turbo-awesome 16

[slothingXPIG]

I traded a friend some atari and genesis games for his turbografx and I love it! Its amazing! Except the one controller port(thats pretty dumb) anyone got any recommended games for it? The game cards are genius! Also. I know that they have a multi port for it,what are some games that are multiplayer on turbografx?

[theflea]

Here's a few games I've played that are fun to play.

Air Zonk
Alien Crush
Bonk's Adventure
Bonk's Revenge
Devil's Crush
Dragon Spirit
Galaga '90
Legendary Axe
Legendary Axe 2
Neutopia
R-Type
Splatterhouse
Turrican

Welcome to the family of T16 players.

[pceslayer]

To add to the list above..

Battle Royal -multi 5p
Blazing Lazers
Bloody Wolf
Bomberman 93' -multi 5p
Bonks Big Adventure: Bonk III -multi 2p
Dungeon Explorer -multi 5p
Military Madness -multi 2p
Neutopia II
Ninja Spirit
Raiden

The TurboTap is what the multiplayer adapter is called.

[burningdoom]

Legendary Axe is pretty dang average. But other than that, I agree with those lists.

Bloody Wolf and Ninja Spirit are especially good and usually overlooked. And Neutopia, while nothing more than a Zelda clone, is a very good Zelda clone.

My fat cat broke the controller port on my first TG-16 by sitting on the cord right where it plugs in, rendering it useless. So I sold a lot of my original TG-16 collection. My wonderful wife got me another one last year. Sadly, the RF input is finicky and I only have 3 games, now. 

[tpugmire]

This is one of my favorite systems. I don't have much to add to the lists of games, but if you're comfortable soldering, it's quite easy to do a region mod to play Japanese games as well. That opens up a whole new library. A composite video mod is also really easy to do, and is a huge improvement over the stock RF.

[soera]

I found the TG-16 to be cool yet widely underused. It was around when the market was fully saturated with Nintendo and Sega products and it really didnt stand a chance. Ive had 3 of them throughout my collecting lifetime and I really wish I hadnt lost them. One of them was a Duo and that one I miss a whole lot. Some really awesome titles on there. Side Arms was one of my favorites for the base system and, of course, Ys I&II was the shining star on the Duo.

[slothingXPIG]

Thanks guys! Im going to be adding some to my collection very soon. Haha i i also want to get jj and jeff cuz it looks entertaining. As far as favorite system goes,id have to try more games but its up there

[soera]

If you have the option, you can always download a few TG-16 games on the Wii Virtual console to see if you like them.

[pceslayer]

Legendary Axe is pretty dang average. But other than that, I agree with those lists.

Bloody Wolf and Ninja Spirit are especially good and usually overlooked. And Neutopia, while nothing more than a Zelda clone, is a very good Zelda clone.

My fat cat broke the controller port on my first TG-16 by sitting on the cord right where it plugs in, rendering it useless. So I sold a lot of my original TG-16 collection. My wonderful wife got me another one last year. Sadly, the RF input is finicky and I only have 3 games, now. 

Why not tap the expansion connector on the back of the TG16 and add A/V out via composite.

http://www.cgquarterly.com/articles/tg16_cable.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm08N2mj6pw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ9boDVJTAI

Even go as far as this

http://freezerdev.blogspot.com/2012/08/project-tg-16-modding.html

[burningdoom]

I knew about that, but it never even crossed my mind.

Probably a mental block since I've always thought that NEC making people buy accessories for things that are standard on other consoles was a rip-off.

I probably will pick one up.

[tpugmire]

If anyone wants one if those cables, I have at least one laying around, possibly more.  I made myself one before I modded my console, and sold it after I didn't need it anymore. When you buy the wire terminals, you get enough to do several cables, so I made a couple more.