Where was tg16 popular?

[Idblbruno]

Hi there.  Not sure if this has been discussed before
  I am wondering where if anywhere was turbografx a popular system during its production.  I know so many folks say they never knew anyone who had one growing up.  I am in that pool as well.  Honestly I am not even sure they made it to stores local to me.  Today I can search retro stores local to me and occasionally find a copy of TV sports football or Keith courage.  I am assuming those are all coming in from folks who had doubles from their ebay hauls.  Thoughts?

[tbone3969]

TurboGrafx was big in my area when I was a teen.  I am from the tri-state area.

[Keith Courage]

New York, Chicago, and LA for the most part. I'm about an hour out of Chicago and I think I knew 3 kids in my 7th grade class who had one besides me. All 3 of them sold theirs and got a genesis or snes 1  year later while I just kept expanding my tg16 library.

[esteban]

I grew up just outside NYC (10-15 minutes) and...it was not particularly popular at school/neighborhood.

Yes, there always a "retail presence" in all the malls (EB Electronics Boutique), ToysRUs, and some local shops...but I never saw or met anyone who was actually looking at TG-16 stuff, let alone buying something.

I only knew a handful of folks growing up who had TG-16.... I was the only one who had TG-CD.

None of the local rental stores carried TG-16.

My two brothers and I, collectively, knew  hundreds of classmates/neighbors/family/etc.

Over the years that number grew...

...only  5-6 TG-16 out of ALL THOSE FOLKS.

Ok, maybe it was a bit higher...but not by much.

[geise]

It was huge in north east Ohio.  I had no problem getting Turbo stuff.  All of the large stores carried it as well as small import stores.  What I really liked in the area was Video Game Exchange.  They did new and used.  Had awesome prices as well as trade in.  Sadly I think the chain went under long ago.  I used to score turbo games for $10 complete.  Got Dungeon Explorer II used for $10 in 94.  Summer 94 an employee sold me Valis IV, Spriggan, Rayxanber II, and Hellfire S for $80 total.

[Killjoyy027]

I am right out of Philly PA and it was all Nintendo and Sega none of the people I know or went to school with had one. I was aware of the system only through EGM at that time.


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[Flare65]

Chicago was huge.  The NEC office was in Wooddale IL.

[TR0N]

For as long as i lived in the maryland it wasn't popular around here.You either had a genesis or snes when it came down to it.Back in the 90's you were minority if you owned a TG16 around here for me at least.

[exodus]

Not unpopular in the SF bay area - I knew a few kids who had it.

[DragonmasterDan]

Chicago was huge.  The NEC office was in Wooddale IL.

Bingo, the suburb of Chicago I lived in was around 10 miles from Wood Dale. By 1990 I knew about 5-6 other kids who owned one (mostly from other people who were in my grade in Elementary school).

[Zero_Gamer]

There were comercials on TV where I lived in Southern Virginia, which is how I learned about it. Kinda strange cause you couldn't find it in local stores. You had to drive to Roanoke to buy games or accessories.

Based on the comercials I bought mine through the wishbook for Christmas. I was the only person I knew with one.

[ginoscope]

I spent my teen years in the Dallas area and I knew a few kids in high school that had a turbo.  The shops locally also had a decent selection of turbo stuff.  We even had a die hard which carried imports like Dracula X for $99 which I ended up getting.

I can imagine if you lived in a smaller town with 1-2 game shops turbo would have been really obscure.

[Necromancer]

It wasn't so popular anywhere that you'd know more people with a Turbob than you knew that had a NES/SNES/FEKA.  That said, it was popular enough (even in cornland) that you could find games at big retailers like Sears, Montgomery Ward, Service Merchandise, Toys R Us, Babbages, etc.

[DragonmasterDan]

It wasn't so popular anywhere that you'd know more people with a Turbob than you knew that had a NES/SNES/FEKA.  That said, it was popular enough (even in cornland) that you could find games at big retailers like Sears, Montgomery Ward, Service Merchandise, Toys R Us, Babbages, etc.

It depends on when.

In 1989-until Christmas of 1991 I knew way more people with Turbo than SNES or Genesis.

[SavagePencil]

For as long as i lived in the maryland it wasn't popular around here.You either had a genesis or snes when it came down to it.Back in the 90's you were minority if you owned a TG16 around here for me at least.

Same experience.  I grew up in rural Maryland and only knew one person with a TG16.  It wasn't until I went to college in the mid-90s that I was able to start finding other people into it.