreen d-pad or something that just doesn't work that well. I've played games where I've said to myself, "Man, if I had an actual controller, this game would be great." The graphics, sound effects, music, powerups and everything else can be great, but if I can't control it worth a damn because the onscreen d-pad covers up part of the game and gives me no tactile response, I won't play it.

There was an article about this on Gizmodo a while back. Here's the link and one of my comments on it. http://gizmodo.com/5911767/a-historically-awesome-gaming-setup-with-every-console-in-existence?comment=49926291#comments

Pretty much any scrolling shmup type game. I like them and keep buying them, but I haven't beaten one since I was in high school. R-Type, Raiden, Darius... you name it. I love the gameplay, but just never that good at them.

I'm not sure if it was the first, but it is one of the earliest I can remember. I remember I rented the NES, too because we didn't have one at the time, but the game was Tiger Heli.

I really don't think any of them are ugly. Perhaps I'm just weird, but at some point I've found myself holding up consoles and just looking at them. I've probably done this with every console I've ever had, from the TurboGrafx to the NES Toploader to the Xbox. I do the same thing with controllers. Just looking at them and enjoying them for the technology that they represent. Perhaps it is my appreciation for what they do that makes me consider them all to be pretty good looking. Like how a farmer might think a tractor is beautiful because he appreciates it as a tool.

I enjoyed the video. I especially liked the stop-motion style video to show off the consoles (and show connectors and such). I watched it this morning and it has been a while, but I do remember laughing out loud at one part... can't remember which part now... perhaps I'll watch it again. How many videos have you guys done? I guess I could just go look you up on the tubes of you, but I'm a bit lazy sometimes. I did notice at the beginning that there seemed to be a lot of "That's right" comments. I've wanted to get a SuperGrafx for quite a while. I've owned a TurboGrafx since the early 90's and a Jaguar for about five years or so now. I never really compare them much, but I do play the Turbo quite a bit more. Looking forward to the next vid!

Hi, my name is Eltigro, and I use turbos.

I've never thought about this but it is an interesting question. I don't have any expansion systems like this, so I haven't had to ponder it before. It makes me think of another question along these lines: If you have a system like the FC Twin, that plays games from more than one system, do you count it as 1 or more? (For example, if it plays SNES and Genesis games, it is one system or two?)

Systems I've had, the pack-in's they included, and my opinion about their significance: I'm not including anything that I got as part of some lot of loose games with a system on eBay or whatever... A brown Pong clone with attached controllers: The console was the pack-in, so yes, we got the system for the pack-in. lol 2600 with Combat: I didn't have much choice in the matter as I was too young to have a job and didn't make the decision to buy it, but Combat was really fun to play with my step-brother. The tank games were the best IMO, but we played it less than other games we got for the system. (We had a 5200, but it was really my step-brother's and I don't remember much about it other than playing Ms. Pac-man on it. But my dad and step-mom divorced around this time and so I'm not going to comment much on it...) NES with SMB/Duck Hunt: My sister got this for me for my birthday. Best gift she's ever given me. Seriously... nothing has remotely come close to this since. But anyway, I didn't care much for Duck Hunt, not much depth for me although it was fun to play with my Dad who liked to hunt (deer, not duck). SMB however was amazing. I wasn't that familiar with the game prior to receiving it, but it was great fun. I also got several other games (Castlevania, Metal Gear, and 1943) at the same time, so I can't really say that it was my favorite game right away or the one that made me want the system, but it was a great game nonetheless. TurboGrafx-16 with Keith Courage: I never played Keith Courage before getting the TG-16 and only played it rarely afterwards. I had, however, played Blazing Lazers quite a bit (there was a machine set up at an electronics place in the mall) and the TG-16 at that time had a coupon for a free game with system purchase. Just had to send in the receipt, UPC from the box and a little form where you picked out a game and a second choice game. I think KC was very colorful and had some good music (sound effects were kinda weak though) and made for some good screen shots, but it was pretty shallow and just not that much fun. I played it till I completed it and never really thought much more about it. The other games I got when I got the system (Blazing Lazers and Legendary Axe) got much more play time. Playstation with no pack-in?: I honestly don't remember what if any game came with my Playstation. I don't think it had one, but if it had some demo disc or whatever, I didn't spend enough time with it to make any lasting memories. This was the first system that I bought completely on my own with my own money from my own job. (The TG-16 was a Christmas present.) I bought it more on the strength of its library. I had rented the system and games and played on in-store kiosks quite a bit. At the time I bought it, the only current gen competitor was the Saturn. I worked in electronics at Target at the time and remember having 20 feet of game display and I think only 4 feet of that was Saturn stuff. When the N64 came out, we had 4 feet of 64, 12 feet of Playstation, and 4 feet of Saturn. At some point, the Saturn stuff got moved to a back endcap and finally to clearance (when, in hindsight, I should have bought one). Game Boy with Tetris: This one was a great score. Someone had returned it to Target claiming it was broken because it wasn't in color. Dumbass. The store couldn't sell it as new, so they marked it down and I got it on the cheap. It was the original big sized one with the clear case. Tetris was the game I played the most on it, but I also bought Zelda and Castlevania for it. Nintendo 64 with Mario 64: Okay, I didn't buy this one, but my brother-in-law did. I loved the game and definitely would have bought the system for it if he hadn't. I spent a lot of time at my sister's house playing this game and, before he got it, spent a lot of time at the kiosk in Toys R Us playing it. Playstation 2 with Gran Turismo 3 A-spec: I got this one in early 2000 I think. I was one of those guys who held off on getting a Dreamcast (even though I drooled over them in stores in '99) in order to get a Playstation 2. Sorry, but yes, I killed the Dreamcast. Anyway, I had really enjoyed the Gran Turismo games on the first Playstation and this pack-in (along with the PS2's backwards compatibility since my Playstation was slowly becoming inoperable) clinched it for me. I think they had several options for the PS2 including no pack-in, the GT pack-in, and another one. I wish I had kept the box, because it was kinda cool looking, but I wasn't into keeping boxes back then. GameCube with Zelda Windwaker and Zelda Collector's disk: The pack-in was the deciding factor in this one. I didn't have much interest in the GC because I was so much into my PS2, but I liked the look of the new game and wanted that collector disk. I never did get many more games for the system. I think I have about five or six total disks and one of them is Sonic Mega Collection which is really just Genesis games so it doesn't really count. Genesis Model 2 with The Lion King: Yeah. What. It was a NIB Genesis on eBay. Yeah, I got it on eBay, but this is exactly what you would have gotten in the store when new. Would I have picked the Lion King bundle? No, probably not. But it was a good deal and also got a Menacer (and its game) and the 6-game cartridge. Wii with Wii-sports: The game is the reason we got the system. I had been looking to get a newer system for a while, but didn't talk about it much because my wife (now ex) wasn't too keen on the idea. One day we're out shopping and I get her to go into a GameStop with me (I know, shut up). I showed her the Wii kinda casually then went off to rummage through the PS2 used game bin thinking she would play with it for a bit and give me time to search for a good deal. After a little bit, she came over and said, "Do you want to get one?" Thinking she was talking about the game I was looking at, I said, "Kinda, but there's not many here that I'm really that interested in." "I mean the Wii." "What?" "A Wii, do you want to get one?" "Are you serious?" "Yes." "Now?" "Yes." "Yes." "Well let's ask about them." They were out of stock. I was crushed. I felt my moment of opportunity passing me by. Back at home, empty handed, I started looking up Wiis online to see if there were any deals to be had. I found a deal on one website where you could pick some extra games as a bundle or whatever and showed it to her. She decided it was a good deal and we ordered it. The game she wanted was Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. When we divorced, I took all the game systems. Later I bought a Wii for the kids to play at her house and gave the Harry Potter game back. XBox 360: I don't remember if this came with anything special. I wanted one and I got one. Again, this was while I was still married and I'm surprised I was able to get it. It didn't matter about a pack-in at this point. I got it late and so there were a ton of good cheap games available.

It started kind of close, then widened, and now has closed again. At first with games like Pong, the home versions were pretty close. It's not that difficult to put up three moving rectangles on a screen. Then they started to widen. Look at Pac-Man compared to the home versions of the time. I think they probably got about as far apart as possible in the late 80's to early 90's. This is the NES/SMS/7800 to the early Genesis/TG-16/SNES generations. Then there started to be some closing as home systems started catching up. Systems like the NEO GEO and Dreamcast were really pretty close to the SNK and Sega arcade boards of the time (with the NEO GEO being the exact same as the arcade board). And now, the PS3 and XBox 360 versions are pretty much indistinguishable from the arcade versions.

No idea if you can find it for emulation, but Gate of Thunder for the TurboGrafx-CD or TurboDuo is an awesome side-scrolling shooter.

I worked at Target when these went on clearance. I bought one, but never got any games for it. I just used it to play the solitaire game. Then the touch screen quit working and it was pretty much useless to me. I tossed it.

Yeah, the line itself was pretty funny, but then, in a bit, it shows the guy go back to his game...

Yes, dust covers most of my stuff... oh... wait... never mind...

I don't have a lot that I still really want... I've wanted a TurboGrafx-CD or TurboDuo for quite a while. While my collection is nowhere near what I would call "complete" or "extensive," there are several that I'd like to get, but I'm not actively shopping for anything right now. How many of you think, "I don't really have that many video game systems" but then see people's mouths drop open and look at you like you're some kind of weirdo when you tell them how many you have? lol...

Hooked up: XBox 360 Dreamcast Genesis (model 2) NES (top loader) Jaguar Wii PS2 slim Gamecube TurboGrafx-16 On a shelf in the bedroom: Nintendo 64 SNES Sega Master System Saturn PS2 fat XBox Nonworking: NES toaster Handhelds: GameBoy Advance DSi (pink... what...) DSiXL (Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary)

I like my GameCube and still have it hooked up. Even though I have a Wii, I prefer to play GC games on my GC. It just doesn't feel right otherwise. The controllers are comfortable and I like the overall look of the console. Although it might not be as powerful as an Xbox or PS2 (and some will argue that), it does graphics just fine and has many good games. I think the handle is useless, however. I set it up and then it doesn't really move. It's not like I'm carrying it around like a lunchbox. But this isn't something that is a negative against the system, just don't find it necessary. My current GameCube is black, but my first one was Purple. It met an untimely fate when lightning struck my apartment complex. Although my TV survived, the GameCube, my stereo, and my air conditioner were all fried.

Possibly Final Fantasy VII. It was honestly one of the first RPG's that I really tried. I worked at Target in the electronics department when it released and got a free promotional t-shirt for it. (I still have it btw, as well as one for Resident Evil 2.) I say "possibly" because I can't remember if I actually beat it or not. But if not, definitely Phantasy Star II. Yes, I know, PSII came out quite a while before FF7, but I didn't get it (or my Genesis) until well after FF7 came out.

See, for every overpriced item, there are deals to be had. That is a sweet deal for sure. I agree. I would have paid that for the booster alone. (assuming working condition of course)

Looks really cool. Nice find! I never find anything good at garage sales. The gun looks like a paintball marker and was definately made before the please-officer-don't-kill-me orange became the norm. How's it play?

Watching the video in the second link, when he opened the box, I couldn't see the console. It was like it was the same color as the cardboard and therefore camouflaged.

PC-Engine/Turbografx game that is a ripoff of Link to the Past sounds like Neutopia and Neutopia II, also. It was never released for the Genesis as far as I know. But I guess you already decided it's the Centy game. I had never heard of Crusader of Centy so I looked up screenshots and it does look very similar.