10/31/2023: Localization News - Dead of the Brain 1!
PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion
So Paste just posted an article about growing up with the TruboGrafX-16. It's a bit of a change from the usual articles written by people who discovered the system years later, and I quite enjoyed it.
QuoteTurboGrafx-16: A Quarter Century of Gaming Excellence
By Leigh Alexander
The TurboGrafx-16 videogame system was released in America on August 29, 1989. On its 25th anniversary games and tech culture writer Leigh Alexander remembers what made this largely forgotten machine special.
There's this really easy lie I tell about my childhood in videogames: That I was a Sega Genesis girl. And it's true that when the playground wars were about Mario and Sonic, I picked Sonic—it was the attitude, really. I wanted to be a totally-radical 1990s babe, and Raphael from the Ninja Turtles, if he was real, was basically my model of a man. People still don't know what the Genesis' "Blast Processing" really was, but I was one of those kids who didn't really need to know. I just believed it utterly. I nodded along.
I was trying to be cool on the playground. The fact is, my heart belonged to NEC's TurboGrafx-16, and it still does. When you ask someone what their most beloved machine of all time was, they usually say Dreamcast for cred, but mine is the TG-16, and if I still had my hands on one you'd probably never see me again.
