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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: esadajr on April 14, 2013, 02:33:12 PM
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I was cleaning up my room and found this retro-article (circa 2001) in one of my magazines. It talks briefly about the Turbo Express, how good (and expensive) it was and how this guy sold it to buy a car.
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lol, that sounds hilarious :D
anychances for a bigger scan? even I don't speak one word español, maybe I can get out some few sentences and meanings via related languages :)
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... how this guy sold it to buy a car...
Disturbing (the sheer inequality in the world), yet hilarious (in a brutal, surreal sense). I'm horrible.
BIGGER SCAN! I want to read this. :)
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Bigger scan added. I'll rescan it tonight.
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Bigger scan added. I'll rescan it tonight.
If I squint and turn down the brightness of my screen, I can read most of it...I was surprised. I must have been really tired last night because it was just a white blur... (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
That said, bigger is better.
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I'm Spanish, I'll translate it:
It says nothing of importance in the first paragraph. He talks about how
he was going to buy a car but lacked a bit of money and he gave
his Turboexpress to the car owner to seal the deal, and laments it.
In the second paragraph he says how the TUrboexpress makes other
portable systems at the time look like prehistory, as Nec managed
to minimize the T-16 power and use a screen with better resolution
that even Sony portable Tvs.He mentions how the console is very
expensive and most people couldn't afford it, even with the last
reduced price at 199.
In the third, he mentions the demand the console had, you could
consider yourself lucky to get one, independently of the high price.
In Mexico, the only store that carried it had it at a price of
450$! The best part was that you could use all of the TG16 games
except for the CD ones. You can even listen the Ninja Spirit's
wolf howling at the intro!
The design of the Turboexpress is amazing. Even with 500 hours
played it is still ready for action. It is, as the word says
"ergonomic", it fits in your hands. Even if batteries only lasts
3 hours it is very impressive to think every TG-16 game works in
this portable system. And that's without taking into account the
TV Tuner, so you can watch the repeats of the goals in the TV.
I know it will be hard to find another TE, and even more telling
my girlfriend that I might sell the car to regain it...
but the sacrifice will be worth it. After all, I prefer that that
having to ask my cousin for his bric... er, his Game Boy. There's no
doubt that little Nintendo system is going to dissappear against
so powerful systems as the Turboexpress.
And that's all. I apologize for the rought translation, but I've done it fast and I'm not a profesional translator either :)
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Added a higher resolution scan.
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Damon! how it's possible that I find you always here but never in spanish forums?
Greetings!
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...Hablemos de este gran aparato que ha hecho que el Game Boy, el Game Gear y el Lynx parezcan consolas del la prehistoria.
Hhahhahahahaha! The author called out the other (relatively archaic) handhelds by name! (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)