Gotta say that I really like your enthusiasm. That love for shmups is contagious.

Great review man! I've seen a lot of those reviewers that are like "I've never had a TG16 growing up but my buddy did" and "are these games even relevant anymore?" I feel sorry for people that never experienced these games. Keep up the great work!

So glad to have a proper in depth review of the PCE mini! I was sad with other YT videos saying Lord of Thunder has many issue, thank god it's not true!:) Awesome job man.

Nearly 6 months later, and this is STILL the best, freshest retro mini console review. Thanks Shmup Junkie!

I've just discovered your channel and absolutely love your videos, thank you for the time and effort and pure passion you put into them. The second you called the people who hate emulation 'pricks' I knew this was the right place for me 😄

I am sad this channel flew under my radar for so long , but I am glad I am here now. The intro had me rolling on the floor haha. Great video. Looking forward to binging your entire uploads playlist.

Great review! Looking forward to seeing part 2. It's really nice to get an authentic review from someone that is passionate about all things PC Engine/TG16 and not just from a casual or from someone full of negative energy. I absolutely love my Mini and have no regrets about getting it. I agree we are very fortunate to have this in the first place. I'm so grateful. This is from someone who collects original hardware too.

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed Part 1. It's nice to see someone properly review the console that they grew up with and loved. Looking forward to Part 2 👍

It’s been a while since I watched this and bought my core graphx mini. Now I’ve played numerous pc engine games and love the system, might be my favorite, close second favorite system. I re watch this every now and then, it takes me back to a couple years ago, I love the enthusiasm. This video just makes me feel excited, thanks

Love how passionate u are with shmups. I’m not pro or anything but I have a blast playing n try to get the old classics that release on switch. Most Shooters on PC Engine art style still hold up today with colours that pop out.

The most surreal thing to know is Tony Hawk was the one who made the "What do you think about Lords of Thunder" video. That was his voice.

I’ve wanted a PC Engine since I was 15 years old and back then it would have been impossible to get one. Not only didn’t it release in my region importing games back then was almost impossible as well. So imagine my joy and excitement when I 31 years later finally got to play it! It’s by far my favorite mini console and I’m so happy to finally get to experience the fantastic game library that the PC Engine has to offer. And I got to say I just love your channel. Such an inspiring and fun way to learn about classic shooters.

This guy’s energy is amazing. I died laughing at “elitist prick” keep up the great work and thank you for making my day!!

Your love and passion for this system and its library is inspiring and infectious! Congratulations on this huge success, it's clearly a labor of love and I really appreciate the supreme effort you're putting into this!

..oh my! just found you. someone after my own heart who *LOVES* shooters. Never had a PC Engine when I was younger but lusted after one (here in UK, you had to import one as it or ots games were not available easily, and hence a massive cost). Loving the mini engine too.

Coming from a guy that had a tg-16 growing up, having the first CD unit in town and a duo I can totally appreciate you and where this review is coming from. Love that you don’t pull any punches and have a real love for the system. Keep up the good work and you got another fan today. Great video.

Blazing Lasers is the perfect starter schmup. It's starts out really easy, but fast, smooth, and with a cool power up system. It's the shooter that got me into playing shooters recently

Picked up a Core Grafx Mini from Amazon Japan last year after watching MadLittlePixel's review. I didn't pick up a Turbo Grafx 16 growing up but it was always in my view but it was out of my reach. I'm so happy I have it now and discovering all these shooters I missed growing up.

I finally found my home! I chose the TG16 as my 6th grade graduation present over the Genesis and SNES, and loved the shit out of it. About a year or so ago, I tracked down a decently-priced/conditioned TG16 with the multi-tap and arcade stick, the dozen or so games I had as a kid (and a few more) in their cases, the RGB mod, modded my back cover to fit the RGB mod, got an Everdrive with all the games, and a 19" Sony PVM to play 'em on. Some of the best money I've ever spent! I was a huge Blazing Lazers and R-type fan, but had no idea there were so many amazing SHMUPS on it. Flirted with getting some of the originals myself for a while, but couldn't justify the prices... and they've doubled since! The TurboGrafx 16 is criminally underrated. I'm so glad I found this channel.

Takumi Senpai here! You read it already from all the guys...the love poured in this review shows for itself...and it’s so inspiring I may be aiming to improve my pc engine collection! Congrats on a job well done!

By far the best, most in depth PC Engine Mini review on KZfaq. 👍

I've always loved the pc engine shooters. I absolutely love my Turbo Duo. I started playing these games on an original turbo with a CD attachment.

Still watching your videos, my only regret so far is that it took my this long to find your channel.

Loving my Coregrafx mini. Had to order it from France, but got a great price! I’m so happy to have this and the Genesis mini.

I'm insanely thankful for your hard work on this review! The detailed info and insight are invaluable and wholly unique to this video.

Coming back to older videos after watching your amazing mega drive compilation. Absolutely love how you tell it like it is to the hardware/rasberry pi and lag snobs out there. You tell 'em Junkie, and keep tellin' em! We got your back.

That intro rocks hard dude. Lol.

I love the menus and all the cool touches M2 put in, but I already have a MiSTer running on a real old school CRT (no filters needed!) so can't justify buying one. Thanks for the cool video!

What can I say....I don't watch many YT videos, but was really looking forward to this based on your previews and you didn't disappoint! It was highly entertaining and provided great info. One KZfaqr to another, sound work with editing as well my man! Great work!

Still watching this video and still enjoying my PC Engine mini. Thank you for talking me into buying one.

R-type is the game that got me into shmups. It is the only shooter that I’ve beaten without dying, through extensive practice and research and it is my preferred kind of shoot em’ up where memorization is key. Great video, love the passion you have for the turbo grafx

You are probably around my age and remember a TG-16 reviews list on the internet by TurboKid. That's me! Good work on this video!

Excellent as always , I think you’ve convinced me to get one after all . First games I got with my original Engine in late 1988 : R-Type & Galaga ‘88 ......and they , amongst others. still get played more than my current generation stuff ! Although that Cotton Reboot is getting a lot of attention ...

Great review. And funny. You can really feel the passion coming through on how much you love PCE and shooting games. Final bit about Lords of Thunder was funny as hell.

I enjoy seeing other gamers take on the TurboGrafx-16. As a TG-16 owner from original launch I experienced much joy with the console and games along with a great deal of frustrations due to NEC’s atrocious handling of the console outside of Japan. They even fumbled when TTI took over with distribution etc when NEC bowed out by denying TTI’s requests for PC Engine ports sealing its fate in North America or anywhere else in the world. USA had about 1/6th of the games released vs Japan so most of the greatest titles remained in Japan unless you were in the know and fortunate enough to import the PC Engine system and games or a converter to play them in your TG-16. Regardless many require translations which were difficult at the time or just playing games via trial and error. So many mistakes were made but in short NEC Japan wasn’t committed to success outside of Japan. I believe packing in Legendary Axe or R-Type with the console would have been a much better choice than Keith Courage as it just didn’t do the console justice TBPH. I still have my TurboGrafx-16, TurboDuo & Turbo Express from the 90’s and cherish the times I had and sill have playing games on them.

I was not sure about to buy this core graph mini or a generic emulation console with 1500 games. Then I saw this video. And now I'm happy core graph mini is in my collection. Thanks for this great video!

Man the PC engine is super innovative. It's like having a rare gem. The underdog with way more potential and not built for the mainstream. It was made with us rebels in mind

Such a great video! You know your stuff and put a lot of work into this. The editing is smooth. It's great to see people I follow on Instagram making content for KZfaq. I was watching the progress of this in your IG stories.

Epic old reference with the Lucky Goldstar, did you know that's today's LG? Also, LoT Turbo guy is my favorite thing ever!!

Great review! Love your personal reflections as one growing up with the system. You had me hitting up Amazon to buy one in the middle of the video. Won’t be available here in Europe until December but I’m definitely going for it.

Thank you for the enthusiasm for this great console which I missed growing up. I've set up the PS Classic Mini (finally something to do with this sorry excuse of a mini by Sony) for PCE games to get in to the groove of them and looking forward to getting the Duo from Analogue later this year. By the way, you are the first person to subscribe in all these years so that says a lot. Keep going!

Growing up I was a SEGA fanboy, and my friends were team Nintendo. I totally took the TG16 for granted, but I'm trying to make up for lost time now. Absolutely an underrated console! I've spent a lot more time with the TG16 mini than the Genesis or SNES mini. So many great games!

I got the TurboGrafx version, didn't even know what this system was, I just collect these minis, and I loved it. reviews I seriously have a new favorite channel :)

Yo I'm someone who didn't grow up with these games and is just discovering them now. I really appreciate your passion and love for this, makes me want to take a hit of the shmup crack pipe haha

This is such a spirited review. I really appreciate the passionate perspective.

You really give a nice... Breath of fresh air to this system! I might need to get one. I feel like I have nostalgia for the PCE even though I never had one as a kid. I've only emulated some games, never played the actual system. It's like a time capsule of 80's/90's goodness and it has a different flavor than its competition at the time. It's hard to pin point.

Dude you've single-handedly rekindled my love of shmups after getting a PC Engine mini 😎

Thanks for taking the time to put this video together. I'm sold!

I agree, the input lag, audio lag, it's missing a few staple games, blah blah, but for me it's great! Just play the games! Introduced me to all new stuff! I only had one neighbor with Turbografx growing up and only played it 2 times. Yeah, I could emulate them all, but I like the plug and play factor because it feels more authentic than downloading bios and rom files. Thanks for the video and the love of the games! People complain about NeoGeo mini too. Yeah, it's got flaws with the video output, but we used to play on VHF Ch3 via RF and that was totally fine because it was for the love of playing.

Dude your content is so fucking good. It's a breath of fresh air. You can really feel your enthusiasm for the PC Engine and its incredible library of shooters. I found your videos from the Capcom Arcade one and I'm loving how consistently detailed and full of knowledge they are. This is the good shit. And now I've played Spriggan for the first time tonight and oh fuck was it good.

Great video. Wish this was longer.

7:18 I NEED this on a shirt😂😂😂

That intro... if that's not how you play Lords of Thunder, you're just not playing Lords of Thunder. Live life to the fullest!

I've been playing TG16 games a lot lately, and watching videos on the console. Your video appeared so I am watching this again. This little console did turn me into a SHMUP Junkie. I'm still not good at them, but they are a lot of fun.

Dude. You're an absolute Nutjob. I love it! Thank you. I am going to get one of these badboys. Have recently doughed out thousands of dollars on classic and modern shooters, and im addicted. Keep the videos coming Man!

love your videos! you bring a lot of knowledge and enthusiasm to these videos and i appreciate it a lot only a hand full of channels do this kind of stuff

Dude you're nuts. Much respect for that pipe in the beginning of the video 🤣

Having never heard about this growing up [im 37] i had both snes and genesis I have all the mini consoles, and i love the TG16 mini. Booting it up is like walking into an arcade! I love it! The graphics and the sound of the games are great, and sound and play different than either genesis or snes! Ps, using only rf as a kid (i didnt know better) the filter looks fine to me/the genesis looks right with it, too bright without it.

Your first 5 minutes reflect exactly what I was thinking about other reviews. Lol like I needed reviews anyways. I preorded minutes after it was up in Japan.

Your style is awesome! 😍😎🔥

Love this! That Chris Tang guy and Coury from my life in gaming started this “lag” BS, they are original hardware elitists just trying to justify their ancient plastic. I’ve been playing these games for 30 years on original hardware, they play the same. Nobody can tell, anyone who says otherwise is full of shit!

Excellent video bro, think I'm gonna play some shoot 'em up's today because of you

I was already a fan of shooters before, but you, sir, made me into a junkie with just a puff of the shooter crackpipe

Great review! I have loved discovering the PC Engine. I bought one for my nephews and 1 for myself.

When I was a kid we (my brothers and I) had a SNES, and in Mexico was Sega vs Nintendo, I only saw a Turbografx 16 once in a game store and never again, I thought it was a pirate version of a Genesis or SNES with a bizarre bootleg Mario running.... The time passed and, oooh boy, was I wrong... I don't regret nothing, but here I am, almost 30 years later still exploring the 16 bit generation, and as an emulation entusiast I'm so happy this console existed yet so sad it didn't had enought market on the west, is a weird nostalgic feeling of what i didn't knew at the time. Loving it a lot and thankful with youtubers like you that recomend games (freaking awsome games) for a system that is incredibly easy to emulate on a wide range of devices now. Having Blazing Lazers and Castlevania on my pocket and in mi desktop pc is as cool as it gets.

I love my Turbografx Mini. I am so grateful Konami even bothered let alone actually shipped it

Thank you for the upload! Definitely worth getting if you are in to shootrs!

Love your vids! I grew up in this era of games myself and even though I lived in OC once a month I would go to Japan Game Star and get a few game pick-ups. I miss Jim and his wife, hope they are doing well.

Great video, love your channel 😊

Just wrapped it up. Thank you for that entertaining review!

Excellent vid brother! Very thorough and informative 👍👍

The TG16/PCE had such mind blowing great titles! I wish I had one growing up. To be honest I didn’t know much about it at all growing up. Blazing Lasers is so good! Alien Crush and Devils Crush are great Pinball Games, Bonk Air Zonk them you go into the CD Library and you have the great Lords of Thunder. Too many to List. Great Review. Part 2 is up here we go!

The SNES mini has a 40sec. rewind function (unlike the PCE mini or Genesis mini) and it plays PCE games as well (all games up to PS1), the controller, equipped with 4 face- and 2 shoulder buttons, is also better, so it's definitely the best of the mini consoles.

Definitely the best mini having the CD-ROM games included. What the Sega Genesis mini should have been. The fact it's Konami makes it really awesome. Fantastic list of games. I always felt most of these games and ports were overlooked. I always liked the color palette and the look of the graphics of this console.

Gradius on PC Engine is a good port! Cool they included the grave yard stage of the MSX version on it. Salamander is a good PC Engine port too, shame it is not on the white PC Engine Mini.

Great work, explanation and edition. Respect for this effort.

I suck at shooters but mang you make it seem like I'm really missing out!

Years later i still feel my coregrafx mini ( european version ) is one the best mini consoles i've bought, and i'm a big fan of those !

Really good vid, nicely put together and spot on about the mini. Cracking little machine just like the original.

I actually got the Turbo Grafx 16 mini a few months back. Love it.

Looking forward to your next video! Showing some love for the tg16 mini ! Luv it!

I got the U.S. TG16 Mini, like it but two things bug me about it...the "non-cd " based games aren't big at all and I just think they could have loaded the entire collection on there and they didn't load GATE OF THINDER on there! that's what I wanted it for most of all LOVE THAT GAME! great vid man! GOD bless.

Great review that bithead1000 needs to watch. Looking forward for more great content 😍👏🏼

Air Zonk! My favorite Turbo game! Great review.

Amen! Thank you for saying what a lot of us old schoolers have been thinking. The quirks are part of the character of old games. I wish developers would put more focus on making games fun now, instead of ensuring that their games are historically accurate "because that take us out of the game". Puhleeese. All your base belong to us.

Looks like you already have PC Engine mini! Congrats!👏

I had a copy of that LoT Tony Hawk video back when I had a Duo. Fun stuff.

Awesome Video! I also had a tg16 when i was a kid in the 90s. what an awesome system. It is so crazy that we get to own these minis today, super cool stuff!

Amazing review. I guess having such a knowledge about shmups made this mini console perfect for you to review. Love my core grafx mini and played a lot on it and even bought the 5 tap adapter. Cheesing through rtype atm. Its just impressive to have very playable!!! Shmups on a emulation box. I also enjoyed your controller lag comparison. I play with a 8bitdo tg16 controller on my core grafx mini bc the og controller gets uncomfortable after a while. You should try the tg16 controller. The dpad is very very good. Better than the retrobit saturn controller imo.

Great video mate, well edited, thoroughly enjoyed it and full of great information about the product. This producty is for me 100% but right now I'm gonna need to save my pennies as the next purchase on my list is the original SPLATTERHOUSE HUE card, complete.

I think emulation is way better than original, cuz this way can run game at full speed, and has save states, and other cool things and settings that doesn't has original hardware, original hardware is better in one thing, and this is - nostalgia!

Emulation is also a great window into the system. After playing some PC Engine games this way, I realized that I *really* loved the PCE and went ahead and bought OG hardware. This console is unique, in that since the killer apps are fast-paced shooters, you *do* get a premium experience on OG hardware. It is sort of a wonder for computer nerds to play such snappy and chaotic games which were made in the EIGHTIES! Having all that said, nothing wrong with just playing emulation. It is just cool to have the ability to pay a little more for the thrill!

Love your video and you're totally right! Except for the PS mini, I have 'em all and the PC Engine (I have a Core Grafx) is my favorite! I don't have any issues with the 'input lag' at all.

I love this video. Pretty great to see you call out other people and, well, basically tell them to fuck off! :D However, you could've saved a lot of time rambling if you'd just started the video by saying "is it good quality? It was developed by M2", and then dropped the mic. XD

I've had the CoreGrafx Mini for nearly a year and only just noticed Cho Aniki !!!

So glad i found you!

My favorite Shooters on the 'Engine: R-TYPE (Arcade Port) Formation Armed F (Arcade Port) Image Fight (Arcade Port) GRADIUS (Arcade Port) DOWNLOAD (NEC AV Original) SPACE INVADERS (Arcade Port) There really aren't many bad ones, probably due to retaining the arcade pull and feel.

Best mini console review I've ever seen

100% agree with you here pal greetings from Dublin Ireland 🍀🇮🇪

LOL I don't think I've ever seen Shmup Junkie get pissed off! Awesome!