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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Some CD games]

Anyone?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / We're never getting any more TG16 games on PSN, are we?]

 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: So what do you think Gamestop would give for rare retro games now?]

You realize anything they have sitting around in a warehouse is likely to just be some scratched-up/refurbished disc only PS1 sports titles and ex-rental cart-only shovelware N64 games with mauled labels, right?

Go to your local Gamestop and look at what they have for PSP, PS2, and Gamecube, if your store is fortunate enough to even still carry those. You'll find a bunch of awful, unwanted games in terrible condition. Anything worthwhile will have been picked through and bought months if not years ago at this point. 99% of anything worthwhile they had for old systems would have been sold when they firesaled this stuff originally.

As for trading in old stuff, I remember how they once tried to sell me a PS2 copy of Silent Hill 2 where some fucktard had carved his name into the data side of the disc. Or the time as a kid they sold me two obviously broken NES games that were missing large chunks of their casings.

Gamestop has never card about the condition of the item you trade in (and neither did FuncoLand for the majority of its existence in these parts). Hell, the local stores around here still throw away cases and manuals on older games under a certain price in the name of saving space, apparently unaware that doing so will make it even harder for them to sell those games (because people like me wont buy an incomplete game). They'll give you the same $2 store credit for your Earthbound regardless if its CIB or a mangled, yellowing, stained, sticker-cover, missing-label POS with parts of the casing missing.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / I don't see what's so great about the Bonk games]

I've tried repeatedly to get into them, but they just never click for me. They just feel like generic 90's platformers to me.

For those of you that enjoy them, what is it about them you like?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB: Some CD games]

Looking for complete (other than the outer cardboard box) US copies of these:

Exile 2
Vasteel
Ys 3

Let me know what you have.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

Well with flash carts and cd burning you can always illegally play a game until you save up enough funds to feel like buying it.  I don't mind spending the money on these games but I like to spread it out, makes it more fun that way.  If you want disappointment you should get into collecting arcade pcbs.  It's next to impossible to find most pcbs for sale and if you're lucky enough to find them up for sale they'll cost a small fortune.  And they'll be sold by some random person with zero history who could be making it up for all we know.

I got out of PCBs about a year back due to the absurd amount of space, money, and effort involved in keeping them working.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

I'm an incredibly insulted that you think I am phishing for pity sales.

I don't read Racketboy (never heard of them), nor do I spend all my free time searching for video games and tracking price fluctuations in the market. Up until recently, I never bothered with eBay. I buy 90% of my video game stuff locally, where most things I want can still be had for $20 and under. The rest I buy off of forums for not much more.

I bought my Turbo stuff 4-5 years ago off of a guy on one of the other forums I go to (for prices that were in line with every thing else at the time). Since then I'd been occupied with other systems (namely all of the ones you listed) as well as other interests. This is the first time in years I've put any real effort towards looking at the TG16 stuff, so yes, frankly I am shocked and disapointed by how shitty the pricing is for this system (just like I am for SNES stuff).

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

What are some of the good US CD and Super CD games that wont cost me $50+?

Besides the pack-ins that originally came with the Duo, all I have are Cosmic Fantasy 2, Exile, and Lords of Thunder.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

Great, so the three games I actually really want (Exile 2, Vasteel, and Ys 3) are all outside of my price range.

Heck, the reason I got interested in TG16 stuff in the first place was because I found out back in the late 90's that Working Designs released some games for it.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

I like being able to read the text in games, which is why I try to buy US when I can.

I'm reluctant to spend money on something I'm not completely satisfied with when the poor-man's option of flash carts and the even poorer-man's option of emulation are readily available (which it looks like I'll have to rely heavily upon. ).

Maybe for some of them you will, But MUCH of the library is reasonable.  And deals are out there.  I just scooped up YS III for $36.   Many members here have also had great sucess with garage sales, flea markets, thrift stores and craigslist.

In the 20+ years I've collected games, I have seen TG16 stuff for sale in person twice. One was some crappy sports titles, the other time the store wasn't even selling them, they were immediately putting them on eBay. Southeast MI is a barren place for Turbo stuff.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

I like being able to read the text in games, which is why I try to buy US when I can.

I'm reluctant to spend money on something I'm not completely satisfied with when the poor-man's option of flash carts and the even poorer-man's option of emulation are readily available (which it looks like I'll have to rely heavily upon. ).

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB A few games]

Wow. I'm really starting to regret not buying Ys 3 a few years ago when I saw it for $20.

At the time I was only trying to collect games if they had the outer cardboard box (I figured that way I would save a few bucks since it meant I wouldn't be buying as many games, dumb I know). Since then I've pretty much given up on finding games with the outer cardboard box.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB A few games]

Since I'm pretty new to Turbo stuff, could someone help me get an idea of what fair prices would be for those games?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

Man Turbo prices are discouraging. It's worse than Neo Geo prices.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

Darn. I was kind of interested in Beyond Shadowgate.

How expensive is Dynastic Hero? Is it worth getting that one over the Genesis version?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB A few games]

I don't want to be thought of as that guy that joins a new forum just to use its market section, but there were some games I want to get, and no other forum I visit or store I go to ever sells TG16 stuff, so I thought I'd try here.

I'm looking for complete copies of a few US games. I'd love to get them with the outer cardboard box, but that seems to be even more impossible than just finding games for sale. Anyway, here's a few things I'd love to get:

Exile 2 (I realize this one probably wont happen)
Vasteel
Ys 3

If you have any of those and want to part with them, let me know.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

I like pretty much everything other than sports titles (nothing's gonna top Super Baseball Simulator 1000 and Tecmo Bowl).

I've got a Turbo Duo, so that means I should be able to play any US release, right (at least that's what I've been told)?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Getting into TG16]

I've got a decent mish-mash of stuff. Most of it is packed away in my dad's basement, but I remember a couple of my favorites like Lords of Thunder and that one pinball game. I had some of the Bonk games, but I never played them much. There were a couple of Japanese games too, but they were RPGs or something and I couldn't really do anything in them.

Honestly, I'm down for trying pretty much anything so any suggestions would be welcome.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Wonderboy Series]

I grew up playing the SMS version of Dragon's Trap. Is Dragon's Curse for TG16 enough of an improvement to warrant tracking it down? What's different/better about it?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Getting into TG16]

Hi guys. I just joined this forum after having several members recomend it as the best place to read and talk about TurboGrafX stuff.

Outside of buying one guy's collection a few years ago I'm basically new to TG16. I'd wanted one since the late 90's when I first learned Working Designs had released games for it. Over the years I managed to pick up a couple of them, but Vasteel (the one I wanted to play the most) and Exile 2 have and continue to elude me.

I like what little I have for the system, but I'm tired of playing the same few games. I never see any games for sale locally and practically never on the other forums I frequent (when I do, they're already sold by the time I PM the guy), so it's been hard to find much. Until recently I'd turned my attention to other systems, but now I'm in the mood to play with my Turbo Duo, and I'm looking for some new (to me) stuff to play.
 
What are the good games for the system? What are the bad ones? What are the absurdly expensive ones that I can never hope to own?