| (http://archives.tg-16.com/GG/GG_1993_coupon.jpg) | Now available (12.11.11) for your pleasure: Excellent Holiday Catalog (1993, CAPTRON / G&G Stores) (http://www.tg-16.com/new_turbografx_magazine_scans.htm) • $3.00 OFF • Dungeon Explorer II |
| (http://archives.tg-16.com/image/feat_thumb_bonk_iphone4.gif) (http://archives.tg-16.com/EG/t_EG_1993_01.gif) | Now available (01.29.09) for your pleasure: BONK'S REVENGE WALLPAPER (iPhone / iPod Touch) (http://archives.tg-16.com/01_bonks_revenge_wallpaper_iPhone_iPod_Touch.htm) • 8 Wallpaper designs to choose from • Show some love for the Chikkuns! HAPPY NEW YEAR 1993! (http://archives.tg-16.com/00_happy_new_year_1993.htm) • Electronic Games Magazine (January 1993) • Zonk, Link (!!!), Sonic, Chun Li and company drinking champagne • TG-16 Stocking Stuffer: Neon Spandex Fingerless Gloves • Multimedia Game of the Year - Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes (SCD) Any suggestions on how I can offer wallpaper for other platforms is appreciated... Do you guys think that Dragon Slayer is superior to Ys: Book I & II, as the editors of EG felt back in 1993? Dragon Slayer was up against Night Trap (Sega CD) and Loom (PC). I dug Loom (it was OK), and I played Night Trap (after the initial novelty wore off, it was pretty tedious), so DS should have won hands down. Of course, I doubt that the readers voted accordingly. What do you think? Browse the site: TurboPlay Magazine Archives (http://archives.tg-16.com/) |
| (http://archives.tg-16.com/image/08_coupon.gif) | Now available (04.27.08) for your viewing pleasure: BONK FOR PRESIDENT IN '92 (http://archives.tg-16.com/00_bonk_for_prez.htm) • B.O.N.K. = A new political party, Believe in Our Nation's Kids. • Software Etc. Coupons! • REVIEWS: It Came From the Desert, Ballistix • Overhauled Man 3 • Rayxanber III • "Dragons & Wizards... Oh My!" -- Ys III for SNES • Working Designs begins localization of Cosmic Fantasy 2 Bonk for President is goofy stuff, I wonder what you'd get if you wrote to the Campaign Headquarters... a bumpersticker, perhaps? To think that the localization of CF2 began 16 years ago this month... :) |
| (http://archives.tg-16.com/image/08_march_madness_b.gif) | Now available (03.29.08) for your viewing pleasure: The Ides of March '92 - '94 (http://archives.tg-16.com/00_ides_of_march.htm) • 1993: Sega CD + Blackhole Assault + Kris Kross versus the venerable TurboDuo + Dragon Slayer + Lords of Thunder. • 1993: Working Designs to bring SNK's World Heroes and King of the Monsters to U.S.! • 1993: Air Zonk Runner-up for shoot-em-up of the year (Readers' Choice Awards) • 1993: Lords of Thunder scores 5/5 • 1993: Bomberman '93 scores 4/5 • 1993: Time Cruise scores 4/5 • 1994: Terraforming (SCD): "Now available, the trick shooter designed by Syd Mead." • 1994: Dynastic Hero expected in March '94, Godzilla expected second quarter '94. The news about Working Design trying to bring NeoGeo titles to North America is neat, especially because King of the Monsters never made it to an NEC console. Plus, I didn't remember the critics having such a positive reaction towards Lords of Thunder, Time Cruise, Bomberman '93 and Air Zonk... |
| (http://archives.tg-16.com/EB/EB_1993_12_001_a.gif) | 03.16.08: Electronics Boutique: December 1993 Catalog (http://archives.tg-16.com/00_feature.htm) SACK O' SUPER SOFTWARE (Disclaimer: That is EB's phrase, not my own!) • Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon & Link: The Faces of Evil (CD-i) • Bonk 3, Dungeon Explorer II, John Madden • Turbo Duo INTELLIGENT LINK for $129.99! Feel free to share your thoughts in this thread. There are links to trade shows where TTi was showing the Intelligent Link. |
| (http://archives.tg-16.com/EGM/EGM_1992_03_001_a.gif) | 03.08.08: 16 years ago... March 1992, in TurboGrafx-16 History (http://archives.tg-16.com/00_feature.htm#16_years_ago_1992_March) • Far East of Eden 2 (Tengai Makyo II: Manjimaru) coming to America?! • Gate of Thunder in a "Special Super Turbo CD Preview." • Parodius is billed as the "World's first 8 meg Hucard!" • Tatsujin, known as Truxton to Sega Genesis fans... • Valis advertisement targets teenyboppers! • Exile for Sega Genesis (advertisement). • "Junction is an action game masterpiece!" Feel free to share your thoughts in this thread. Apparently the person doing the blurbs on import games liked shoot-em-ups... |
| (http://archives.tg-16.com/GPRO/GPRO_1992_02_a.gif) | 02.20.08: 16 years ago... February 1992, in TurboGrafx-16 History (http://archives.tg-16.com/00_feature.htm#16_years_ago_1992_February) • NEC considering 4-in-1 TV SPORTS compilation as pack-in CD-ROM for TurboDuo! • REVIEW: Night Creatures scores 3/5 in GamePro. How? • REVIEW: Addams Family earns 4/5 in GamePro. • ICOM SIMULATIONS developing Beyond Shadowgate for TurboDuo! |
Short term:
Yes, I have a ton of new page scans in the pipeline. They should trickle out on a regular basis.
What do you think the ideal size should be for page scans? I want to prepare for the next generation (or three) of fancy, widescreen monitors.
...oh, and you get the girl, too!
WTF?Yeah, I don't understand how Addams Family and Night Creatures scored as well as they did. I'm not trying to bash the games, but....
i thought Adams Family SUCKED
Hahahahhahahaha!
Short term:
Yes, I have a ton of new page scans in the pipeline. They should trickle out on a regular basis.
So, over the next 6 to 10 decades?
In all seriousness though, I'm glad something motivated you to make a move on that. It almost excuses your 6 month hiatus from the forums.
esteban - I think I think B. It has more of a magazine feel.I totally agree, but I'd like to hear what other folks think as well!
Very nice indeed. :clap:Damn, we have lazy bastards here. Necromancer, you're the only one to give me the tech specs I was looking for :)What do you think the ideal size should be for page scans? I want to prepare for the next generation (or three) of fancy, widescreen monitors.
On my 19" 4:3 1280x1024 monitor, they're all quite legible. The last one is large enough for the text to be readable, but the screen shots are a bit on the small side; the first two are better, though the text is probably too big and some panning is required. I'd go with the wide one, since wide screen monitors are becoming more and more common, and it's preferable to see pages side by side when the graphics spanned both pages like that.
Thank god that never saw the light of day.Call me a masochist, but I would have wanted to see this released, later, as a "Sports Package" including extra pads and a turbotap. No one would have bought it, of course, but it would have been a novelty :).
Aside: I thought you folks would have started talking about the TV SPORTS 4-in-1 pack-in for the TurboDuo (http://archives.tg-16.com/index.htm#16yearsago) by now...
the baseball game would probably just have been a renaming of world class baseball.
Sweet- there's my name in Turboplay #9 as a runner-up winner of Bonk's Revenge for killing that crossword puzzle (I remember there being something wrong with that puzzle)...
Necro, thanks for pointing out to guyjin that there was, indeed, a TV SPORTS Baseball (http://archives.tg-16.com/archive-three/TP-11-16.jpg), but it was never released. There was a person here... he was on jluedke's podcast "The Drunken Gamers"... who was a reviewer back in the day. IIRC, he played the TV Sports Baseball game (either as an eprom or at a trade show) and said the version he saw still had some rough parts. The published review describes rough patches as well.Aside: I thought you folks would have started talking about the TV SPORTS 4-in-1 pack-in for the TurboDuo (http://archives.tg-16.com/index.htm#16yearsago) by now...
It may have helped sales a bit, as they could've swapped out Ys I & II for this thing and picked up a few anti-RPG gamers. Shitty trade off, but sports games sold well for the Genny.the baseball game would probably just have been a renaming of world class baseball.
I wouldn't think so, since the game in the review looks quite different from World Class Baseball. It would've made more sense for them to finish up TV Sports Baseball than it would've for them to recycle one of Hudson's games.
Sweet- there's my name in Turboplay #9 as a runner-up winner of Bonk's Revenge for killing that crossword puzzle (I remember there being something wrong with that puzzle)...HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THIS YESTERDAY!
James Sinisi, Woodhaven, New York
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ah estes, I bet it's gonna rock. I loved reading the story about you entering that art contest in the Turo Play mag.. that was when I wrote you that fan letter that time.. oooh those were the days.Haahhahaha. :) Those were the days, but this is a pretty darn embarrassing day. I still haven't been courageous enough to talk about it here. I will, eventually, though.
Is there a particular scanner that you would suggest for magazine scanning?I think that any scanner (I use a pretty low-priced model in the 100-150$ range?) will do fine. I've used Canon and Epson, mostly, although I've also used some total crap models (MicroTek?). The key thing is to make sure the glass plate (platen) is clean (no grease or lint or scratches) and to set the resolution at a decent level. I've read conflicting information about the "ideal" resolution to scan at, but I suggest 300dpi because then I can enlarge parts of a page to get a really good look at something.
Yeah, Riftwar Saga is one of my games that I wish would've been finished. Who knows, maybe it was, but, they ran out of money to publish it :PTotally. Last night I did a quick search, but I couldn't find any info the developer "Kid's Source". Have you ever heard of them? I don't remember old magazines referencing them, but, then again, I haven't been looking for them.
I too have try'd doing searches for Kid's Source to no avail. They up & disapeared before even releasing one game! ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)Seriously! I think I'll have to keep my eyes open for references to "Kid's Source" in old magazines... I'm hoping to find a few blurbs that might reveal where they were based, what titles (if any) they were working on, etc.
Hi folks, I updated the original post in this thread. (http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=4729.0;topicseen)
New stuff: Electronics Boutique: December 1993 (http://archives.tg-16.com/features_08_01.htm). Bonk 3 and Intelligent Link :)I too have try'd doing searches for Kid's Source to no avail. They up & disapeared before even releasing one game! ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)Seriously! I think I'll have to keep my eyes open for references to "Kid's Source" in old magazines... I'm hoping to find a few blurbs that might reveal where they were based, what titles (if any) they were working on, etc.
If you see anything, share the news :)
1. I wonder what happened to Working Designs and their plan to bring World Heroes 2 and King of the Monsters to TurboDuo?
1. I wonder what happened to Working Designs and their plan to bring World Heroes 2 and King of the Monsters to TurboDuo?
I thought that Working Designs was only working on World Heroes 1, not WH2?
Oh, absolutely, but I went beyond the magazine and tried to anticipate what WD might have actually been able to bring over. Now, while even WD's own website listed WH1, we know that only WH2 was released...1. I wonder what happened to Working Designs and their plan to bring World Heroes 2 and King of the Monsters to TurboDuo?
I thought that Working Designs was only working on World Heroes 1, not WH2?
Its important to understand that Vic Ireland has eyes bigger than his stomach (in other words, pretty damn big eyes). This is the guy who after being dissed by SoA said he was going to release Lunar 3 for PS. What's that you say? 10 years later and still there is no such thing as Lunar 3 in Japanese or English? Yeah, exactly. Could he have meant Grandia? Well, maybe, but SCEA released that so either way he was full of it.What I find interesting is that these titles were being considered. I, for one, would never have chosen KoftM 1 or 2 for a venture of this sort... but that's only because I'm too conservative a businessman.
Basically I'm saying don't hold your breath for Gaijinworks's 360 version of Tengai Mayou Zira.
Zeta, I actually love your bitter tone, but surely you can appreciate a character such as Victor Ireland (especially because he played a pivotal role in the history of TG-16 and TG-CD)...
:)QuoteZeta, I actually love your bitter tone, but surely you can appreciate a character such as Victor Ireland (especially because he played a pivotal role in the history of TG-16 and TG-CD)...
I envy his lame ass to be honest. He lived the otaku dream for a long time.
Damn, I want that bumper sticker now! :P
now where can I find sticky-backed legal paper...
no, that's fine, just daydreaming :)
Now that dear leader has an official one in the store, I'll go that route :dance:
don't conform to those snerds at your daughter's school! be a rebel! A turbo rebel!
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I have the bumper sticker, it took all of 5 minutes to do.
I replaced the TG16 logo with prez bush tho..an moved his pic to look like it took a hard hit from bonk 8)
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Going to Turbo Play #1, view all scans, and picking page 32 says that it's not found. The link to page 32 in the text works, but links to TP-02-32.jpg, not to TP-01-32. (Was the ad duplicated from month to month?)
Is there any way to download a set of jpgs for an individual issue as a zip file or such so I can view it in an external reader? (Which would also require having duplicate ads if necessary) And without the logos on each page. Logos on each page are useful when you're creating a web site to keep from being ripped off, but they're lousy when it comes to preserving material.
Riftwar Saga looks like a great game, hope that it is released one day.
Very cool!
Any updates in the last year? :-"