So, I mispronounce the word "library" in this video as a few of you have pointed out. Memories of my 2nd grade teacher lecturing me come to mind. It's not how I normally say the word. Although, it does make me wonder if I ever made the same mistake in any other videos.

In a world of Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo , I was a TG-16 man who got the CD setup early by complete chance. The neighborhood friends and I would set up an “arcade” in a kid’s garage during the summer for a long weekend. People lined up to play the Turbo !

Back in the 90s...there was a company called Japan Video Games in the back of EGM. I got SFII about 6 months before anyone else.

Still play my turbo grafx today! I love galaga 90

Actually the games were called Hu-Cards in the US as well for most of the TG-16's life. They were only rebranded to Turbochips after the Turbo-duo was released.

I had an uncle and a cousin from another uncle who both got it Christmas of 89. That will forever be one of my favorite Christmases ever. Playing Alien Crush, Keith Courage, Military Madness, The Legendary Axe and Blazing Lasers was mind blowing. Also both got the Turbo booster which made playing on my cousin's 42 inch tv with stereo speakers hooked into it that much more amazing (that Blazing Lasers soundtrack my God!) Then not long after my uncle got Splatterhouse and I was obsessed with it then a year or two after got Dungeons and Dragons Order of the Griffon. I think we spent a whole Summer vacation playing through that one. Nothing but awesome memories. Always wanted one but never got one (my parents opted for a Genesis the following Christmas because it like half the price. Not that I'm complaining because I love the Genesis). I have been singing the praises of this system since '89. Though at this point looking back at what stuff I played after the life of the Turbografx I'd say my favorite thing about it for me is it was the start of my favorite gaming company: Working Designs! It's funny I don't own one but have 3 games for it: 1. That D&D game for nostalgia. 2. Exile and Cosmic Fantasy 2 from Working Designs. I'm thinking about getting an Analogue Duo to finally play those bad boys.

During this time, growing up I had the NES, SNES, Genesis and TG-16. The TG-16, by far, had the most play time of all of those systems. I was the only one of my friends that had the TG-16, but all of my friends loved it too. It was always the go to console when people came over to my house. Nothing against the others because they are amazing, but the TG-16 was always my favorite.

I got my Turbografx 16 back in 1989. I've always thought the HuCards are unique and cool! I didn't know anyone else who had one, so whenever someone would come over I would show them Splatterhouse, Blazing Lasers and Legendary Axe 2. They'd be impressed.

I Remember seeing TG16 in toy stores when I was very young. I admit I didn’t give it a second thought next to my Nintendo. Today is a different story of course. A great console with great games. Thanks for the video.

I used to play bonk's adventure at my friend's house house on a black and white tv. His mom wouldn't let us use the main tv. Still had fun though. We had a cassette of the song Rump Shaker on repeat in the background.

Ah man your face when symphony of the night is on the table Lmao!! Love it

The only thing I concretely remember of this console is Devil's Crush's soundtrack. :D

Blazing lazers and Devils Crush are amazing. Some of the best games I’ve played on my Mister FPGA. Impressive how good the developers were on this platform...

I always thought that "Turbo Grafx 16" sounded so cool lol. But I was so used to just Nintendo and Sega that the TG just seemed like something to not even bother with. And the kid on the box always reminded me of Zach Morris from Saved By The Bell.

My best memory of the TG-16 was going to the mall one weekend afternoon and finding a kiosk setup in the middle where they were having a promotional tour. I stopped by and played a few of the games. I recall playing Bonk's Adventure for about an hour or so. I finally pulled myself away, only to realize I had been wearing a Super Mario 2 T-shirt the whole time, They must have a good laugh about that one. 😁

I grew up in South Africa, and the PC Engine was never on my radar. We got all the Atari consoles in the early 80s, but late 80s/early 90s were dominated by Famiclones and the Master System (and its clones). I mostly gamed on a PC because of all the games I could pirate for it.

In Canada at least, the thing that hampered Turbo Grafx most was that the only store that carried it was Radio Shack. Exclusive distribution channels is not good for wide spread appeal.

got my mini for $75 off amazon right before they got scarce and the price went way up. I mostly only use it for Blazing Lazers. That game is incredible.

KZfaq recommended this, very cool video! TG-16 has always intrigued me :) videos like this make me realize it’s still worth it

2nd console I purchased after Sega Genesis. It was different but I loved it so much that I have 2 TG-16's, 4 TurboDuo's & a Turbo Express. Some of my top 10 games of all time are on Turbografx. I'd say try Vasteel, Military Madness, Bonk 1,2,3, Air Zonk, Bomberman 94, Gate of Thunder, Beyond Shadowgate, Neutopia 2 & SM Terraforming

I was completely obsessed with the TG16 - I played the living shit out of legendary axe and blazing lasers growing up - wanted the CD player so bad but once girls happened, I could never save enough $ for it

y's book 1 and 2 my fave game!!!!

The CD versions of Ys 1-4 live here. That's all you have to say!

This was my fave 16-bit system. The CD attachment was mind-blowing at the time. The first time I booted up Ys, I just sat there in awe, watching the introduction over and over.

the TG16 has one of my favorite games of all time, the "champions forever" boxing. we even had tournaments with championships and all that.

The Turbo kicked all the ass back in the day! I would play Blazing Lazers until my eyes bled. One of my most regrettable mistakes was selling off my Turbo collection.

Wow, I suddenly have this sudden urge to play Lords of Thunder...

I remember having R-Type on the Sega Master System and my buddy brought over his brand new Turbografx-16 with R-Type and it blew me away. I sold my SMS to a different buddy at school and picked up a Turbografx-16. It's been my favorite console ever since.

For the longest time the TurboGrafx 16 was my unicorn system. Always wanted one but never seen one. Don't even remember seeing one as a kid. While visiting a friend earlier this year I went retro hunting and found one and brought it home. I also picked up the Everdrive for it. No regrets.

TG16 had some WILD games. Like Bravo Man, Keith Courage, Klax, Tricky Kick. Games that may never see the light of day again but were timeless bangers.

I grew up playing the system in my uncle's house, it was so amazing, so wonderful so different, and I got to play it when I first released, unfortunately, I never owned it, but now that I'm gonna adult, I actually bought myself a duo r modded with RGB and region free as well.. This statics of the Japanese system is so beautiful, makes me wonder why I never was released over in the United States and I bought myself Rondo of blood ❤ I got to say, we really did miss out on so many great amazing, wonderful Japanese titles, my titles keep growing as we speak.

In my personal opinion, the Turbo Grafx Mini is my favorite mini console from all the mini consoles out there. Great video Retro Bird.👍

I bought a PC Engine a decade ago to play Splatterhouse after seeing it in an AVGN video. Since then it's become my gateway into shmups, the Ys series and making me a diehard Castlevania fan. The Far East of Eden series is also amazing, with those games really taking my Japanese language studies to a next level. It has become my favourite system to collect for.

Keith Courage in Alpha Zones and Blazing Lazers were my jam! Also, the turbo switch on the controller, Galaga ‘88 port (Galaga ‘90) was AWESOME!

Dude, love your videos, they are amongst the absolute best in the retro KZfaq community. 👍🎮

I started collecting for the PC engine about 2 years ago, mainly because I wanted to play Rondo of Blood and Spriggan. I picked up a PC engine Duo R because of the great library of Shmups. I picked up the PC Engine mini as well. I think it has the best collection on games on a mini console. So many great games are represented.

In Arkansas, the TG16 was a myth we only read about in magazines or on TV shows. They *might* have sold it somewhere in Little Rock, but certainly nowhere else. We were NES/SMS/GEN/SNES all the way.

Turbo Duo R was my first import system back in the 90s 👍

All throughout '89 and '90, I wanted a Turbografx but I honestly had quite a lot on my plate with both an NES and a recently-acquired Game Boy. I saw the advertisements in game magazines and the games on display at my local Toys 'R Us. I never knew or encountered anybody that owned one, although a friend did get a TurboExpress for his birthday in '92 and I got to play a few amazing minutes of Blazing Lazers on it. When I started getting back into classic video game consoles in the mid-2000's, I was reminded of the Turbo and made an effort to pick one up. I don't regret it one bit. Sure, it's game library doesn't pack quite the consistent and versatile punch that the Genesis or SNES do but part of what makes it so interesting to play today is that it's all new experiences. These are games that a majority of people never played or knew much about and exploring them is like uncovering some kind of long-forgotten treasure. The Turbo has such a distinct style, graphics and sound. It is a real treat! Not very collector-friendly these days, unfortunately. Especially the TurboCD systems and games.

I only ever knew one kid that had a TurboGrafx-16. And the only reason I remember it was because we played Bonk on it, and that the system took those cards.

I loved the TurboGraphics 16!! People forget TG 16 also had the first and only handheld game boy type that was in color (before game gear came out) and the games were able to be used with both they system and handheld

I grew up in it's era. Had NES and SNES during those days. Never knew one kid with one. So weird. Funny video! Great information

For my tenth birthday we reserved a Sega Genesis from the local video store to rent. When my dad went to pick it up they had rented it to someone else by accident, so my dad drove to the next town and rented me a turbo grafx 16 instead. It was a big hit and I’ll always appreciate the console for this extremely nostalgic reason. The games at the party : Victory Run, China Warrior and Legendary Axe

Back in my teenage days my friends and I were big eight bit Nintendo players. But as soon as I could graduate to 16 bit, I got the Sega genesis the first Christmas it came out. One friend of mine was waiting for the new super Nintendo to come out, but he did buy the TurboGrafx 16 because he couldn’t wait to get to the next level of video game playing. We played four or five different games that he had but he ultimately sold the system when the super Nintendo came out and purchase that one. But I did enjoy the bright colorful graphics that the TurboGrafx 16 had.

I helped make a game for it last year ;3 I did the graphics...

The marketing was it's main problem. I was oblivious to the consoles existence back in the early 90's. I knew what a Jaguar, Neo Geo and 3DO was, but I always viewed them as super expensive consoles. However, the discussion was dominated by Sega and Nintendo back then.

I'm glad you covered Bonk. One of my favorites of all time. It's sad how bad the turbografx did in the states.

This is the system I always wanted but never got. Now as an adult, I've gotten to play the Bonk Games on emulation.

I played Ninja Spirit, Silent Debuggers, and R-Type. Man those were the days. My brother in law would let me borrow it all the time when I was a kid. I got tired of my SNES after beating and playing SMW, Lion King, Mario Kart, and SF2 so much

I remember seeing Bonk ads as a kid and thought the turbografx looked cool, but no one had it. I plan to get the mini when it is available to the US

I was amazed when I went to this kid's house after school in 4th grade and saw his TurboGrafx cause I had never even heard of it at that time. I thought Nintendo and Sega were the only 2 systems. I was blown away that there was an entirely different system with fun games. I used to always ask him to go to his house to play the "Turbo system". Good times.

From what I remember from my adolescence. Unlike NeoGeo, Turbo Graphix 16 had a full page in the Sears catalog. Like NeoGeo, I never played it, never knew anyone that had it.

I still have my original TG16 with the Turbo booster plus. It was the first console i was able to buy on my own.

Bonk and especially Bonk’s Revenge were great, unique platformers. AeroBlasters and Blazing Lasers were two of my favorite shooters ever. Loved playing Splatterhouse as a kid. And Dragon’s Curse was one of my personal faves for the system. I never had the cd-Rom. So these are all Hu-Card games. I even loved that format. No clunky cartridges (although they were possible to lose, like a debit card or something, if you didn’t put them away in their modified jewel cases after playing). Nothing but good memories of TG-16.

Second system I ever owned as kid ( nes was the first ). Loved it! Splatter House, Blazing Lasers, Bonk and Bonk 2 were my favorites.

Everytime i look at my TG 16 box I always wonder where the turbo grafx kid is now... he is pretty much the unofficial turbo grafx mascot. I enjoy the system but i find i dont play it nearly as much as my sega and nintendo far more often

The most underrated undermarketed system ever

I remember Splatter House being advertised for Turbo Graphx 16. That Ninja Spirit game looks really cool.

I wish we had LEGENDARY AXE ON THE TG16 MINI!!!

I have almost every console from 85-95 and I picked up a RGB modded and recapped Duo-R with a Turbo Everdrive and have like 60 cd games on silver lacquered discs. I must say it instantly became one of my favorite consoles ever.

Haha, love the bonk "swimming up a waterfall" sprite.

Bloody Wolf, Bonk's Adventure, Neutopia, Blazing Lasers, Side Arms, Vigilante, Ninja Spirit, and Legendary Axe... These were my childhood along with the Sega Genesis, but I preferred the TurboGrafx-16. I wish we would have had Rondo of Blood early on, because that is probably one of my favorite games now.

I still like to play games on their original hardware as much as possible! However, the Turbografx didn’t have much of a presence in PAL territories. I did hear a bit about the PC Engine in the Retro Computer Cabin section in Computer & Video Games magazine and when the Wii came out, my Virtual Console purchases were exclusively Turbografx titles until the Hanabi Fireworks release of Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels and I did also download some Neo Geo, Commodore 64 and arcade titles after those were added to the service! One “friend” I had at college got at me for playing older games on their original hardware as opposed to relying solely on modern compilations and the Wii Virtual Console. He got at me for having a huge collection of consoles as opposed to only having whatever’s current! Just let people collect what they want to collect! You want to collect Canadian literature? Go for it! You want to collect wooden trains? That’s your choice! You want to own a lot of lesser known consoles like the Turbografx, 3DO and Jaguar? Get them! We are all entitled to our own choices!

It's a total must-have console if you are into shooters and arcade ports. There are also some great exclusives of other genres but those 2 reasons I mentioned are the biggest ones. I mean, there are more than 110 shooters for the console, like a 1/6 of the whole catalogue. Great console indeed.

Hidden gem of a channel!

I once had both the TurboGrafx and the add-on CD-Rom drive and it was amazing. My friends who played games on their nintendos and segas had never seen an animated cutscene.... or heard actual voice acting, or heard actual Redbook quality soundtracks. Just beeps and boops. The game that sold me on the system was Ys Book I&II.

I use to do googly eyes at the pictures of the PC Engine games in EGM and other gaming mags back when it released. The graphics looked way more advanced than what the other systems were offering and I remember thinking that the PC Engine looked so tiny and advanced in comparison to the NES and Genesis. Unfortunately, it never released in Australia where I am from. All these years later and I might have to finally go buy the mini to see what I missed.

It's great you used actual footage from a old tv because it looks even more beautiful! I consider myself lucky to have grown up with a turbo grafx 16. Ninja Spirit, Splatterhouse, R type, Bonk's adventure, Bloody Wolf, Dungeon Explorer, Legendary Axe, are all great games that I still love playing. In fact I probably like more games on turbo than genesis although obviously the Sonic series is amazing in every way and am a huge old Sonic fan Turbo graphics are bright and colorful and also it has a very cool distinct sound

You forgot to mention that the HuCard game could also be played on there handheld system, so you only needed 1 library of games. I remember that Christmas morning we got our Turbo Grafx 16 with the shooter Ordyne. It was night and day difference to the NES. I loved that system.

Castlevania Rondo of Blood in my opinion is the best CV game, except for CV3 Dracula's Curse on NES. I bought Rondo in 2009 on the WiiShop and I was so excited about being able to play that game. 100 percented it. One of the tougher games in the series. Amazing game. I would have probably benefited greatly from buying a TurboGrafx16 back in the day.

The little clips in which you appear are hilarious, by the way! 🤣

I remember seeing ads for the system in videogame magazines and in Disney Adventures magazines, some television ads, and of course some in-store displays. Never owned it, as I was a Tiger Electronics kid, and would not get a home console until Christmas 1992 with my first NES. Never knew anyone who had it, and never saw it show up at garage sales or Goodwill. Just sort of always thought of it as the console that time forgot, unless you could buy it at the time it came out.

Great stuff. The turbo was $199 at launch while the Genesis was $189. Seemed like the game mags at the time focused on the RPGs when it came to the Cd attachment. A great console indeed, but probably should have released a year earlier in the states.

I was mainly into SNES but I also had a TurboDuo. It was pretty sweet but I could sense from playing Bonk that it was mostly a supercharged 8-bit system instead of a true 16-bit. Loved Ys and the Thunder games. At least Turbo CD games weren't overfill with FMV titles.

Neo Geo's soul crushing prices back then.....now its as if the grim reaper himself are setting the prices for NG carts.

I was aware of the TG16 growing up, even remembering seeing the game boxes along a back shelf in Babbage's. It always had an air of mystique about it. Only enhanced over the years as I learned of the super-rare Magical Chase, what many call the best classic Castlevania, and more.

I bought into this and not Sega or Nintendo. I loved it and had a whole team when playing sports games like football. They owned the shooter and RPG Genre.

Splatterhouse was my Jam!

I was looking for a video that would basically explain to me what the PC Engine/TurboGrafx was, and you delivered. Thank you :)

I had purchased the TG16 on launch and I purchased the TG-CD when it was available as well. I later purchased a Genesis and while we all realized the Genesis powerhoused the TG16, I still loved the console just because it was a lot of fun to play. Years later I was blown away when I found out how many more games Japan received under the PC Engine. After exploring most of the whole collection I can honestly say that this is one of the best consoles of all time.

Fun Fact The TG16 had a hard shelled case that held the system with the CD unit, and controllers. I have no idea where mine went.

I was lucky enough to bypass all those hardware upgrades and get a TurboDuo back in the day. Loved it.

I still have my Turbografx 16 when I bought it used when I was a kid. The kid that sold it to me, sold it to buy a Genesis. Well, I ended up with a Genesis as well. And an SNES. I still only have my SNES and Turbografx for some reason. Can't recall what happened to the genesis.

This is a great video, you did a wonderful job with his. I loved the the joke where you were writing out the various spellings of ‘grafx’.

TG16 started out strong and gradually withered out. It felt like a novelty because it was a game console marketed by a corporation. Today two big corporations, Microsoft and Sony, dominate gaming.

I played a bunch of Bonk on the display model of my local Radio Shack. Later on when I got one, the Neutopia series was my stand out.

Rondo of blood is great in playing it on the mini. On the castlevania note, still haven’t played SOTN, but I have played the GB games and I love those.

My neighbor had a TurboGrafx-16 and I was always astonished by the color, graphics, and animation. The card system was cool too

I bought one of these at a yard sale with some games for $30 and made over $500 reselling them. Best find I've ever made - I didn't even know it was valuable just thought it was cool.

I still have my TG16. I enjoy it sooooooo much. I also have Sega Genesis. I will never get rid of them. They are over 30 years old and still kicking ass. I loved the video. Legendary Axe II & I, Devils Crush, Kieth's Courage, Blazing Lasers and R-Type!!!!!!!

I had a friend with a Turbo Grafx very early on, and I loved it. So when the Turbo Duo came out, I debated buying myself one of those or a Super Nintendo. I ended up getting the Duo thinking CDs are the future! I loved it to death even though there weren’t many games available. I regret selling it many years later because now it’s so expensive. But it brought many great memories! I did end up getting an SNES later also because my parents felt bad I couldn’t find games locally. So that was a win-win for a short while.

Awesome video! Loved hearing your perspective. It's funny how we were so tribal about which system was better when we were growing up but now recognize that they were all great and for very different reasons. Each console had personality, unlike nowadays.

I got into the Turbografx in about '94, after having a few years to enjoy the NES and SNES. I had thought about the Sega Genesis at that time, but went with the super rare Turbografx at a local game shop as one just so happened to get traded in. It was less expensive than Sega and I completely fell in love with the game library!

Never had the system back in the day, but picked up the Mini version and it is my favorite now!

I loved playing the turbografx as a kid. My favorite game was final lap twin.

My friend Ming had one of these. The games were great

I have a mini I've never opened. I owned a duo once but sold it in 2002 . My friends swore by it back in the day and all have find memories. I was an amiga nut then though. I would love to own another so getti g the analogue.

Great summary of the system! Growing up I only hd one friend that had this system, and I always wondered how it compared to SNES and Genesis.

I got one at a yardsale in 94. I loved it but I had a very hard time finding games for it back then.

I got brand new at toys r us for 30 dollars new and games were like 5 to 10 dollars in clearance back then love it 🥰.