PC Engine Coregrafx Mini (Turbografx 16) Review

PC Engine Coregrafx Mini (Turbografx 16) Review | Ashens

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At last the PC Engine Coregrafx Mini has arrived! Called the Turbgrafx 16 in America. And really it should be called the Turbografx here apparently, but the release was so incredibly tiny that nobody cares. Most of the games that you want from NEC's (well, now Konami's) little box of tricks are present, but that won't stop me being a bit miffed that Magical Chase is missing.
First there was the NES Classic Edition! Then the SNES Classic Edition! Then the C64 Mini! Then the NEOGEO mini! Then the Playstation Classic! Then the Mega Drive Mini! Now this! Blimey. Actually, does that weird ZX Spectrum joypad thing count? Dunno. And did the NEOGEO X kick start all of this? Or was it those Atari Flashback things? Or those awful AtGames Mega Drive abominations?
In case you find it useful, here's the list of included games in alphabetical order with the duplicates taken out. 52 or 55 in total, depending on how good your Japanese is. (The official number is 57 but they include duplicates, omit the two hidden games and count Ys Books I & II as one game.)
Air Zonk
Akumajo Dracula X Chi no Rondo
Alien Crush
Aldynes
Appare! Gateball
Blazing Lazers
Bomberman '93
Bomberman '94
Bomberman: Panic Bomber
Bonk’s Revenge
Cadash
Chew-Man-Fu
Cho Aniki
Daimakaimura
Dragon Spirit
Dungeon Explorer
Fantasy Zone
Force Gear
Galaga ‘88
The Genji and the Heike Clans
Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire
Gradius
Gradius II: Gofer no Yabo
JJ & Jeff
The Kung Fu
The Legend of Valkyrie
Lords of Thunder
Military Madness
Moto Roader
Neutopia
Neutopia II
New Adventure Island
Ninja Ryukenden
Ninja Spirit
Parasol Stars
PC Genjin
Power Golf
Psychosis
R-Type
Salamander
Seirei Senshi Spriggan
Soldier Blade
Space Harrier
Splatterhouse
Spriggan MK 2
Star Parodier
Super Darius
Super Star Soldier
Twinbee Returns
Victory Run
Ys Book I
Ys Book II
And if you happen to be fluent in Japanese you can add:
Jaseiken Necromancer
Snatcher
Super Momotaro Dentetsu 2
...And if there are any more hidden games I don't know about, feel free to draw them in your screen here with a permanent marker.

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@chemicaltrails4468 4 жыл бұрын

The reason they add the 16:9 aspect ratio option is for people like myself who play these mini consoles through an old 4:3 CRT TV using a HDMI converter. If you play it on 4:3 through the mini console on a 4:3 CRT TV it squashes the image even further down to something resembling 2:3 ‐ but if you set the console to 16:9 on a 4:3 CRT TV it stretches the image out to fill the entire 4:3 CRT screen - therefore making it the 'proper' aspect ratio, so to speak. I hope that makes sense!

@waltercomunello121 4 жыл бұрын

plenty!

@UrsaFrank 4 жыл бұрын

I had no Idea about that. Cheers for answering an that old question

@jabelsjabels 4 жыл бұрын

Oooooh I had never considered that!

@Rando1975 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining that. I was wondering why ANYONE would want to play these systems stretched out in a 16:9 ratio, but your comment explains it well!

@chemicaltrails4468 4 жыл бұрын

I think everyone should find themselves a cheap CRT TV (people chuck them in the trash nowadays) a cheap scart-hdmi converter off Ebay or Amazon or something, and play these mini consoles the way they should look! Screw the CRT filters they put on the consoles, they are all rubbish. The only one that even came close to looking like CRT was the NES classic, the CRT filter on that was actually pretty good.. but nothing beats a proper CRT screen

@tedioustotoro4885 4 жыл бұрын

Rondo of Blood was released before Symphony of the Night. In fact, the opening of Symphony of the Night is literally the ending of Rondo of Blood

@StormsparkPegasus 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, SOTN was a direct sequel to Rondo of Blood.

@OliverPrime 4 жыл бұрын

I encountered one of these near-mythical things in the wild. A week long school French trip in 1992 when I stayed with a local family who had one. All notions of actually talking to them and improving my French disappeared immediately. The only game I can remember was PC Kid but I wanted one of these more than ever after we got back. What was the highlight of your trip? Eiffel Tower? Notre Dame? Louvre? Mona Lisa? Paris catacombs? Eurodisney in its opening year? Nah, it was that PC Engine 😂

@toiletsinjapan9933 4 жыл бұрын

any cool european exclusives? I didnt think it made it over to europe tbh

@tommyjones7096 4 жыл бұрын

I bought the TurboGrafx 16 with money from my first real job back in the day. I already had a Sega Genesis (Christmas present from my parents) but when I tried the TurboGrafx in the store, I was really impressed by the vibrant graphics & large sprites. Unfortunately, my storage unit was broken into and they made off with my old NES, Genesis, TurboGrafx and all the games for each unit. Bastards.

@dr.velious5411 4 жыл бұрын

Thieves with taste I guess. Bastards.

@penfold7800 4 жыл бұрын

Well you were an utter twit for putting those fragile old games consoles in a storage unit in the first place. I would have lugged them round in a suitcase instead

@HollowRick Жыл бұрын

@@penfold7800 this ^

@danieldavis2055 4 жыл бұрын

There's actually a very good reason for the "stretch" feature on these mini consoles, although it's a bit niche, I imagine. For a completely authentic experience, I have this one and my other mini consoles feeding their input to a high quality authentic CRT television, which is of course 4:3. Using "stretch" mode on these puts them into a perfectly aligned full screen. Without that mode, you get an image that's perpetually crushed in between black bars. Quite frankly, I'm quite glad they included that mode.

@xandervampire195 4 жыл бұрын

Nice one. Working CRTs are rare enough these days, nevermind ones with HDMI ports (I didn't even know they made them). Definitely look after that one. I have a couple of CRTs I keep ahold of in case my current TV breaks or something. They don't have HDMI but I have some old consoles I can hook up (they look better on a CRT anyway, especially the N64). I would have them set up all the time for an authentic experience but I don't really have the space in my livingroom. Wish I still had my old TV from when I was a kid, it was one of the ones with a knob you turned to tune into channels. I used to sit in front of it for hours playing my PSX. Good times...

@tomoshmoto 4 жыл бұрын

@@xandervampire195 you could always get a hdmi to rca converter on Amazon for pretty cheap doe

@danieldavis2055 4 жыл бұрын

@@xandervampire195 - If you find a really good CRT like a Trinitron that has Component input, you can find really decent HDMI to Component converters on eBay at decent prices.

@Chaos89P 4 жыл бұрын

@@xandervampire195 I have two Panasonic Taus that have component input. One is taken up by my Wii U. I currently have my other HDMI devices hooked up to an RCA converter since it doesn't have native HDMI, but I do think HDMI CRT TV's are a thing.

@matthewlister3755 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't even know that. I've gotta test that out on my CRT. I have an HDMI to AV cable converter so this ought to be interesting.

@Bimon1234567 4 жыл бұрын

"Violent Swearing Spiders That Have Sex" sounds like some underground music project.

@MilitaryHistory2011 4 жыл бұрын

Ashens doing his part to make sure my sleeping pattern remains corrupted.

@thebattlefieldtechnician428 4 жыл бұрын

We all must suffer

@NCHLT 4 жыл бұрын

Not true he uploads in ok times

@zooshehooshespreadonlyposi8031 4 жыл бұрын

@@NCHLT prob depends on what country he is from..

@whatamalike 3 жыл бұрын

He posted this balls deep in the middle of me being furloghed, so it didn't matter too much haha.

@rorybaker5799 3 жыл бұрын

@@whatamalike damn

@Sergeantmajormario 4 жыл бұрын

NES Mini Ashens: "Why don't they give you a bloody AC Adapter?! PC Engine Mini Ashens: "It doesn't come with an AC Adapter, can't blame 'em, we got so many of the things."

@IanC14 4 жыл бұрын

Eh, it's a few years since then.

@georgeyreynolds 4 жыл бұрын

I think its more the fact they're not approved for safety in the UK (no fuse or neutral wire) or EU .. so less hassle. Just use your approved phone charger... Won't melt. Hopefully...

@DOSRetroGamer 3 жыл бұрын

At least it saves a smaaaall amount of world's resources

@AllardRT 4 жыл бұрын

>Hears "Konami" Does it have Rondo of Blood on it? >It does Alright!

@SkyCyberguy 4 жыл бұрын

With Rondo it becomes obvious that the native (integer) screen option (the one Ashens finds to look too "slim") is actually the right one, especially visible on the carriage's wheels right in the game's prologue. This may vary from game to game, but Rondo clearly was developed especially for integer-scale display (and looks brilliant that way) and had always been streched wide back in the good old CRT days.

@BLY99 4 жыл бұрын

PC Engine is owned by Konami.

@AllardRT 4 жыл бұрын

@@SkyCyberguy That's a common thing with Konami of yesteryear. It happened with other CV games as well - they did all the graphics with square pixels in mind instead of accounting for TVs they would actually be displayed on.

@craigcharlesworth1538 4 жыл бұрын

Possibly one reason you remember Bonk being called BC Kid is that it was converted to the Amiga by Ubisoft where it WAS called BC Kid. Just to make things extra confusing.

@darkjapan 3 жыл бұрын

They successfully translated his joke Japanese name PC 原人, PC Genjin, meaning original man, or primitive man :)

@montaguebarnabasltd 4 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say thank you my man, your videos make me smile when there’s little worth smiling about nowadays :) I’m so glad to see you make videos still, and I watch every one

@hdestotallyunoriginalgamin3555 4 жыл бұрын

So much love for the PC Engine. Lovely little console. I fondly remember a kid bringing one into school and all of us being amazed that it was about the size of a bag of crisps.

@donnierussellii4659 4 жыл бұрын

Remember when HDMI cables were never included and cost at least $20, or more if you wanted high-end pixels.

@kidthorazine 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when you couldn't get an HDMI cable in a store for less than $50. Granted at that time the only things that used them were HDDVD/Bluray/Upscaling DVD players.

@SkyCE9A 4 жыл бұрын

I remember buying my PS3 and realizing it had no hdmi cable. It was black friday, so the next few days pretty much every hdmi cable except the expensive as shit ones were all sold out. Ended up buying a cheap one on ebay, but it was still like $15.

@kidthorazine 4 жыл бұрын

@bigevilworldwide1 oh I'm talking about back in the mid 2000s when they were all like $50 unless you got a shady one online. And the cheap ones really didn't work reliably.

@fentanyl6315 4 жыл бұрын

Remember when phone's cost 400 for high end? Oh wait that's never happened

@OtakuUnitedStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Monster STILL sells their mocha colored cables for $1300 even though no one buys them. Especially since 99% of the time, you'll never see the cables anyway.

@craigcharlesworth1538 4 жыл бұрын

I like that they've recreated the original experience by making the European release totally half-assed.

@michaelandrews8598 4 жыл бұрын

Would have been nice to see the games rather than just have you describe them to be honest, especially as I have no experience of this console

@toiletsinjapan9933 4 жыл бұрын

just youtube the ones he recommended i guess?

@AzureKite 4 жыл бұрын

@AaronSmart.online 4 жыл бұрын

@@AzureKite no, it's just easier to do a brief review of every game this way, instead of recording footage of each game as well which would take ages. Plenty of videos of these games out there if you want to see them in action

@md_vandenberg 4 жыл бұрын

That only matters if you were going to buy the damn thing. Let me remind you: it's ₤100.

@overlord3051 4 жыл бұрын

I don't necessarily disagree, but such is the magic of Ashens that most of us probably watched the whole thing entertained purely by him talking at a box haha

@Xplasma1 4 жыл бұрын

There is a valid reason for the 16:9 mode. To compensate for weird video setups where 16:9 is horizontally squashed to 4:3, such as happens when outputting to an actual analog CRT.

@thegardenofeatin5965 4 жыл бұрын

The North American SNES had a cartridge retention thing. That canyon carved into the front of the cartridge is designed to be filled with this big tab that slides rearward with the power switch. A later cartridge variation replaced the slot with a ramp so that instead of retaining the cartridge, the act of pulling the cartridge out switches off the power.

@theocound2422 4 жыл бұрын

remember when you did the royal wedding tat you were bloody terrifying

@logickedmazimoon6001 4 жыл бұрын

*smashes thimble*

@HenryGreenEngine3 4 жыл бұрын

[flames intensify]

@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus 4 жыл бұрын

"I have your wedding spoon!"

@theocound2422 4 жыл бұрын

@@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus yea that one lol he was bloody terrifying

@pitmatix1457 4 жыл бұрын

Such a shame they didn't do a text English translated version of Snatcher for this unit. I think it would make it an even better purchase.

@darkcheaker 4 жыл бұрын

Is there a preferable English version?

@jcardboard 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkcheaker mega CD is the only English version. It's good!

@Anex952 4 жыл бұрын

@@jcardboard Saturn and Ps1 have a English patch as well

@jcardboard 4 жыл бұрын

@@Anex952 do those versions have the English voice acting? Cause that's a huge part of the charm for me.

@sarahalarocheable 4 жыл бұрын

I love these informative videos about different video game tech. I learn about things I never knew about. Thanks Ashens!

@wendingoTV 4 жыл бұрын

I don't even remember how I found you but I've enjoyed the content since, keep it up

@jakethreesixty 4 жыл бұрын

I found him in 2007 via the PSPs RSS channel, his original Pop Station review was on there

@FIXTREME 4 жыл бұрын

I found him thanks to the Sport Vii

@dxmanforlife 4 жыл бұрын

Cheap action figures from pound land

@RigbyIsTheMan 4 жыл бұрын

Great moves, keep it up, proud of you

@williambarry5410 4 жыл бұрын

Fake iPhone 4s for me.

@lilgazebo7952 4 жыл бұрын

At this rate we'll be reviewing the ENIAC mini by 2025

@superscatboy 4 жыл бұрын

I would buy a Colossus Mini if someone made one, for the name alone.

@rolaroli 4 жыл бұрын

I would buy that.

@karolkozik5918 3 жыл бұрын

There's already an ENIAC-on-a-chip. Better yet, it was made in 1997.

@dragonmac1234 4 жыл бұрын

I worked at Newsfield in Ludlow in the late 80's-early 90's and I do remember a Japanese PC Engine arriving at the office one day with a lot of games that none of us knew how to play, as we didn't speak Japanese. There were a few side scrolling platform and shooty bang bang games we did play, we had no idea what the characters were supposed to be doing, but we made up our own back stories for them. I think the PC Engine we had was white with red lettering.

@JackBandicootsBunker 4 жыл бұрын

The original PC Engine then.

@alynicholls3230 2 жыл бұрын

crash or zzapp?, or none of the above?.

@dragonmac1234 2 жыл бұрын

@@alynicholls3230 Crash and ZZap, we were in the same office so we moved around writing different things for each magazine.

@TheFixer79 4 жыл бұрын

I use the stretch / fullscreen output so I can run it through an HDMI to SCART converter and play the console on a CRT. Works reasonably well.

@brutaljustin1349 4 жыл бұрын

"If the price goes down a bit" AHAHAHA, yeah considering this isn't sold in stores and Amazon (at least in the US) has been out of stock, this mini console is a scalper's wet dream frankly

@ozmond 4 жыл бұрын

Brutal Justin managed to get a “used” one on amazon for only slightly more than the retail price. But opening it up it looks brand new, the box is just a little dinged up on the outside. I have a video of it on my channel if you are curios.

@anthonybradley1555 3 жыл бұрын

i just ordered one today for £70, second hand yes but with a 2 year guarantee from the store i bought it from. so im satisfied.

@jgrizzle4166 4 жыл бұрын

Snatcher was such a great game. Remember, it also came out on Sega CD.

@DragonNexus 4 жыл бұрын

Remember, watch the whole video before commenting =)

@D1210 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when parallax scrolling blew my mind. Still looks amazing today. Shadow of the beast had 50 bloody layers of it!!😮

@Flibster 4 жыл бұрын

I also know Bonk as B.C. Kid. That's what it was called on the Amiga. 👍

@darkjapan 3 жыл бұрын

They successfully translated his joke Japanese name PC 原人, PC Genjin; meaning original man, or primitive man :)

@Kaylakaze 4 жыл бұрын

One of these days, I'm going to have to go back and watch all of your videos that I haven't watched over the last 5 or so years. The Neutopia games were FANTASTIC.

@bronsonarabie1078 4 жыл бұрын

"The Genji and Heike Clan" is actually a port of the Japanese-historical-themed 1986 arcade game "Genpei Touma Den", and is *much* better in its original version. It's platforming, swordfighting, and top-down all rolled into one with portals sending you into different styles of play.

@Eis_Bear 4 жыл бұрын

2:38 one gamestore (in the Netherlands) I know had them in stock till well into the 2000's.. maybe even longer. (because they didn't sell, because no one knew what they were)

@RealgarTheSchist 4 жыл бұрын

There was a Japanese streamer using one of these an managed to cook the guts over the course of about... 10 or 12 hours.

@LeeONardo 4 жыл бұрын

I believe it's to do with the plug you attach giving it too much power and frying it. If you power the console with just the USB cable (I have mine to a USB port on the back of the TV) you should be fine.

@myownsite 4 жыл бұрын

@@LeeONardo it won't draw more power than necessary unless the input voltage is too high

@backcuetheoriginal 4 жыл бұрын

Great review Ashens! I have been playing Turbo Grafx 16 games lately too. I like Legendary Axe 2 and blazing lazers.

@zooshehooshespreadonlyposi8031 4 жыл бұрын

Love this channel! Don't understand half of what he says (the tech stuff), but I learn a lot, and love the dry humour. Any drier, and you could start a campfire with it.

@josephmoore1942 4 жыл бұрын

even in USA, as a 37 year old who has visited game shops all my life, I've only ever seen anything turbografx in a second hand shop twice in my life

@kidthorazine 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think they really sold well outside of huge markets like LA and NYC. I was just getting into video games at the tail end of its lifespan and I'd only ever heard of it as a thing listed in EGM and whatnot I never saw one IRL until decades later.

@deathsyth8888 4 жыл бұрын

But how many times have you seen Bigfoot though?

@FooPanda 4 жыл бұрын

Just once here, cableless and crusty for $50 :/

@DenSporetrix 4 жыл бұрын

How many times is Ashens going to spit on the box? The answer: Too many times.

@Meoiswa 4 жыл бұрын

The 16:9 stretch mode is actually handy to have! It goes well with CRT Monitors using an HDMI to VGA adapters!

@ocfos88 4 жыл бұрын

a halfway between 8-bit and 16-bit? ...12-bit. Yes.

@natdmc85 4 жыл бұрын

Two 8 bit "moded" chips pushing "16" bit.

@nukiradio 4 жыл бұрын

10 bit. With a bit of wiggle room

@kennyyuliandrika7162 4 жыл бұрын

3 bit. Take it or leave it.

@swumbles 4 жыл бұрын

HALF BIT *QUARTER BIT*

@TheTurnipKing 3 жыл бұрын

It is worth noting that the damn thing started off competing with the Famicom and was still in the running when the actual 16bit consoles launched, though. If not for Nintendo locking down most of the popular games with exclusivity agreements, and all the others basically being created by SEGA or EA, it might have done a great deal better.

@Lussuria 4 жыл бұрын

Yessss! Ashens tech reviews are my favorite time of day.

@vile1009 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up playing ps2 and GameCube and vaguely remember the ps1. Wish I was alive for these games in their prime

@miaouew Жыл бұрын

Lots of people love and basically require the CRT filters and will go to great lengths to replicate CRT/arcade cabinet visuals, that's why there are hundreds of different CRT shaders in retroarch (though only a few of them actually get close to replicating the original thing including screen bulge and are good enough to fool the trained eye) really surprised you just brushed that feature aside the way you did. I am really glad they at least included the option. Even if the actual effect they produced for this machine wasn't perfect at least it is still there for people who want to play like that.

@toshironikko 4 жыл бұрын

YS 1 & 2 has really great music - and has voiced animated cutscenes and voiced dialogues so i highly recommend it

@Loonistrator 4 жыл бұрын

The PC Engine is still my favourite console of all time. What a machine.

@MonkeyBone316v1 4 жыл бұрын

*"Novelty!"* I've been trying to think of this word, for a whole day, and it has been bothering me ever since. THANK YOU!!!

@WintrBorn 4 жыл бұрын

I have Dragon Spirit on my NES. I loved it so much. I really appreciated they had more than the standard red fire dragon as a kid. Bonk was the only actual Turbo Grafix game I played, and I liked it a lot. The Gradius series is one of my favorites. I wish I had been able to get this. A lot of great games I liked or would have liked.

@oatymilkshake 4 жыл бұрын

Your reviews make me happy, thank you :)

@dcashley303 3 жыл бұрын

Funny how one person's tastes can be totally different to another's. I have been really enjoying Chew Man Fu, always love any version of Fantasy Zone, completed and really enjoyed Neutopia I and II... one thing we can agree on is Bomberman 94 is amazing, as is Galaga 88.

@alex_-yz9to 3 жыл бұрын

I think the rtype conversion is there because unlike the original japanese release it retains everything from the arcade with no omitions

@adamrustly7558 3 жыл бұрын

Found ashens back in 2007 when i was trying to mod a psp...somehow I still watch him and eventu ally got into his 'terrible old games' And ted talks. its bizarre that i still run into ashen after all these years.

@natdmc85 4 жыл бұрын

Received my TurboGrafx 16 mini about a week ago, love it, alot of bang for your buck(pound),hope everyone that purchased one feels the same ,it truly is a unique system. PS the secret games can be accessed by pressing the select button 1 to 3 times while highlighting salamander! Pss yes it's an Amazon exclusive period no matter where you are.

@jamesbarnousky1270 4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad Valkyrie and Splatterhouse are on there, but some of the lesser known Japanese hits like Bravoman and Wonder Momo would be great.

@BurntFaceMan 4 жыл бұрын

Wonder momo!! I loved that game!

@PacDragon 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, I was honestly pissed that Bravoman wasn't on there, and confused (and still pissed) that Wonder Momo wasn't there either! From what I understand, Wonder Momo is a decently big cult classic in Japan, so I'm puzzled why it wasn't included. I guess we'll have to settle with hacking the console... The ShiftyLook Classics should live on!

@Mr.Marbles 4 жыл бұрын

I still dont get why they dont jusg dump entire libraries on these machines. Its not like the games are sold anymore and space would be a problem today. I think they would sell so much better.

@ThtOtherJess 4 жыл бұрын

Spastmatiker because licensing still costs money and often finding who to get the licensing from/who currently holds them is often difficult. Getting sued isn’t a good look even now

@jamesburchill7522 4 жыл бұрын

Yikes. "Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, Bravo.." One of the most annoying games of all time.

@maxmattt 4 жыл бұрын

Can you soft mod it and add more games like you can with the other mini consoles?

@kerank4157 4 жыл бұрын

Watching you take that hdmi cable out was flipping brutal

@lowdefal6306 4 жыл бұрын

"The Genji and the Heike Clans" is Genpei Touma Den, a port of a Namco arcade game. It's also on the NES and X68000

@spartonberry 4 жыл бұрын

Magical Chase. I imagine it's sitting in Square-Enix' bin of forgotten IPs (as they bought the developer Quest for its Ogre tactical-RPG franchise) about as likely to get released as Rad Racer (I mean, I heard they gave King's Knight a remake at some point, and that was a shooter I've never heard anyone express particular fondness for.)

@haroldgarrett2932 4 жыл бұрын

looked it up after reading this comment and some of those enemy sprite animations are amazing

@SproutyPottedPlant 4 жыл бұрын

The 16:9 option is useful for those of us who are visually impaired, seeing the game is obviously more important than having everything tiny but pixel perfect.

@AlexBoneChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I played a lot of Bomberman '93 with friends back in the day because it was lots of fun and actually really hard when you progress further. My favorite move is trapping someone in with a bomb in a single square.

@TimChuma 4 жыл бұрын

Never saw one of these in Australia at all. They were in UK gaming magazines a bit. I think I saw a Neo Geo in the shop once it was expensive then and it is still expensive now.

@azuritet3 4 жыл бұрын

41:49 I've been looking for that game for decades. a friend of a friend of mine was playing in the living room one day and i never knew what it was called. now i know.

@TheTurnipKing 4 жыл бұрын

What, Sega's Fantasy Zone?

@pixienyx4306 2 жыл бұрын

I would buy that purely for Bomberman 94. That was one of my favourite childhood games and honestly you don’t see it rereleased enough. Which is weird because my other favourite was Kid Chameleon and that is everywhere despite the fact it was nowhere near as popular through its sheer difficulty….. Also if I ever come across a violent swearing spider that has the sex I’ll be exiting this planet….

@aleblasco39 4 жыл бұрын

There's an anime called Hi-Score Girl which was my door to the PC-Engine although I've already known about this system but in that Anime(which If I remember correctly it's on Netflix) they dig into what was growing up in Japan in the 80s before the time skip and in the 90s after the time skip with a MC that is a videogame game fan which besides having a Famicom also buys a PC-Engine (even the portable version of the PC Engine is shown) but Arcade's games(especially Street Fighter II) has a big spotlight. It's a great show

@ericmsandoval 2 жыл бұрын

Good LORD. 95% if this video is just him staring at a box. Silent Rob absolutely nailed the parody of him.

@leojamesjenner8808 4 жыл бұрын

when you said Dragon Spirit, it revived a very deep and distant memory... i wonder if it's the first game I ever played on the arcade...

@alastairward2774 4 жыл бұрын

The original console was one of those things I learned about through the Special Reserve catalogue, a thing of wonder. That's both the catalogue and the PC Engine as a thing of wonder. From the name I thought it was some sort of super stripped down PC that would only play games.

@zemaj0 4 жыл бұрын

Did actually see the official UK release in hamleys in London when I was a kid

@shezlatic1636 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve got one of the pal TurboGrafx consoles, new in box. They popped up on eBay a few years ago for around £100. Must’ve been a warehouse find.

@alynicholls3230 2 жыл бұрын

so thats where they went!.

@brianoconnell6459 4 жыл бұрын

When having bars on the top and bottom of the game, and why people would want to stretch it to fill the full screen? I have to remind you there was a time when they had letterbox movies and had to have a disclaimer stating those black spaces were normal. Which means somewhere there were thousands or millions of people bugging video release companies screaming that their video tapes were defective.

@KurosakiYukigo 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of people do not understand how aspect ratios or indeed any kind of cinematography work. Video camera puts image on magic box, why does magic box not have full image, that not how vision work. One of the first rules of developing for the public is: don't assume anybody knows anything. At all.

@zdaviation 4 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing it in Special Reserve adverts in PC Format or Sega Power, but never saw one in the wild.

@IanC14 4 жыл бұрын

Special Reserve, now that's a blast from the past.

@TheGreatestPlayerInTheWorld 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this at 11.48 pm good on you ashens

@smithy2692 4 жыл бұрын

I love that although I have not a single clue what any of these retro gaming consoles are I still watch every video.

@Meximagician 4 жыл бұрын

2:46 So it would have been the sort of thing one would have found only after some sort of... _quest,_ perhaps?

@LashettePSO2 3 жыл бұрын

Snatcher I believe is on the sega CD, I recall playing it a long time ago.

@matthewlister3755 4 жыл бұрын

Been playing the crap out of my Turbografx 16 mini that I got here in the states. This console was pretty rare when I was growing up so I'm glad that this time around I didn't have to ride my bicycle four miles to my buddy Eric's house to play it.

@thesteelrodent1796 21 күн бұрын

I remember seeing the TurboGrafx in catalogues when I was little-ish. Before this video I didn't know it was related to the PC Engine

@chadschmaltz9790 4 жыл бұрын

As soon as I saw Rondo of Blood listed, I was sold.

@Sergeantmajormario 4 жыл бұрын

The Ys series started out on the PC Engine and is a series that's still going, with it's most recent entry, Ys IX coming out last year on the PS4 in Japan only. It's not a well known series to many, I mean Ys VIII sold a combined sales number of 800,000 units on PS4 and Switch and that was the best selling one apparently. I got introduced into the series with the 8th game on Switch, a good introduction if you want to play something more modern, I do recommend it

@medes5597 4 жыл бұрын

Ys has a very devoted cult in the west. Not well known generally but within a certain group, its beloved.

@GiordanDiodato 3 жыл бұрын

Ys actually started on the PC-88, a Japan-only home computer made by NEC.

@Sergeantmajormario 3 жыл бұрын

@@GiordanDiodato thank you for the correction

@RondoOfBloodX 4 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough the Turbo Express was my intro to TGFX 16. So that's the way I know the games best.

@thething2112 4 жыл бұрын

Talking about Bomberman, my favourite version of Bomberman is Atomic Bomberman as it uses voice actors such as the people who did the voices for Cow and Chicken.

@HAL_NOVEMILA 4 жыл бұрын

Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams is the shoot 'em up in which you play as a little witch... BTW my favourite in the series is Panorama Cotton

@medes5597 4 жыл бұрын

He mentioned cotton, that's not what he means. He means Magical Chase, one of the rarest and most expensive PC Engine games.

@GilliamSL 4 жыл бұрын

Snatcher is an amazing game still play my Mega CD version every couple of years

@KernelLeak 4 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, that brings back memories - my dad bought an import PC engine when I was around 12 or so, even though he didn't speak a word of Japanese - and neither did/do I. Didn't stop a friend of mine and me to play through all of Final Lap Twin and Dungeon Explorers in Japanese... oh, and the original Kato & Ken (which IIRC was the Japanese launch title that came with the console), wondering what strange minds that game had crawled out from... (Also, we played endless games of Moto Roader with 2 controllers - at least we had great fun with it, so there... :P)

@Silver_wind_1987_ 3 жыл бұрын

And now we have translators so even more fun :3

@DaveMcGarry 4 жыл бұрын

I always wanted the PC Engine and CD-ROM ad on when I saw it around 1989 in an issue of C&VG magazine... Never got one then as I didn't know how to import stuff.. but I intend on getting one from Japan at some point!

@VirtuallyReality 4 жыл бұрын

Gateball is baiscally croquet, there's a whole scene for it in Japan. It's called gate-ball because there are gates through which one must yeet a ball. There are more rules but I've never stayed awake long enough to remember any.

@Caluma122 9 ай бұрын

Never played TurboGrafx etc, but really enjoyed this video. Cheers Stuart.

@DoomedTVNlolzatyou 4 жыл бұрын

Some more screen capture would of been good, especially during you listing off the games.

@Frellyouall 4 жыл бұрын

This is why I turned off the video halfway through.

@TheSmart-CasualGamer 4 жыл бұрын

I assume you're both new here. Ashens never shows screen capture for the games on mini-consoles, even on the C64 Mini.

@MuchWhittering 4 жыл бұрын

Why would you need that? This isn't a review of those games. They play fine, that's all you need to know.

@CorneliousRR 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else notice that Ashens spat on the box half way through looking at all the games on the back? XD

@michaelkitchin9665 4 жыл бұрын

I might go on the lookout for one. I have no point of reference so it's the first mini console that's completely fresh to me.

@_Uh_Oh_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the review!

@THENAMEISQUICKMAN 4 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite out of the mini consoles right now, just barely ahead of the Mega Drive Mini. Pretty much every game is passable at worst and there are a lot of fantastic classics on there. Plus, I'm a total sucker for easter eggs, so the fact it has a couple secret games as well as modified versions of regular ones on top of the great presentation makes it a winner in my book.

@BhuvanGoduguchintaRaja Жыл бұрын

I hate it nothing special

@russianbot8576 3 жыл бұрын

gods what a lovely UI! been playing PCE on my playstation classic sometimes lately and i'm surprised at the all around niceness of the platform. but i found dungeon explorer on the mega CD first~~

@FredCheckers 4 жыл бұрын

It's unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be any provision for sideloading fan translations.

@jonw5824 4 жыл бұрын

As soon as you mention Gunhed when talking about Blazing Lazers I was instantly transported back to my childhood, picking that terrible movie from my brothers VHS collection to watch when he wouldn't let me watch the Guyver anime. Complete forgot it existed.

@blakeb106 4 жыл бұрын

Adventure Island was the nes port of the first Adventure Island game. That spawned the Adventure Island series.

@JosephConner121 4 жыл бұрын

25:38, someone might have mentioned it already, but I believe the game you're looking for is Magical Chase. Fantastic SHMUP. Personally, I'm a little preferably to Star Parodier and Blazing Lazers, but they're all fantastic times.

@hayesmaker64 4 жыл бұрын

Ninja Spirit on C64 is a Chris Butler master piece

@TwesomE 4 жыл бұрын

Is the classic mini i put my eye on the most,because i never played that much of a pc engine-turbografx and as i can see has also a pretty cool selection in general.And it is a great opportunity to have on my hands one of those classic minis since i do not own a single one of those!

@freddiejohnson6137 4 жыл бұрын

I remember back in the early 90s see reviews and articles on the games in Computer and Video games magazine and then seeing their prices in the importers advertising section and wondering why it was so expensive. Obviously not knowing about region differences or anything until the N64 days. But it does say a lot when in Europe you were much more likely to see a Neo Geo in the wild than one of these and like you I didn't even know until a few years back that it actually was released in Pal regions.

@XrisD147 4 жыл бұрын

I bought the paperback of Terrible old games on amz and i bought ashens and the quest for the game child on dvd, cant seem to get hold of the blu ray one. I love yur yt content, i look forward to each new video. Thanks.

@spartonberry 4 жыл бұрын

35:29 What is odd about Ninja Ryuukenden is that it actually has a cheat code to change the game to a secret English or Chinese localization of the game (odd that Hudson Soft didn't release it in the west on the Wii VC, even though they printed the code on their old VC PCE site so they were aware of it, and such they could've easily rereleased it). And the English is actually different from the NES version. Which is weird they'd bother for something few probably would've seen back in the day.

@theenemy333 4 жыл бұрын

Wasnt there an arcade version of Parasol Stars that was just the pc-engine version with credits? Or am I confusing it with another console port to arcade like Fantasy Zone 2?