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How old were you when the Turbo Grafx came out?

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PikachuWarrior

05/04/2012, 01:19 PM
"TurboGrafx-16, fully titled as TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem and known in Japan as the PC Engine (PCエンジン Pī Shī Enjin?), is a video game console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16

Just want to get an idea on the ages of our community. If this is off-topic in any way, let me know!

According to the August 29th, 1989 US release, I was...4.5 lol. But my family went the more "mainstream route" in terms of consoles, and we started with the Nintendo and then Gameboy, Genesis, PS1, and so on. Unfortunately, that caused me to miss a lot of the niche games and other consoles, but I have most of them now! Hard part is building up the library at a reasonable rate to cost ratio.
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Sadler

#1
05/04/2012, 01:24 PM
4 days shy of 9.

BigusSchmuck

#2
05/04/2012, 01:48 PM
Old enough.

Nazi NecroPhile

#3
05/04/2012, 01:50 PM
I won't even be built until 2942, but I'm gonna say 12.
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city41

#4
05/04/2012, 02:32 PM
A ripe 12 year old lad. My body was beginning to change, confusing feelings and thoughts, but my Turbo was there to ease me through the transitions.

CrackTiger

#5
05/04/2012, 02:45 PM
Four months short of thirteen years old.

Just old enough to fully appreciate the 16-bit generation. :)
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Lilgrafx

#6
05/04/2012, 03:04 PM
-7

SignOfZeta

#7
05/04/2012, 03:05 PM
I guess I would have been 16.


Btw, I fucking hate it when Wiki entries romanize things that are already in English. It's so fucking cosplay fangirl arigatogomenadai-sama. Guh...
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PikachuWarrior

#8
05/04/2012, 03:20 PM
^^ What do you mean? It is authored by you and I. :)
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PunkCryborg

#9
05/04/2012, 03:28 PM
4

tpivette

#10
05/04/2012, 04:06 PM
I had just turned 11 when I got my TG16 (they got me Blazing Lazers as well) for Christmas in 89'. All my friends had NES's, and my parents wanted me to have something different. Plus, their NES's were only 8 bit while the Turbo was 16!
Original owner of a TG-16 since 1989!

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jeffhlewis

#11
05/04/2012, 04:09 PM
8? 9-ish? thereabouts

SMF

#12
05/04/2012, 05:13 PM
11 or 12 i remember getting it and me and my friend wanting to play a game but seen i controller port and was like WTF LOL. just funny that even 11 - 12 year olds know you need to have 2 controller ports.
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DragonmasterDan

#13
05/04/2012, 05:21 PM
6 when the PCE came out, 8 when the US TG16 came out.
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420GOAT

#14
05/04/2012, 05:42 PM
i was 13. no worries, just had to get up and go to school. and play tg16.
I want to be more like 337.

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VestCunt

#15
05/04/2012, 06:16 PM
Nine when it came out, twelve when I bought one.

Quote from: city41 on 05/04/2012, 02:32 PMA ripe 12 year old lad. My body was beginning to change, confusing feelings and thoughts, but my Turbo was there to ease me through the transitions.
Are you saying that you tried to put your hoo-hoo dilly in the hucard slot?? Qué asco!
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csgx1

#16
05/04/2012, 06:17 PM
I was 12 but couldn't afford to buy a Turbo Grafx until a few years after the release.

Keranu

#17
05/04/2012, 07:04 PM
I was a few months shy of two years old when the TG16 was released, and a 7 month old fetus when the PCE was released! A bit young, but I was still excited when I was reading about the PCE in VG&CE while in the womb.
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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jlued686

#18
05/04/2012, 08:22 PM
Thirteen. Didn't get it until I was fourteen, though.

roflmao

#19
05/04/2012, 08:47 PM
I turned 14 almost exactly two weeks before the release of the Turbografx-16, but I don't think I picked one up until 1990.  I was probably still 14 though.  I remember being a freshman in High School when I got it.  Good times.  Had an after school job and a Sunday morning paper route back in those days and had no bills to speak of, so I got to indulge in video games in a way that makes now-me jealous of then-me.  :)

Nando

#20
05/04/2012, 11:03 PM
12 years old. There was a demo unit at the local electronic boutique playing keith courage. 23 years later I'm finally getting one courtesy of beemer! Can't wait!

Tatsujin

#21
05/04/2012, 11:43 PM
12 at the pce and 14 at the TG release.
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TR0N

#22
05/05/2012, 02:44 AM
Teens if i remember right by that point.
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TurboXray

#23
05/05/2012, 03:10 AM
13+ when it came out, but didn't get one until I was 14.

Keranu

#24
05/05/2012, 03:19 AM
12 and 14 seem to be the common numbers here.
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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Frank_fjs

#25
05/05/2012, 03:39 AM
9 for the PCE & 11 for the TG

Although the PCE was never released in my country (Australia) and I bought my first PCE console in 2010, been hooked ever since.

ApolloBoy

#26
05/05/2012, 04:45 AM
I was just a few weeks old when the TG-16 came out and I didn't get my first one until I was 17.
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futureman2000

#27
05/05/2012, 06:44 AM
10, didn't get one until I was 31.

Firebomber7

#28
05/06/2012, 12:51 PM
Old enough to appreciate it and want one.
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-region/s-video modded PC Engine Duo w/Arcade Card at www. multimods .com
-region modded Super Grafx
-region modded PC Engine original
-PC-FX w/Zenki, Zeroigar, Chip-Chan, Battle Heat, Der Langrisser FX

Will this complete me?

PikachuWarrior

#29
05/06/2012, 01:32 PM
lol, I guess some people in this thread don't want to reveal their true age :)
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munchiaz

#30
05/06/2012, 01:51 PM
i was 1. had no idea back then how awesome the system was.

CGQuarterly

#31
05/06/2012, 01:59 PM
12.  But I didn't get one until I was 26.  I'm almost 35 now...

Chris

Otaking

#32
05/06/2012, 02:04 PM
100 ish
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kiketonto

#33
05/08/2012, 11:11 AM
15, I was born in 1974. got mine with ¿21?

JoshTurboTrollX

#34
05/08/2012, 04:58 PM
I was 10 ( born in '79)

Didn't get a Duo til 1994.  I was 15.
TZD had all the best games for $49.99 sealed, and all sorts of buy 2 get 1 sales.  It was the best time to get all the best games.
Jossshhhhh...Legendary TurboTrollX-16: He revenge-bans PCE Developers/Ys IV Localizers from PCE Facebook groups and destroyed 2 PC Engine groups: one by Aaron Lambert on Facebook, then the other by Aaron Nanto!!! Josh and PCE Aarons don't have a good track record together! Both times he blamed the Aarons and their staff in a "Look-what-you-made-us-do?!" manner (extortion/blackmail!), never himself nor his deranged, destructive, toxic turbo troll gang!

FiftyQuid

#35
05/09/2012, 07:58 PM
16 when I bought mine.  My first games were Bonk's Adventure, and Splatterhouse.  I remember buying the console at Consumers Distributing (retail store), but reading through the internet I've read they were only available at Radio Shack.  Either way, I had one, and the TG-16 was probably the only console I ever bought remotely close to the official release day.
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djolof

#36
05/09/2012, 09:16 PM
I was 4... got the system when I was 5... brainwashed by the kiosk in front of our local Radio Shack in Halifax, NS.

Tatsujin

#37
05/09/2012, 09:26 PM
wow. your parents bought you a TG16 one year after its release at an age of 5? what nice folks.
www.pcedaisakusen.net - home of your individual PC Engine collection!!
PCE Games countdown: 690/737 (47 to go or 93.6% clear)
PCE Shmups countdown: 111/111 (all clear!!)
Sega does what Nintendon't, but only NEC does better than both together!^^
<Senshi> Tat's i'm going to contact the people of Hard Off and open a store stateside..

Nando

#38
05/09/2012, 09:50 PM
Quote from: Tatsujin on 05/09/2012, 09:26 PMwow. your parents bought you a TG16 one year after its release at an age of 5? what nice folks.
maybe dad wanted one. That's my excuse. "Hey the kids might like Rondo! I should get should get it for them"

Senshi

#39
05/09/2012, 10:49 PM
7!
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Tatsujin

#40
05/09/2012, 11:08 PM
why with exclamation mark?
www.pcedaisakusen.net - home of your individual PC Engine collection!!
PCE Games countdown: 690/737 (47 to go or 93.6% clear)
PCE Shmups countdown: 111/111 (all clear!!)
Sega does what Nintendon't, but only NEC does better than both together!^^
<Senshi> Tat's i'm going to contact the people of Hard Off and open a store stateside..

Senshi

#41
05/09/2012, 11:31 PM
because i'm yelling it duh  :P
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Tatsujin

#42
05/09/2012, 11:49 PM
GOT IT!! :P
www.pcedaisakusen.net - home of your individual PC Engine collection!!
PCE Games countdown: 690/737 (47 to go or 93.6% clear)
PCE Shmups countdown: 111/111 (all clear!!)
Sega does what Nintendon't, but only NEC does better than both together!^^
<Senshi> Tat's i'm going to contact the people of Hard Off and open a store stateside..

Vecanti

#43
05/10/2012, 12:40 AM
Quote from: Tatsujin on 05/09/2012, 11:08 PMwhy with exclamation mark?
He was 7 Factorial.  So 5040 years old. :)


I had just turned 13 when the Turbo came out.  However I didn't even know what it was until the end of the next year.  It was all NES in 1989.

Arkhan Asylum

#44
05/10/2012, 08:35 AM
I was 1

lol by the time I was 2 we already had Nintendo, Genesis, and gameboy

fuck yeah grandma who worked at Sears!
This "max-level forum psycho" (:lol:) destroyed TWO PC Engine groups in rage: one by Aaron Lambert on Facebook "Because Chris 'Shadowland' Runyon!," then the other by Aaron Nanto "Because Le NightWolve!" Him and PCE Aarons don't have a good track record together... Both times he blamed the Aarons in a "Look-what-you-made-us-do?!" manner, never himself nor his deranged, destructive, toxic turbo troll gang!

Nando

#45
05/10/2012, 09:25 AM
Quote from: guest on 05/10/2012, 08:35 AMI was 1

lol by the time I was 2 we already had Nintendo, Genesis, and gameboy

fuck yeah grandma who worked at Sears!
I looked forward with great expectation to Sears Christmas catalogs every year, during the 80's. 

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glazball

#46
05/11/2012, 12:09 AM
Quote from: Vecanti on 05/10/2012, 12:40 AM
Quote from: Tatsujin on 05/09/2012, 11:08 PMwhy with exclamation mark?
He was 7 Factorial.  So 5040 years old. :)
lol  Holy shit that was funny.  Wasn't expecting that....  NERD!

obligatory response: 14 at release, got my TG around 25, but only recently filled that Duo-sized hole in my life at 36
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geise

#47
05/11/2012, 07:01 AM
I was only 12. when it got released.   My brother and I got the TG-16 pretty close after launch, thanks to me saving my lunch money, and my brother getting a jobby job.

JoshTurboTrollX

#48
05/11/2012, 10:18 AM
I got mine in '94 as result of 3 weeks saving from hard labor in the Christmas Tree sheering fields.  spent the rest of the summer working to buy moar gaemz!!

When I jumped in, I got a Duo w/ 1 controller, Gates 3 in one, Ninja Spirit, Ys 1&2, Sonic Spike, World Class Baseball, Legendary Axe, Victoly Run, and TV sports Football. All that for $200.
Jossshhhhh...Legendary TurboTrollX-16: He revenge-bans PCE Developers/Ys IV Localizers from PCE Facebook groups and destroyed 2 PC Engine groups: one by Aaron Lambert on Facebook, then the other by Aaron Nanto!!! Josh and PCE Aarons don't have a good track record together! Both times he blamed the Aarons and their staff in a "Look-what-you-made-us-do?!" manner (extortion/blackmail!), never himself nor his deranged, destructive, toxic turbo troll gang!

turbokon

#49
05/11/2012, 11:10 AM
So it came out one day after I turn 11. I think we picked it up a couple years later.
Turbo fan since 1991 after owning my first system.

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