How did you join the Turbo family?

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jimid2

Quote from: guest on 05/18/2007, 01:10 PMWelcome aboard jimid2 - Opus for President!  Sucks about the ex-wifey and selling the collection, but at least she's gone now and you can enjoy some Turbo action sans nagging.  My standard response whenever somebody tells me to get rid of my Duo is "Go fuck yourself".  It might eventually end a relationship, but better now than after I'm married.
But if Opus is President, who'll pick up the tuba duties in DeathTöngue?!? I dunno that Portney's up to it... ;)

The current mrs. jimid2 is much more amenable to my material idiosyncracies (I tend to collect guitars, too) - she plays a lot of video games and is a musician herself, and as money's no longer the issue, things are much better all around... Today the issue is time; with a house full of teenagers, it can be a challenge to find a few minutes to play anything, not to mention finding a free TV on which to play it, which is why I've drifted away from consoles to handhelds over the past five years or so - almost all my gaming is done on portable systems now.

esteban

As many folks have already said, time is the most limited resource. The only reason I started playing cellular games is because it is the only way I can squeeze a few minutes of games into my daily schedule.

Cellular gaming is lame, but when it's your only option, well, it doesn't seem like the lamest thing in the world anymore.

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Last weekend, when I told my wife and daughter that my dream was to find some TG-16 or Vic-20 stuff at the thrift store we were going to... well, my wife said, "I wish you had grown out of that by now, but I guess it is too late for that."

I laughed and responded, "I suppose so...".

I had been on a rather strict video game diet for the last year, you see: nearly all $$$ went towards fixing-up our home.

Of course, I have never been lucky enough to find a *single* TG-16 item in southern californian or northern new jerseyian thrift stores. NOT A SINGLE GODDAMMED THING.

Even my wife will be happy if I should be so lucky.

OK, now I'm off to mow the lawn.... :)
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Nazi NecroPhile

Quote from: jimid2 on 05/19/2007, 08:25 AMBut if Opus is President, who'll pick up the tuba duties in DeathTöngue?!? I dunno that Portney's up to it... ;)
The country needs penguin leadership now more than ever.  It's no big loss anyway, as they weren't the same after their conversion to Billy and the Boingers.  Just imagine - spandex, eye shadow, and fishnet stockings in the Whitehouse.  Kinda like if J. Edger became president.  :lol:
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SNKNostalgia

My story is a little different actually. I remember seeing ads in magazines and commercials of kids playing Legendary Axe 1 back in 89-90 kind of wanting one. Well, I was always a hardcore Nintendo guy and also played my friend's Genesis which at the time it was pretty bad ass actually. At his house I played Altered Beast, Herzog Zwei and Revenge of Shinobi. Then I the SNES came out and it was all that I wanted for christmas of that year after playing all the great games at another friends house. My dad was a cheap-ass for a Lieutenant Commander in the NAVY. So instead my parents buy me a TG16 that costed $99 with 2 free games being Keiths Courage and Final Lap Twin. I was pissed actually. Then I learned to really like Final Lap Twin and realized I was just stuck with this. Later on I got Cadash which rocked ass in 1992.

After that I havn't jumped back into NEC systems until 2000-01 when I got my a brand new US Turbo Duo from TZD and some Super/Reg CD titles. I felt like I had to get it after finding a copy of the 4 in 1 Super Cd for like $3 at a thrift store in 1998. Now, I am growing my collection somewhat.

I will be honest though, I played the hell out of my Sega CD since 1994 with games such as Snatcher, Lords of Thunder (I actually like this version, the music has a more bad ass band sound even though less colors), Rise of the Dragon, Final Fight CD, Lunar 1 + 2, Cobra Space Adventure, Silpheed and Robo Aleste. As for the CD-Rom2/Super CD games, there are equal amounts of good games on it as well. I just never got a taste of TGCD until after 6 years of playing Sega CD. Hell, I have only played like 5 Turbochip games other than everything on the emulators. I need some Turbochips and Hucards bad though. I have around 10 CD titles now.

Golgo13

I myself, bought my American Turbo Grafx in something like '95 when they were being sold off at toys r us for 50 bucks.  I wanted to get one earlier, but at the time I was busy with SNES, it wasnt until later that I had the money and power to aquire more systems of the 16 bit era, now I have just about everything with the exception of Neo Geo AES, Im not enough of a high roller to build a decent enough collection with that though.

As for the Turbo, I only had about 4 games for it, and spent time collecting for other systems, until recently I bought myself a japanese duo and a region free PC engine GT.  Its probably my favorite system of my collection, has the perfect balance between graphics, gameplay and old school appeal.

GUTS

My parents bought me and my brother a Turbo Grafx for christmas when I was a kid because they were only $50 while SNES and Genesis were still $100+, plus some Toys R Us $10 clearance games like Parasol Stars and Ordyne.  Man that was a good christmas.

Golgo13

I got that same deal, parasol stars 10 bucks, I still have the original cardboard box and the jewel case with the instructions, that was one of the best purchases I think ive made when it comes to video games, because the value of it now is over 100 I think.

GUTS

Awesome, yeah we went back and bought all the $10 games they had over the next few months, but it was only a handful more and they weren't very good- just stuff like Tricky Kick.

SNKNostalgia

Well I be damned!!! I just ask my parents just for the hell of it and they got my system at Toys R Us and apparently the system probably was the same deal at $50 or so. My grandmother bought Final Lap Twin for like $10-$15 or so as well. I am suprised they remembered that. Was this the Christmas right after the SNES came out in August with you guys?

You know what is gay though is that my grandmother bought me a $200 Atari Lynx first model when it came out the Christmas before that. But no, no SNES next year??? Man whatever. I was very deprived of new console happiness untill 1994. Finally in 1996 I got my first job and bought SNES, Neo Geo CD and PSX stuff like mad.

cho_aniki

Awesome, yeah we went back and bought all the $10 games they had over the next few months, but it was only a handful more and they weren't very good- just stuff like Tricky Kick.



           I reckon Tricky Kick is great fun, albeit very tricky indeed.

GUTS

Yeah the christmas of 1991 I think, or was it 1990?  I can't remember which year the SNES came out, I do remember it was right afterwards though.  Toys R Us always had a display unit of every system in big glass cases and I remember always drooling over the Turbo Express and Master System 3D goggles.

Ultra Luigi

One of my bros found it at a garage sale. It came with Final Lap Twin and Keith Courage. I'm guessing he got it around 95 – 97, I don't know when. I heard about this system from reading magazines and I knew someone who owned it in the early 90s. I asked her to sell to me but she didn't want to.

A few years later I found a store that sold TG games so we bought Bonks Adventure and Neutopia. The store was called Treasure Island, and it had a huge selection of systems and games. The owner moved about 4 years ago, his business probably wasn't doing well. A lot of the stuff was expensive.

So now my bro got married, and gave me the TG-16. His wife doesn't like when he plays games. What a dumbass, but good for me. :D He did take his Atari 2600. I hope his wife didn't trash it.

nat

I would never marry anyone who couldn't mesh with my edge-of-your-seat Turbo lifestyle.

KungFuKid

I never owned a PCE when I was young - not all that many people in the UK did at the time. I always had sega stuff, starting with the Master System and then the Megadrive. After joining ebay in 2002 I started filling in the gaps in my master system collection until I had virtually every master system game, system and accessory known to man  :) I needed something else to concentrate on and had always fancied getting hold of a PCE, so I did. Still didn't really know all that much about what games to get etc. and it was only really when I discovered sunteam's PCE software bible that I really got into the system. At the moment, I play using PCE-Duo and have a pretty good mix of CD & Hu-Card games, and getting into the PCE was definitely one of the best decisions I ever made.

Hobo Xiphas

I joined the Turbo family when a shady looking character traded me a copy of Far East of Eden II and Missile Defense 3D for 24 Tele-Games and Combat at my town's midnight game swap in the Cyberpunk Alley.

It was a deal I just couldn't refuse.  Thankfully, we made the trade before the police busted the swap meet.

Keranu

I still haven't played my copy of 24-Tele Games yet, but I plan to soon since the Atari is hooked up! Thanks for the trade again!
Quote from: TurboXray on 01/02/2014, 09:21 PMAdding PCE console specific layer on top of that, makes for an interesting challenge (no, not a reference to Ys II).
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Monster Bonce

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Back in the early 1990s a friend gave me a copy of the first edition of the Complete Guide to Consoles. Of all of the machines in it, the PC Engine really stuck out.

By the way, if anyone has that magazine and is willing to sell it, I'd be more than happy to buy it.

I really wanted a PCE—the games looked brilliant and, I have to admit that, in retrospect, I have always loved the underdog. Unfortunately it cost what would now be about €450 to buy a so-called grey import. Needless to say, I couldn't afford it.

I also remember the TG16 being advertised in American comics, particularly Bonk and Splatterhouse, but for some reason I was never particularly interested in the TG16. Stupid, I know, because it's the same machine but my interest in the PCE was twofold:

- the form factor
- Japanese games

Anyway, in early 1991 my friend bought a Super Famicom. It was pretty amazing and I enjoyed playing, among other things, Actraiser on it, thought it was tough with all of the Japanese text. A while after it appeared on European shores as the Super Nintendo I caved in and bought one. My PC Engine dream died. Or so it seemed.

A little while later, my SF-owning friend was booted out of school for an infraction and we lost touch. With that my interest in these things dropped off quite quickly. Time passed.

In 1998 I was at art school and had just bought a Mac. I discovered the site emulation.net (now emulation.victoly.com) and downloaded a PCE/TG16 emulator and happily played away. I was kind of busy, though, with both college and socialising so I didn't really get into it.

Fast forward eight years and I am self-employed and spend all day researching various things. As a result I spend a lot of time on-line and, well, the mind does wander. I downloaded a PCE emulator again. And Neutopia. Being gainfully employed—or at least no longer being a student—I occasionally find one or two euros rolling around in my bank account and so, in a moment of madness, I went on to E-Bay and bought a PCE, Bomberman and a few other games. I don't regret the decision, in fact, I regret not having bought one back in the day. Still, what could I do? Working class kids could scarcely afford localised consoles, let alone Japanese imports.

Anyhow, there you go—a pointless personal story. I hope it wasn't too boring.