B.C. doesn't stand for before Christ. That's such a dumb, self important and ignorant thing to say. First Jesus was real. And second it means before the common era. Just like we are in 2024 C.E. The Common Era.... Yikes..
The years before Christ are absolutely labeled B.C. And that’s why we count down to A.D. Anno Domini, so we are now in A.D. 2024, The Year of Our Lord! That Common Era stuff is just a way to erase the influence of Christianity without having to change the actual calendar system.
Bonk is called BC Kid in Europe after Hudson ran a competition in several magazines to rename the character (they couldn't call him Bonk here as that's slang for sex) and as the game was called PC Kid in all import gaming shops and magazines, a pun on that won the competition. But he was called Bonk in the virtual console releases. Oh, the PAL TurboGrafx never had a single game released for it officially, it was just compatible with US titles.
Hey Larry! Yea a few brits have filled me in on the slang! A Frenchman told me if the huge import scene the PCE had there which also filled in a few gaps. It makes sense he’d be called PC kid as PC is the only thing not Japanese on the box. But I went with my own rule if I don’t know enough about a certain point don’t pretend like I do! 🍖
@@GTV-Japan Oh yeah, PC Engine importing was massive in the UK too. NEC were so confident about giving the system a full release here that they took out ads telling people not to buy "grey imports" as they called them, as they wouldn't be covvered in their warranty, and the usual scaremongering stuff of it'll damage your TV Etc.
See that’s what I don’t learn living out here in the Far East! You always read that things were imported but have no concept of what it really means. Is it 50 units or 500000? That’s never what’s reported
@@GTV-Japan I don't think there was any mass shipments, mostly it was indie stores with a contact in Japan/America that would ship over a few copies they had bought in a store. But importing was big here as it'd take a good six months for a game to arrive here, if ever, we never recieved a ton of big SNES titles. until just a few years ago on Virtual Console.
PC Genjin (aka Pithecanthropus Computerus aka Bonk aka B.C. Kid...) will turn 30 years old on December 15, 2019! Please share your best and favorite Bonk and TurboGrafx-16 memories here to celebrate!
Great way to start the day, with a small lesson on binomial nomenclature to boot lol. To think my name is in your video and I didn't have to give you a pound of flesh thru patreon? How do you do It? I'm curious about anything PC Engine, it's the system I know least about. I love how the colors are so vibrant and just seem to pop out at you. I was always so envious of that being a Genesis fan and all.
And you were the top commenter!! I don’t know how I did it without demanding 1800$ for each bimonthly video haha. The pce was able to pull off those colors due to the hardware being able to hold 256 (or so) colors on one background plane and a different set on another so you get 512 or something like that in a lot of cases. I always felt the Genesis weak spot was lack of on screen colors. They say 80 which isn’t much more than the master system. But they made it work. Thanks for watching my friend 🍖
@@GTV-Japan ..Xmas 1988 old st nick brought me an NES along with blades of steel and Mike Tysons punch out. I was so pumped with getting a nintendo that numerous times my parents would catch me playing nintendo in my sleep. For real !!! I'd sleep walk and that's where they'd find me. Then Xmas 1992 I got a sega genesis with the sega cd and holy smokes I sure thought I was smart. I agree tho the color palette wasn't as pretty but it was still a kick ass system nonetheless.
You on to something there! It looks like a few unofficial promo materials called him PC kid but I got enough political correctness in my life as it is! Thanks for watching 🍖
I remember when I was digging through PC Engine CD Demo magazines, such as PC-Engine Hyper Catalog, and the first volume booted into the "ME BONK" sequence. "Wait, wouldn't you be PC-Genjin in Japan?" Yes, this was so difficult to keep straight that this happened.
Just a couple quick notes tied to the Air Zonk naming contest. The prize was a US Turbo Duo and a package of games, and I believe the winner got those before the official launch. Also the early trade show builds were calling it "Bonkinator"
Small precision, in France we have the PC Engine (in fact the CoreGrafX model) it was imported and modified to properly display on PAL TV. Sodipeng was the company responsible for the importation of this lovely system. It was sold in supermarkets but never was popular.
I always felt Bonk deserved more recognition. They were always well made, fun platformers, but got completely overshadowed by Sonic and Mario simply due to the fact that the Turbo wasn't as popular over here. The only exposure I got to the Turbo was from magazines at the time, but after playing through most of the games in later years, for the most part, they are excellent.
I've been struggling to find it for years, but I know I saw the name as 'PC Kid' in a Japanese magazine somewhere. I knew that's what importers tended to call it back then but I remember it standing out as I'd never seen it 'officially' in something from Japan.
Someone else commented that the game was imported to France and called PC Kid before BC kid and so maybe it’ll be found there. But one quick search turned up this image img-cdn.jg.jugem.jp/68c/2125474/20110807_2278145.jpg?_ga=2.72319450.896008047.1571481322-880721532.1571481322 if that link actually works
Awesome video as always but ERRATUM: A classic mistake made by the anglo-saxon world about the history of the PC Engine in Europe. The PC Engine was OFFICIALLY released and imported in France by a company named SODIPENG (a sister company of Ubisoft): from 1989 to 1993. The PC Engine was big in France and relative to the population it sold better than in the US: 500 000 units sold in France from 1989 to 1993. PC Genjin has been renamed in France PC Kid (hence the latter BC Kid on the Amiga). You can google “ Sodipeng pub” and you will find lots of adds when the PC Engine was officially sold in France. I bought mine in 1990 in a supermarket named Auchan for instance: just to show that it was widely available. The most widely sold versions was the Coregrafx: that is actually why Konami has chosen to release the Coregrafx Mini in Europe. Cheers!
Thanks for clearing this up! I always hear “X was imported into country Y” but my image is that it’s never much or not serious but this changes my perception. I’m going to mention all of this when I do the pce mini review in March 🍖
Gaijillionaire But that doesn’t change the fact that your video was very informative! If you ever need some info someday on the PC Engine in France, feel free to ask me any questions: my aunt was working at Sodipeng so I have quite a bit of info and data. Cheers! And... the PC Engine Rules!
Awesome! Yes please! I have all three pce/TG/core minis coming on March 19 in the morning! Japan is a day ahead so I’ll aim to be the first person on earth with a review so I’d love that kind of info to add. Especially because for us not in France the choice seems confusing because else don’t know any of that!
Wow, I learned so much in 20 minutes, excellent video my good sir! As always, your video delivers and blew my mind a few times. Genjin RPG would have been cool .
Thanks ! If it doesn’t deliver I just won’t make it. Simply. Yea this game being cancelled broke my heart. I wonder what happened??? Thanks for watching as always 🍖
Souldin here, and funny enough, I was just about to watch and comment on a different video of yours when this popped up, an given you mentioned it to me in our last conversation, I feel I should check it out. 0:43 - Well I definitely had never heard of the Yo Noid case but the others I was aware of. The first two that come to mind for me are Panel De Pon becoming Tetris Attack and Magical Hat no Buttobi Tābo! Daibōken becoming Decap Attack. I shall have to see about checking some of these other videos of yours sometime... I guess I should subscribe to make that easier to keep track of. 2:11 - Strange to think of a mascot character who was named after the very system he was the mascot of would have so many releases on other systems... and not even just after his original system was discontinued, but during it's lifetime. Fascinating lesson on scientific names there and Bonk's original name of PC Genjin was truly genius. 5:17 - Just got to say, whilst all the games looks nice, I find the entry to have particularly beautiful graphics! Their is just something so charming about the series overall art style. 5:52 - A shame that; always been curious about trying a Turbo Grafx and games like Bonk's look a ton of fun, but I've never seen one in the UK. The Core Grafx Mini from Konami naturally had me excited, but from what I've heard, it's an Amazon exclusive. 13:07 - The styling of your video is just terrific. I love the play on Japanese sponsors and the shout-out to top commenters is not something I've seen many TH-camr's do and even that is styled with a nice video game theme of top scores. Seeing a bunch of Japanese Bonk adverts is also really neat. 16:25 - To be fair, they did have plans for Bonk's Adventure 64 (because much like Super, it felt like everything needed a 64 slapped onto it for an N64 release; interesting trivia about how many SNES games had the word super in it) or Ultra Genjin but it was cancelled and the work done on it was later used to create Bomberman Hero... which kind of brings you back to that earlier point about characters replacing other characters in games. Oh, an then you bring it up at 18:04... although I've heard from another source that it was Bomberman Hero that Bonk 64 became, not Bomberman 64. Fantastic video and I had a fun time watching this; it was chock-a-block full with charm and personality!
Hey thanks! I love long comment! About the regional changes the original script was much longer and I listed like 30 games just to be funny but I cut it down because I don’t think anyone else gets that kind of humor where something is beat to death and doesn’t end makes it funny. I don’t think PC genjin was necessarily the face of the machine. Takahashi Meijin did a lot of promotion but since Hudson was the software side why not make money where ya can?? I don’t understand the marketing strategy behind the pce mini! But amazon ships anywhere and it will likely have resellers anyway. I decided to add top commenters because so many channels mention patreon paid members but I though this would be a more fun thing to do and my style is affected by the fact that I only watch Japanese tv and have for 15 years! If I got the wrong bomberman sorry. I’m not well versed in the N64 and since everything is 64 I guess I just slipped up. Keep in mind I’m doing these while on break at work! I’m glad you liked it. Bonk is one of my favorites and I only bother with the games I truly love so that it will show in the work. What video were you going to see instead? Thanks for watching on day one! Always means a lot! 🍖
I'm glad you do; it's almost exclusively what I do when commenting. I see your point about cutting down the regional changes section; surprising just how many examples can be found of whole characters being swapped out for another. It's also interesting when those sort of things happened during development, like in the case with Bonk 64 to Bomberman Heroes. I'm not sure if PC Genjin/Bonk was ever officially the mascot, but I've often read things (older game magazines, comments on forums, etc) back in the day regarding the PC Engine/TurboGrafx referring to him as such... kind of like Gex with the 3D0 or Crash with the PlayStation (I believe Crash was never official the PlayStation mascot; he was just perceived to be). If I see the Core Grafx Mini in my Game Store, I shall be sure to get it; there's a lot of games I've never tried out before on it so it'll be a worthwhile purchase. As for the video I was about to watch of yours, it was the Justin Bailey Samus one. I needed a shorter video to watch and I've always loved the green haired Samus design; I shall see about watching it over the weekend. I've also got the Goemon video of yours added to my Watch Later to, well, watch later. Thank you for the reply!
All fine watching!! I think the concept of a mascot is a very American thing. In Japan it’s more like a stable of characters and the feel is very different to me
16:21 "Golden Balls"? I remember Gintama ("Silver Soul") making fun about the series name sounding like Kintama ("Golden Balls"). It is even the theme of a arc in the manga/anime.
Yea the “golden egg” means balls haha but just like in English you can say balls and have it actually means balls and not like you know balls so it’s just one of those nuances. There’s also an anime called the world of golden eggs which is a laugh riot. Highly recommend. Thanks for watching 🍖
Such an amazing episode. Thanks for taking the time to always bringing the good content. I need to put all your episodes on a bluray and put them on repeat as I sleep so I can learn something.
Haha! Thanks my friend. This is a great comment. No need for a blu ray just leave it on repeat online. Just wait for the next one it’s 45 minutes and epic! 🍖
This was a brilliant video, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I had a PC Engine for my 10th Birthday in 1990! Over here in the UK the PC Engine kickstarted the grey import market for Japanese consoles and when CVG Magazine reviewed PC Genjin they called him PC Kid and the name stuck for future releases. Hence when he was later released on the Amiga in the UK he was called BC Kid which was also reviewed by CVG and featured on their front cover.
It's always been hud-du son in every Hudson soft Japanese commercial I've seen. was pleasantly surprised to hear Hudson at the end of the pc genjin 3 commercial. Great video.
Will you be doing a Video on that Crazy Obscure Manga that was referenced as the 2nd Power Up Form in Super Bonk a.k.a. Cho Genjin a.k.a. Super BC Kid just like when you made those 2 Videos about that Hulk Hogan Manga Series ????
6:11 I wasn’t aware of the Amiga version, but most likely the reason the game wasn’t released as Bonk in Europe was the British phrase “to bonk”, which is equivalent to the American phrase “to boink”, ie bumping uglies. Actually that would be a great subtitle if Bonk 4 ever came out, Bonk 4: Bumping Uglies :)
@@GTV-Japan Well I'm sure there's bound to be a Prototype ROM based off of the Screenshots that were shown for it in Game Magazines and could be lost but could eventually be found much like Hi-Ten Bomberman
i hate so much that i missed out on turbo grafx/pc engine titles growing up in america... i'll definitely be grabbing the turbo mini when it comes out loved the vid, thanks so much
I got a pre order for all 3! And being in Japan the time zone is earliest in the world along with Australia so my unboxing will be first ! Aha I’m excited. This was one of my favorite vids to make this year. Really wanted to do it a long time 🍖 thanks for watching as always
Great! Thanks for giving me a chance! I’ll be back with 20-25 new videos starting April 1st. Until then take a stroll thru the back catalogue and tell me what you think! 🍖
Awesome stuff as always. Its a bit late tho, wonder if you got anything about the Splatterhouse series? Maybe for the Halloweeen? Keep up the superb work!
Thanks! No nothing for splatterhouse planned. I don’t like themed episodes but after the TG 16 mini is out I’ll be doing a few games from that. Thanks for watching 🍖
Well I was certainly aware of Bonk and PC Genjin. Had no idea about all the powerup puns and BC Kid. Or King Balls for that matter. It does seem like nearly all Super nintendo games were called Super ______, but it's probably just confirmation bias and sticks in your mind more each time you hear another game with Super in front of it. Like 64 for the N64, or DS for the DS, although there were plenty of more subtle DS-DS games where they just had the initials of the subtitle be DS, like Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Lunar: Dragon Song and so on. Man mini consoles just keep rolling out. I see the Turbografx 16 mini contains all the games from all the regions. That's pretty cool of them. Maybe I'll get it to pile on the unending pile of games to play since I've never played any Turbografx games, I have played through the NES Bonk's Adventure though
Yea I hear ya on the Snes games. But there were ones like Super Castlevania 4 or Super Tennis that had no need for the super. While some like Super Mario World had to be there. Someone from France told me they chose BC kid to match pc because the grey market pc engine game was called pc kid unofficially there. I got all 3 minis coming on the morning of March 19! March 18 at dinner time for the USA so I’ll get to be first!! If they don’t give out test units. Thanks for coming by and catching up 🍖
I'm very curious to see that video where you talk about the Anime Series that had A Videogame which was Localized in the US as Keith Courage in Alpha Zone
Yea it was a joke. It doesn’t exist yet. But I do fully honestly truly intend to make one about it next year between episodes 90-99 for sure. You can hold me to it because it’s an interesting story behind that game. Thanks for watching 🍖
Gaijillionaire Always a pleasure! Guess your committed to it anyway since you made the title card for it. 😄 Heard a bit about it being based on an anime, but I’m sure you’ve found out plenty more than that. Can’t wait! 😆
pidgeo5 haha well sometimes I just say things as a joke or plan Then down the road but I have been planning that idea to coincide with the turbo grafx mini. I’ve seen the whole anime series it’s real good and was a little empire in the time. It’s still remembered nowadays too. I often put things into videos too just to see if they get any response 😆
@@GTV-Japan (ಥ _ ಥ) Man, I've been trying to remember this conversation for a while now and I just stumbled on this again! I still don't see it in your videos though (up to 102) and the suspense is killin' me! :D I'm just kidding, but this sounds like a really interesting story. I hope you're able to tell it as some point. I'll still be waiting! :) Love your channel man. In my opinion, you're one of the top channels that should be getting more views. Keep it up because your work and quality are top notch! 頑張て！
Wonderful explanation adored the vintage commercials! just thought of another game I remember seeing him in- pc genjin was a playable character in saturn bomberman.
I honestly cant remember what name it was called here in the UK, but Bonk as a slang word (Just google Bonk Slang....) probably had some reason on it being renamed as BC KID if thats what it was released as in Europe. I remember playing it on something back in the day, but I cant remember what on.
Great video! Although I had a Genesis very early and a SNES a few years after, I was always curious about TG and Bonk. I eventually got one (in 1995..it was already dead) at a sleazy flea marketish store that had many games. I got a crummy partially melted (?) system and picked up both Bonks and a few other games..10 bucks each. It was a gift from my folks for high school graduation. I eventually picked up a PC Engine Duo maybe 10ish years later? Long story shorter, I eventually got Bonk 3 CD and the card PC Engine version as well..as well as the 2 SNES games (games only..picked up SB manual later), the CD denjins, the 2 gb games, the 3 in 1 gb collection, and the ps2 Bonk remake. A friend sent me a Bonk Brink of Extinction shirt way too small for me. Lastly, I just scored a rare PC genjn plush in great shape for a GREAT amount of money. So yeah, big Bonk fan!
Just now seeing this video but thanks for making it! I'm sitting here blown away that I didn't know about the Bonk RPG!!!??? I had a turbo and was the biggest fan of this 16 BIT! system.
I played this game a lot at a local grey import store here in my home town. The imported PC Engine was about 1K to buy at the import store back in the day and I couldn’t justify spending that much money on buying a PC engine juts to play Bonk but for a few dollars an hour I could play it at his store as he had it set up that way. To this day I love the Bonk character it was such a cool game that most never got to play
Bomberman also jumps in Super Bomberman 2 (Battle stage 10/mushroom stage), Saturn Bomberman Fight!, and Pocket Bomberman, all released before Bomberman Hero.
@@RifeXD You're right about Pocket Bomberman and Saturn Bomberman Fight (both only 3 months before Hero in Japan!) but I'd consider SB2 a classic Bomberman game in which he just happens to jump :)
Wow, I learned so much from this video - and I thought I knew a lot about PC Genjin! There's something PC Engine related that's literally puzzled me for 30 years and I've never been able to get a meaningful explanation, but you might know the answer: why on earth did NEC/Hudson call it CD-ROM² or CD-ROM-ROM? Even though the PC Engine CD-ROM was (to my knowledge) the very first commercially available CD-ROM device in the world, it nevertheless still used regular CD's. was it just a quirky marketing gimmick, or was there more to it than that?
Yes I can tell you. Actually I just found a book that explains all that stuff and the first video of 2020 I’ll cover it. But simply it’s a CD rom-rom because the machine is a CD rom and the disc is a rom! I know that’s weird to us. But it also makes it copyrightable too. Very often in Japanese the number 2 means to say something twice and appears frequently. Also HE means home entertainment and was used to separate the pc engine and pc9800 lines
Amazing, thanks for that! The PC Engine is by far my favourite console ever. It’s the machine that introduced me to import gaming back in the late 80’s and sparked a life long love of Japan. It’s an endlessly fascinating family of consoles and I’m always uncovering new gems of information, just when I think I’ve learned all there is to know. I was going to ask if you ever planned on doing an in depth PC Engine history video, but it sounds like you already have something awesome lined up :)
Same here! Yea I’m going to combine the pc engine mini and this book I found unrelated to that into one video. It also covers the pc fx. It really was being in a special club when you played the turbo and yea it felt cool to play something so popular in Japan but no where else
Great breakdown. Over the years I've had the Duo and CG2 so I've played those, then with Nintendo I have the set of them all FC, both on SFC, the collection GB, and the very good GC title too. Bonk had a great ride, shame it vanished.
You know what? I DON'T CARE WHAT HE WAS CALLED! I Grew up in Canada during the 90's here was called Bonk and I also heard he was the Mascot of the Turbografx-16! Makes sense since his Japanese Name was Similar to the PC-Engine in Japan in a Way I have to Thank Bonk because he shaped me into the Videogamer I am Today! Thanks to Bonk I would discover Mario and Sonic, and later Zelda when Ocarina of Time came out!
I know a couple of fun facts about PC Bijin. Firstly, that he was censored in the american release of Bonk's Revenge, where he was replaced with PC Henjin, for some reason. And second, he was treated as a separate character in the Bonk's Adventure arcade game, being the one assigned to player 2 in co-op mode.
This was yet another fun video! Always enjoy learning more about PC Engine stuff. I was actually kinda surprised to learn that Bonk's names for other systems weren't just things made up on the fly, but rather retooled in a way to make *Some* sort of sense, in relation to his OG name of PC Genjn. I'm also kinda surprised that in motion, that GCN Bonk remake is a lot cooler looking that it looks like in pictures. I always thought it looked pretty poor, but in motion it looks like a faithful recreation of the PCE Game with pretty backgrounds and smart celshading! It looks way better than Brink of Extinction, which just looks really meh, like Adventure Island the Beginning. I'd like to know what the origin of the Master Takahashi series was like, or even more interesting, why on earth New Adventure Island is the ONLY game on the PCE mini to not retain the original artwork, instead sticking with some generic logo and a background out of photoshop. I bet there's some sort of history with that series' artist or something along those lines... Or just them not having any scans available. BTW, did you know that for some odd reason, the real Johnny Turbo has a prototype of Bonk RPG? he showed a pic of the board this summer and boasted about wanting to release it but nothing happened. I alerted some preservationists and they got in contact with him, but Turbo isn't budging... I at least hope it's backed up. Would love to try out a new PCE game.
More stuff I never knew! In fact, I've never played a Bonk / PC 原人 game, but I remember being interested. I wish they'd make a new one with lush 2D hand-drawn graphics of the original Japanese style. If they did something like that, I'd definitely be in the market for my first Bonk game! And as someone who has also lived in Japan before, I like how you said "テーマ" for "theme" (12:56+). I'm sure that 90+% of people didn't get it...it just probably flew under their radar...but others who have experienced Japan know what's up!
I didn't know Hudson Soft is dead until this video. I was wondering why Konami gets to publish Bomber man games. They had a long history of co-creating games like Pooyan. So sad.
Man...what a show! One question, where did you learn to speak Japanese? I ask this for several reasons. First and foremost, I'm a fellow linguist. I speak fluent English (duh), lo parlo Italiano (Italian), yo hablo Espanol (Spanish), and Latine loqor, luqoi (Latin) although my grammar/spelling is atrocious in Latin. Further, I have traveled all over the world. The only place have always wanted to gu but never had the chance is Japan. I want to not only learn the language but how to read and write it as well. I have so many games that are essentially locked out too me as I don't understand the language. Now, Japanese written in our Roman simplified letters or essentially in English lettering I can generally follow. The characters themselves at current might as well be ancient hieroglyphics as I can't read them. I love it! If you call the Turbo Grafx 16 an 8-bit system I will come to your house and beat you. The mere suggestion and I'm starting my car...or plane tickets! ;)
Had no idea Bonk got released on the Amiga. That's an interesting bit of info, thanks. To be honest though with the mini that was released I never understood why it came with the games in Japanese and English as there was overlap. It wasn't really the 50 games they promised and the Japanese ones were never localised so some must be difficult to play. I personally would have kept the Japanese exclusives and at least cut the overlapped games.
You’re right! No one could ever beat him! We can only hope to bask in his light someday! What I need is to quit my job then make you wait 6 more weeks and cut out 14 minutes! Then I might be in the same league. 😆 seriously though thanks for watching on day one. Always means a lot to me! 🍖
No. It’s hard to convey with the gameboy limitations but Japanese third bonk is designed to look like a traditional 16-19th century bandit. They often wore dark face coverings to hide their identity. The style is also done with Ebisu Maru from goemon
There are many cultural shorthand’s like that which we are possibly unaware of that in Japan need no explanation.. I also like how the western theif bonk apparently was caught for his crime and carries a ball and chain
This was a brilliant video, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I had a PC Engine for my 10th Birthday in 1990! Over here in the UK the PC Engine kickstarted the grey import market for Japanese consoles. When CVG Magazine reviewed PC Genjin they called him PC Kid and the name stuck for future releases . Hence when he was later released on the Amiga in the UK he was called BC Kid.
B.C. doesn't stand for before Christ. That's such a dumb, self important and ignorant thing to say. First Jesus was real. And second it means before the common era. Just like we are in 2024 C.E. The Common Era.... Yikes..
The years before Christ are absolutely labeled B.C. And that’s why we count down to A.D. Anno Domini, so we are now in A.D. 2024, The Year of Our Lord! That Common Era stuff is just a way to erase the influence of Christianity without having to change the actual calendar system.
Bonk is called BC Kid in Europe after Hudson ran a competition in several magazines to rename the character (they couldn't call him Bonk here as that's slang for sex) and as the game was called PC Kid in all import gaming shops and magazines, a pun on that won the competition. But he was called Bonk in the virtual console releases.
Oh, the PAL TurboGrafx never had a single game released for it officially, it was just compatible with US titles.
Hey Larry! Yea a few brits have filled me in on the slang! A Frenchman told me if the huge import scene the PCE had there which also filled in a few gaps. It makes sense he’d be called PC kid as PC is the only thing not Japanese on the box. But I went with my own rule if I don’t know enough about a certain point don’t pretend like I do! 🍖
Oh and I forgot the word for a room rented by the hour in Korea is called a bang
@@GTV-Japan Oh yeah, PC Engine importing was massive in the UK too. NEC were so confident about giving the system a full release here that they took out ads telling people not to buy "grey imports" as they called them, as they wouldn't be covvered in their warranty, and the usual scaremongering stuff of it'll damage your TV Etc.
See that’s what I don’t learn living out here in the Far East! You always read that things were imported but have no concept of what it really means. Is it 50 units or 500000? That’s never what’s reported
@@GTV-Japan I don't think there was any mass shipments, mostly it was indie stores with a contact in Japan/America that would ship over a few copies they had bought in a store.
But importing was big here as it'd take a good six months for a game to arrive here, if ever, we never recieved a ton of big SNES titles. until just a few years ago on Virtual Console.
PC Genjin (aka Pithecanthropus Computerus aka Bonk aka B.C. Kid...) will turn 30 years old on December 15, 2019! Please share your best and favorite Bonk and TurboGrafx-16 memories here to celebrate!
Great way to start the day, with a small lesson on binomial nomenclature to boot lol. To think my name is in your video and I didn't have to give you a pound of flesh thru patreon? How do you do It? I'm curious about anything PC Engine, it's the system I know least about. I love how the colors are so vibrant and just seem to pop out at you. I was always so envious of that being a Genesis fan and all.
And you were the top commenter!! I don’t know how I did it without demanding 1800$ for each bimonthly video haha. The pce was able to pull off those colors due to the hardware being able to hold 256 (or so) colors on one background plane and a different set on another so you get 512 or something like that in a lot of cases. I always felt the Genesis weak spot was lack of on screen colors. They say 80 which isn’t much more than the master system. But they made it work. Thanks for watching my friend 🍖
@@GTV-Japan ..Xmas 1988 old st nick brought me an NES along with blades of steel and Mike Tysons punch out. I was so pumped with getting a nintendo that numerous times my parents would catch me playing nintendo in my sleep. For real !!! I'd sleep walk and that's where they'd find me. Then Xmas 1992 I got a sega genesis with the sega cd and holy smokes I sure thought I was smart. I agree tho the color palette wasn't as pretty but it was still a kick ass system nonetheless.
My favourite boss was Punchy Pedro. The boxing dinosaur. The PC Engine game looked so good for its time. I only played it on the Wii, though.
Gunvolt he kind of looked like Ashita no Joe
I gotta say that B.C. Kid sounds like a good name for a rapper
Especially if you are from British Columbia
You on to something there! It looks like a few unofficial promo materials called him PC kid but I got enough political correctness in my life as it is! Thanks for watching 🍖
I remember when I was digging through PC Engine CD Demo magazines, such as PC-Engine Hyper Catalog, and the first volume booted into the "ME BONK" sequence.
"Wait, wouldn't you be PC-Genjin in Japan?"
Yes, this was so difficult to keep straight that this happened.
That’s weird. I had no idea!
Just a couple quick notes tied to the Air Zonk naming contest. The prize was a US Turbo Duo and a package of games, and I believe the winner got those before the official launch. Also the early trade show builds were calling it "Bonkinator"
Ha that’s funny. Like the terminator! A duo would be a nice prize. Thanks for sharing this info! 🍖
There was also a Bonk arcade game. I think Kaneko made it under license from Hudson.
Yep. I show it in the end flip. Ultimate PC Genjin they called it. Thanks for watching 🍖
@@GTV-Japan what were the forms in that game called(along with the player two character)?
Small precision, in France we have the PC Engine (in fact the CoreGrafX model) it was imported and modified to properly display on PAL TV. Sodipeng was the company responsible for the importation of this lovely system. It was sold in supermarkets but never was popular.
Ya I heard about that but never seen anything much about it. Thanks for letting me know! 🍖
@@GTV-Japan If you want further informations, feel free to contact me.
@@GTV-Japan This gave Bonk another name in France: P.C Kid!
I always felt Bonk deserved more recognition. They were always well made, fun platformers, but got completely overshadowed by Sonic and Mario simply due to the fact that the Turbo wasn't as popular over here. The only exposure I got to the Turbo was from magazines at the time, but after playing through most of the games in later years, for the most part, they are excellent.
All the turbo games were great I say. Thanks for watching 🍖
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13:11 I watched this video 2 weeks ago. How did I not notice?!? Thanks for the shout-out, my man! 👍🏻❤️
It goes by fast. But it’s there forever!! 🍖
I've been struggling to find it for years, but I know I saw the name as 'PC Kid' in a Japanese magazine somewhere. I knew that's what importers tended to call it back then but I remember it standing out as I'd never seen it 'officially' in something from Japan.
Someone else commented that the game was imported to France and called PC Kid before BC kid and so maybe it’ll be found there. But one quick search turned up this image img-cdn.jg.jugem.jp/68c/2125474/20110807_2278145.jpg?_ga=2.72319450.896008047.1571481322-880721532.1571481322 if that link actually works
Awesome video as always but ERRATUM:
A classic mistake made by the anglo-saxon world about the history of the PC Engine in Europe.
The PC Engine was OFFICIALLY released and imported in France by a company named SODIPENG (a sister company of Ubisoft): from 1989 to 1993.
The PC Engine was big in France and relative to the population it sold better than in the US: 500 000 units sold in France from 1989 to 1993.
PC Genjin has been renamed in France PC Kid (hence the latter BC Kid on the Amiga).
You can google “ Sodipeng pub” and you will find lots of adds when the PC Engine was officially sold in France. I bought mine in 1990 in a supermarket named Auchan for instance: just to show that it was widely available. The most widely sold versions was the Coregrafx: that is actually why Konami has chosen to release the Coregrafx Mini in Europe.
Cheers!
Thanks for clearing this up! I always hear “X was imported into country Y” but my image is that it’s never much or not serious but this changes my perception. I’m going to mention all of this when I do the pce mini review in March 🍖
Gaijillionaire But that doesn’t change the fact that your video was very informative!
If you ever need some info someday on the PC Engine in France, feel free to ask me any questions: my aunt was working at Sodipeng so I have quite a bit of info and data.
Cheers!
And... the PC Engine Rules!
Awesome! Yes please! I have all three pce/TG/core minis coming on March 19 in the morning! Japan is a day ahead so I’ll aim to be the first person on earth with a review so I’d love that kind of info to add. Especially because for us not in France the choice seems confusing because else don’t know any of that!
Gaijillionaire As I live in Singapore now, I’d then be one of the first to view your review ;)
Cool!!
It's a Lot of names, My mom named, el huerquillo cabezón con taparrabo, the Big head dude caveman. Great video.
Haha what? That’s a cool name. Thanks for coming by Napoleon! 🍖
I remember playing this as a kid as a 8-10 year old and getting so frustrated cause I stunk at it. Man the game's music takes me right back.
There’s a certain skill to the bonk spin that’s hard to master. Yea really the soundtrack is great. I ageee. Thanks for watching 🍖
Me too, same age as you obviously… great memories.
Wow, I learned so much in 20 minutes, excellent video my good sir!
As always, your video delivers and blew my mind a few times.
Genjin RPG would have been cool .
Thanks ! If it doesn’t deliver I just won’t make it. Simply. Yea this game being cancelled broke my heart. I wonder what happened??? Thanks for watching as always 🍖
Souldin here, and funny enough, I was just about to watch and comment on a different video of yours when this popped up, an given you mentioned it to me in our last conversation, I feel I should check it out.
0:43 - Well I definitely had never heard of the Yo Noid case but the others I was aware of. The first two that come to mind for me are Panel De Pon becoming Tetris Attack and Magical Hat no Buttobi Tābo! Daibōken becoming Decap Attack. I shall have to see about checking some of these other videos of yours sometime... I guess I should subscribe to make that easier to keep track of.
2:11 - Strange to think of a mascot character who was named after the very system he was the mascot of would have so many releases on other systems... and not even just after his original system was discontinued, but during it's lifetime. Fascinating lesson on scientific names there and Bonk's original name of PC Genjin was truly genius.
5:17 - Just got to say, whilst all the games looks nice, I find the entry to have particularly beautiful graphics! Their is just something so charming about the series overall art style.
5:52 - A shame that; always been curious about trying a Turbo Grafx and games like Bonk's look a ton of fun, but I've never seen one in the UK. The Core Grafx Mini from Konami naturally had me excited, but from what I've heard, it's an Amazon exclusive.
13:07 - The styling of your video is just terrific. I love the play on Japanese sponsors and the shout-out to top commenters is not something I've seen many TH-camr's do and even that is styled with a nice video game theme of top scores. Seeing a bunch of Japanese Bonk adverts is also really neat.
16:25 - To be fair, they did have plans for Bonk's Adventure 64 (because much like Super, it felt like everything needed a 64 slapped onto it for an N64 release; interesting trivia about how many SNES games had the word super in it) or Ultra Genjin but it was cancelled and the work done on it was later used to create Bomberman Hero... which kind of brings you back to that earlier point about characters replacing other characters in games. Oh, an then you bring it up at 18:04... although I've heard from another source that it was Bomberman Hero that Bonk 64 became, not Bomberman 64.
Fantastic video and I had a fun time watching this; it was chock-a-block full with charm and personality!
Hey thanks! I love long comment! About the regional changes the original script was much longer and I listed like 30 games just to be funny but I cut it down because I don’t think anyone else gets that kind of humor where something is beat to death and doesn’t end makes it funny. I don’t think PC genjin was necessarily the face of the machine. Takahashi Meijin did a lot of promotion but since Hudson was the software side why not make money where ya can?? I don’t understand the marketing strategy behind the pce mini! But amazon ships anywhere and it will likely have resellers anyway. I decided to add top commenters because so many channels mention patreon paid members but I though this would be a more fun thing to do and my style is affected by the fact that I only watch Japanese tv and have for 15 years! If I got the wrong bomberman sorry. I’m not well versed in the N64 and since everything is 64 I guess I just slipped up. Keep in mind I’m doing these while on break at work! I’m glad you liked it. Bonk is one of my favorites and I only bother with the games I truly love so that it will show in the work. What video were you going to see instead? Thanks for watching on day one! Always means a lot! 🍖
I'm glad you do; it's almost exclusively what I do when commenting.
I see your point about cutting down the regional changes section; surprising just how many examples can be found of whole characters being swapped out for another. It's also interesting when those sort of things happened during development, like in the case with Bonk 64 to Bomberman Heroes.
I'm not sure if PC Genjin/Bonk was ever officially the mascot, but I've often read things (older game magazines, comments on forums, etc) back in the day regarding the PC Engine/TurboGrafx referring to him as such... kind of like Gex with the 3D0 or Crash with the PlayStation (I believe Crash was never official the PlayStation mascot; he was just perceived to be).
If I see the Core Grafx Mini in my Game Store, I shall be sure to get it; there's a lot of games I've never tried out before on it so it'll be a worthwhile purchase.
As for the video I was about to watch of yours, it was the Justin Bailey Samus one. I needed a shorter video to watch and I've always loved the green haired Samus design; I shall see about watching it over the weekend. I've also got the Goemon video of yours added to my Watch Later to, well, watch later. Thank you for the reply!
All fine watching!! I think the concept of a mascot is a very American thing. In Japan it’s more like a stable of characters and the feel is very different to me
16:21
"Golden Balls"?
I remember Gintama ("Silver Soul") making fun about the series name sounding like Kintama ("Golden Balls").
It is even the theme of a arc in the manga/anime.
Yea the “golden egg” means balls haha but just like in English you can say balls and have it actually means balls and not like you know balls so it’s just one of those nuances. There’s also an anime called the world of golden eggs which is a laugh riot. Highly recommend. Thanks for watching 🍖
Hudson also made Bloody Roar is it it possible that Bonk was a zoanthrope or perhaps the Unborn?
Bloody Roar was actually by Raizing/8ing with arcade hardware and publishing by Hudson, while Bonk was by RED Company uwu
Such an amazing episode. Thanks for taking the time to always bringing the good content. I need to put all your episodes on a bluray and put them on repeat as I sleep so I can learn something.
Haha! Thanks my friend. This is a great comment. No need for a blu ray just leave it on repeat online. Just wait for the next one it’s 45 minutes and epic! 🍖
This was a brilliant video, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I had a PC Engine for my 10th Birthday in 1990! Over here in the UK the PC Engine kickstarted the grey import market for Japanese consoles and when CVG Magazine reviewed PC Genjin they called him PC Kid and the name stuck for future releases. Hence when he was later released on the Amiga in the UK he was called BC Kid which was also reviewed by CVG and featured on their front cover.
Yea I’ve some others explain it to me too. It’s not a bad name for sure. Thanks for telling me about it
C'mon Konami, you can still release that new Bonk game!
Yes they could, should and must!! Thanks for watching on day one! 🍖
It's always been hud-du son in every Hudson soft Japanese commercial I've seen. was pleasantly surprised to hear Hudson at the end of the pc genjin 3 commercial. Great video.
I love that! By hadoson! Yea they did change it eventually. Thanks for watching 🍖
Gaijillionaire thanks for creating this awesome video
sean thiem if you watch them I’ll make them! 🍖
Will you be doing a Video on that Crazy Obscure Manga that was referenced as the 2nd Power Up Form in Super Bonk a.k.a. Cho Genjin a.k.a. Super BC Kid just like when you made those 2 Videos about that Hulk Hogan Manga Series ????
I’ve seen the book floating around but right now have no plans for that. I’m so backed up with ideas as it is
this channel is incredible, i'm watching everything
Awesome! Please do and comment on what you like. I always write back!!
Finally, someone made a new video about my favorite video game character!
Oh hey! Golgo Genjin!! If I knew you were waiting I’d have made it sooner. Hope you enjoyed it Thanks for watching 🍖
1:12; What can we expect to see for Episodes 87 to 91?
The year end video will be all about Parodius I can tell you that
6:11 I wasn’t aware of the Amiga version, but most likely the reason the game wasn’t released as Bonk in Europe was the British phrase “to bonk”, which is equivalent to the American phrase “to boink”, ie bumping uglies. Actually that would be a great subtitle if Bonk 4 ever came out, Bonk 4: Bumping Uglies :)
Haha yes someone else brought this up ! It’s probably why no video games ever started a titmouse either 😆 thanks for watching 🍖
What if Bonk or P.C. Genjin were to be a Future DLC Fighter in Wave 2 of the Super Smash Bros Ultimate DLC Fighter Pass ????
If that happens, they HAVE to include a Spirit battle with King Drool played by King K. Rool.
I’d rather just see bonk 4 brought to life
@@GTV-Japan So what your saying is that you'd like to see Konami pull of a Sonic Mania but with Bonk ???
I just want to play the lost rpg game. Then I’ll die happy. Someone just told me there is a finished rom out there though
@@GTV-Japan Well I'm sure there's bound to be a Prototype ROM based off of the Screenshots that were shown for it in Game Magazines and could be lost but could eventually be found much like Hi-Ten Bomberman
Can't wait to watch this
Get the popcorn 🍿
i hate so much that i missed out on turbo grafx/pc engine titles growing up in america... i'll definitely be grabbing the turbo mini when it comes out
loved the vid, thanks so much
I got a pre order for all 3! And being in Japan the time zone is earliest in the world along with Australia so my unboxing will be first ! Aha I’m excited. This was one of my favorite vids to make this year. Really wanted to do it a long time 🍖 thanks for watching as always
@@GTV-Japan so happy for you, can't wait to see that one = D
ky uhhl I started writing it today actually
Such a cool character/saga, Cho Genjin is one of my fav "super" games! Thanks for the great info, just discovered your channel :)
Great! Thanks for giving me a chance! I’ll be back with 20-25 new videos starting April 1st. Until then take a stroll thru the back catalogue and tell me what you think! 🍖
@@GTV-Japan Thanks again, I will definitely watch more of your videos :)
Great! Thanks 🙏🏻
Awesome stuff as always. Its a bit late tho, wonder if you got anything about the Splatterhouse series? Maybe for the Halloweeen? Keep up the superb work!
Thanks! No nothing for splatterhouse planned. I don’t like themed episodes but after the TG 16 mini is out I’ll be doing a few games from that. Thanks for watching 🍖
Well I was certainly aware of Bonk and PC Genjin. Had no idea about all the powerup puns and BC Kid. Or King Balls for that matter.
It does seem like nearly all Super nintendo games were called Super ______, but it's probably just confirmation bias and sticks in your mind more each time you hear another game with Super in front of it. Like 64 for the N64, or DS for the DS, although there were plenty of more subtle DS-DS games where they just had the initials of the subtitle be DS, like Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Lunar: Dragon Song and so on.
Man mini consoles just keep rolling out. I see the Turbografx 16 mini contains all the games from all the regions. That's pretty cool of them. Maybe I'll get it to pile on the unending pile of games to play since I've never played any Turbografx games, I have played through the NES Bonk's Adventure though
Yea I hear ya on the Snes games. But there were ones like Super Castlevania 4 or Super Tennis that had no need for the super. While some like Super Mario World had to be there. Someone from France told me they chose BC kid to match pc because the grey market pc engine game was called pc kid unofficially there. I got all 3 minis coming on the morning of March 19! March 18 at dinner time for the USA so I’ll get to be first!! If they don’t give out test units. Thanks for coming by and catching up 🍖
Heh, always nice to see that wallpaper I made cropping up again.
What wallpaper was that? I made the scrolling one but found the rest on Pinterest sorry it didn’t say who made it 😞
@@GTV-Japan 14:23 No worries, no credit needed. It's just nice to see it still pops up from time to time.
I’ll add that to the description that you made it next time he get on my computer
Ok cool
Can't wait for VR Genjin
That’s a good one!!!!! 🍖
Uga Bonk! Daba Dooba! Ooga Mooga!
GATE OF THUNDER!!!!!
Fun fact: The Japanese PC Engine was also released in France.
Yes it was and was pretty popular. Thanks for watching 🍖
I'm very curious to see that video where you talk about the Anime Series that had A Videogame which was Localized in the US as Keith Courage in Alpha Zone
Oh. Then I should probably make one!
I wouldn't mind seeing this remade in some beautiful pixel art. Similar how Wayforwards' works.
The time is right for a return!! 🍖
yea! that would be really good. Most hand-drawn looking games would really benefit from an HD remaster
So I can't find your GTV 92 episode on Keith Courage that was shown @1:12. So could this be a hint at a future episode?
Yea it was a joke. It doesn’t exist yet. But I do fully honestly truly intend to make one about it next year between episodes 90-99 for sure. You can hold me to it because it’s an interesting story behind that game. Thanks for watching 🍖
Gaijillionaire Always a pleasure! Guess your committed to it anyway since you made the title card for it. 😄 Heard a bit about it being based on an anime, but I’m sure you’ve found out plenty more than that. Can’t wait! 😆
pidgeo5 haha well sometimes I just say things as a joke or plan Then down the road but I have been planning that idea to coincide with the turbo grafx mini. I’ve seen the whole anime series it’s real good and was a little empire in the time. It’s still remembered nowadays too. I often put things into videos too just to see if they get any response 😆
Update. Keith Courage will be episode 97 or 98. It’s in the pipeline!
@@GTV-Japan (ಥ _ ಥ) Man, I've been trying to remember this conversation for a while now and I just stumbled on this again! I still don't see it in your videos though (up to 102) and the suspense is killin' me! :D
I'm just kidding, but this sounds like a really interesting story. I hope you're able to tell it as some point. I'll still be waiting! :)
Love your channel man. In my opinion, you're one of the top channels that should be getting more views. Keep it up because your work and quality are top notch! 頑張て！
Wonderful explanation adored the vintage commercials! just thought of another game I remember seeing him in- pc genjin was a playable character in saturn bomberman.
Didn’t know that. Thanks 🍖
I honestly cant remember what name it was called here in the UK, but Bonk as a slang word (Just google Bonk Slang....) probably had some reason on it being renamed as BC KID if thats what it was released as in Europe. I remember playing it on something back in the day, but I cant remember what on.
I can imagine what bonk might mean haha. Thanks for watching 🍖
dude this is like a g4 tv show!
I love this channel
Thanks that’s the highest compliment 🍖
"Binge Watch #1 2020!" 🎮🎸📺
Great video! Although I had a Genesis very early and a SNES a few years after, I was always curious about TG and Bonk. I eventually got one (in 1995..it was already dead) at a sleazy flea marketish store that had many games. I got a crummy partially melted (?) system and picked up both Bonks and a few other games..10 bucks each. It was a gift from my folks for high school graduation. I eventually picked up a PC Engine Duo maybe 10ish years later? Long story shorter, I eventually got Bonk 3 CD and the card PC Engine version as well..as well as the 2 SNES games (games only..picked up SB manual later), the CD denjins, the 2 gb games, the 3 in 1 gb collection, and the ps2 Bonk remake. A friend sent me a Bonk Brink of Extinction shirt way too small for me. Lastly, I just scored a rare PC genjn plush in great shape for a GREAT amount of money. So yeah, big Bonk fan!
Wow! What a crazy story thanks for sharing ! 🍖
Behold, the cave dude that isn't Cave Dude on the Master System, nor Master Higgins!
Yeah funny that weird wonder boy monster lair adventure island triangle they had going. I’ll get to that next year I promise
What about Chuck Rock Jr? :D
Larry Bundy Jr oh yea the Stegadrive. How could we forget?!
Just now seeing this video but thanks for making it! I'm sitting here blown away that I didn't know about the Bonk RPG!!!??? I had a turbo and was the biggest fan of this 16 BIT! system.
I’m glad you liked it. I love the turbo! I’ll be maya Keith courage video soon next. Thanks for watching 🍖
@@GTV-Japan Oh, i'll check out that one for sure. We just brought up Keith Courage on my podcast. I'll promote your channel on there this weekend too.
ALOTOFTHINGS oh great. I’d love to hear it. Keith courage won’t be ready until August or September though.
I played this game a lot at a local grey import store here in my home town. The imported PC Engine was about 1K to buy at the import store back in the day and I couldn’t justify spending that much money on buying a PC engine juts to play Bonk but for a few dollars an hour I could play it at his store as he had it set up that way. To this day I love the Bonk character it was such a cool game that most never got to play
Hey ken! Great story!! Bonk was awesome. I loved my turbo grafx 16!
Yup, the PC-Engine is a 16-bit console, absolute fact. As usual I love those Japanese commercials. Another fantastic video!! :)
It’s got an 8 bit cpu but the crux of the argument was always 16 but GRAPHICS!! Which it has woo we win!! Thanks Kevin good to see you back again 🍖
I love watching this! Twas fun!
Thanks I’m glad you liked it 🍖
I remember seeing Turbo Graphix commercials and Bonk. Looked great at the time. I was playing a NES
There was a marketing push and it sold me way back when. But I guess very few ever got the message. 🍖
@@GTV-Japan I was young maybe 7 or 8. If I bought I'd of been screwed since there was zero support for the brand in my area
In my town there was a place that rented TG games! So to me it never felt like it wasn’t supported. But go five miles down the road and .. yeah.
Also, just a point that the covers and title screens say 'Computerurus' not 'Computerus'
Boy! How’d I miss that! I must be paying attention to my real job too much haha thanks for the heads up
just realized one of wednesday's campanella's songs called momotaro references hudson and pc genjin in one of the lyrics.
I will look that up. sounds interesting
I love the art style of Bonk. Even back then the overall look and design of the game felt very magical.
Even though 16 bit was all about colors. Keeping things simple with one or two tones has let it age well
I thought Bonk 64 became Bomberman HERO, not Bomberman 64... (the only game in which Bomberman jumps!)
It was. My mistake. But I’ll own up to it 🍖
Bomberman also jumps in Super Bomberman 2 (Battle stage 10/mushroom stage), Saturn Bomberman Fight!, and Pocket Bomberman, all released before Bomberman Hero.
Neat trivia! 💣
@@RifeXD You're right about Pocket Bomberman and Saturn Bomberman Fight (both only 3 months before Hero in Japan!) but I'd consider SB2 a classic Bomberman game in which he just happens to jump :)
Wow, I learned so much from this video - and I thought I knew a lot about PC Genjin!
There's something PC Engine related that's literally puzzled me for 30 years and I've never been able to get a meaningful explanation, but you might know the answer: why on earth did NEC/Hudson call it CD-ROM² or CD-ROM-ROM? Even though the PC Engine CD-ROM was (to my knowledge) the very first commercially available CD-ROM device in the world, it nevertheless still used regular CD's. was it just a quirky marketing gimmick, or was there more to it than that?
Yes I can tell you. Actually I just found a book that explains all that stuff and the first video of 2020 I’ll cover it. But simply it’s a CD rom-rom because the machine is a CD rom and the disc is a rom! I know that’s weird to us. But it also makes it copyrightable too. Very often in Japanese the number 2 means to say something twice and appears frequently. Also HE means home entertainment and was used to separate the pc engine and pc9800 lines
Amazing, thanks for that! The PC Engine is by far my favourite console ever. It’s the machine that introduced me to import gaming back in the late 80’s and sparked a life long love of Japan. It’s an endlessly fascinating family of consoles and I’m always uncovering new gems of information, just when I think I’ve learned all there is to know. I was going to ask if you ever planned on doing an in depth PC Engine history video, but it sounds like you already have something awesome lined up :)
Same here! Yea I’m going to combine the pc engine mini and this book I found unrelated to that into one video. It also covers the pc fx. It really was being in a special club when you played the turbo and yea it felt cool to play something so popular in Japan but no where else
I cannot wait for that!
I’ll make sure to scan the book in full
Bonk is so underrated. He should have been up there with Mario and Sonic.
In my heart, he was! And 8 games in 6-7 years ain’t so bad! Thanks for watching 🍖
Great breakdown. Over the years I've had the Duo and CG2 so I've played those, then with Nintendo I have the set of them all FC, both on SFC, the collection GB, and the very good GC title too. Bonk had a great ride, shame it vanished.
I know! What Happened! Being back bonk
This was a bonkers episode!
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You know what? I DON'T CARE WHAT HE WAS CALLED! I Grew up in Canada during the 90's here was called Bonk and I also heard he was the Mascot of the Turbografx-16! Makes sense since his Japanese Name was Similar to the PC-Engine in Japan in a Way I have to Thank Bonk because he shaped me into the Videogamer I am Today! Thanks to Bonk I would discover Mario and Sonic, and later Zelda when Ocarina of Time came out!
I know a couple of fun facts about PC Bijin.
Firstly, that he was censored in the american release of Bonk's Revenge, where he was replaced with PC Henjin, for some reason.
And second, he was treated as a separate character in the Bonk's Adventure arcade game, being the one assigned to player 2 in co-op mode.
That’s cool! I kind of got them mixed up because I thought the Japanese form was weird enough. Thanks for watching 🍖
This was yet another fun video! Always enjoy learning more about PC Engine stuff. I was actually kinda surprised to learn that Bonk's names for other systems weren't just things made up on the fly, but rather retooled in a way to make *Some* sort of sense, in relation to his OG name of PC Genjn. I'm also kinda surprised that in motion, that GCN Bonk remake is a lot cooler looking that it looks like in pictures. I always thought it looked pretty poor, but in motion it looks like a faithful recreation of the PCE Game with pretty backgrounds and smart celshading! It looks way better than Brink of Extinction, which just looks really meh, like Adventure Island the Beginning.
I'd like to know what the origin of the Master Takahashi series was like, or even more interesting, why on earth New Adventure Island is the ONLY game on the PCE mini to not retain the original artwork, instead sticking with some generic logo and a background out of photoshop. I bet there's some sort of history with that series' artist or something along those lines... Or just them not having any scans available.
BTW, did you know that for some odd reason, the real Johnny Turbo has a prototype of Bonk RPG? he showed a pic of the board this summer and boasted about wanting to release it but nothing happened. I alerted some preservationists and they got in contact with him, but Turbo isn't budging... I at least hope it's backed up. Would love to try out a new PCE game.
Ya I’ve heard about the proto. I wonder how he got it. I will eventually cover adventure island. I just don’t know when. Cheers 🍖
There are two power ups that you didn't mention from super bonk 2, the Penguin Bonk and the alternate tank version of Nyohhe Genjin
Yea true. Thanks for pointing it out 🍖
More stuff I never knew! In fact, I've never played a Bonk / PC 原人 game, but I remember being interested. I wish they'd make a new one with lush 2D hand-drawn graphics of the original Japanese style. If they did something like that, I'd definitely be in the market for my first Bonk game! And as someone who has also lived in Japan before, I like how you said "テーマ" for "theme" (12:56+). I'm sure that 90+% of people didn't get it...it just probably flew under their radar...but others who have experienced Japan know what's up!
Yea I remember recording that and saying that on purpose to see what the reaction was and basically there was none. You’re the first to say anything
@@GTV-Japan 🗾✌
Hey he broke the screen!
Sorry about that...
Great work! By Huddahhson!
🐝!!
@@GTV-Japan lol
I'll always be down to play Bonk's Revenge and Air Zonk...such great games.
Air Zonk rules! ⚡️
wait - at 7:03 is that Downtown's Hamada as the dinosaur?
Yes. It appears it is!! 🍖
I didn't know Hudson Soft is dead until this video. I was wondering why Konami gets to publish Bomber man games. They had a long history of co-creating games like Pooyan. So sad.
Yea. Went under in 2011, but Konami looks like they are doing ok with the legacy. Thanks for watching 🍖
Man...what a show! One question, where did you learn to speak Japanese? I ask this for several reasons. First and foremost, I'm a fellow linguist. I speak fluent English (duh), lo parlo Italiano (Italian), yo hablo Espanol (Spanish), and Latine loqor, luqoi (Latin) although my grammar/spelling is atrocious in Latin. Further, I have traveled all over the world. The only place have always wanted to gu but never had the chance is Japan.
I want to not only learn the language but how to read and write it as well. I have so many games that are essentially locked out too me as I don't understand the language. Now, Japanese written in our Roman simplified letters or essentially in English lettering I can generally follow. The characters themselves at current might as well be ancient hieroglyphics as I can't read them.
I love it! If you call the Turbo Grafx 16 an 8-bit system I will come to your house and beat you. The mere suggestion and I'm starting my car...or plane tickets! ;)
I learned Japanese from watching tv and talking to people. I did practice writing a lot though
Had no idea Bonk got released on the Amiga. That's an interesting bit of info, thanks. To be honest though with the mini that was released I never understood why it came with the games in Japanese and English as there was overlap. It wasn't really the 50 games they promised and the Japanese ones were never localised so some must be difficult to play. I personally would have kept the Japanese exclusives and at least cut the overlapped games.
Probably because in France they were imported and weren’t translated anyway
@@GTV-Japan That's no reason for the overlap though.
Those decisions are above my pay grade
Bonk 64 eventually became Bomberman Hero.
yeah, i think i may have boffed it. oh well, no one's perfect! thanks for stopping by again 🍖
You deserve an award
One time I submitted for a Telly Award. But I lost. 😭
@@GTV-Japan well you’re a winner in my eyes buddy! ❤
@droogsurgeon1440 thanks. Much appreciated!
Hey gtv you predict episode 92
Yes! It’s got a 99% chance I think
Imma gonna call him Bonk! Funny enough growing up this game always made me think of the Flintstones. Bonk is a better name.
It is a yabba dabba doo time! Bono is a perfect name I think 🍖
Great video! Please review Bio Miracle Baby.
Thanks I’m glad you liked it
Bomberman Hero was originally going to be a Bonk game on the N64.
Yeah! 💣
Similar to PC Engine?
I think so?
@@GTV-Japan sounds like another video lol
16:37 whats the song?
It’s the last stage from bonks revenge
Wonder boy becoming Adventure Island!
That will be done someday!
If Bonk: The Brink of Extinction was released to the Public in Japan, I'm sure they would've called it Shin Genjin. Shin meaning Japanese for New
That’s a good possibility 🍖
So Bonk has the same gimmick as John Morrison
Yeah! Or Charlie Hass in the case of super bonk 2!
As a Turbo/pce fan, it feels wrong/weird playing a Bonk game on the SNES.
So.. Gillagazilonerus Transsmison Videus Japan?.... yes bad joke I know.
The G is for gokujo which means in Japanese “of the highest quality”
Wait. Pc Enjin...Pc Engine..oh those clever bastards.
Friend is the streets freak in the ….
Beets!
Pretty good video, but it’s not quite as good as Gaming Historian’s half assed six minute video
You’re right! No one could ever beat him! We can only hope to bask in his light someday! What I need is to quit my job then make you wait 6 more weeks and cut out 14 minutes! Then I might be in the same league. 😆 seriously though thanks for watching on day one. Always means a lot to me! 🍖
I guess they could have called him Play Genjin 2nd
Sure! But it’s a bit too late now…
such a good game , I grew up on this 1992!!! the original butthead
Thanks for watching 🍖!
Please don't let that be Blackface Bonk @ 9:35
No. It’s hard to convey with the gameboy limitations but Japanese third bonk is designed to look like a traditional 16-19th century bandit. They often wore dark face coverings to hide their identity. The style is also done with Ebisu Maru from goemon
@@GTV-Japan Thank God. It did sort of resemble the IMP status from Final Fantasy VI
There are many cultural shorthand’s like that which we are possibly unaware of that in Japan need no explanation.. I also like how the western theif bonk apparently was caught for his crime and carries a ball and chain
Does Golgo Genjin cause all the female characters to want to sleep with Bonk?
That's classified
This was a brilliant video, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I had a PC Engine for my 10th Birthday in 1990! Over here in the UK the PC Engine kickstarted the grey import market for Japanese consoles. When CVG Magazine reviewed PC Genjin they called him PC Kid and the name stuck for future releases . Hence when he was later released on the Amiga in the UK he was called BC Kid.