Turbo Graphics 16

[+doctorclu]

Recently got a Turbo Graphics 16 with 8 games. Just had to get a power supply for it, and I did.

 

All I have to say is, man I am sooooo glad I was busy with college during early nineties.

 

Just speaking honestly, while the 8 bit era had nothing to write home about in the graphics department, it at least had snappy gameplay.

 

The 16 bit era seems to be a lot of time with "pretty" graphics and the maintaining of that verses gameplay.

 

Get beyond that and into the later half of the 90's and the gameplay and graphics seemed to merry up better.

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

[jboypacman]

Recently got a Turbo Graphics 16 with 8 games. Just had to get a power supply for it, and I did.

 

All I have to say is, man I am sooooo glad I was busy with college during early nineties.

 

Just speaking honestly, while the 8 bit era had nothing to write home about in the graphics department, it at least had snappy gameplay.

 

The 16 bit era seems to be a lot of time with "pretty" graphics and the maintaining of that verses gameplay.

 

Get beyond that and into the later half of the 90's and the gameplay and graphics seemed to merry up better.

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

 

What games do you have for it? There are some really good games for the T-16 so i was just wondering what games you did play.

 

I play the import side of it with the PC Engine and man i love it there are just a lot of good games for the system and yes there are some crappy ones too lol.

Edited November 13, 2009 by jboypacman

[Reaperman]

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

I've never been a huge tg-16 fan--with only two exceptions

1. final lap twin, a racing rpg

2. devil's crush, that nice horror/pinball crossover.

Edited November 13, 2009 by Reaperman

[cvga]

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

I've never been a huge tg-16 fan--with only two exceptions

1. final lap twin, a racing rpg

2. devil's crush, that nice horror/pinball crossover.

 

The Turbo is one of my favorite systems although I agree that it has its fair share of duds. I'm in definite agreement with Final Lap Twin and Devil's Crush being two great games.

 

I also really enjoy...

Bomberman (5 player mode is fantastic)

Galaga 90

Military Madness

Y's Book

Bonk's Adventure

Bonk's Revenge

[jboypacman]

Devil's Crush

Galaga 90'

Bonk's Revenge

Blazing Lazers

Legendary Ax II

Splatterhouse

 

All great games for the T-16.

[+doctorclu]

Whoa they had Galaga 90 for the system? Nice!

 

I think I've seen Devil's Crush and it does look cool. Reminds me of Starball on the ST (which was one of the few games I liked on the ST when I had one, aside from Battle of Britian:Their Finest Hour)

 

I played Legendary Axe 1 & 2, D&D Order of the Griffith, A racing game, and another space man platformer. It was all.. ugg.

[wccw mark]

legendary axe is awesome.great fun.never played the d&d order of the griffon game.always wanted to.

[BrianC]

Whoa they had Galaga 90 for the system? Nice!

 

It's actually Galaga '88, just renamed for the US TG-16. Very sweet game, though. The TG-16 also has a very nice version of Klax.

[atarian63]

Recently got a Turbo Graphics 16 with 8 games. Just had to get a power supply for it, and I did.

 

All I have to say is, man I am sooooo glad I was busy with college during early nineties.

 

Just speaking honestly, while the 8 bit era had nothing to write home about in the graphics department, it at least had snappy gameplay.

 

The 16 bit era seems to be a lot of time with "pretty" graphics and the maintaining of that verses gameplay.

 

Get beyond that and into the later half of the 90's and the gameplay and graphics seemed to merry up better.

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

Yep, it was really a great system, we used to sell them and sold lots of japanese Hucard adapter to obviously play all the japanese titles. Nice system. Turbo Express was the best handheld unit. Had a tv adaper as well.

Enjoy!

[Zeptari1]

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

 

 

I still have my ST and enjoy it, so if/when your sick of the TG-16 you can send it

my way!

 

-rick

[jboypacman]

The PC Engine is the way too go guys i telling you and outside of the RPGS most games are in english and Yeah Galaga 88'was the import release i have it and it is a very nice port one of my favorites really along side Devil's Crash(Crush).

[nonner242]

I always enjoyed:

 

Ninja Spirt

Soldier Blade (AWESOME)

Blazing Lasers

Air Zonk (One of the Best shooters)

Military Madness

Vasteel

and afew other I cant seem to recall..

 

Great liitle system.

[nester]

Yeah, I love my Turbo Grafx. Of course it's actually a Turbo Duo so that I can play the cd games. I just wish the games weren't so expensive. They used to be real cheap back when I first got the system and didn't have much extra spending money. It's just not as much fun getting games one at a time.

[cvga]

I was surprised how much Turbo games are going for!

[swlovinist]

Recently got a Turbo Graphics 16 with 8 games. Just had to get a power supply for it, and I did.

 

All I have to say is, man I am sooooo glad I was busy with college during early nineties.

 

Just speaking honestly, while the 8 bit era had nothing to write home about in the graphics department, it at least had snappy gameplay.

 

The 16 bit era seems to be a lot of time with "pretty" graphics and the maintaining of that verses gameplay.

 

Get beyond that and into the later half of the 90's and the gameplay and graphics seemed to merry up better.

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

 

 

Graphics and Gameplay are all relative and subjective. Also, I tend to play an entire library of games before I judge a system. The Atari Jaguar is a good example for my own judgement. I had some limited games for the system, so I thought the system was not that great. Now that I almost own an entire US library, I see that there were many gems on the system.

 

As for the TG-16, one thing to remember is that the US only got a small fraction of the most excellent import games. There were well over 700 titles overseas, many being intense shooters and excellent arcade ports.

 

As for the US system(which I am 7 away from a US HuCard and CD set), there are a ton of excellent titles that have both excellent gameplay and graphics. I do have to admit that the US case artwork for the games is TERRIBLE.

[Eltigro]

I can't believe I'm getting into this conversation so late!!11oneonewon

 

Anyway, point 1. Personal Pet Peeve when it comes to the TG-16. Spell it right. It's on top of the system. No offense, I expect an intelligent person to automatically spell things the correct way and the system's actual spelling is incorrect but...

 

Point 2. As others have said, there are some great games for the system (of course I'm biased, I mean, look at my profile pic!) Blazing Lazers (another misspelled title), the Zelda ripoff Neutopia and sequel Neutopia II, great versions of R-Type and Raiden, Devils Crush, Galaga '88, Military Madness (that spawned sequels on several systems), Splatterhouse was one that I never really cared for much but it is generally well liked and has had sequels on other systems, Bonk's Adventure and the ensuing series (most think the second or third is the best in the series and one of the best for the system). Then if you were lucky enough to have the CD-ROM add-on (a first for consoles), there were titles such as Y's, Gate of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, Loom… and if you have a way to play the PC-Engine CD-Rom titles, there’s Dracula X (considered by many to be the best 2-D version of Castlevania that isn’t one of the pseudo-RPGish Castlevania/Metroid smashups like SOTN).

 

Point 3. I forgot, actually.

[yuppicide]

Splatterhouse!

 

Devil's Crush was a great game.

 

I really liked Bomberman '94.

[+doctorclu]

Recently got a Turbo Graphics 16 with 8 games. Just had to get a power supply for it, and I did.

 

All I have to say is, man I am sooooo glad I was busy with college during early nineties.

 

Just speaking honestly, while the 8 bit era had nothing to write home about in the graphics department, it at least had snappy gameplay.

 

The 16 bit era seems to be a lot of time with "pretty" graphics and the maintaining of that verses gameplay.

 

Get beyond that and into the later half of the 90's and the gameplay and graphics seemed to merry up better.

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

Yep, it was really a great system, we used to sell them and sold lots of japanese Hucard adapter to obviously play all the japanese titles. Nice system. Turbo Express was the best handheld unit. Had a tv adaper as well.

Enjoy!

 

Someone mentioned I spelled the TG-16 name wrong. Apologies, worked to change the title of this thread but Atariage had phased out the edit function.

 

And the Turbo Express, sounds interesting, might have to look into that.

 

I managed to play a bit more of Legendary Axe and a got a bit more into the games. Overall, the TG-16 sounds interesting enough. Sounds like if I wanted to invest a lot of money (like so many other game systems) there would be some great gems to try out.

 

I'll take your words for it, and will talk a bit more kindly when people ask about the TG-16 saying "Well not one I dug into much, but other people tell me...."

[Sonic R]

I am partial to my Turbo… I have had the system since it's infancy - I spend my birthday money on it in the spring of 1990. there are many other good fun game on it which do not get much talk about…

Cratermaze

Chew-Man-Fu

World Court Tennis

Parasol Stars

Moto Roader

Cadash

Veigues Tactical Gladiator (made by Game Arts of Lunar and Grandia fame)

Cyber-Core (like Dragon Spirit)

Legend of Hero Tonma

Somer Assult

 

these games offer great and entertaining gameplay… the Turbo had more struggle to compete with the Super Nintendo and the Genesis, but bring fun and entertainment games - of which I enjoy today as much as I do almost twenty years ago!

[atarian63]

Recently got a Turbo Graphics 16 with 8 games. Just had to get a power supply for it, and I did.

 

All I have to say is, man I am sooooo glad I was busy with college during early nineties.

 

Just speaking honestly, while the 8 bit era had nothing to write home about in the graphics department, it at least had snappy gameplay.

 

The 16 bit era seems to be a lot of time with "pretty" graphics and the maintaining of that verses gameplay.

 

Get beyond that and into the later half of the 90's and the gameplay and graphics seemed to merry up better.

 

But wow, the Turbo Graphics 16 reminded me on why I got rid of my Atari ST.

Yep, it was really a great system, we used to sell them and sold lots of japanese Hucard adapter to obviously play all the japanese titles. Nice system. Turbo Express was the best handheld unit. Had a tv adaper as well.

Enjoy!

 

Someone mentioned I spelled the TG-16 name wrong. Apologies, worked to change the title of this thread but Atariage had phased out the edit function.

 

And the Turbo Express, sounds interesting, might have to look into that.

 

I managed to play a bit more of Legendary Axe and a got a bit more into the games. Overall, the TG-16 sounds interesting enough. Sounds like if I wanted to invest a lot of money (like so many other game systems) there would be some great gems to try out.

 

I'll take your words for it, and will talk a bit more kindly when people ask about the TG-16 saying "Well not one I dug into much, but other people tell me...."

Try the 2 pinball games, devils crush and Alien Crush.They were really amazing for the time and stand up well. There was a genesis version of Devils Crush which is good however a bit out of proportion and not as crisp as the TG-16 version. If you like pinball these 2 are really something!

[malducci]

If you think it's so "ho-hum", please sell it to someone that can appreciate it. Thank you

[roland p]

Currently, I am playing 'Die-Hard'. It's a top-view (like ikari warriors) shooter. Its game-mechanics are a bit weird, but somehow, I'm hooked to it.

[Skylark68]

I just sold my TG16 recently. The system was pretty decent and I enjoyed Legendary Axe, Bonk 1 & 2 and Aero Blasters (with 2 people). Outside of that though the games weren't all that great.

[malducci]

I just sold my TG16 recently. The system was pretty decent and I enjoyed Legendary Axe, Bonk 1 & 2 and Aero Blasters (with 2 people). Outside of that though the games weren't all that great.

 

No?

 

I'll try to list some good games and not try to repeat what you've and other people have posted/listed.

 

Shmups:

 

Blazing Lazers

 

Super Star Soldier

 

Solder Blade

 

Cyber Core

 

Air Zonk

 

Sinitron

 

Raiden (better port than the SNES and Genesis versions)

 

Dead Moon

 

Magical Chase (Yes, it's really expensive -_-

 

Dragon's Spirit

 

Ordyne - a so-so cute'm up. But still fun

 

Rtype - an awesome port with better music than the arcade version

 

Psychosis

 

Fantasy Zone - I'll list it, but I'm not a big fan of Fantasy Zone in general.

 

Sidearms - I love this version. It's insane/difficult near the end. Get this version if you don't have the CD addon or all-in-one Duo system. The CD version of this game also comes with a selectable remix version with totally different levels/graphics/etc and such.

 

 

Almost all the shmups on that list are worth owning and are great/awesome shmups.

 

 

 

Some other good non-shmup hucards:

 

Ninja Spirit - great side view action by irem. One my top US TG16 hucard games.

 

Bomberman '93

 

Bloody Wolf - Data East 3/4 top down all out action run and gun. Awesome music and one long game. Love it.

 

Bravoman - fun little superhero platformer (arcade port). You attack with stretchy arms/leg/head.

 

Cadash - great port of the arcade. Redrawn graphics with lots of colors onscreen in areas. Has all 4 players to pick from like the arcade.

 

Cratermaze - a bomberman -ish style of game. Not sure what to classify it as. It's not a puzzle game. Like BM but you dig holes and re-bury them.

 

Devil's Crush - the much better sequel to Alien Crush. And my favorite pinball video game of all time.

 

Dungeon Explorer - 3/4 top down action adventure. Up to 5 players at once too. This is a fav. Not much questing, but a lot of action. Great music too.

 

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu - Side view action/platformer. This game is awesome. The music is great, controls spot on, everything. Love this game.

 

JJ And Jeff - side platformer. This is pretty decent game and challenging. It's just that the japanese version gets more praise because the US version is censored.

 

Keith Courage In Alpha Zones - the pack in game. Side view action/platformer. This game is extremely simple, but some people like for that. It's colorful, has a super strange story, and can be had for cheap.

 

Legend Of Hero Tonma - Side view action. A port of irem's arcade version. Pretty decent IMO.

 

Military Madness - Legendary futuristic strategy game for the TG16. Takes place on the moon. (There's even re-released version for cell phones)

 

Neutopia 1 - The original Zelda clone. This game is awesome if you liked the original Legend of Zelda.

 

Neutopia 2 - An upgrade of the original Neutopia in all areas. But the style remains the same. 3/4 top down zelda style adventure, but now with towns

 

New Adventure Island - An awesome-awesome version of Hudson's Adventure Island. The first stage starts of simple, but this game is a delight. Side view action/platformer.

 

Parasol Stars - What needs to be said about this!? And yes, it's better than the Amiga version (which is a port of this version). This version has more colors onscreen and better music, etc.

 

Samurai Ghost - Side view action game. This game seems to have an either: like it or don't care for it appeal. It's decent, but I've never beaten it.

 

Shockman - I love this side view action/platformer. In Japan, this is the second game in the series. IIRC, it also has shooter stages.

 

Somer Assault - View weird game. It's a type of shooter, but you're a spring that sticks to a wall and you crawl around on the walls (yes, has bosses too). Very unique game.

 

Space Harrier - Great port of the arcade, but the voices for some reason really suck. Strange considering the TG's strength in that department.

 

Splatterhouse - Oh man, this game is awesome. Side view action. It's an awesome port of the arcade. This game needs no introduction/explanation.

 

Tiger Road - Stay away from the US version. Yes. Get the Japanese version over this one. They took out a ton of the enemies to make it "easy" for us N/A'rs. Lame.

 

Time Cruise - I'd put this behind Devil's Crush and slightly ahead of Alien's Crush. It's a good video pinball game.

 

Turrican - Never buy this version. I thought it was the crappiest version, but it's just as crappy as the Genesis version. They released it as a 2megabit cart when most games were 4/6/8 megabits. WTF? Also sounds like they just turned a few sound channels into square waveforms. WTF? Crappy ass sound. Well, unless you're a Turrican freak, avoid this game.

 

Veigues Tactical Gladiator - Side view action. EGM best described it as "a drunken ice skating robot". Not far from the truth. If you can find it for cheap or reasonable price, pick it up. It's not super, but it's decent. It just gets a little too hard in the later levels. Hint: chest "shooter" weapon is the most powerful weapon you have.

 

Victory Run - This game is tons of fun. A little racing game. It's a very early title and the graphics are very simple. Doesn't really look like a 16bit console title, but still... it's a lot of fun. You can find this for cheap usually.

 

Vigilante - Meh. It's a near perfect port of the arcade from what I can tell. If you're a fan, definitely pick it up. Everyone else, eh...

 

Chase H. Q. - I've never played this game. I've heard good things about it though. Think Outrun but as a police car. Yeah, you get to shoot at other cars and chase/catch the bad guy for the stage.

 

 

And these are just the Hucard games, and the just the US selection. If you've got a Japanese hucard converter, there are lot more hucards to be had and usually no japanese required to play these shmups/platformers/fighters/action/etc style games. Parodius and Street Fighter 2 alone are worth the effort of finding a hucard converter or getting your console modded, but they're are a ton of other hucard games too.

Edited November 16, 2009 by malducci

[roland p]

I want to add that boxy-boy is the best sokoban port I've seen.