TurboGrafx 16 Games Hidden Gems 1
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- The TurboGrafx-16 or PC Engine in Japan was an amazing, powerful & fun gaming console that never quite found mainstream success in most of the world. However, game collectors know there are some great Hidden Gems on the system and Carlos is here to offer some suggestions.
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the turbografx 16 itself is a hidden gem!
really everything outside of Bonk is a hidden gem sorta
@@Rodzilla97 everything outside of bonk and splatterhouse
Yeh I agree!!!!! In Australia it was pretty much non existent hey. Obviously some people had it probably more foreigners and collectors? Like I remember this Japanese m8 I had in primary school and he had the metal Voltron which here in Australia we mainly had the plastic one. Sorry lol random thought. I love the PC Engine now! Playing the shit out of it!
From what I remember of the turbo grafx is that it had a great pac man world and adventure island. Of course bonk was king.
It didn’t have too many terrible games, I’ll give it that
For folks who aren't familiar with TG-16, you can think of Dungeon Explorer as five-player Gauntlet with heavier ARPG elements (exploration of distinct towns, dungeons, bosses) thrown in for good measure. It is truly a gem, with outstanding PSG tunes (every song is great)...and in STEREO...it was quite a nice thing to experience in 1989. I should add that all of the games featured in this video have great tunes. Sorry, comrades, but the Genesis/MD in 1989 did not have as many stellar-sounding soundtracks as it should have (when compared to TG-16/PCE PSG offerings). I could babble forever, but I'll stop....
Genesis seems a bit inferior...I played the After Burner II and it looked and sounded much better on TG...
Yes! Thanks for showing this classic system some respect. It was terribly and falsely underrated by the gaming press during its time.
Can't thank you enough for that statement! Finally my childhood system gets some love!! Haha.
TG16 MINI coming this year!!!
Great episode of hidden gems! I got to play ninja spirit as a kid at my local arcade and was the main reason why I wanted to get a turbo grafx 16.
The model you want is the TurboDuo , was a complete upgrade to the turbografx16 and all of it's accessories and played everything including the chips, cds and super cds.
Big plus, too, if one can get their TurboDuo recapped and/or
region-modded! The recapping pays off really well; Trust me.
Yeah but that's way too expensive and so are the games
Kick ass to see you guys covering one of my favorite systems! Looking forward to part 2. If you ever want to do a part 3, I would love to help out hehe.
Scottsquatch Good ‘ol Scott from five years ago. You totally should go on Metal Jesus man
8:40 The turbo booster did not give the TG16 more ram. It allowed for Composite output only. The Turbobooster plus did the same but allowed you to save games, pretty sure it didn't give the system any additional ram for games.
yep, unlike the ram cart for the sega saturn which allowed near arcade perfect conversions like x-men vs. street fighter
The Arcade Card and the Super Card gave the TG-16 more RAM to play the better CD games.
scir 91 - But did Sega ever bring it to the West? I don't believe so. I own a Japanese Saturn version of X-Men vs Street Fighter with the RAM cart.
The Turbo Booster Plus did add some battery-backed SRAM.
It wasn’t used as work RAM but it was RAM. It was used as save/backup RAM for saving game progress, high scores, passwords, etc. SRAM used for the same purpose in cartridge games is often also used as extra work RAM, which is why the PC Engine HuCard version of Populous has SRAM in a thick “ROMRAM” HuCard even though it has no battery (uses it as work RAM). The ROMRAM HuCard design Populous uses was intended for battery-backed games too and has a spot for a battery though the only card to ever use it with a battery wasn’t a game: Tennokoe Bank Card. The Bank card gives you extra storage banks for copying game saves from Turbo Booster Plus, Interface Unit, Turbo-CD, Backup Booster, Duo, etc. It was basically one of the first memory cards ever made, though Neo Geo AES/MVS also had one. Neo Geo launched after PC Engine but probably before Tennokoe Bank Card.
I'm a big turbo fan - I'm glad you're doing this series! Keep up the great work love the show
TG MINI was announced at e3!!!
Dude I'm so glad I found this channel. I used have some these but forgot title of em but seeing them now I can play again tuvm.
I love your "hidden gens" episodes! I never was a turbo grafx guy, but I'm going to try all this suggestions on the emulator my Ouya! Thanks guys!
Thanks for showing love to one of my top consoles of all time!
Thanks for being awesome! Ha. Feels so validating to meet people (virtually) who love the system I had fond memories of.
After looking for 2 years finally added one back to my collection this year! All the memories came rushing back in! Can't wait to the next videos!
In 1991 I produced a PC Engine Guide book because there was very little information about the machine and it sold over a thousand copies so it helped me when I was at college.
I have one copy left if you are interested in adding it to your collection.
"Part 2 will be coming out very soon!" Little do they know I live in the future!!!
Always a good day when a new Metal Jesus video comes out!
Always a good day when awesome people like you respond :)
MetalJesusRocks i loved your GameCube gems video it helped me out with learning more GameCube games and I might buy some. Thanks man your my favorite Game reviewer now lie
MetalJesusRocks I meant no lie not now lie
The Turbo Booster simply added the ability to have AV composite output, since the console only had RF output by default. The Turbo Booster Plus added that as well as the ability to add save points to most (not all) Turbografx games. The bottom half of the CD unit basically doubles as a Turbo Booster plus. :)
What a nerd.
This was a fun episode, some of these games I never even heard of lol.
I love these videos. I am actually very interested in finding a turbografx for myself now.
My first of many consoles. It started my game collecting hobby, and yes, I still have it. I love this system.
He responses to so many subs shows he cares about them and been active in his channel!
Metal Jesus RULES!! Turbografx16 was my favorite console growing up!
Do you own a TurboGrafx-16 or PC Engine? And what games should be in Part 2?
I own a PC Engine Core Grafx2 which is a pretty cool compact system. I would recommend showing off games like Parasol Stars, Splatterhouse, Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, and the Soldier series.
Definitely recommend the Turbo Duo, really nice system . . . For games I recommend The Legendary Axe and Splatterhouse, but will happily second Bloody Wolf (just finished for the first time earlier this year), and Ninja Spirit. Just about everything on this system is a hidden gem in the US lol.
How about all the Bonk games??
Fantasy Zone was a fantastic port, Neutopia 1 and 2 were awesome, high quality overhead Zelda style action rpg games, Psycosis was a great shooter, Bonk's Revenge, just stay FAR away from any of the "TV Sports" franchise.
Neutopia 1-2
This is the best guest youve ever had, Jesus. You should have more of Carlos!
Hi Metal Jesus, Thank you for your work! :)
Will you do some video of Biying Guide for the TurboGrafx 16?
My older brother had this system, dragon curse was my favorite turbo game .
Great video man! Love your content!
ninja spirit also came out for the Amiga,Atari ST,C64,Amstrad CPC ,ZX spectrum and the game boy.
thank you metal Jesus for making this amazing videos , i like all your videos keep up
love the Archer t-shirt dude such a good show!
One of the few systems I still really want.. 16bit forever! you rock metal jesus!!
Great Vid, Thanks MJR!
The CD is also interesting in that it's the only console add-on that was so successful it eventually replaced the original medium. Newer games switched completely from HuCards to CDs.
Oh, and the Turbo Booster ONLY added AV out. The Turbo Booster Plus had the AV out as well as memory for saved games, but not extra RAM for games to use. The CD add-on also had AV out and memory.
Extra RAM needed for certain Super CD games was available through the Super System Card (already included in the Turbo Duo hardware). Two versions of a final card with even more RAM came out later for Arcade CD games, the Arcade Card Pro (for the CD add-on) and the Arcade Card Duo (for the Duo).
Thumbs up as always . I am going to start a petition for at least 2 vids a week! :)
love these hidden gems videos! I'm surprised there hasn't been one for genesis or nes though.
This is great, I have really enjoyed my Turbo Duo since I got it a bit less than 2 years ago.
My uncle had this system when my brother, my cousin, and I were growing up an no one ever knew what I was talking about when I would mention the Turbo Grafx 16 or even heard of it before. I loved this system and the fact that we could only play it for 1-2 weeks out of the year, because he lived in NC and we were in PA, made it so much better being that it was so mysterious to us. He only had a couple games for it but we were all about that Ninja game, Bonk, SplatterHouse, and that devil pin ball game. I’m definitely missing some but it’s great to see people talking about a system we loved as kids mostly because at the time we felt like we were the only 4 people in the world that knew about it. I would love to see some more videos on the Trubo Grafx 16. Especially the cd drive and it’s games because I never remember knowing about a cd drive attachment
Love these recommendation videos. Time to load up the emulator and visit cool roms.
I love this! Want to get a few of these!
Cadash was one of my faves, and had two more characters than the Genesis version, the ninja and the priestess. Dragon Curse, I believe it was called, the 3rd entry in the Wonder Boy saga, was also a blast and unlike anything I had played at the time. You already covered Ninja Spirit, which I had to download on the Wii VC to own again (sold my TG-16 back-inna-day for SOME dumbass reason). Splatterhouse was one I used to impress my friends what with all the gore and voice effects (cheesy now but it was bombtastic back in the day). I also really enjoyed the sports games and had a ton of em, volleyball, baseball, football, basketball, and hockey.
U was gonna mention Dragon Curse actually! Weird simple RPG elements side scrolling game. Uber cutesy.
Ninja spirit came out on the Arcade, TurboGrafx-16, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy (Japan only) ZX Spectrum, Virtual Console. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Spirit
NateTek Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.
MetalJesusRocks You can also buy it digitally for the PC on Amazon. It's part of the Irem Arcade Hits Collection. And it's cheap.
Ohya, since I have a few world records on these games I have to love this underrated machine. And yes Nectaris is the Japanese original name for Military Madness and they combined both names for the Playstation release.
World records??? Whaaaaa?
TG MINI was announced at e3!!!
I was a huge TG16 fan when I was a kid. I had the CD-ROM attachment as well as the Turbo Express. I eventually bought the TurboDuo and gave the old system to my brother who was stationed in Japan. He quickly discovered PC-Engine games would not work without a converter card.
I love my Turbo grafx its just really had to collect for the system without just straight up buying off of ebay. Games are really hard to come by. Great vid keep up the great work!
i have a turboduo!! i spent 3000 on one in the box with 69 games 2 controllers and all the convertors. well worth it!!!
So psyched for the mini!
Neo Nectaris!! Loved it!! Still play it from time to time.
Awesome episode
Went back to this after seeing the analog duo. Can not wait!!!
The first Legendary Axe is a must play. The second one is pretty good, too! New Adventure Island is the best traditional Adventure Island game. Cadash is a fun action RPG arcade port for two players.
Are you sticking to just US stuff? No CD games?
I didn´t know about this console and seems pretty cool!!
What a fascinating gaming system, thanks for sharing!
Alien Crush rocked, haven't played the Devils Crush though. Some great titles you showcased, thanks :)
Two words; BLAZING LAZERS
I didn't realize that TurboGrafx games were soo cool. I'll try and pick myself up one if I can find it!
Get Blazing Lazers, the absolute best game on the system.
Rad. Glad you dig it! It had a lot of weird games and I have such fond memories of it.
Carlos - Two of my personal faves bro; Good taste. 🖒
Never seen a TG until now, very beautiful console
TG MINI was announced at e3!!!
Love the Sploosh shirt. If they had a Cheryl/Carol shirt I would totally pick it up. What! What!
I just started playing TurboGrafx games this is going to be cool.
there was the Turbo booster that allowed to use RCA (Yellow, Red, White)
the Turbo Boost plus added internal mem storage to save game progress. Save data was not built in to hu-cards
Ninja spirit was one of my favourite arcade game alongside sega shinobi and shadow dancer!!
this one is very fun to watch plus kinzey is adorable !
The most underrated console ever - at the time games like Bonk and Splatterhouse and Pinball were way ahead of the curve the games were fast colorful and fun the controller was bad ass and the jewel cases were so cool
That Archer shirt is amazing!!!!!!
Good video...metal Jesus
Thanks for the video with all the information on the system. I bought a base system back in the 90’s and a few games. Later in the 90’s when the company went out of business a local game store was selling base turbo graft systems for $5 and games for $1. I bought 4 used base systems and a lot of the games. NEC Technologies was 20 minutes from where I lived and I used to go there and play games before they were released in return for filling out a survey giving an opinion about the game I played. . One time they even gave me my favorite game for the system, Neutopia II. I still have the game factory sealed in the box. They also gave me some promotional material which consisted of 5 by 7 inch cards which had the artwork of the box of the game and a written description of the game. I still have these cards too. It is interesting to find out now that some of the games are worth over $100 now because I remember seeing those turbo graft game cards for $1 in used game bins at small game stores in the 90’s. Back then you could also buy a converter that attached to the Turbo Grafx that played PC Engine games. I bought a lot of those too for $1 back in the late 90’s at small game stores with used games...
Man I never knew anyone who owned one of these and I always wanted one. It's hard cause I never find games out in the wild. Can't wait for the next video guys, thanks :)
Dungeon Explorer, Neutopia I & II, Legendary Axe II, Silent Debuggers, Bonk 1 & 2 are the absolute essentials everyone should have!
I love your shirt Metal Jesus:)
Guys just want to let you know, Ninja Spirits also came out on amiga500 system and I'm not sure, but belive there egzisted a famicom version too. Othervise great video, keep up the good work!!!
The turbo was one of my fav machine! I wish i could get my hands on one.
TG MINI was announced at e3!!!
A new intro? Awesome!
Love the shirt!
The turbo booster didn't add ram, it added composite video output. The turbobooster plus added composite and the ability to save some games. It was a despicable cash grab by NEC who assumed their console would steamroll the American gaming market the way the PC-Engine did in Japan.
it's weird they didn't include composite for the TG16 out of the box considering the PC Engine is composite compatible without any accessories.
Well, all versions of the hardware with the expansion connector do provide composite video there, but the original PC Engine, like the Turbografx, didn't provide a dedicated composite port.
I'm not really sure what's required to use the composite from the expansion port - I use my system with a home-brew cable that just connects the expansion port pins directly to the A/V cables. I'm not sure if it's really correct to just use those signals as-is or if they ought to be amplified and put through decoupling capacitors.
So it really is a corner-cutting thing - at most we're talking a handful of transistors, resistors, and capacitors to get composite out of a PC Engine. (but they did it in Japan, too - which kind of makes sense since the PC Engine was designed to go against the Famicom - which also didn't have composite. Kinda stinks...)
It's hard to imagine a scenario where the Turbo could have really been a success in the US. The NES was doing quite well in 1987-1989 (between the release of the original PC Engine and the Turbo) and the PCE really didn't have the software library to compete, especially with Nintendo's exclusivity lock-in deals.
Best guest gamer ever please keep inviting him back...
Without the ability to play two player games out of the box...what were they thinking...the system was never easy to find and I gotta special order a Turbo Tap!? But the T.Express was and still pretty awesome, certainly a pivotal moment in videogame history!
Fun fact, when you guys mentioned Military Madness being like "Advance Wars" long before it came out, Advance Wars actually came out long after it's original version called Famicom Wars. There were actually 6 versions of the game before it finally came out in North America for us to enjoy.
They had a few versions for Game Boy and Game Boy Color and they had the original Famicom Wars for, of course, Famicom. Another cool fact is the Super Famicom version called Super Famicom Wars was exclusive to the Satellaview which, not sure if you're aware, but it was an add-on that attached to the bottom of the SFC like the CD add-on would have, had it been released. There were a bunch of really cool game "DLCs" that were on Satellaview. One of the best being the remake of the original Legend of Zelda; but in 16-bit graphics. You could actually make an avatar that you would play with so it was like YOU were Link. And the "DLC" part came in where they had numerous different maps for download to play. They had this for Excitebike which was played with Mario characters, F-Zero which had 3 or 4 full grand prix's for download, and various other games.
I'm a huge fan of the SFC and imports in general, so I tend to be fairly knowledgeable with a lot of the exclusive Japanese stuff :)
My favorite game on the system is a game that never made over here in the west. Its a japan only hu card called Metal Stoker! its like a top down army tank shmup game with great controls. One button switches from free movement to strafing and the other fires. The graphics are great for the system and the music rocks!
I have the Turbo Express! I love it and play it all the time!!
This episode almost made me cry! Thankfully, I got a TG-16 again, but I remember when I had my TurboExpress with my import enabler card so I could play Street Fighter II on the go. Ninja Spirit was amazing, and I remember playing a lot of Aero Blasters and Parasol Stars. Sadly, I lost everything when I left home for the Navy. Hopefully I can build up again, but wow, are these games going for a premium. And $350 for a Turbo CD isn't outrageous anymore (which is why I can skip it).
Actually, the original, first-gen TurboBooster allowed for composite video-connection and stereo sound (which greatly "boosted" the image-quality through the TV), but the TurboBooster Plus finally allowed for the saving of high scores and certain game-data (such as automatic password save-states, which were pretty handy).
Also, both the PC Engine and the TurboGrafx 16 had a "true" 16-bit graphics processor and an 8-bit memory processor (Carlos mentions that both were 8-bit in the video, which is incorrect).
This guy was awesome MJR. You features are always really cool.
Btw never hat a Tgfx...
You and the HappyConsoleGamer... the week of TurboGrafx!
The Turbo Booster didn't give you more ram... It was more like a battery back up... It made you able to save some games and gave you AV output with stereo sound... You only got more ram with the Turbo CD
And the PC engine didn't come out a little bit after the Famicom, it was a whole 4 years later! And it only had 1 8bit CPU but 2 16bit GPUs, so it was like an 8 bit console with 16 bit graphics... And you forgot to mention that the PC engine outsold both the Famicom and the Mega Drive in Japan and dominated the market until the Super Famicom came out!
I was skeptical about the Turbo Booster adding more RAM to the system, as I've never heard of any ways to bump up the console's RAM count without going the CD-ROM route. Speaking of the CD-ROM attachment, is it possible to use it while using the Turbo Booster, or do you have to choose between using one and the other?
1ex1uger Let's say that the Turbo CD "has a Turbo Booster inside of it"... The Turbo CD does pretty much everything the Booster do, plus play the the amazing CD games...
1ex1uger One or the other, but the CD-ROM attachment had both built-in memory and AV out, so both aren't required for the same results.
1ex1uger There actually is a way to add ram to the Turbo Grafx (kinda). The CD add on came with a card you had to put into the turbo chip slot to make it run. It had 64k of ram, and the CD player dumped data from the disc to that card so the games could be played. The Turbo Duo came out as an all in one unit but upgraded to with 256k of ram, so they released a new system card for the cd add on called the super system card 3.0 to match the Duo's memory. For a little more trivia the Turbo Duo was the first north american stand alone CD based console to have built in memory for saving games, not the Saturn or 3D0. The Duo is my retro system of choice.
Jools Stoo Don't forget about the Japan-only Arcade Card with 16 MEGA POWER of ram! (16mbit / 2mb) With it the PC engine CD could wipe the floor with the Sega CD and even the Super Nintendo and produce arcade-quality games that competed with the Neo Geo!
It even got some amazing early Neo Geo ports by Hudson Soft!
(Actually, the Super Nintendo could still compete with the Neo Geo... Look up Gundam Wing Endless Duel for a good example of how)
I love your shirt!!!
I had the tg16 setup as a young man. CD and all. Y's book 1 and 2. Is the best rpm game ever
You guys are such dorks. I love it.
Turbo Grafx is my all time fave console. I've had the Turbo, CD Attachment and the Turbo Express handheld since launch back in the day.
Great video Metal Jesus. More of Carlos please!
picked up a turbo graphx 16 tonight with 8 games, 6 in the cases. can't wait to play some Blazing Lazers when I got more time, super great shooter I'm surpised they didn't mention.
another awesome vido..glad i founf this channel. have u done any neo geo??
I got my boxed TG-16 from a place called Floppy Joe's in Plano Texas @1990. I only paid $20 for it, and later got a boxed Turbo-Booster for the same price from there. My collection for the console is pretty small though, with titles like Military Madness, Alien Crush, KLAX, Galaga-90, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, The Legendary Axe, Dungeon Explorer and Side Arms.
The Analogue Duo preorder that goes live on May 19th is what brought me here.
For the longest time I wanted a PC Engine. And this was mainly to play Dungeon Explorer - as I loved RPGs back then [ I still do]. So, seeing the PC Engine there, brought back memories. Lol.
It had a lot of potential. competing with the Sega genesis and even the Nintendo nes..was a chore..but the tg-16 found a following and produced some great games..that are still fun to play today
wtf? dungeon explorer is like baldur's gate? :D i would say it's more like gauntlet. and military madness is clearly a battle isle clone.
Except Battle Isle is a Nectaris/Military Madness clone. Nectaris was published in 1989, two years before Battle Isle.
And Famicom Wars-the precursor to Advance Wars-predates Nectaris 1/Military Madness by a year.
I wonder how much further back this goes (while remaining so closely analogous, I mean; obviously the roots of the turn-based strategy genre go back much further than '88, but these games are incredibly similar).
Neutopia and Neutopia II are two of the most memorable from this great system
I still have my TG16 and Express. Best games to get for TG16 is Lords of Thunder, Ys I&II, Valis, Raiden, Dracula X. I played the crap out of Raiden on the Express. Lords of Thunder has the most epic soundtrack ever; full blown metal riffs The best thing is all PC Engine games worked on the TG16/ DUO.
kutulu3 - You need an adapter to play PC-Engine on TG-16 though. The pin-outs don't match up without it.
Hey is that an Archer shirt MJ?? Nice!!
I do own one, blazing lasers(one of the most overlooked shooters), legendary axe I and II, bonks adventure, splattterhouse, bonks adventure
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I was on faceturd and looked up TurboGrafx/PC Engine on the Wiki page. Was reading it and found this show on PBS from back then. Wish I'd known about it, I'd have watched it! I didn't know shit about TV back then, what came on when/what time, except cartoons. lol
I have 2 TG16 consoles. the best three games are galaga 90, Splatter house, and Devil's Crush. All I have complete happy to say :) My Friday's get even better when I know a Metal Jesus video is out. love the show. Do you like GodSmack?
OH Man I love your Archer shirt. Gotta love Pam