SUPER GRAFX REVIEW - Happy Console Gamer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- Johnny re-reviews the Super Grafx review he did 11 years ago..
The PC Engine SuperGrafx (PCエンジンスーパーグラフィックス Pī Shī Enjin SūpāGurafikkusu), also known as simply the SuperGrafx, is a home video game console manufactured by NEC Home Electronics and released in Japan and France in 1989. It is the successor system to the PC Engine, released two years prior. Originally known as the PC Engine 2 during production stages, it was purported as a true 16-bit home console, featuring improved graphics and audio capabilities over its predecessor.
The console was rushed to market, released several months before its initial release date of 1990, only having modest updates to the hardware. With only six retail games released that took advantage of the console's hardware updates, the SuperGrafx was a commercial failure, selling only 75,000 units total in both regions. None of the hardware advancements it possessed were carried over to NEC's later consoles, such as the TurboDuo.
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Johnny's talks about the pc engine/Turbografx is what got me to fall in love with this channel and also got me into ys which is now one of my favorite video game series
Same here. I never knew what Y's was before I started watching him.
I randomly got y’s when I was a kid and was blown away
@J A M to get started I reccomend playing Ys Book 1 and 2 for the turbografx cd as they're enhanced ports of the first 2 games (not Chronicles they removed the professional voice acting and they cheaped out on the music) and actually they have a unique way of attacking by bumping into enemies and not swinging a sword
I could listen to this man talk about anything i swear. The passion he has for all these old machines and games never ceases to amaze me
you probably dont give a damn but does anyone know of a trick to log back into an Instagram account??
I somehow lost the login password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me
I remember checking out the Super GrafX at the Ultimate Game Club in Connecticut back in '89 or thereabouts. Granzort was the game they had running on it and it looked incredible for the time. The parallax scrolling was what set it apart for me. I captured some footage on my camcorder while I was there for the little cable access TV show I had at the time!
Back in 89? Are you sure it was so long ago?
@@honestguy7764 89 or 90 that's about the timeframe
I worked at a video game store In Hawaii in 1989 that sold imported games and consoles and I remember when we got this in, I wanted it so bad but it was expensive and I only got a 5% employee discount... lol
@@CAPCOM784 I wish I still had it, my mother gave it away when I went in to the Army back in 91.....
Did he also sell the games or just the system?
I ABSOLUTELY loved this video! There is something chilling about the PCEngine, Super Grafx, and the PCFX that I can never place my finger on. Thanks for this!
Side note: I'd love to see 1080p uoloads of your old videos as I have been watching since that era.
And that's why I love emulation. Most of these games would be totally unplayable by most people with such abussive prices.
Anyway, loved this review. It's nice to see such a positive and passionate production.
Lol I watched your original years ago!! You were one of the first to even talk about this relatively rare system! Keep up the great work and love for everything turbo!
The video description triggered me at first. You say you're gonna review the old review you did, but I expected you just to do another review of the console itself instead. i was getting ready to PWN you in the comments section! Give you a real what-for! But then the first thing you did was review your old review, so I couldn't. Damn it John!
You gotta bring in Dogi the Wall-Crusher to get revenge!
I will wait for Game Sacks Re-review of the Super Grafx!
Game Sack best Millenial snowflake comment I’ve read in a while.
I remember finding your channel because I was searching for videos on Turbografx stuff back 10 years ago. This was a really cool look back at the Supergrafx. I am really happy that the TG16 mini has made you revisit your passion for the console! I am so excited for all the Turbo-Talk!
Love your passion for these systems! As a kid, no one I knew had the pc engine or turbo grafx. You really introduced me to this system and taught me everything I now know about them. Definitely getting the mini, but I'm actively looking for a turbo grafx duo or pc engine to add to my console collection! Thanks Johnny!
Yeah this console was definitely a rarity. I only ever saw it once. My parents took us on a trip to North Carolina to visit my Aunt Donna and her family and my Cousin had one. I was too little to really be able to play games well, but I remember watching my older brother and him playing Splatterhouse.
Looking so much forward playing Turbografx games again. As well love you redid your Supergfx review!!
You're the one who introduced me to the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx and I've always been fascinated by the console ever since
This episode is a testament to how dedicated you are to your passion of gaming in general
Thank you for your wonderful content
I want to see a clean shaven Johnny once again, bring back the oldskool look.. #WithoutTheBandana
Mr lean.
Kim will never let me shave it!
@@HappyConsoleGamer lol Whatever makes you guy's happy, as long as you keep bringing these epic video's, i'm happy.
BTW Johnny thanks for introducing me to bitmaps, you got me loving books again:-))
#RememberMeanMachinesMagazines
@@HappyConsoleGamer Booooo cmon Johnny!
@@HappyConsoleGamer i gotta say the current look is best. Kim knows!
watching your videos on sunday helps me getting more positive for the working week thats coming lol
Thanks for sharing. Thinking about getting a supergrfx myself soon. Surprising this didn't take off at least in Japan, where the pc engine had been so popular, as a competitor of the snes and genesis.
Fascinating! Thanks for doing this video.
Great video! I finally bought into the PC Engine this year with my purchase of a Duo-R. I’d love to play the Super Grafx games, but the price for entry is too high to not get the CD based games.
So I’m really happy that I’ll get to play Ghouls n’ Ghosts and Aldyne on the TG16 mini! I really wish we could get 1941 on the minis as well, but beggars can’t be choosers.
I was the only kid in my neighborhood with a TurboGrafx. Whenever I saw the SuperGrafx in a magazine, I was so jealous. I eventually bought a SuperGrafx. Definitely a gem in my collection.
Love the footage of your old review - Mate, you look like you're on a 'make a wish' list! :P
I was lucky enough to get a Supergrafx and the 5 games for £250 about 10 years ago. My favourite system ever!
Funny you posted this today as I posted about Aldynes earlier on Instagram.
Awsome video Johnny! Thank u
Awesome! I remember reading about these in Video Games & Computer Entertainment .
Johnny, Love the video. Keep em coming!
Amazing that you have Darius mail order . I had the SG in the mid 90'a , and that one was difficult to find. Once shuttle too!
Thank you so much for doing this review! Supergrafx is king
Great stuff--your old SuperGrafx video was the first time I'd heard of it and it led me to pick one up. They've gone up a bit in price since then :)
@@arioca Yeah, I learned about it from GameFan, they loved covering PC Engine and SuperGrafx in their imports section. That's why I gave buying Dracula X a shot, the first import I ever bought for $85 with shipping.
Thanks your enthusiasm for the trubographix 16 I am picking up a mini
Thanks for introducing us to bithead1000. Holy moly that dude is hilarious! Thanks for giving him a shout out.
I Enjoy your videos. This is making me want the 16 Mini
Any day with a new PC Engine video from HappyConsoleGamer is a great day!
Awesome review John!
This channel is great! One thing you need to do Johnny, and quickly...is to review The Ninja Warriors Once Again (yes, it hasn't been released yet, but it looks amazing from the previews so far.) I never get tired of listening to Daddy Mulk. Do Zuntata a solid and review it A.S.A.P.!!!
Fantastic review!
Grandzort seemed like a sequel to keith courage and battle ace was like a better air diver.
And the SG design was meant to resemble the top of an "engine" block.
Great Video Johnny - I was in Germany but I saw the same picture of the Super Grafx in the German video game magazine called "Video Games" in 1990 & I was as memorized as you :). The Super Grafx is also home of the rarest accessoire called "Power Console". It was a flight stick that you slide over the complete Super Grafx & Battle Ace was the game that was supposed to be played with it. The "Power Console" was never released but there were 2 - 3 prototypes made. There are pictures of it online if you look for them - god knows what happened to them. You could get Darius Alpha by sending in the coupons from the Darius Plus + Super Darius manuals. A complete copy of Darius Alpha has an envelope, a Japanese written "Thank You" letter from Taito / NEC and Darius Alpha 3D glasses.
Turbografx? Never heard of her!
It’s funny I actually watched the OG video recently. Looking forward to this.....
Probably the most baffling choice in a console aesthetic I've ever seen.
I saw it at a pawn shop and thought it was some automotive part. Lol
Gotta love those fake hex bolts on the top.
I remember watching your original SuperGrafx review back when it came out. You could have fooled me about the footage not being from a capture device. Well, maybe not, but it looks a heck of a lot better than most camera-recorded footage I've seen on TH-cam.
My very first HCG video I watched was that SuperGrafx video. Only I watched it 6 years ago, not 11.
so rad... im too stoked for the turbo mini, cant wait. it comes out on my birthday
Great video Johnny. Insane how prices have changed. What a shame they didn’t support this system.
You're incredibly lucky to have a complete in box one, ultra rare system you have there brother.
Absolutely. Very hard to find them with the box and the manual at that!!
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Awesome review, thanks !
Great Re-review! I didn’t know it was backwards compatible with regular PCE games! That’s cool! It’s such a shame the system didn’t really take off like the pc engine did :( it could have been a great system!
We’ve been playing the Super Grafx version of Ghouls N Ghosts a lot recently and we love it! It’s a superb version 👍
OMG, I just noticed your Jacket! awesome! I'm an insane Robotech / Macross fan!
I absolutely love the design of this console, it looks so cool
I'm a happy Gamer viewer. Cool looking bit of kit. ⚡👾✌️
You got a lot of love in the Sarumaru live stream last night! #SaruCrew
Love the music from Ikaruga in the background
Great video Johnny, the Super Grafx has such a awesome design like a car engine or futuristic spaceship part. One thing i've been wondering for a while though, why the hate for the bandana? I thought it looked cool when I started watching your videos in 2008.
Kudos on using Silver Lining from the Eschatos OST! :D
and don't forget the importance of credit card sized games you could walk down to your friend's with a pocket full of games John
daniel hulson And also lose
This is so cool. Because of BitHead1000 and the upcoming Turbo/PC Engine mini im about to buy the PC Engine Duo R or RX. I 've already purchased my first 4 games and they are on the way, Image Fight, Final Soldier, Super Star Soldier and Nexzr.
Absolutely love your videos! Hello from Wakefield (yes, THAT Wakefield!)
Good ol Wakefield !
Repping Dewsbury road!
It’s crazy how much younger he looks now. Damn just by cutting smoking out!
i always dream about owning this bad boy back in the days, i will keep staring at it for hours whenever i see it in the shop, good old days :)
Now it's selling for up to a $1000... :(
Great stuff!
Back then...ie: 16 years ago from now, TH-cam's were often 240p to 360/480p max. Also, I purchased my Supergrafx simply because I love the NEC console and love the look.
Great update to a great video.
I had a Turbografx growing up and all of this is new to me.
Hi Johnny, big fan here, I love your videos. I was just wondering what your thoughts were on the Polymega. Do you like the idea? Is it something you would be interested in getting? I'd love to see a video discussing it. Thanks for doing what you do.
Anybody know what specific tool to use in order to open the supergrafx? I tried a 3.8 amd 4.5 mm gamebit screwdriver and neither fit. The 4.5 mm is still too small. Thanks...
The main character in Granzort throws a rocket powered skateboard and then jumps on it to ride it into a huge robot that he then telepathically controls and fights monsters. That show was freaking awesome, man!
What’s the first original PC Engine game shown in the video that looks sort of like Legendary Axe 1? At least the background do. Tnx!
Never owned a TurboGrafx / PCEngine. But it definitely had a unique library.
I remember having just asked for an import Megadrive for Christmas and wishing I'd requested this instead! Thank God I didn't. It looked so cool at the time, like it was lifted from the deck of the Nostromo. But nah, the Megadrive was the best looking retro console of them all. And it had Ghouls N' Ghosts, Strider and Super Shinobi, my three fav platformers ever.
It was the ORIGINAL mid-cycle system refresh. I remember seeing one in a Japanese import shop in Toronto the weekend we went to see WWF Wrestlemania VI. Battle Ace was running and it looked great for the time with the scaling graphics that had just the smallest hint of Space Harrier. Damn that trip was like a 1990 time capsule. We also saw the first TMNT movie in the theater as well as played the NEO GEO OG Fatal Fury. What a weekend. But I digress, that is the one machine that is on my bucketlist. It's design is Metal as HELL.
I just bought a new in box unused Supergrafx while I was in Japan. It was expensive but it’s my holy grail console.
My favorite console of all time: I’m a huge PC Engine fan and collector. And the Supergrafx is the cursed child of the family!
When we see the improvement of quality between a late 80s and a mid-90s PC Engine game, we can only imagine how good a mid-90s Supergrafx game would have been!
And remember, it is only an 8bit system!
PS: what killed it is the PC Engine CD Rom.. a family murder!
Very informative, thanks! Hello from Moscow!
Cool video!
Still love my collection
Johnny, how did you get your copy of Darius Alpha?
That was a fun look at the system. One of the weirdest things about the SuperGrafx that I found in reading about it, and something that not a lot of people seem to know about, is that those few games didn't all come out at launch or shortly after. It appears they were stretched out over a period of a bit less than two years. 1941 is listed with an August 1991 release date. Aldynes was also in 1991 based on available info. What a strange way they handled the marketing of the system. I guess they wanted the machine's potential to be its selling point. The SGX is cool to see though. It's the PC Engine with a second true background layer and more sprites, so it could have done some interesting and impressive things. That second background layer looks really nice in Daimakaimura and Granzort. Unlike you, I had very low expectations for Granzort(I didn't see the art in advance), so I came away from that game pleasantly surprised. But I agree with you, it's an okay game and has its flaws, but I still like it a lot for some reason. Again, low expectations didn't hurt. Anyway, I just wanted to share those bits to add even more context to the odd case of the SuperGrafx. I do with we could have seen the machine pushed further. Thanks for sharing, HCG.
You've been getting excited Johnny? You're hyping us all up Lol. I've pre ordered my Core Grafx from Amazon yesterday. Cant wait.
Thank you for your videos HAPPY CONSOLE GAMER YOU ARE THE MAN :)!!!
Johnny, would you ever make a second channel to upload all of your old videos in HD?
Man that Strider would of been killer. So remember those pics in the mags bitd.
I remember wanting this just for The Ghouls and Ghosts game!
The PC Engine sounds like a console I would have really enjoyed...if it had been available at all for me to purchase back then. The upcoming mini-version is interesting as long as you can...."enhance" it with more games (especially fan translations). Interestingly, that Ghouls n Ghosts cover art looks a LOT like a YAS drawing; I mean that Arthur is a carbon copy of Ramba Ral from Gundam after all.
Man, what is that music when you're talking about Mado King Granzort? It's from some STG that I know I've played, but it escapes me
Nevermind, it's Escatos level 1. great game
Love it!!
If you get the Super SD System 3 flash device, u can plug it onto supergrafx, then what you can do on an sd card is you can playh every tg16/pc engine crdf game and cd game, and every arcade card game, and every supergrafx game, alll on a single smicro sd v card. I have the SSDS3 plugged into my core grafx. It is amazing.
Ikaruga ost in the back i love it
It sucks that this consoles potential is collecting dust. A really solid homebrew community could really bring this console to the forefront of the retro scene. Imagine more fighting games, rpgs, cool shmups etc. that really push its hardware limitations.
Great video! Why does the supergrafx make me think of a flat 6 engine?
Whenever I go get gas at Esso here up in Canada I see NEC's logo on the tills up front and I smirk because it's kinda sad knowing the people that made the Turbografx-16 are now working at Esso today to pay bills
DAMN!!! I have all the SGFX games except Darius Alpha. :O
oh my God i almost shit my pants when you pulled out Darius Alpha!!
If only the Power Console came out for the SGX. It was meant to be a huge Steel Battalion-esque steering wheel/flight yoke that you plugged the SGX into like an engine. It was no surprise that it was shaped like an engine in the first place.
Sadly even though pictures have surfaced of the controller it was never meant to be.
Always thought the SuperGrafx mold design was pretty great. I liked how Hudson/NEC conducted all these mold design experiments making so many different variants like the PC Engine Shuttle, CoreGrafx, etc. I wonder how great all PCE games would've been if they waited just a bit to release the SuperGrafx first, which is a PCE at its core but with 2 sprite/background layers instead of 1... It would've lasted longer, competed at both 8/16-bit levels comfortably against Nintendo & others.
Have you played Cosmic Fantasy 2? Awesome Turbo Graf RPG brought to the west by Working Designs, you won't be disappointed, the story is epic, voice acting is on key, and the graphics and music were amazing for their time.
Well, Darius Plus has less flickering when you play it on the Super Grafx, and that's it, no visual enhancements apart of that.
看過您的翻譯影片
真希望有人能多翻譯您的影片
我喜歡看你的影片
因為你介紹遊戲的時候眼睛都是閃閃發光
你是真心熱愛遊戲的玩家
1080p in 2008?? Man, you were pretty ahead of the time then! Maybe it's time for 4k ;)
They should release a Supergrafx Mini with all 5 games plus Darius! :)
Love your passion but still wanting a top 10 Nintendo ds list !!!
This is my jam