It’s like a prequel but true to sequence.

so strip fighter alpha?

7 years

That's because it's a freaking portable TurboGraphics-16.

That's because it's a freaking portable TurboGrafx 16

It has six batteries, weighs a bunch, and was pretty expensive.

In America Nintendo have a stranglehold on rights for 3rd party games. The US got only 94 games released. That is just a fraction of the entire library and full of duds. The marketing technique they used in Japan was to just advertise in the Big Cities. It worked well over there because of how compact Japan is. They thought the same would work in the US. That was not the case. The ads they did have were horrible too.

it really should have been more popular, it was just awesome. it made the game boy and even the game gear look like crap.

It cost something like $280 or something at launch and didn't have many big name games on it.

what u smoke'n?. the game gear beat the crap out of this in sells. and killed it off along with the lynx, game.com and wonder swan. the game gear was the only real competition 2 the game boy. the game gear made this and other handhelds look like crap. even though both the game boy and game gear had 8-bit graphics, the game gear still looked better in every way. the only reason the game boy won in the end was because the game boy had more games and sold more systems and carts by the time the game gear came out. also, the game boy had alot of 3rd party support. screen-wise, the game gear looked better in every way compared 2 the game boy. it had a lighted-up screen, it was in color, and packed in the power of sega's own 8-bit master system. infact, the the game gear was basically a upgraded sega master system turned into a portable, with more colors. but as powerful as the game gear was, it wasn't about the graphics back then. it was about the games. and the turbo express din't have its own games. it was just a portable turbograffx16/pc engine. the game gear had its own games, plus it had a converter cart attachment that even let u play sega master system games on the game gear with more color. adding what little usefulness the turbo express had. playing your sega master system's console games on the go. it also had an attachment that let u watch tv on your game gear and a shit load of other accessories that the game boy also had. like a screen magnifier, rechargeable battery packs and an ac adapter.

Didn't he say it's a crt screen

@@moonjimunji7916 He was wrong. It's LCD.

Not rare. It was only Nintendo who didn't use a backlight. Sega game gear, Atari lynx, Sega nomad, all used backlights. It's just you poor Nintendo kids who thought backlights are for rich people only. Nintendo was a big smelly pussy about battery life, AND they wanted to cheap out on parts. Took 15 years before a game boy used a backlight, that's nuts. I never could understand the game boy. Green puke, can't play in the dark, can't see the screen, worst smeary image during screen scrolling. Disgusting. I guess if it's your first handheld you don't know any better, but if (like me) you saw a game gear screen first, you never wanted to look at a game boy ever again. Exorcist vomit color monochrome, no backlight. Once you go back(light) you can't go back.

+Thomas Wallblom The best part of the design for the TG16 was the card design. You could fit a bunch of games in a wallet, and use the same cards on the portable. Brilliant design, shame about the battery life on the portable.

+Dick Fageroni For the era, it looks pretty damn good. Pretty much everything else at the time with an LCD had horrible ghosting on the screen (check out Ashens' Sega Nomad review to see what I mean).

+Dick Fageroni and you do realize the screen was built in the early 90's... right? Find another from that era that looks even half as good.

***** I watched a Game Gear review.. cant see why you say that it has a better screen. But can be because of the video itself. I will hold on to my first thought, NEC TurboExpress has a great screen! Would love to own one!

+Thomas Wallblom The Mega Drive/Genesis had a similar thing called the Nomad. About the same quality as this.

@Satoshi Nakomoto Seven years on, dunno. I was probably referring to either the suggested videos or the suggestions in the search bar.

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I had one. I thought it was great :/

Hey, they ported Sonic Advance to it, so there was at least that.

Tong Zou He has done 2 episodes of Game.com

Tong Zou Send him one!

It's more or less just a personal preference really, nothing more.

Yathzee talked a bit about classic splatterhouse when doing it's reboot and Ashen mentioned it before when doing a really expensive but well made emulator and played at least the entire first level. I think the game is just dated.

It was yummy! ^U^

***** I guess it didn't begin as much as was expected.

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Fluttershy Uhhh, where are your rainbow equine buddies at? Dot likes you guys.

"Consider this a stopgap until I finally get round to showing my Atari Lynx collection" *FOUR FUCKING YEARS LATER* "Hey guys I'm going to review the Atari Lynx"

Fookie Bookie now he has to do game gear

+GameBoyLegacy Yep. Make that mistake too often. The fingers can be quicker than the mind.

They have this device called the UFO Pro 8 for SNES which is about $50. It's meant for saving games but can also run backups. I've been meaning to get one but just haven't gotten around to it. Look into it if you're interested.

Chen Neptunia is otaku trash

IanC14 accurate

they are lol they're just ports not rip offs

+Breadmond McLoafquinn (Mr. Breadmond) They're not even all ports - Bonk's Revenge, for one, was original to the TurboGrafX. It was the first game I ever played and it's a fantastic little platformer, if perhaps a tad easy (see ProJared's review of Super Bonk, a lot of his observations apply to Bonk's Revenge as well, though it's not as... strange). Alien Crush and Devil's Crush were both original and really fantastic as well.

Breadmond McLoafquinn I meant they looked good despite running on emulation and on a handheld device.

jekblom123 oh lol

+jekblom123 They're not running on emulation.

Assuming your not from the usa...

should've* "should of" Makes no sense whatsoever.

I was laughing as I typed! I should have typed should have xD

Look out everybody! It's a grammar Nazi!

***** The Lynx is older than I am by a year! I can't believe that kind of technology existed back then. Wow. Why didn't we just make flat panel color LCD TVs in 1989? The technology was there!

***** That TV they used was probably over $100,000! They were still $21,995 in 2003 for LCD. Could it have been a Plasma?

***** I lived in San Francisco in 2003, and they had the absolute latest products for sale. They had brand new 72" LCD TVs that were $21,995, but I think there was more to them. That was at a time when plasma screens were your only affordable flat panel option. That's about $30,000 adjusted for inflation. Prices fell sharply to $2,000 in just 4 years.

It got shot in the fucking head...

Lol!!

*Four years later...*

+samljer they are collectors pieces now

"collectors" says to me "speculators" which can only mean... "quick jack the price up before we can't make money off of people"

At one point it was only £75 at raven games in 1995

+ojideagu : think i paid 99 quids. but it came bundled with a coupke of games. at that point it was a bargain

ojideagu game gear tho

The game gear was primitive compared to the Turbo Express and Atari Lynx

yeah but it was expensive as heck. Nintendo played it smarter compared to NEC, Atari, and even Sony when it comes to handhelds. Seriously, even sony makes some great handhelds but they go a little too far in specs and other areas that make it too expensive that some will just end up buying nintendo instead(this is why vita is already legacy yet big n's 3ds is still going strong. These companies shoot too high only to miss the mark and fizzle out on the handheld spectrum. These other systems were great but as always too expensive in the long run...

ojideagu yeah, but it also came out before those hand helds. It was basically a portable battery eating Master System. As a direct competitor of the Game Boy that had a backlit color screen with a decent library of games, I'm surprised that you don't hear about it much...

The Game Gear came out AFTER the Atari Lynx and Pc Engine GT/Turbo Express.

what happened?

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It was not obscure in Japan and was well known in the UK in magazines in the 90s even though it had to be imported

skins4thewin Library is semi small? Lol, the PCE has a bigger library than the snes.

+fun eggs fun eggs Gamer Surprised they would sell it at a drug store.

How expensive?