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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Have you LOST any auctions lately?]

Why isn't this topic in General Discussion?

Because to noobs TG-16 and eBay are so intrinsically linked they might as well have put eBay's logo right between "HUCard" and "HE System".

And believe it or not, there are a lot of people that consider ebay and "auctions" synonymous.
I lost a bid at a live auction on a box lot of cd's that had some ps1 and turbo games in it. But nothing worth breaking the bank over.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Completing every turbo game 24/142]

If you can go it to options and up the number of lifes I'd allow it, but if you have to put in a code I'm going to say no. Is the game really that hard?

Yeah, I always thought so. The last trek to Gomez is balls

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: List of Stores That Sell Turbo Games]

Rhode island has Time Capsule in Cranston and Toy Vault in Warwick
There is a flea market in Cumberland where the retro booth gets turbo games once in a while

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Have you LOST any auctions lately?]

I bid $18, and it ended at $19.50.

If it makes you feel any better, that doesn't mean that the highest bid was $19.50 - for all you know it could have been a lot higher. That's the way eBay works, the final bid is only ever a few dollars higher than the second closest bid.

Believe me, I've been trying to explain this extremely simple concept to average people for years. Its just not possible.

Oh trust me I get it. 18 was as high as I was going. With shipping it was 22. If it was boxed, I would have gone a bit higher.
I also can't believe I can't find It Came From the Desert for under 30, no box. Ugh

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Have you LOST any auctions lately?]

I also lost the Addams Family for NES. I bid 18, it ended at 35. Trust me, that one I got over quickly

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Completing every turbo game 21/142]

What exactly is meant by "no cheats"?  For instance, I want to dominate Addams family, but that game is nigh impossible without the 79 life code. Do I qualify?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Have you LOST any auctions lately?]

I was recently outbid on Last Alert and I'm bitter. I bid $18, and it ended at $19.50.

Dick.

[General Gaming / Re: The Guardian Legend]

Just today I passed right over it at a charity shop. I never played it, but have come across it quite a bit.

I decided to get Xexyz instead. Same thing, I have never played it before and found out that I should have bought it long ago. It's pretty fun

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The Brag n' Boast Thread]

Yeah, you missed it; he linked to a scanned PDF:

here is a PDF, you may want to increase it to 150% in order to read it.
/retro/scan.pdf

They also have an iPad app that lets you buy back issues. This is from 2010
But just like all the mags that cover retro, they never give turbo any airtime

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The Brag n' Boast Thread]

here is a PDF, you may want to increase it to 150% in order to read it.

dotsandloops.com/retro/scan.pdf

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The Brag n' Boast Thread]

some nice set-ups in here.  I love the store display wall.

Anyway, here's some of mine...

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And while we're "bragging", here's me in the GamesTM publication...

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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

So I don't think my $5 offer was excepted either...


Hi my friend !

I'm thinking about accepting your 5$ but I would feel like a thief.
Please, keep the 5$ and only pay for the shipping, as a bonus I will send you all my collection of rare games. I bought all of them from a clown for 5$ + shipping.

Let me know if you are still interested.

- martindap

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Are the "RPGs" on the TurboGrafx16/CD worth playing?]

balance seemed to be a problem for working designs in general.  I have heard two theories...one, they made games too easy at first, but then realize it and just spike random areas.  Second was that development was very fragmented and didn't quite come together as seamless as needed

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Which announced but unreleased Turbo game are you most disappointed about?]

oh, I believe it was at least "teased".  I'll try and find the mag I saw it in

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

everybody on this board should send him a $5 offer.
just sent him mine.

oh, and he has hero tonma for 450, complete.  

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Which announced but unreleased Turbo game are you most disappointed about?]

I haven't read the entire thread, but did anybody mention Strider?  Or was that a load of crap from the beginning?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

300/400 and no poster???? Dumb.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Are the "RPGs" on the TurboGrafx16/CD worth playing?]

Vay is very frustrating. I just got the second orb. it's literally a grind-fest.

Uh oh, that doesn't give me much confidence. I just found the first orb and it wasn't so bad, but now you have me worried.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Best TG-16 / PCE 2D Platformers?]

Addams Family.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Are the "RPGs" on the TurboGrafx16/CD worth playing?]

Personally, CF2 is one of my all time favorites. I'm terrible at RPGs, but this one kept a good pace and never became too frustrating (Im looking at YOU Exile 2!).

I wanted to like dragon slayer, and I still want it for my collection, but the lack of spell animations really turned me off. Enemies just flash no matter what type of attack.

As for non-turbo RPGs, I recently started Vay on sega cd. Another working designs title, but is almost like a parody of the genre. Plays similar to CF2 from what I've completed so far (about 3 hours in).  I'm really enjoying the laughs when least expected.

[General Gaming / Re: My non NEC stuff]

Ugh, this thing brings back terrible memories. I had high hopes for it and picked one up with 15 games for $100. What a piece of shit. No backlight makes it impossible to see and the blur was worse than OG gameboy. I threw the whole lot out in the garbage and the trash man wouldnt even take it

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Top 10 rarest Tg-16/Duo games released in America]

I guess it needs to be coupled with the frequency that they become available too.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Top 10 rarest Tg-16/Duo games released in America]

Rarity is actually objective. The numbers tell the story. Do we know how many copies of these games were sold (or even printed)?

Like, is beyond shadowgate truly rarer than say magical chase?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Top 10 rarest Tg-16/Duo games released in America]

Hard to find in the wild at all and very expensive everywhere else: Final Fantasy VII = rare (low supply) and sought after (high demand) game.

FF7, really? Didn't it sell like 10 million copies?

Yeah, I see it regularly for around 15 bucks

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?]

Bonk. It was on display to try at a JVC store before release. Sealed the deal.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: My Turbo Top 10]

I'm glad people have enjoyed it. I wasn't sure if I was going to get ripped to shreds for it.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Grafx games drop off the Virtual Console]

The home brew channel solves all of these problems

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Top 10 rarest Tg-16/Duo games released in America]

Exile II: Wicked Phenomenon

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / My Turbo Top 10]

I built this small site as a labor of love to my top 10 Turbo CD games.  You will certainly not agree with all of them, deal with it.  

Instructions:
1.  There is ONE place on each screen that you need to click in order to advance
2.  Follow the not-so-difficult clue on each screen
3.  You can try refreshing each screen if things don't seem to look or work properly.  I suck at web design.

http://www.dotsandloops.com/bestgames

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

I've been looking for a pick-up-and-play RPG the last month and came across Vay for sega CD. Great fun, leave it to working designs to fill that hole!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

this weeks haul...

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[General Gaming / Re: What should be my next NES/Famicom shmup acquisition(s)?]

Section z

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

And the Sega genesis, CD, 32X my cousin sent me came last weekend.

I fucking love Night Trap

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

not today, but recently...

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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Duo...What went wrong?]

The SNES and Genesis cost $200 less. That's pretty much all that mattered.

Honestly, I bet if Turbo was the ONLY system on the market, they still couldn't get out of their own way.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Turbo Duo...What went wrong?]

Does anybody else think that a big mistake was made when the Duo launched with all the killer apps?
To give away Bonk 1 and 2, GOT, Y's, a chip (in my case Ninja Spirit), and pre-load Bomberman really was a nail in the coffin.
One of those games, (my vote would be GOT) alone could have been packed in, but all those was just crazy.  It's hard to understand what the purpose of the Duo was in the first place.  Same tech as 4 years prior, the brand bleeding cash, and still nothing invested in localizing the games which I think ultimately posed too wide of a gap for the spoon fed "radical" generation of kids.
Also, I HATE the damn coupon book.  Too many turbo boxes hanging around out there with a cut out UPC.   

What else do you think accelerated the Duo's demise?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Who's the new guy?]

Welcome to the forums that's quite a collection you've got, how long have you been collecting?

I have had the Duo since release, and collection was much bigger about 10 years ago.  I got out of it a bit and sold quite a few when I saw what they were getting on EBay at the time.  Glad I held onto what I did, only 1 or 2 regrets on the games that are gone.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Who's the new guy?]

Let me start by saying hello and let you know that I have been looking for a forum like this for quite some time.
Turbo discussions are hard to come by and are often tucked away in general video game forums where you're lucky if people post once a month, and it's generally drivel.

I found this site from a google search looking for a Gate of Thunder CD insert.  Needless to say, I found a great one here and wanted to sign up.

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time scouring thrift stores and flea markets hoping to find a score of 'bob.  Recently found a TG16 and 7 boxed games for $35 (couldn't pass that up).  However, my time spent on gaming has significantly reduced so that's one place I certainly need improvement.

Anyway, here is my small collection if anybody cares to see it (looking for Dragon Slayer and It Came from the Dessert).
Thanks for having me!

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