Every TurboGrafx Horror Game - Gory and Ghostly Gems on TG-16 & PC Engine

Covering every horror game on the TurboGrafx-16, including Japanese PC Engine, SuperGrafx, and the CD add-on!
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0:00 Intro
0:44 Splatterhouse
3:19 Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
6:18 Renny Blaster
8:50 Beyond Shadowgate
11:21 Dead of the Brain 1&2
15:02 War of the Dead
17:47 Night Creatures
19:22 Shadow of the Beast
20:33 Shape Shifter
22:21 Altered Beast
23:45 Misc Dark Fantasy
24:41 Fassete Amour
25:42 Daimakaimura
26:49 Horror Story
28:38 Addams Family
30:30 Ghost Manor
32:10 Makai Prince Dorabocchan
33:45 Genpei Toma Den
35:39 Samurai Ghost
37:13 Ninja Spirit
38:47 Ninja Ryukenden
41:04 Jinmu Densho
42:57 Kiki Kaikai
44:42 Bonze Adventure
45:53 Yokai Dochuki
47:07 Tiger Road
48:24 R-Type
49:44 Misc Shmups
50:41 Silent Debuggers
52:20 Energy
53:58 Cross Wiber
55:07 Todd's Adventures in Slime World
56:18 It Came From the Desert
57:37 Godzilla
59:20 Monster Pro Wrestling
1:00:52 Morita Shogi PC
1:01:50 Alien Crush
1:03:14 Devil's Crush
1:04:33 Misc. Untranslated Games
1:07:36 Outro

[@BurstError]

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[@TheBigMike1983]

And always remember: RICK IS NOT JASON!

[@TiroDvD]

Cheryl?

[@swordofdanu]

Thanks Captain Obvious!

[@defnothankjwimbleton3475]

And always remember, Rick could solo Jason

[@TiroDvD]

@@MasculinityCodeG187 Holy crap it is TheBigMike of Kai-June.

[@billy6427]

​@@defnothankjwimbleton3475 Rick Is in a Hospital patient Outfit 🧐

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Man, Dead of the Brain sure is popular recently. I feel like, between November and now, I've seen multiple people cover it - the Basement Brothers channel (who specialize in PC88, PC98 and PC Engine stuff) went through the game, Dungeon Chill just put up a video on it, and now I'm seeing it again! I feel like the universe is telling me to play it, lol. Another great video! I know a lot of these aren't traditional horror and it's very heavy on Yokai stuff and sci-fi schmups (and pinball stuff!) with Geiger-inspired visuals, but that's the cool thing about your videos. They always cover _EVERYTHING THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE OF INTEREST_ and that's how we find all the cool stuff. Plus, I love me some of the cartoony "Halloween Horror" aesthetic and it looks like the TG16/PCE was loaded with some of those! I did not know about that Spike McFang predecessor, or that honestly interesting-looking take on the Addams Family exclusive to the platform. I also love seeing the "anime version" of Todd's Adventure in Slime World here, lol. That game may not be great, but it holds a special place for me since my cousin had a Lynx and I got - by far - the most enjoyment out of playing that than anything else on the handheld when I gave it a try. Knowing there's a version out there with those cool-looking cutscenes just makes me happy.

[@BurstError]

Thanks so much! Glad to hear my wider scope on this is helping shed light on some cool oddities. I know I discovered a ton of fascinating titles I'd never seen before while making this video.

[@jakesethsnake1]

I think it's cause it's a pc-98 game with phenomenal pixel art, that got its translation released just this past Halloween. Honestly it's kinda nuts how like every pc-98 game just looks amazing.

[@LordTepes81]

I cannot stress this enough. I had 2 older brothers growing up and watched every Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St., Halloween, and just so many gorefest movies as a kid. I wanted this console so bad because of the plethora of horror games. Only thing I could do was go through gaming magazines and just imagine how awesome these games would have been to experience brand new.

[@partofthetribe3277]

Love videos like this. Gives out that cozy feeling. Don't stop making videos you do a good job.

[@BurstError]

thanks! no plans to stop anytime soon :)

[@Chris_Zojoi]

Hi! Thanks for covering Beyond Shadowgate! I’m on the dev team building the new Beyond Shadowgate with the original creators of Shadowgate. The TGFX version didn’t have their input which is why it’s dramatically different. Our version is a direct sequel to the NES Shadowgate and is done in that style. Our kickstarter was funded early last year, check it out for a free demo if you liked the NES version. Thanks again!

[@BurstError]

Nice, I am well aware and super excited for that new Shadowgate! :) Good luck with the remaining development!

[@MishKoz]

Horror games and pinball games seem like such an underrated combo. It's inherently scary to be in a situation where you have very little control, so what else could exemplify that better than controlling a pinball? I wish more games ran with this concept.

[@braillynn4903]

Hope we get more TG-16/PCE videos. Loved this one!

[@alexandershmaev1392]

Thank you for the great vid. Clearly a lot of effort went into it. A great selection of lesser-known games to present to the average retro game fan. Greetz from Berlin❤

[@BurstError]

much appreciated! :)

[@kennethd4958]

Great video! Two of my favorites.. horror and TG-16.

[@jayrobitaille2402]

0:10 "...system that never quite caught on in North America." I know right. I spent most of my formative years in the 90's and I knew loads of people with either a Genesis, NES or SNES but did not know anybody with a TurboGrafx. I had not even heard of the system until I watched retro video game content on the internet/social media.

[@avalonjustin]

I was sitting around trying to find more horror game content up to par with yours, but no luck. Then, behold! You've uploaded again!

[@sterling7]

It's fascinating hearing about the TurboGrafix/PC Engine, in part because I never knew anyone who had one. Particularly in this genre, where some of the more unusual and foreign voices could get more of a chance to shine. This video clearly took a lot of time and work to put together; thank you for creating it.

[@simillarian]

Great video. Added several titles to the backlog. The quality on these videos are outta control!

[@Gatorade69]

Not the backlog.... My backlog is way too big, filled with both newer and older titles. Thank you Steam Sales...

[@TheArtofDyingTogether]

Really love the vibe and dedication of your videos, great work! trully appreciated

[@BurstError]

thanks so much :)

[@TheArtofDyingTogether]

@@BurstError nah its you putting the effort. excited to see when you start tackling early 3D jankfests on 3do or cd-i

[@sevencastleforest]

Awesome video, it was great to watch during a long flight. I’m always amazed how many weird games showed up on PC Engine and TurboGrafx that I’ve never even heard about 😁

[@BurstError]

thanks SCF! I had a lot of fun digging through this library :)

[@rareplaygaming7109]

Super cool video, I haven't heard of half of these games

[@Antinuis]

Awesome video my guy, glad to see you covering all of the same interests I want to see to this level of detail. Absolutely outstanding work!

[@damonadams7199]

Good job this coming from a serious pc engine turbo grafx fan since the 80s/90s and worked at eb from 90/94 all through high-school when we sold neo geo carts..importing theses games was a Lil bit of a hassle but we did it mail order..wish ppl supported this system more I was playing this when ppl had Nintendo still...😢

[@alexshadowfax1119]

Animorphs, that brings me back, haven't thought about those books in so long, forgot they even existed, thanks for the reminder! Thanks for the awesome videos, hours of replay potential, and that's even before Halloween comes back around.

[@TiroDvD]

Macaw45 has a full playthrough of it on twitch. The game is needless harder b/c the panther form has some auto "leap down" when on the edge of a platform which leads to death. So you have to keep jumping in place or immediately to the next spot.

[@MelancholyRequiem]

Man, you know how many times I've clicked on this video thinking the title was "Every TurboTax Horror Game"? Because I'm not admitting to how high that number is.

[@BurstError]

lmao that would be a truly terrifying video

[@QuantumWaltz]

Tara A. Devlin of the _Kowabana_ podcast (among other projects) covers some spooky Japanese VNs, translating as she goes, and one of the ones she's covered here on KZbin is Hyakku Monogatari! I guess the drive of it is that hyakku monogatari is a sort of campfire game played in Japan, where everyone brings a bunch of creepy stories to the table and 100 candles are lit. The goal is for each person to tell a scary story in turn, then blow out one of their candles, until 100 scary stories have been told. Completing the hundredth scary story and blowing out the hundredth candle - leaving the group in total darkness - is supposed to summon a ghost. What the ghost will do varies based on the person sharing the superstition, just as the nature of Bloody Mary varies by region/schoolyard. So I guess... play Hyakku Monogatari at your own risk. Who knows what might happen when you finish...

[@BurstError]

wow, that's super cool! I will have to give that a listen

[@VPROXE-HELLRAISER]

Thnx for the long vid. Liking it. The longer the better

[@SwitchZetto]

Kudos to you for recommending Magical Chase! Fun shmup

[@FiggsNeughton]

Nice touch putting the game art on the sides. Really great video all around, thank you!

[@barvobot]

Been loving this series! I feel like you missed out not delving more into Legendary Axe 2, that one is pretty spooky and has a super weird ending to boot!

[@BurstError]

it's one I definitely want to give a lot more time very soon! thanks for watching :)

[@sw1tchpoint]

he's back, and this time giving love to the wonderful TurboGrafx, or as I prefer the Japanese name and look the PC Engine

[@TimedRevolver]

Odd little tidbit: Genpei Toma Den is referenced in Soul Calibur III. There are character creation parts that resemble the main character's face and armor.

[@Bren71319]

“Rondo of Blood” was also on the Turbografx-16 Mini.

[@ericjohnson6634]

20:23 Maybe the same person who signed off on the gem collecting sound effect in Lords of Thunder?

[@jeremyhall2727]

I never heard of some if those great games. Thank you fir shining a light on them ok

[@gameoverhell6952]

The narrative in the first Splatterhouse is surprpsingly well thought of for the type of game it is and time of release. The marionette animation in Genpei was probably a stylistic choice given the subject matter. Anyway, great video! There were some good surprises in there like the Spike McFang related game

[@SpectrumZ_90]

So many games i havn't heard off and so many i missed out on

[@zusk8556]

Slime World multiplayer is usually awesome. I haven't tried it with this port, but it's really cool to grind through Exploration mode on Genesis/MD or Lynx in coop, it's basically a dungeon crawler with a few mini-boss moments. Versus mode has its own deathmatch maze layout and your water guns are turned into slime soakers, and you can hose each other down. You can nuke a room with a bomb at the threshold or by lowering yourself into a water pool when you're wearing a jetpack.

[@astoryinpieces]

I *love* The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang on the SNES! It's wild that there was a prequel game. What other series would have moai statue butlers and a tomato-juice-drinking vampire kid fighting produce?? I've gotta try Makai Prince Dorabocchan sometime! Awesome video, friend~ ✨

[@Knuxxie]

Another awesome video! Gotta check some of these out! Thanks man!

[@asdfasdfasdf4746]

Good video. I love the borders for each game. Good detail.

[@TheRetroRunner]

53:58 Missed opportunity to just call the game "Cyber Wyber"

[@alexshadowfax1119]

Makai prince is a pretty awesome game, I stumbled across it a few months ago and I had fun with it.

[@BurstError]

yeah among a few others, Makai Prince was a pleasant surprise while capturing footage for this one! also really want to dig more into Bonze Adventure and Samurai Ghost, the backlog grows....

[@UltimaHelz]

Silent Debuggers scared the crap out of me as a child, but man is the title theme good I used to have it as my ringtone years ago.

[@retrobeastgames]

Loving The Horror game videos big thumbs up 👍👍

[@ZBR_ProXP]

so much awesome stuff here that i had no idea existed. well done and thank you!

[@BurstError]

my body is now ready for Legendary Axe

[@BigBearHgX]

I enjoyed your video! Thanks for the effort!

[@ZillMob]

I like your little madball icon picture. I just ordered a bunch of madball stickers from temu. Skull guy might be my favorite, except the eyes cream guy who sadly was not included

[@BurstError]

nice! Madballs rule

[@BearsinGamesNeo-qt5ww]

Hey, just wanted to say I've subscribed to this on my various accounts and give you particular accolades for the excellent sound mixing in your edits. Fun videos and I look forward to going through all of them, though I definitely have a TG16 soft spot.

[@BurstError]

I do try and put some care into the audio, thanks so much for the kind words and checking out the videos!

[@wadeskelton7585]

I really enjoyed this brother thank you 👍👍

[@Gatorade69]

Glad to see you back with another horror games video. I never knew too much about the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx. Always wanted to check out some of the games on the system. Edit : Funny, another channel I watch just covered Dead of the Brain. It sounds like translators have no interest in translating the second game because it isn't that good compared to the first.

[@BurstError]

glad to be back! and cool to see Dead of the Brain getting attention lately. It's not an amazing game by any means but I'm glad it exists.

[@HallelujahHotdog]

Another great vid!

[@kujaxion]

Love these videos. Playstation 1 next please!

[@BURRITO44]

Great video

[@natelane1648]

Great video!

[@WillBurgify]

Awesome video, thanx. Hope you get to cover one-hit wonders on the nes like Konami's Wai-Wai World 1 & 2 and Kickmaster

[@richiesahlin6409]

PC-98 games next?

[@Gatorade69]

DEMONETIZED

[@BurstError]

that one would be fun to research, right?

[@BurstError]

lol yeah, likely

[@alexshadowfax1119]

I was quite excited when I found Tiger road, I love the art style, the action platformer genre is always great, I was confused as to why it took me so long to play, but then reality sunk in because it was so difficult and I suck at video games. It does help a bit to hear you found it difficult as well. It doesn't seem like the kind of game that would be overly difficult so I definitely thought it was just me.

[@BurstError]

yeah Tiger Road was tough! Maybe the hardest game in this video other than R-Type.

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

That Godzilla fighter look sick

[@retrogames_jp1404]

Nice video - still having Dead of the Brain 1&2 for PCE on my Want-List. Too bad the prices for a legit JP copy have skyrocketed...

[@BurstError]

ooof yeah, I just looked on eBay to check 💸

[@ryans.1900]

I live for these videos ❤

[@azforu29]

Oh man. You got the sick ass Turbo games. I have the mini but I'd kill to have what you got here. I assume emulation, just not sure what engine and roms you have. And I love the Monster Party creature on your emblem at the begining there.

[@BurstError]

real hardware here! look into Everdrives sometime, they are amazing :)

[@personagemsecreto]

nice work

[@johnbrandon4713]

Ghost Manor gives me definite Wayne's World SNES vibes.

[@dylanconnelly9845]

I wish I got the Splatterhouse reboot before it got expensive

[@resist4184]

Subbed !!! Nice

[@ChuckieV79]

7:20 Something about the character animations reminds me of the Rolling Thunder series: maybe it's the jump. 🤔

[@user-ow2yr4nu4z]

My cousin had one and he got ahold of Rondo of Blood. A fuy who was a weeb before there really were weebs had had it imported, fell on hard times and sold his collection and my cousin snatched it up. They got it cheap but not that cheap, it was a difficult game to find and get imported, dont know the exatct but imagine it was well over 300$ maybe even 500$.

[@j0nmaku]

There are some amazing games here! Are any of these available on Steam? The only one I've found is Kiki Kaikai (Pocky & Rocky Reshrined)

[@BurstError]

none that I'm aware of... but maybe a few of the arcade versions are floating around in compilations on there somewhere.

[@germainlechapelain3254]

16:30 that riff got my like

[@ChefCheeseViking]

EVERY. F-ING. SKULL

[@WarioSaysSo]

5:32 - "Fair but tough Castlevania challange" / yeah about that.... That is hard to say with the series. Many games have that "fair" toughness while some others are inhumanly brutal to beat on original hardware....

[@kylewavey6206]

Turbo charge your Horror games!

[@algi1]

In Burst Land it's still October.

[@BurstError]

Everyday is Halloween 🎃

[@seasonsalt3228]

Hell yes! ❤

[@fredvetter1983]

Cool dude. Never heard of some of these. What do you use for an emulator? The one I found is HOT garbage

[@BurstError]

I typically use real hardware or FPGA stuff. but Bizhawk emulator seems ok for TG-16 depending on the game

[@striderskorpion]

I'd say that Rick's mask looks more red/maroon than purple to me. Side note, Altered Beast for the PC Engine CD requires the System 1.0 card to run properly. If you use any other CD BIOS, the game will crash.

[@pizletwizzler198]

Juuouki aka: Altered Beast

[@DrJ3RK8]

Mentioned this on another video, but my friend actually worked for Manley and Associates! :D On Night Creatures. (He later went on to work on good games...) He mentioned that they kept getting used to the game, so they just kept making it artificially harder. Pretty bad game. :D

[@BurstError]

haha amazing! I was tough on it but honestly want to try harder and beat it someday lol

[@DrJ3RK8]

@@BurstError Ha! I think my brother actually did that once. I also had my friend (that helped make it) play it for me once. I didn't watch from start to finish, but he was quite good at it despite not playing it for probably 15 years at the time. :D

[@OriruBastard]

10 bucks Akira Toriyama drew the main character in Tiger Road.

[@monocleenthusiast2381]

which game is in the thumbnail?

[@BurstError]

Dead of the Brain 🧠💀

[@DGneoseeker1]

Why was it called Ninja Gaiden (Ninja side story?) anyway? Ninja Ryukenden (Ninja dragon sword story?) makes much more sense seeing as it's... not a side story... Unless there's some other series it branched off that I'm unaware of.

[@user-to3fe3sn5m]

Whoa!

[@Deckardrick007]

You keep mentioning “SHMUP” what are you referring to?

[@BurstError]

shmup is short for Shoot 'em ups (games like Gradius, R-Type, etc)

[@Deckardrick007]

@@BurstError Ah I see, I seriously had no clue. Thank you!

[@scrappy2082]

aww yeaaa :D

[@DGneoseeker1]

OK you're going to need to explain for me why you'd be cackling at that map screen. I don't get it.

[@BurstError]

I like the hyperfast wiggling character on there XD

[@cepopeye]

This rules omgosh

[@MasterMewtwo239]

Purgatory-like? Dude, jigoku is Hell, if memory serves me right. And Cyber Wiber is closer to the Metal Warriors series... yes, that's still basically Power Rangers; so what!?

[@BurstError]

I probably could've worded it better in the video, but the character's situation in that specific game is kind of like Purgatory in that he is either going to end up in heaven or hell by the end. But yeah, Jigoku can more simply be considered something like Hell (I am also by no means an expert on this topic)

[@DGneoseeker1]

What game is the topless girl with the angel wings from (from the Misc. section)? Asking for... scientific reasons...

[@BurstError]

Last Armageddon! :)

[@drmoze]

you wandered a lot from horror, with many beat em ups, generic shooters, etc. psychosis deserved a detailed commentary for horror, many games you covered werent really horror games.

[@luisreyes1963]

Too bad you forgot the Castlevania knockoff for the PC Engine, Rusty. Also, if only someone remade those Brain Of The Dead horror games with HD graphics, at least for either the PC or the Stram Deck.

[@BurstError]

I'm aware of Rusty but thought it was PC-98?

[@goatintuxedo2206]

chapters are wrong on the video timeline.

[@BurstError]

looking correct on my end, not sure whats up

[@goatintuxedo2206]

@@BurstError example: Dead of the Brain 1&2 finishes at 15:00 and another game is presented.. it's on the same chapter. i've checked on both normal and desktop display and the error is on both. so i know it's not from part. Still nice video.. but the timeline is not useful.

[@BurstError]

@@goatintuxedo2206 sorry still not seeing the problem on my side. 15:02 marks the start of the War of the Dead chapter here. oh well :)

[@goatintuxedo2206]

@@BurstError okay.. sorry to bother then. must be some problems with the way my phone is displaying the video. Have a nice one!

[@TheTenthArt]

GoTzenDiener

[@BurstError]

ooooh yeah that would've been a good add. looks neat!

[@GunstarHeroes777]

So many new jank games to explore.

[@BurstError]

I have you to thank (blame?) for exposing me to Faussete Amour XD

[@timnord4091]

Ok but why…….? WHY?!

[@barrymaaslow3480]

Most of these are NOT horror games...LOL

[@Bangcat]

I seriously want a translation of Dead of The Brain 2. I watched a playthrough of the first and it was great to see the art style and the twist in the story. Worthy of an anime movie, and just fine to watch as a game playthrough. I enjoyed it, and want to enjoy the second with full english.

[@jackdbs]

Be on the look out for that. It’s in the works

[@dearossi2327]

Tiger Road no arcade perfect.🤬🤘