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Title: Kids!!
Post by: psychobear on December 03, 2012, 04:35:11 PM
Any of you have kids that just won't put down the Turbo controllers down?
My 5 year old started to play Air Zonk for the past 3 days... He won't even let me play haha, sure beats buying 60$ games and those skylander toys... I had to dust off my regular turbo so I can set it up in his room and I can play my Duo!! Glad this kid pick up some retro games.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: HercTNT on December 03, 2012, 04:38:17 PM
i have two daughers 7 and 10. the 7 year old does not like the turbo at all. my 10 year old loves bonk, but thats about it
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: psychobear on December 03, 2012, 04:40:46 PM
Yeah he seems to only play the bonks series and some shooters, the one that I get weird about is that he seems to like timeball a lot??! Yeah I'm confused on that one but he likes it..
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: MotherGunner on December 03, 2012, 04:59:38 PM
My 7 year old loves his TE and games.  No complaints!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: _joshuaTurbo on December 03, 2012, 10:02:52 PM
My 13 year old is so wrapped up in 'skyrim' and 'call of dooty' and his XBL and online friends and 3D HD grafx that he hardly plays Turbob with me anymore.  Sometimes I can still get him to play 5 player bomberman with us which is fun as heck!  The younger kids all really dig turbo as long as it's multiplayer games, so we try to do mostly Bomberman, Dungeon Explorer, Panic Bomber, and some 2-player Bonk 3.  With a possible deal with Nec.game.head to snag his battle royale coming up, we should have another excellent multiplayer game to play!!

It's funny, my younger kids aren't worried about HD grafx, but my oldest is all about that stuff. 
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Obfuscate on December 04, 2012, 01:25:30 AM
My kids love Bomberman 93 and 94. They also love playing Street Fighter 2 and Battle Royale and for some reason one of them really likes Sonic Spike.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Necromancer on December 04, 2012, 01:35:27 AM
No kids of my own, but my nephews love playing Bomberman '94 and Parasol Stars when they come over.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: _joshuaTurbo on December 04, 2012, 02:09:19 AM
My kids love Bomberman 93 and 94. They also love playing Street Fighter 2 and Battle Royale and for some reason one of them really likes Sonic Spike.

Everyone should LOVE SONIC SPIKE!!!!  Great 4 player fun for the whole family!!!!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: nodtveidt on December 04, 2012, 02:18:30 AM
My daughter has her own game that I made for her on teh Turbo so she plays that whenever she's not smacking people around in Soul Calibur IV.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: 420GOAT on December 04, 2012, 03:33:14 AM
my kids dont like turbo, but since mindcraft is 8 bit, they are now having seconds thoughts. screw em they need to get their own!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: CPTRAVE on December 04, 2012, 04:06:51 AM
My daughter who is 9 loves Dungeon explorer, we just finished it also. And we play alot of Moto roader. She wants me to get Dungeon Explorer 2. So I will be searching for that game.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: shabba on December 04, 2012, 06:26:40 AM
17 and 14 year old boys...both are slaves to new games (Skyrim and WOW to be precise). However, they have both taken shots at Y's and will sit and watch me try to figure out the Japanese script on my copies of Might and Magic 1 and 3. I think that once I get MM3 again, they will give it a stab. The 17 year old is intrigued by the menu system and how "complex" it is. When I heard him say that, I took him upstairs, booted up the old 386 and played the first dungeon in Ultima 1...yes, on a 5.25 floppy. He was bonkers over the complicated nature of the old games but sat there while I fought through the dungeon and paid close attention.

I don't know what, as a 12-17 year old, I would have done with Skyrim or Prototype or Halo 4...hell, any of the newer adventure/RPG/FPS games that are out now. To me, THEY'RE complex and unwieldy.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: turbokon on December 04, 2012, 07:02:23 AM
I have 3 daughters, 15, 10 & 3. Once in a while we play bomberman 94 together other then that only my 3 years old pick up a turbo controller with me. She can tap on button I & II, she'll still figuring out the d-pads. However, she can master those damn touchscreen devices.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: FiftyQuid on December 04, 2012, 07:35:05 AM
I have 3 daughters, 15, 10 & 3. Once in a while we play bomberman 94 together other then that only my 3 years old pick up a turbo controller with me. She can tap on button I & II, she'll still figuring out the d-pads. However, she can master those damn touchscreen devices.
My kid is the same.  He's 3 and not a master at the d-pad.  He likes Bonk, but he hasn't mastered using the d-pad and the buttons at the same time.  So he'll either move left and right, or stand still and just jump.  It's still a lot of fun to watch.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: KingDrool on December 04, 2012, 07:54:25 AM
My oldest son (5) loves Bonk, Bomberman, and has played a bit of Parasol Stars. I'm hoping to get him into Dungeon Explorer soon.

But right now, his main obsession is Skylanders and whatever Mario game he can get his hands on.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Nec.Game.head on December 04, 2012, 10:15:10 AM
I haven't been blessed with any little ones of my own yet, but I have 3 nephews that are ages 7, 8 and 10 and recently I brought over my Tg16 to my sisters house and let them have at it .. They were all super stoaked on Bonk's Adventure, Air Zonk and New Adventure Island .. Their favorite game so far seemed to be New Adventure Island because of the sk8board and all the awesome music .. It was pretty sweet watching them play a console that is at least 2 and a half times their age !!! Gonna buy them a Pc Engine soon, and wire up to my sister's Oddesy mini van for them to enjoy some great retroness while on the road ...
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: turbokon on December 04, 2012, 10:56:10 AM
Man, you're an awesome uncle dude!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: csgx1 on December 04, 2012, 11:20:25 AM
My 22month old son can't put the Turbo controller down even though he's actually never played any video games.  He really loves just holding the controller and running around with it.  He likes to push the buttons and flip the turbo switches.  What's funny is he prefers the Turbo controller over any other controller and over a lot of his fancy new toys.   Already taking after me since he watches and studies me playing Turbo. 
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 04, 2012, 12:02:12 PM
My 22month old son can't put the Turbo controller down even though he's actually never played any video games.  He really loves just holding the controller and running around with it.  He likes to push the buttons and flip the turbo switches.  What's funny is he prefers the Turbo controller over any other controller and over a lot of his fancy new toys.   Already taking after me since he watches and studies me playing Turbo. 



Supercute kid!

Plus, he loves TurboPad (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcg0.png).
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Nec.Game.head on December 04, 2012, 01:43:16 PM
Man that is too awesome !!! A chip of the ol Turbo block !! Kids playing video games makes me smile big time, as much as it makes me smile while I'm playing them !!!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: psychobear on December 04, 2012, 02:29:20 PM
Awsome, I'm glad my son plays it, even if its Timeball...haha
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: turbokon on December 04, 2012, 02:52:50 PM
Cute kid! I always wanted a boy, do you want to trade:)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 04, 2012, 05:24:41 PM
Awsome, I'm glad my son plays it, even if its Timeball...haha


YOUR SON IS BLESSED.

(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/Timeball_is_Blodia_Believe.png)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: reno5 on December 04, 2012, 11:26:33 PM
No kids here but my ex had 2 and they loved my retro games. Didn't had any turbo in that period but they loved my Genesis/sega CD and Saturn.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Bernie on December 04, 2012, 11:42:05 PM
I hate kids.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: csgx1 on December 05, 2012, 12:24:15 PM
Supercute kid!
Plus, he loves TurboPad (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcg0.png).

Man that is too awesome !!! A chip of the ol Turbo block !! Kids playing video games makes me smile big time, as much as it makes me smile while I'm playing them !!!
Cute kid! I always wanted a boy, do you want to trade:)


Thanks everyone!  haha...well, I always wanted a boy.  I hope to maybe one day pass down the Turbo collection as family heirlooms starting with my son. :) 

I'm really glad to see my son already taking interested in Video games (watching & playing with the Turbo Pad) already, but the wife doesn't like it so much.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: PunkicCyborg on December 06, 2012, 12:46:07 AM
My 2 year old son likes to watch me play games a lot. He understands the controller is moving the character or ship on the screen and likes sonic games a lot because he can see how the buttons make him jump or move. I like to give him a controller or joystick to play with when he watches me. He also likes to bang on the control panel on my candy cabs which are perfect kid height. He yells at the screen too, wonder where he got that from  :P
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: ccovell on December 06, 2012, 02:05:14 AM
Here's my 6-month-old trying to press the I button in his own special way...
(http://www.chrismcovell.com/images/geoff_controller.jpg)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: thesteve on December 06, 2012, 04:46:45 AM
boy 6, girls 7 and 8
they play draculaX, dungeon explorer, bomberman, bonk and about anything else i hook up.
they do play way too much sonic (sega)

PCFX, saturn, DC, NES and WII also get kid play
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: MrFlutterPie on December 06, 2012, 09:58:42 AM
Here's my 6-month-old trying to press the I button in his own special way...
(http://www.chrismcovell.com/images/geoff_controller.jpg)


That controller is either huge or your kid is really small lol.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: turbokon on December 06, 2012, 02:28:25 PM
Now she figured out the jumping over something. One proud papa here:)
(http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l594/superkon316/pc-enginefx/5DB94383-F4FF-427D-8762-9B6E2DDA44F6-1676-000000A4476B9F79.jpg)
(http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l594/superkon316/pc-enginefx/AE90E749-E59D-44A5-B10F-64DC2C784BD8-1676-000000A44981806E.jpg)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 07, 2012, 09:02:19 AM
Awesome!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 07, 2012, 09:03:48 AM
Here's my 6-month-old trying to press the I button in his own special way...
(http://www.chrismcovell.com/images/geoff_controller.jpg)


That controller is either huge or your kid is really small lol.


 (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png) This is true  (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: roflmao on December 16, 2012, 02:31:11 AM
My son, who's 4, has been playing Devil's Crush a lot lately (woot!).  Yesterday, after an apparently frustrating game, he says to me, "Daddy, I know TVs are not kickable, but right now I want to kick it."

That's my boy.

:D
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: -D- on December 23, 2012, 05:04:42 PM
My 4 year old son absolutely loves Bonk, Keith Courage, and Detana!! Twinbee.

I've also been considering setting up a TG-16 in his room so I can have the Japanese Duo all to myself, though he'll be upset when he finds out Twinbee won't work on the TG-16.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 23, 2012, 05:26:37 PM
My daughter and I played through Crude Buster and Bad Dudes today!

Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: tggodfrey on December 23, 2012, 05:33:02 PM
lmao I love it.  No kids of my own.  Similer to Josh, my G/F son only plays COD on his Xbox.  She wont let me reset the router when he plays :(
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Senshi on December 23, 2012, 06:12:04 PM
such intensity turbokon!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Tatsujin on December 24, 2012, 11:18:32 AM
also le lil tries himself in some pc genjineering lately :)

(http://imageshack.us/a/img821/9936/dsc1646b.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img35/6112/dsc1650gb.jpg)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 25, 2012, 12:21:12 AM
Tats, I love the pillowcase that the DUO is resting on. CLEARLY YOU ARE HIDING an ATARI 5200 under there and are ashamed to publicly admit it.

I have always supported the 5200. You should feel confident knowing that I'll support you even if everyone else mocks you.

Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Tatsujin on December 25, 2012, 06:13:14 PM
lol, quite wrong guessed dear sir :P

the following things are hidding under that wonderful "pillowcase":

a Wondermega,
a SMS,
a PS0ne,
a Saturn,
a DC,
a Mega drive,
a gamecube w/ gba play0r,
...lots of cables, PSUs & controllers.

HA!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Necromancer on December 26, 2012, 04:27:00 AM
lol, quite wrong guessed dear sir :P

the following things are hidding under that wonderful "pillowcase":

a Playdia,
a 5200,
a Pippin,
a A'Can,
a CD-i,
a Marty,
a Jaguar,
...lots of cables, PSUs & controllers.

HA!

Fixed.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 26, 2012, 08:02:48 AM
lol, quite wrong guessed dear sir :P

the following things are hidding under that wonderful "pillowcase":

a Playdia,
a 5200,
a Pippin,
a A'Can,
a CD-i,
a Marty,
a Jaguar,
...lots of cables, PSUs & controllers.

HA!


Fixed.


TRUTH. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Tatsujin on December 26, 2012, 10:25:34 AM
ah yeah, forgot about the marty :oops:
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: ccovell on December 26, 2012, 10:57:06 AM
Tats, I don't know why he's giving you the thumbs-up there.  His player's almost dead and has only one life left.  The boy needs to upgrade his Obey skillz!   [-(
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on December 26, 2012, 12:07:01 PM
Tats, I don't know why he's giving you the thumbs-up there.  His player's almost dead and has only one life left.  The boy needs to upgrade his Obey skillz!   [-(

SO very true...
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: CPTRAVE on December 26, 2012, 01:31:16 PM
Tats, I don't know why he's giving you the thumbs-up there.  His player's almost dead and has only one life left.  The boy needs to upgrade his Obey skillz!   [-(

Nah, his dad gave him the green light to start kicking some turbo butt :)

SO very true...
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: RoyVegas on March 12, 2014, 05:54:32 AM
Of course my kids like to play but I'm getting my grandson hooked also (he's 2).

(http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv33/royvegas/AJ.jpg) (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/royvegas/media/AJ.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: toymachine78 on March 12, 2014, 06:53:26 AM
Of course my kids like to play but I'm getting my grandson hooked also (he's 2).

(http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv33/royvegas/AJ.jpg) (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/royvegas/media/AJ.jpg.html)


 That's great! My kids hate all my old systems. Whenever I'm playing they moan... Ugh... Dad.... why do you always play those old timey games... lol

One day I was playing Contra and my son said.... Wow so this was like your call of duty back in the day. That's horrible!.... I was like horrible!? This is a classic!!!!

Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: wildfruit on March 12, 2014, 07:00:21 AM
My 6yold's favourite games in no particular order
Populous
Bomberman '94
Parasol stars
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: johnnykonami on March 12, 2014, 07:49:56 AM
My 6yold's favourite games in no particular order
Populous
Bomberman '94
Parasol stars

I came in here to say that I thought Bomberman/93/94 and Parasol Stars were the first games to come to mind as far as standing the test of time.  Bonk, Magical Chase and others with really colorful, cartoony graphics I would think would still appeal to kids yet untainted by the newer consoles.

Populous I am really surprised by though!   At 6!  Sounds like you have a smart kid!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: wildfruit on March 12, 2014, 09:46:34 AM
I hope so
Populous was the third game I tried on mega drive bitd and the first i bought myself for game boy.
Must be in the genes
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on March 12, 2014, 09:58:00 AM
My daughter likes old-skool games:

Mario Bros. Series
Bonk 1-3
Bomberman series
Etc.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Tatsujin on March 12, 2014, 01:18:31 PM
wow roy.. grandson? hawoldru?
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: FiftyQuid on March 12, 2014, 01:43:45 PM
wow roy.. grandson? hawoldru?
That kid has more hair on his head than I have ever had in my entire life combined since birth.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: toymachine78 on March 12, 2014, 03:29:58 PM
^^ lol

Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: RoyVegas on March 12, 2014, 03:30:52 PM
wow roy.. grandson? hawoldru?

Late 30s.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: jasonbar on March 13, 2014, 05:11:38 AM
Just plugged in the TD the other day & fired up some Alien Crush with the 1-year-old last night. Took pics. Planned on staring an "Awwww, my widdle boy id doh cyoot!" thread but saw this one on the front page. Convenient!

-Jason
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: RoyVegas on March 13, 2014, 06:10:14 AM
Just plugged in the TD the other day & fired up some Alien Crush with the 1-year-old last night. Took pics. Planned on staring an "Awwww, my widdle boy id doh cyoot!" thread but saw this one on the front page. Convenient!

-Jason

Just plugged it in?  It should stay plugged in for the lil ones enjoyment on a regular basis!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Bernie on March 15, 2014, 12:52:02 PM
Playing a little Air Zonk with the little one.  :)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19768373/turbo/DSC_0004.JPG)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19768373/turbo/DSC_0006.JPG)

Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Miracle_Warrior on March 16, 2014, 05:29:39 AM
My son who is now 7 is currently playing through Neutopia II.  He loves it.  We usually have a couple of games on the go at any given time.  For the past several months we have been working on Neutopia II and Secret of Mana.  It takes us quite a while to get through games as we only play on Saturday nights, which have appropriately been named "Party night" :).  We get snacks and game out for the evening.  When you restrict your playing time to one night a week, it's special.  He looks forward to it, and I am hoping these nights become fond memories for him.

Secret of Mana has been especially fun because it's a co-op RPG.  My daughter often tags along as the third member of our party, but she's always a huge liability, so we disconnect her controller, while allowing her to still believe that she is playing.  I suspect she will become wise to our little trick very soon and we'll have no choice but to put up with her mindlessly wondering off on us, haha. 
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: roflmao on March 16, 2014, 06:13:47 AM
This past Friday, while I was at work, my wife texted me a picture of my lil beating Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest.  Dangit, I was hoping to watch the ending with him. :P

This weekend we've been playing a lot of co-op games: Bomberman, Twinbee, Super Mario Kart, Uniracers... This afternoon, I think we're going to give Double Dungeons a shot. :D
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: mossman43 on March 16, 2014, 07:10:34 AM
My daughter is 6 and absolutely loves Bonk. She's still working on Bonk's Adventure due to the limited playtime she has. She also enjoys Magical Chase. I figured that she would because it's easier than Cotton. She doesn't really care for the newer gen stuff.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: jordan_hillman on March 16, 2014, 10:01:04 PM
My 8 and 10 year old cousins could absolutely give two shits about anything on the turbografx right now haha. I've been trying to school them on all the classic 8 and 16-bit systems but no luck so far.  :( Although, they both love them some Mario 64 and Super Smash Bros 64, so not all hope is lost quite yet.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: YANDMAN on March 17, 2014, 03:00:49 AM
I swapped my kids for Soldier blade and parasol stars complete in box.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: tggodfrey on March 17, 2014, 08:38:50 AM
I ended up with Yandmans kids for soldier blade and parasol stars.......neither want to play any games and they wont clean the house and my god do they eat too much.....I want my games back.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: gamerslife on April 03, 2014, 06:01:36 PM
my 10yr old likes it a lot and the "pretty colors", she has fun but knows only i can change the games....lol
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: esteban on April 04, 2014, 10:50:26 AM

Playing a little Air Zonk with the little one.  :)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19768373/turbo/DSC_0004.JPG)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19768373/turbo/DSC_0006.JPG)


I thought I already commented on this. But, I didn't.  So...

Awesome.  (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: InfraMan on April 04, 2014, 12:40:19 PM
Damn... no one named "Bernie" should be allowed to look that scary. :shock:
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: BlueBMW on April 04, 2014, 06:59:33 PM
Hes a big teddy bear :D
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Necromancer on April 07, 2014, 03:29:17 AM
You think that looks scary?  You should see him when he's packin' a hair dryer.  :shock:
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: ClodBuster on April 07, 2014, 03:48:09 AM
I ended up with Yandmans kids for soldier blade and parasol stars.......neither want to play any games and they wont clean the house and my god do they eat too much.....I want my games back.


:D