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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: TurbografxKid on November 11, 2009, 12:38:20 PM
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I was looking through my Hucards a moment ago and a question popped in my mind. Never have wondered about this before.
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I have only one Turbo Hucard that has the game makers name on the back, Chase H.Q. I have over half of the Hucards for the Turbo Grafx. Was there any more Hucards that were like this? This seems to be more freely done on my PC Engine Hucards.
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mostly this was maker dependent. so check other cards from taito, they may will look the same way.
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Interesting. My copy of Hit the Ice (Taito) does have the logo on the back, so I guess Taito wanted it there.
Also interesting - Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu has the Hudson logo on the back, but Bomberman '93 does not! (U.S. versions, both). One thing I noticed is that Action Kung Fu has the same larger blue text as the Taito games. Maybe there were two printing templates, one for logos, one for no logos? More likely it was related to batches, and when they were released... there may have just been one run in 1992 that was like this?
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yeah..even hudson didn't had a straight line all the time. look at the 2 missing volumes (Vol. 26 & 48) or neutopia 2 with no hucard label on the spine or blue blink with no vol. number...
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My Parasol Stars is Taito, but it does not have the logo on the back. All of my other Hucards just has "Hucard" at the bottom corner like in the picture above.
I know it is just cosmetic, but I think the logo adds to the look. Its like the front with the picture, very few Turbo Grafx Hucards had pictures. It seems like most all the PC Engine cards did. I only have one of those that don't, J. League Greatest Eleven.
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My Parasol Stars is Taito, but it does not have the logo on the back. All of my other Hucards just has "Hucard" at the bottom corner like in the picture above.
I know it is just cosmetic, but I think the logo adds to the look. Its like the front with the picture, very few Turbo Grafx Hucards had pictures. It seems like most all the PC Engine cards did. I only have one of those that don't, J. League Greatest Eleven.
In the beginning, all of the HuCards published by NEC North America were pretty uniform (no cover art on HuCard). The few third-party titles released early-on (i.e. Tengen, IGS, etc.) had slight variations from this standard.
Later, when NEC North America was transitioning to TTi, we started seeing more package variations (including art on media). Third-parties evolved too: for example, Working Designs used art on HuCards and CD's.
The games with "Taito" on the back, for example, were released later the TG-16's lifespan.
So, in a nutshell, there are at least two factors to consider:
1. At what point in the TG-16 lifespan was the game released? (Things started out homogeneous --> variety)
2. Who published the game in North America? (NEC NA, third-party, TTi)