It's definitely a 16-bit console since it has a 16 GPU (graphics processing unit). When the average person use to refer to a console as a 16-bit console back in the day, it was referring to it's GRAPHICAL power. Yeah, it has an 8-bit CPU, but it's the 16-bit GPU which makes it capable of producing 16-bit looking games that officially makes the Turbografx-16 a 16-bit console. NEC made a huge deal about how the Turbografx-16 had 16-bit graphics during it's commercials. Look up the American Turbografx-16 commercial to China Warrior for a prime example where they put China Warrior side by side with the NES game Kung-Fu during the commercial and they make a HUGE deal over how China Warrior has 16-bit graphics and Kung-Fu has inferior 8-bit graphics. Also, I got into the Turbo VERY late into it's life when it's entire branding was rebranded as the TURBO DUO. By 1993, in a desperate attempt to stay relevant, they entirely dropped the Turbografx-16 branding and rebranded everything as Turbo Duo to the point where the later released Turbo games do NOT have the Turbografx-16 logo on their boxes and instead have the large TURBO DUO logo on them. See the box art to games like John Madden Duo CD Football and Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure and Riot Zone and other later released games for details (strangely, they left the Turbografx-16 logo on the physical Hucard of Bonk 3, despite the CD and Hucard versions of the Bonk 3 box / case having only the very large Turbo Duo logo on them). During 1993 my mom was buying me almost EVERY video game console. (she was divorced from my dad and was "competing" with him in a weird way and me getting an avalanche of video games from her that he couldn't get was an example of that. LMAO) and the Turbo Duo (which was a console which combined the Turbografx-16 and Turbo CD into one unit) was one of them and she got me several games (all with the Turbo Duo logo on them). I didn't start to get the older Turbografx-16 branded games till later on when I wanted to get the earlier Bonk games and others. At that point, during 1994, almost all the games were on clearance prices for $10 each since the Turbo Duo didn't sell well (the rebranding didn't work) and by early 1994 it was over for them.
@jacobprayer8656
3 күн бұрын
Dude I always loved you you're the red-haired kid from The sandlot you've aged really well
@JaronThomson
3 күн бұрын
Okay.....
@RemoWilliams1227
2 күн бұрын
You play ball like a girl.
@zedorda1337
3 күн бұрын
The TurboExpress was my first portable console. Loved that it used the full games and not another completely different formfactor.
@JaronThomson
3 күн бұрын
The Turbo Express is so cool
@unlazinessboyo
3 күн бұрын
Pc engine have tons of great bullet hell games
@JaronThomson
3 күн бұрын
Yeah Lords of Thunder owns
@Chris-Courage
5 күн бұрын
I remember playing Last Alert as a kid and at the time, I didn't think the voice dialog was cheesy or bad. It was pretty normal fare at those times if you compared it to the vast majority of B rate actions movies. Cheesy one liners, bad accents, and the 1 man vs everyone plot was like every action movie through the 80s and early 90s.
@AdamsOlympia
3 күн бұрын
I had the TG-16 in 1990 for about a year before I got a SNES. Great console and those cards felt so futuristic! The CD expansion was a non-starter though, for sure. If we had that kind of money, I think most American kids would opt for a Neo Geo over that in the early 90s, no question.
@ACanuckNamedTex
17 минут бұрын
hey! you left out one of Guy Kazama's best lines: "it's going to be be YOUR blood! not mine!"
@Sinn0100
2 күн бұрын
There are a couple of issues here....the TG-16 was not a mid generation console. It was released one week after the Sega Genesis in 1989. The PC Engine was in a way. However, despite the 8-bit CPU, its architecture was definitely 4th generation. This was also done long before consoles were categorized into generations but I digress... The TG-16 CD ROM ROM (yes, twice) and Sega CD were very different add-ons. The TG-16 CD really only added extra storage and RAM (System Card). The Sega CD added another faster Motorola 68K, RAM, and an ASCII chip for real hardware scaling, rotation, spite manipulation, ect...
@JaronThomson
2 күн бұрын
In North America they came out together but in Japan the PC engine came out in 1987
@xAlexZifko
2 күн бұрын
Damn, i didnt realize you were the sandlot guy
@JaronThomson
2 күн бұрын
I'm still trying to figure out what the comment is all about lol
@BanditsBest686
6 күн бұрын
the thing that sucks about Y's, is its like OMG the music, then you get to the gameplay and it drops to like atari 2600 mechanics, you just run into enemies LOL almost seems like they ran out of time developing the game or couldnt program real fight mechanics so they just went with "you just walk into enemies to fight". Dont forget with the turbografx, its the 1st system that required you to buy a 4 player adapter to play 2 players LMFAOOOOO, let that statement sink in.
@JaronThomson
6 күн бұрын
Yeah NEC was definitely going crazy with the expensive accessories lol not to mention the turbo Express
@BanditsBest686
6 күн бұрын
@@JaronThomson back then i barely knew about the turbografx, think i heard about it in like EGM looking in magazines at readers world back in the day, but i never saw the games or system in person back then. nintendo and genesis just stole the show
@Lee-o8f
3 күн бұрын
PC engine so good Most played the games on emulation
@sonomute
3 күн бұрын
good case for the japanese mentality study, they can be so weird, and so creative in that weird kind of way...maybe because all that stuff doesn't mean much to them, all the western ideas, so they just improvise
@elgoog-the-third
2 сағат бұрын
"This VA is racist" No.
@MerlinTheCommenter
4 күн бұрын
Bro are you deleting comments? I saw my reply disappear.
@JaronThomson
4 күн бұрын
I definitely didn't however in KZitem studio it reports I have more comments that I can't read not sure what's going on
@CD-vb9fi
4 күн бұрын
YT is really bad about deleting comments or hiding them. It happens all over the place. The comment system is "heavily" biased toward "echo chamber" so if you say something that the "auto bot" does not approve of for that content or channel it will just yoink or refuse to even post your comment. You are not alone.
@CD-vb9fi
4 күн бұрын
It's KZitem censoring you for "whatever" reason. It's happening to everyone, not just you or this channel.
@AdamsOlympia
3 күн бұрын
KZitem censors anything with links or certain blacklisted words.
@Metalkorpse
5 күн бұрын
Dude you weren't even born when it came out!
@JaronThomson
5 күн бұрын
So doesn't mean I haven't played it or can't have an opinion about it. The amazing thing about emulation and Mister project is that anyone can go back and play these games
@MayaConner16
4 күн бұрын
"You wasn't even there" lol
@greenmachine5487
3 күн бұрын
People don't need to be gatekeeping, that's how people get turned off from the hobby.
@DingleBerry-jb4gj
2 күн бұрын
Listen up all you historians, you have absolutely no right to be talking about history, you wasn't even there.
@noneofyourbusiness4616
4 күн бұрын
Nobody should care, but using "of all time" to refer to a medium which has only existed a few decades is a pet peeve of mine.
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