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Title: What was the first Turbo Grafx game you've played?
Post by: storino03 on April 26, 2012, 09:49:35 AM
and what year?
I just got a TG-16 last week so the first game I tested was Keith Courage, 2012 lol.
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Post by: xelement5x on April 26, 2012, 09:56:33 AM
Bonk's Adventure.......in 2010 :shock:
The next thing I put in was some awesome Cadash from Working Designs.
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Post by: storino03 on April 26, 2012, 09:59:53 AM
Isn't there a Bonk game on the Sega Genesis? I thought I played one on there before.
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Post by: Necromancer on April 26, 2012, 10:04:19 AM
Keith Courage or maybe Bonk's Adventure in an in-store demo in '89 or '90; for my own hardware and playing for more than a few minutes, it'd be Gate of Thunder in '92.
Isn't there a Bonk game on the Sega Genesis? I thought I played one on there before.
No, but Bonk was whored out to the NES, SNES, and GB. Maybe one of those was what you're thinking of.
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Post by: Black Tiger on April 26, 2012, 10:08:35 AM
I saw Keith Courage on display at a trade show in 1989, but probably didn't get to play it. During my first real experience with the TG-16 in 1990, Dungeon Explorer was probably the game I played first.
Isn't there a Bonk game on the Sega Genesis? I thought I played one on there before.
You might be thinking of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Post by: Sadler on April 26, 2012, 10:09:05 AM
R-Type somewhere around 1990 in a store display. The first game I played on my own hardware was either Keith Courage or Bonk's Revenge somewhere around a year later.
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Post by: storino03 on April 26, 2012, 10:20:34 AM
I saw Keith Courage on display at a trade show in 1989, but probably didn't get to play it. During my first real experience with the TG-16 in 1990, Dungeon Explorer was probably the game I played first.
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Post by: Arkhan on April 26, 2012, 10:48:56 AM
or SUPER HYDLIDE!
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Post by: SMF on April 26, 2012, 10:52:45 AM
The first game I played was Blazing Lazers then Bonks Adventure. It was around march 1990 or 91.
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Post by: Lilgrafx on April 26, 2012, 11:28:17 AM
China warrior was my first game around September 2010. I got 4 games with the system KC, China Warrior, TV Sport Football, and World Sports baseball. I have no Idea why I purchased a turbo. I heard about on youtube and for some reason I had to get one. Best random purchase ever.
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Post by: T2KFreeker on April 26, 2012, 11:34:15 AM
Store display when they were test marketing the Turbografx in Atlanta Georgia. Played Keith Courage. I was supposed to get one for Christmas that year but I moved to California and they weren't available yet! :evil: I had to wait for next Christmas to get the Turbo, but it was worth it in the end! :lol:
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Post by: Bernie on April 26, 2012, 11:34:21 AM
hmm, I think it was KC. It had to be, since that was the pack in.
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Post by: BigusSchmuck on April 26, 2012, 12:17:44 PM
Keith Courage early 90s at Toys R Us in Portland Oregon. I would say most of us on this forum probably played Keith Courage as their first Turbo game. Of course I remember seeing this commercial too:
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Post by: roflmao on April 26, 2012, 01:01:55 PM
R-Type, circa 1990. I had a Sega Master System and R-Type back then and friend of mine brought over his Turbografx-16 w/ R-Type one day and the rest was history. I sold my Master System as soon as I could to fund a Turbografx-16. The intro music at the beginning of the first stage still gives me chills, because I remember how completely blown away I was when compared to the Sega Master System version (which I still think is a pretty decent version).
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Post by: vestcoat on April 26, 2012, 02:23:17 PM
Keith Courage 1992. I played an in-store before that, but I can't remember which game.
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Post by: Sparky on April 26, 2012, 02:33:39 PM
You lucky pricks, I never got to play a tg16 system until I bought my first one in about 2000-2001. kieth courage was my first and i was disappointed, but soon after got Dragon Spirit and got hooked... I loved that f@cking game.
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Post by: turbokon on April 26, 2012, 02:40:31 PM
It was Keith in 90 or 91. My friend got the genesis with altered beast. I thought Keith was better and still do.
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Post by: galam on April 26, 2012, 02:46:15 PM
Bonk. It was on display to try at a JVC store before release. Sealed the deal.
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Post by: thesteve on April 26, 2012, 03:01:33 PM
had to be keith
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Post by: MrFlutterPie on April 26, 2012, 04:22:20 PM
Bonk's Adventure at a Radio Shack demo unit in 91-92.
The stupid thing was set to reset automatically after 5 mins of play so I would always try to get as far as I could before the game reset.
My own unit same game circa 2007.
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Post by: esteban on April 26, 2012, 08:07:06 PM
I played (or watched?) BLAZING LAZERS in 1989 at Toy R Us.
First game on my own TG-16 console…1989...Keith Courage, followed by Blazing Lazers.
... but soon after got Dragon Spirit and got hooked... I loved that f@cking game.
Hell yes. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
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Post by: TR0N on April 26, 2012, 08:33:15 PM
Keith Courge and Bonks Adventure around 91 or 92 i think.
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Post by: ParanoiaDragon on April 26, 2012, 09:12:43 PM
It had to be sometime in 90, since Bonk 1 was out, but I got my TG in February of 91'. I think it was either Bonk or KC, possibly Blazing Lazers. It was at a friends house, I was staying overnight & we were going to Disneyland the next morning. I played Bonk almost all the way thru, I remember being flippin' tired & trying to get myself up that vertical area in level 5 with the blocks that open up right after you land on them, I eventually gave up :D I know he also had Bloody Wolf, but, someone was borrowing that. So, yeah, it had to be either BL, KC, or Bonk. Man, playing the Turbo when it was new....that is such a freakin' great memory! Man, it's wierd, but I can smell that new(ish) Turbo, those were the days!
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Post by: Keith Courage on April 26, 2012, 09:52:44 PM
Vigilante was the first one I ever played. It was on display at a Montgomery Wards Electric Avenue. The first games I ever owned that came with the system bundle I bought were Keith Courage, Fighting street, Ys 1&2, and Monster Lair.
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Post by: soop on April 26, 2012, 10:02:32 PM
As always, I have PC Engine, but out of the seven games I got with my GT in around '97... I would probably shoved in Afterburner II, but I remember playing the shit out of PC Kid 2, so it may well have been that.
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Post by: OrangeArmy on April 27, 2012, 06:18:59 AM
Keith Courage in 1990. Dad went to the store with the goal of bringing home a NES for my birthday but came back with a TG instead after a sales guy talked him into it.
Before that our house only had a Commodore VIC 20 for gaming.
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Post by: Gogan on April 27, 2012, 06:38:16 AM
Keith Courage ca. 1989
Bought the system after seeing one their sweet advertisements. :-k
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Post by: NightWolve on April 27, 2012, 07:45:41 AM
In 1990, I entered and won a contest (http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=4625.msg218974#msg218974) for a TG-16 system with 2 games, "Keith Courage" and "Bloody Wolf", so it'd be one of the two... I would bet that at the first glance of Keith Courage, given the way the first level starts, I probably didn't give it a chance initially (not yet knowing that you transform into a robot and the real action begins), so I'd bet that I started playing Bloody Wolf first, an obvious, kickass-looking action game that was easy to get in to! So yeah, Bloody Wolf!
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Post by: kamiboy on April 27, 2012, 07:52:45 AM
Bonk on a store demo unit at the local mall in the early 90's. Might sound pretty mundane, but keep in mind this was in Europe. That was the only time I ever saw the Turbo or any games for it.
Memory of that single game all those years ago brought me back when shitty current gen standards pushed me to start buying older gen games a few years back.
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Post by: KingDrool on April 27, 2012, 08:01:04 AM
Keith Courage, Christmas 1990. I knew little-to-nothing about the console, but my Dad got it for me because it was a whopping $20 cheaper than the Genesis at the store he went to. The only things I had seen about it were the cartoon ads for Bonk and Splatterhouse, which I thought were bad ass.
I remember popping in Keith Courage for the first time and thinking it looked pretty awesome graphically. I was a little disappointed by how one-dimensional it seemed, though. No real hidden areas, etc. After playing Super Marios 2 and 3, I was hoping for a bit more depth, I guess.
The only Christmas that topped that one was the year I got a Turbo Duo. Best-Christmas-EVER!
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Post by: motdelbourt on April 27, 2012, 05:58:28 PM
I got a Turbo Grafx 16 from Babbages with Keith Courage of course. But shortly after that I ordered some used games from Game Dude. There was Bonk's Adventure, Neutopia, Ninja Spirit, and maybe a couple others. Not a bad lineup. I had a SNES at that point but kept coming back to the Turbo. Still do.
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Post by: rag-time4 on April 27, 2012, 10:42:46 PM
My first time was with my next door neighbors around 91. The first one I tried was Battle Royale, of which my only memory (from that session) was the character select screen. I just remember being disgusted by the gameplay. We made it a trifecta that day with China Warrior and Axe II.
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Post by: city41 on April 28, 2012, 02:21:03 AM
Mine was Keith Courage in 1989. I got a TG16 at launch. At first KC blew me away with its graphics. But its gameplay soon underwhelmed me.
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Post by: PunkicCyborg on April 28, 2012, 03:21:22 AM
First for me was Bonk's Adventure at a game store kiosk when I was a kid. Then my neighbor who's mom owned a game store let him take home a duo with Super Air Zonk
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Post by: SuperPlay on April 30, 2012, 09:21:45 AM
My first play would have been Chan and Chan in early 1990 on the PCE.
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Post by: joeawesome on May 01, 2012, 06:24:09 AM
Bloody Wolf at a friend of my brother's house in the early 90s. Hadn't touched a TG-16 since I finally bought one in 2010, and the first game I played then was Keith Courage. I've played Bloody Wolf, since (mainly for nostalgia, yet strangely I hardly remembered it), and it's nothing like I thought it'd be, hahaha!
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Post by: tpivette on May 01, 2012, 11:59:09 AM
First game I played was Keith Courage back in Dec 89'. My parents chose the Turbo over the Genesis that year for a Christmas present. They also got me Blazing Lazers along with the system... what an awesome Christmas that year!
To this day, I still have that original Turbo system that I got over 22 years ago... it still works and I play it regularly!
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Post by: ALTQQ on May 01, 2012, 02:06:07 PM
The first game that I ever played was Bonk's Revenge. I believe that was in 1995. I recently bought a turbo grafx, I'm mostly a super nintendo collector but really enjoyed my friends tg16 when I was younger.been playing bonk's revenge again :D
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Post by: GohanX on May 01, 2012, 03:09:38 PM
My first wasn't until 2001 or so when I discovered that TZD.com still sold new Duos. I bought a Duo with the Gates 4 in 1 disc, and I'm pretty sure Bonk's Adventure was the first game I played. I didn't really care for it, so I quickly switched to Gate of Thunder and was blown away.
Oddly enough, I didn't really appreciate Bonk's Adventure until sometime last year when I gave it another chance. I really like it now!
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Post by: DragonmasterDan on May 02, 2012, 02:52:37 AM
My first wasn't until 2001 or so when I discovered that TZD.com still sold new Duos. I bought a Duo with the Gates 4 in 1 disc, and I'm pretty sure Bonk's Adventure was the first game I played. I didn't really care for it, so I quickly switched to Gate of Thunder and was blown away.
Oddly enough, I didn't really appreciate Bonk's Adventure until sometime last year when I gave it another chance. I really like it now!
They didn't start selling them til around 2001, they had kept a backstop of new ones to swap out as part of their repair program. When the repair program ceased via TZD they started selling their inventory of Duo's and Expresses.
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Post by: storino03 on May 02, 2012, 06:15:59 AM
How much were new systems and such on Turbo Zone Direct?
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Post by: billyh455 on May 04, 2012, 03:31:58 AM
Blazing Lazers on a Turbo Express in late 1990 (I think). I had never played anything other than NES and Gameboy up until that point and my dad brought the Express, a tuner and Blazing Lazers home from work one Friday. I got to play with it over that weekend and was blown away. I asked for a Turbo Grafx that Christmas but oddly never got Blazing Lazers until years later.
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Post by: kiketonto on May 08, 2012, 04:23:49 AM
Vigilante in 1991
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Post by: GohanX on May 08, 2012, 07:16:55 AM
How much were new systems and such on Turbo Zone Direct?
I paid $199 for my new Duo, it was complete in retail box, but had no games included. I think the Gates 4 in 1 disc was $30, and Lord of Thunder was $30 or $35, both new.
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Post by: whitetrashshayno on May 08, 2012, 09:46:54 AM
China warrior in 2010. got a turbo with 5 games for 20 bucks. Played china warrior first, then shockman, then bravoman, then bloody wolfe. Played the fuccck outta bloody wolfe.
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Post by: storino03 on May 08, 2012, 09:47:32 AM
Oh okay. thanks for getting back to me. Looks like the website/store closed in 2008, so in a way, I just missed it. At the time though Turbo Grafx anything didn't catch my attention. lol
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Post by: Dirge on May 08, 2012, 10:25:04 AM
Bonks Adventure in 1989-90 in a Radioshack in some mall in Texas. They had a TG16 hooked up to a big screen TV right out in front of the store. Naturally I made a bee-line to it as soon as I saw it. I remember my sister getting so pissed because I wouldn't let her play. Must have scarred her for life because she still talks about to this day.
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Post by: nodtveidt on May 08, 2012, 05:31:43 PM
Keith Courage, probably 1991. Second game was Fantasy Zone, that was probably 1992.
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Post by: munchiaz on May 09, 2012, 07:28:12 AM
Cadash in 2011. I think i picked a good first game to play.
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Post by: Damon Plus on May 11, 2012, 03:45:46 AM
On emulator I don't remember. When I purchased one last year, first game I tried was Blazing Lazers. I was amazed, of course.
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Post by: FiftyQuid on May 14, 2012, 08:09:46 AM
First game for me was Keith's Courage. I bought the TG-16 with my own money. Saved up for it specifically to play Bonk's Adventure, but after paying for the system I had no money left. Two weeks later I bought Bonk's Adventure and the TurboGrafx-16 changed me as a gamer for life.
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Post by: Robknoxious1 on May 16, 2012, 12:52:02 PM
Kieth Courage, 1989. It was the game that lured me to the Turbografx over the Genesis (well that and Dungeon Explorer I think) I just loved the bright colors.
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Post by: guyjin on May 23, 2012, 01:08:18 PM
Got a used Turbo and some games off Yahoo auctions in '98. First Turbo game I put in it was Keith Courage. Not a good first impression. However, I also had Bomberman, Galaga '90 and Ninja Spirit, which were much better :)
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Post by: fraggore on June 07, 2012, 10:05:18 AM
it was the pc engine 22 years ago not the turbo for me (god i am old) and it was tale of the monsters path quickly followed by shinobi
if it was the turbo it would be 2 months ago and it was blazing lasers
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Post by: Jugbug on June 07, 2012, 02:54:01 PM
Can't really remember, but I'm pretty sure it was either Bonk or Keith Courage.
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Post by: CPTRAVE on June 07, 2012, 07:12:50 PM
I played Keith Courage, I beat it the same day I think.
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Post by: SignOfZeta on June 07, 2012, 07:54:15 PM
I honestly have no idea.
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Post by: DarkKobold on June 07, 2012, 08:00:58 PM
Non emulated?
Dungeon Explorer 2, 1 month ago.
<3
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Post by: Bonga7 on June 11, 2012, 06:35:10 PM
Its Keith Courage, way back in 1989. It was the pack in game so I had no choice. During the launch window, My brothers and I were lucky to get Legendary Axe, Rtype, and China Warrior. My favorite of the 4 at the time was China Warrior. Although Legendary Axe blew me away when I saw that final boss.
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Post by: CatBoy on June 14, 2012, 10:26:47 AM
Keith Courage on a TG16 kiosk at RadioShack. The other games put on rotation on that kiosk were Blazing Lazers and Pac Land.