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Gregory Brant
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Quote from: Gredler on 02/10/2015, 03:33 PMHi everyone I'm Greg from San Diego CA USA. I found the site through atari age, and am quickly becoming addicted to reading the forum's threads. Such a wealth of information, I really appreciate it being available and for everyone's contributions. Thanks for allowing me to join, and to partake!

I got my TG16 on super discount at a "Woolworths" here when they were liquidating systems and my parents considered it a good deal. I played the heck out of it as a kid, because it was a major upgrade from my NES at the time. I initially only had Bonk and Vigilante, but later got Pac-Land, Parasol Stars, Tail Spin, Bonk's Revenge, and Fantasy Zone. The included Keith Courage was fun, but too difficult for me as a kid and I never got far in it. Recently I unpacked the old console to try out some games I picked up from other forums, attempting to see what I had missed, and it sparked a new fire of wanting to try more and more that I had missed.

The first game I tried, which I am sickened that I had missed as a kid, may surprise you - TV Sports Hockey. I am a huge hockey fan, and was amazed by the graphics and gameplay, especially considering the year. This game is as good (or better, in ways) as the EA games, and makes me wonder if they had used TV Sports Hockey as their reference when building their game. I had a blast playing it, so I figured I should try out some more commonly considered good games, and I picked up Legendary Axe. What a blast that game is, and again I can't believe I missed it as a kid. I am getting more and more excited to see what else is out there I may've missed.

Unfortunately my Fantasy Zone, Parasol Stars, and Pac Land games were taken by a visitor when I was young, so I will need to replace those if I want to play them again. I have already picked up a loose cheap copy of Pac Land, that game is... interesting. Once I got acclimated to the odd control setup, it was actually kind of fun and weird.

I am currently considering picking up a PC-Engine Duo or -r -rx so that I can get import copies of hue card games to save on costs, and play all regions of CD based games - none of which I've ever tried.

This site is really inspiring, and it's great to know that there's such a cool community supporting the console that I used to consider weird and obscure, but apparently I wasn't the only one around singing it's praises. Thanks again, and I look forward to getting to know you all.
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Hockey, game development
Quote from: Gredler on 03/05/2015, 03:54 PMI've worked a lot with Unity at my last job where we used it to ship a big budget IOS game for Zynga.
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Quote from: Gredler on 03/15/2018, 07:08 PM
Quote from: OldRover on 03/15/2018, 03:26 PMLooks like we have an official release date for the game... at least let's hope it comes through in time. :D April 12th, the day before MGC'18 begins. Fingers crossed. :D
So awesome, congrats team Henshin Engine!

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