Top 50 TurboGrafx-16 / PC-Engine games of all time in 1080p / 60FPS!

[@gonorrheabreath3774]

Crazy!!! These videos of people revisiting the old systems are hilarious (and making me feel old). But I actually owned a TurboGrafx 16 handheld with TV adapter... it was SO ahead of its time! I ended up selling the thing on eBay like 10+/- years ago. Keep up the great videos! Cheers.

[@oneyedthing]

It costs a lot now.

[@RealziesCuts]

That’s completely insane that you had a turbo express 💫🏆

[@paulnewhouse5126]

i like the GBA episode cuz of the commentary you added, i especially like the comentary and your two cents :)

[@brianfernandez1788]

Buenos juegos

[@xiaochicash]

Astounding that the CPU was an 8-bit architecture. TG16/PCE rocked.

[@camberiu]

The video chip more than made up for the CPU shortcomings.

[@raypadilla254]

xiaochicash it was but it was blazing fast just as fast as the Genesis 16 bit CPU! But unlike the Genesis 16 bit address bus and SNES 8 bit address bus the TurboGrafx 16 had a 21 bit address bus! So it's CPU was very comperable! Oh don't forget it had a true 16 bit GPU with 482 on screen colors! Amazingly powerful 8 bit machine!!!!!

[@ryanfrazier961]

,?

[@kh7955]

And it blew the NES out of the water and held its own against the genesis although sakes didn't necessarily prove it in North America

[@ricsim78]

@@kh7955 I think the biggest issue was NEC marketing was sporadic and cheesy (for example, the intro of this video). They did a poor job marketing their product and it showed. Nintendo did not need to market SNES and still did, Genesis had cool ads and was the "cool system" thanks to that. My parents got me Turbo Grafix-16 for my birthday after I begged for it for almost a year. Nintendo hurt them badly also with their "if you make games for us, you cannot make them for anyone else" policy back then, which should have been unlawful! It really was an amazing system and felt more futuristic than the SNES and Genesis in looks and the size of cartridges (not to mention it was the first with a CD-ROM attachment). The accessories were very expensive for younger gamers and the fact it only had mono sound output without an expensive $100 adapter was quite stupid and a bad oversight in an otherwise solid package. But I loved mine and still play the games with my emulators to this day!

[@ParkerDHolt]

Been waiting for a new top 50. Can't wait to watch!

[@Juganawt]

Parker Holt That's great, Parker! I had a few problems rendering this one - it kept crashing my PC! I hope you enjoy the video! Any comments or feedback that you could give me is very much appreciated! Just one thing though, I'd suggest holding off and waiting until KZbin process the full resolution, 60 frames per second version of the video!

[@josevcp1]

Great work man. You really know how to make a good top game´s video!

[@GreyGooTheory]

So glad to see Military Madness getting some love. I dust off the old TG16 at least once a year to play through that game. A Classic.

[@Juganawt]

+Grey GooTheory It's fantastic, and the semi-remake on the PCE-CD is even better!

[@GreyGooTheory]

+Juganawt A remake?! I'm going to have to check that out. Thanks!

[@snatcher420]

+Grey GooTheory Should have been #1....In my book many many hours of play and just played it last month. Also Ninja Spirit should have been in top 10 for me and where was Chew Man Fu,Legendary Axe,Silent Debuggers,Veigues Tactical Gladiator. Way better to me than some listed here.

[@Juganawt]

+snatcher420 Chew Man Fu sat at #46. Silent debuggers and Legendary Axe (and JJ & Jeff) nearly made the cut, until I went to record footage for them and realised that they werent anywhere near as good as I remembered them being.

[@Juganawt]

+snatcher420 oh, and if you like Veigues Tactical Gladiator, please give the PC-88 Original a go. It might have stuttering scrolling, but I prefer the grittier tone of the visuals to the bright "pop-y" visuals of the TG16 / PCE version

[@anthonybird546]

I have a soft spot for the TG-16, but ultimately it was a system that fell in the tail end of the 8-bit era before the 16-bit era. It makes sense to me in retrospect that I had the NES for years, I got the TG-16 before the SNES came out and it feels like a bridge, even though the PCE/TG-16 could outperform the SNES in games like shooters with large numbers of sprites with no slowdown.

[@BobbyHo2022]

yep. Plus TG-16 had more accurate arcade ports than NES could put out but once the true 16 bit systems came out... wasn't close.

[@clockworkrazor]

The Turbographix is one of my favorite classic game consoles alongside the SNES and Genesis. My favorite games were Legendary Axe Splatterhouse and Bonk.

[@Juganawt]

+clockworkrazor I never owned one until adult life, WAY after the system's original lifespan. Upon reflection, it was a superb machine with some extremely accomplished titles that I'm sorry I missed out on in the early 90's.

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@JuganawtPC ENGINE games even in 2023 still is among the best alongside SNES, PS4, PS5, PS1 and 2 ans NES ports.

[@DrKringle1968]

Wow, so many games that I now need to try...thanks for uploading this! You've earned yourself a subscriber :D looking forward to your list of TurboCD games!

[@Juganawt]

+TheZealousBanjo Fantastic! Thanks for the sub, and I'm so pleased you've discovered some new games! Turbo CD lists will be done at some point in future, but first we've got Master System, Game Boy Color, and possibly NES too!

[@DrKringle1968]

You're welcome! Man, I'm looking forward to getting a TG16 hopefully this holiday season (though my dream is to get a modded Duo R one day...!). I'll look forward to those lists!

[@likenem]

Thanks for the suggestions, These games had excellent sound tracks

[@whoknowswhocares1694]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. I've been looking to start collecting for the TG16 and this is a great start!

[@ragetasticgames5105]

The shoot 'em ups on tg16 were really good.

[@Juganawt]

There were absolutely loads of them, too.

[@606808909]

Pretty much a fact apart from a small few like deep blue. Good lord what a mess

[@zerocool1ist]

I imagine why spatter house in the U.S was changed was it was just a lil close to Jason and no one wanted a copyrights nightmare.

[@Juganawt]

Yep. Precisely why. Also, they didn’t want the religious aspects in the game either as they didn’t want to affect Christianity-loving westerners, so one of the levels was heavily edited and trimmed to remove certain aspects of it

[@zerocool1ist]

However the batshit crazy thing is the arcade cabinet version in the U.S was spot on so something else was going on from the higher ups that caused that version to be changed. My guess is like u said when they were fucking around reprogramming it due religious aspects they said fuck it lets change some more shit so it justifies are paycheck.

[@sidearmsalpha]

Thanks for adding the cover art for each game. Very cool.

[@xamurai00]

''Penetrate the evil place'' 1:14 *no thanks im never going to sleep with the ex wife ever again*

[@wazzobazzo]

What...you really don't want to DELVE DEEP?

[@lamtatyan]

Thanks for sharing! I am planning to buy a PC-Engine. Your video inspires me which games I should buy along with the machine. :D

[@bobinestoroski8880]

These old consoles are way better than today's consoles

[@avjaarsveldt]

Thank you for this no nonsense video. Would have liked to see some of the lower list games higher but taste differ I quest.

[@drawcomics]

Cool list... can't say I agree with the placement of most of your choices but I can't disagree with the choices themselves. Warms my heart that there are so many great games on the system even though there were less than 300 hucards released. For my money the PC/Grafx had the best quality to quantity game ratio ever.

[@yohkom.7988]

There are a lot of "good games" on PC Engine but not much "awesome games". In comparison the Mega Drive and SNES have better libraries, sure they have more stinkers but also more standout games and more overall variety (the PC Engine hardware is quite limited to handle genres such as beat 'em ups, run 'n guns or racing games as good as what the MD/SNES can do). Also multiplats are usually better on Mega Drive/SNES than on PCE.

[@DeckyStrikesBack]

This is like a console between 8 and 16 bit. The turbo grafx 12.

[@ReaperCore15]

This console feels like it was the perfect transition between the 3rd and 4th generation of consoles !

[@Wesleyrpg]

Awesome list and video......but i have a question! How did you capture the PC Engine footage SO cleanly? Some sort of HDMI upscaling? very impressive! Would of loved to of seen Chase HQ, MR Heli and The Ninja Warriors in the list but all well....... thanks for the video!

[@Juganawt]

The best way to get crisp video recordings from actual hardware is to RGB mod your TG16 / PC Engine system (I have a modded PC Engine Duo R). This gives you the crispest source to work with, which you can run through your capture device (in my case, an Elgato Game Capture HD card recording on highest bitrate) Then load up Sony Vegas 13 or similar editing software, import and upscale from there. Chase HQ and Mr. Hell were SO close to making the list. Ninja Warriors On the other hand.....

[@Jayce_Alexander]

@@Juganawt You have SCI on your list. Wouldn't it have been against your own set of rules to include Chase HQ then? It's a sequel, after all. (Then again, you also included more than one game from the Star Soldier series).

[@DarrinBentley]

WOW! There are SO many INCREDIBLE games NOT on this list! No Dead Moon? No Psychosis? No DRAGON'S CURSE??? No SHOCKMAN??? Ummm...no Magical Chase? No Legendary Axe 1 OR 2? No Download? No Batman? No Time Cruise? No Twinbee? Falcon and Gunboat? Really?? C'mon man.

[@tonyutter]

Ah! There it is. 6:24 [Such a shame. I don't even see Salamander/Life Force on that list either.]

[@mvl71]

6:24

[@tonyutter]

thanks

[@PhantomofDB]

Yeah... Devil's Crush doesn't sniff Time Cruise's Jock Strap

[@shootinputin185]

Make your own list instead off being butthurt in the comments then

[@PSXuploads]

Thank you for 60fps, it really makes a difference

[@Juganawt]

+Grace Kelly thanks! I agree, and that's why, when possible, all of my videos and live streams are at 60fps.

[@zhaoyun255]

Really dude? No Rondo of Blood? That was the most advance and highly regarded also the most expensive with incredible gameplay in the PC Engine.

[@Juganawt]

zhaoyun255 it's not a PC-Engine game. It's a PC-Engine CD game. Separate lists coming for CD based games.

[@redpanda416]

Seriously? that street fighter is running on a 8-bit CPU? That is truly amazing!!! It really plays like the arcade, not much a difference.

[@Juganawt]

+redpanda416 It really was an absolutely beautiful conversion indeed!

[@PatriciaCross]

+Juganawt I think it was way better than the SNES and Genesis ports at the time. I remember when I ran into the TG16 version at a con after playing the SNES (and occasional Genesis) versions in the 90s. I was surprised. It was strictly better in every way. I think the first SF2 version on SNES to overtake it was Super. I think the reason for this was the SNES and Genesis versions were all based on the original port of the game for the SNES (World Warrior). It was good but clunky. Rather than port Champion Edition or Hyperfighting from scratch, I think they just converted the World Warrior port to the new editions (and then ported to Genesis for Champion Edition.) But the TG version felt like an entirely new port. I was watching this and was thinking "Where is Street Fighter?" And getting more frustrated the closer you got to number one. Really pleased to see it at the top. It is one of those games that truly shows what developers can do with a limited console late in its life if given a chance.

[@alexojideagu]

the Snes is virtually 8bit two. Its processor is slow as hell. Both systems rely on DSP graphics chips

[@yohkom.7988]

+Patricia Cross Errr, no. The PC Engine version of Street Fighter 2 is worse than both Mega Drive and SNES. The PC Engine version doesn't even run fullscreen, lacks parallax scrollings, lacks turbo options, lacks the third bonus stage... I could go on and on... Also both the PC Engine and SNES versions lack the CPS-1 combos whereas the Mega Drive version has them all. The Mega Drive version is easily the best overall but it's actually this version which should have been made from scratch cuz the Mega Drive could have handled an even better version but it was based on SNES limited assets (same for the PCE port btw) while the Mega Drive could have run the game in higher resolution, with bigger sprites and such.

[@absoluteclownworld]

@@yohkom.7988 Turbo on SNES is best of all street fighter games on the 3 systems.

[@Rekking]

lol...thanks to you I found a game I wanted to find for 10years!! WOW!

[@matttherrien9608]

Rekking, which one is it please?! I want to download it. lol

[@Rekking]

2:55 :)

[@matttherrien9608]

@@Rekking Cheers friend. :)

[@matttherrien9608]

@Markus Müller I apologize. I'm not sure what you mean by "everdrive packs." Perhaps you can try to explain it to me.

[@matttherrien9608]

@Markus Müller I "harvest" my roms individually based on what I ascertain from KZbin mainly. If you Google "no intro roms" your first match may give you what you're after. You'll have access to entire sets or single roms as I already said. Hit me back if I can be of anymore assistance.

[@alfredogomezjr.2192]

What? No Legendary Axe!

[@Juganawt]

+Alfredo Gomez Jr. Nope. To me it just wasn't legendary enough to be included. It's a solid game, but not one of my favourites.

[@SheaHarris]

+Juganawt I expected to see it on your list. Often called the best Turbo game. That said I wasn't too crazy about it.

[@mikesmith2416]

But Gunboat was?

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

@@Juganawt Wtf? You mean to tell me you liked “Falcon” more than Legendary Ax?.... 😳

[@dbpooper7512]

Great list. Non-obvious choices, and lots of interesting obscurities for me to look up. BTW, I think you got a couple of emails.

[@haiaokuwa]

Thanks for making this list

[@Juganawt]

haiaokuwa Thanks for watching

[@RetroGames4K]

Nice video man. Good recommendations. Subscribed... 😁👌

[@Tony-ko6ll]

Street Fighter. Oh the memories. AWSOME #1. 😎👍👍

[@jorgefernandez577]

Really solid list great choices

[@fulgenzio1973]

Parasol Stars should be in the top 5! Great Channel, anyway!

[@Juganawt]

+fulgenzio1973 I'm a Bubble Bobble nut, and I loved Parasol Stars...but I love other games in my top 5 a lot more.

[@RealziesCuts]

I’m so glad I found your top 50 videos they are approaching classic status I watched the super Nintendo and Genesis videos already so this one is going to be very interesting 💫😅 The 16 bit era was crazy amazing 🏆🛋🦍

[@purwantiallan5089]

16 bit era games are way better than majority of the PS5 games from 2023.

[@pjomayo]

I would put Motoroader,Ninja Warriors,Twin Cobra and Tales of Monster Path on that list,personally.But i loved Bloody Wolf.

[@P0V3RTY09]

Of all the games showcased here , Salamander, Afterburner II and Outrun were the most notable games on the system. Not to say that other other games were bad at all. But those titles were very good ports on this system. I guess that's why the Turbo GrafX-16 wasn't as popular in the US as opposed to the over seas market.

[@Juganawt]

+P0V3RTY09 the TG16 was a powerhouse in comparison to its peers and should have grabbed a bigger market share. The problem is, NEC's marketing department simply SUCKED and totally screwed up the sales approach for the system. Look at my intro for prime examples of it!

[@yohkom.7988]

The PC Engine wasn't powerful enough compared to the Mega Drive/SNES nor it was well-designed enough: only one controller port, forced to buy the CD add-on cuz most of the library was released on it, no light gun support... marketing has nothing to do with all of this. And the Mega Drive was also poorly marketed in some regions, especially in Japan where it had much less exposure than the PC Engine while the PC Engine benefited of the huge PC-88/98 userbase as well as further exposure through tournaments such as Hudson' caravan stages.

[@thegreathadoken6808]

He was talking about the NES and Master System. Those were it's peers. Street fighter 2 was a stellar port for the PCE

[@DragAmiot]

Such a good system, I don't understand why it wasn't more popular...

[@Juganawt]

Marketing screwups meant that it was a bit of a distant third place in the US, and a non-Starter in Europe. In Japan though it outsold the Megadrive (Genesis) for a couple of years.

[@yohkom.7988]

+CryptedSky The PC Engine wasn't powerful enough compared to its rivals the Mega Drive/SNES nor it was well-designed enough: only one controller port, forced to buy the CD add-on cuz most of the library was released on it, no light gun support... marketing has nothing to do with all of this. And the Mega Drive was also poorly marketed in some regions, especially in Japan where it had much less exposure than the PC Engine while the PC Engine benefited of the huge PC-88/98 userbase as well as further exposure through tournaments such as Hudson' caravan stages.

[@DragAmiot]

Thanks both of you for the explanations!

[@yohkom.7988]

+CryptedSky Cheers :) I think that the PC Engine tends to be overrated (just look at some other comments here...) but it's also overlooked, some games for it deserve more exposure. As for the popularity, as I explained it was very popular in Japan. The already existing and huge NEC PC-88/98 userbase helped a lot but the system was also well exposed through marketing and tournaments. Lastly, the fact that it was the first system with CD games also helped, this meant games with anime cutscenes and all, something that the japanese market has always been fond of. But the PC Engine never caught the same attention in other regions. Probably that the system's limitations were more apparent there, I notably think about the single controller port, the rather limited sound or the lack of parallax scrollings support. Also the games weren't as groundbreaking nor as original as what can be found on Mega Drive or SNES. And again the fact that most of the library was released for the CD add-on didn't help either. Also worth mentioning that the PC Engine was sold in some european countries. It was officially distributed in France and also sold in uk, spain... but it never really took off there either unlike the Mega Drive or SNES.

[@iliariano3126]

Never known that Kikikaikai Ninja was released for PC Engine. I thought it was SNES exclusive. Thx for including it!

[@Tony-ko6ll]

AWSOM list. All the ones I didn't comment on where the ones I have eather never played or herd of before. None the less cool list. 😎👍👍

[@DrKringle1968]

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! I have been trying to find that photography game for weeks!!!!! I thought it was a Famicom game :P

[@Juganawt]

+TheZealousBanjo There was also a sequel on the PS2, released in Japan all the way back in 2001 (imaginatively titled "Photograph Boy 2"). Check it out if you can!

[@goupilsystem4717]

Hi, I know it's impossible to satisfy everybody with this kind of video, but I'm surprised not to see Final Match Tennis... Have you already played it? (and I don't even like sport games) If not, you really should give it a try, the gameplay and the physic algorithm are way out of any league, still 25 years later. Cheers!

[@Juganawt]

+Goupil System I think I've played it before. Can't remember much about it tbh.

[@purwantiallan5089]

2023 still cant belive how those PC ENGINE games are considered to be way ahead of its time and at one point, also ever rivalled SEGA GENESIS.

[@Tony-ko6ll]

1943 KAI. Looks kinda familiar.. not to sure if I played it before...it's been such a long time ago for me.😎

[@DragonGrafx-16]

Best version of 1943... sadly I only have the plain 1943 on NES.

[@greggeargregm2774]

This is absolutely awesome

[@Juganawt]

+GregGearGreg m Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!

[@weiliyin909]

This was my favorite system. It had so many rpg games, it was amazing.

[@Funrunner008]

It hardly had any rpgs

[@AI-ec2qb]

pure gold channel ❤️

[@meckatz]

was tempted to go all nerd on you.now i see you just show 50 must haves ve

[@tuercebotas6690]

Thanks for watching? nooo..thanks to you for do this great videooo!!

[@soulieobelissevan]

#8 @22:21 looks a lot like 'wonder boy in monster land' on the sega. Even the music and FX sound the same if memory serves

[@thegreathadoken6808]

Its the same game exactly, just with a few sprite swaps. I do believe its the best home version of the game.

[@gwensalador4325]

The intro is ridiculous lol

[@stevearbogast8556]

Very nice video!

[@Juganawt]

+steve arbogast thank you

[@skins4thewin]

It also looks like the games are being played with Overscan and a bit of blur or filter... the picture is a good bit sharper on my actual system. Is this just a KZbin compression effect? I went and hooked my console up and flipped back n forth between the inputs for my computer and game console, screen for screen comparing New Adventure Island, and my actual console thru RGB does actually look a bit sharper and more colorful than the KZbin vid here, but now this is making me want to turn the Sharpness down some as this does look very nice and smooth on here. EDIT - I have been playing with the Sharpness, Brightness and Color for the past half hour and still cannot get my picture to look as smooth as this even with Sharpness down to 0. There MUST be some sort of light filter being used here... Juganawt, can you confirm this? Would really like to get my picture looking as smooth as this.

[@Juganawt]

No filters, but the system is being run through a HD upscaler and an Elgato HD capture device, so a little bit of colour and sharpness is lost, then KZbin butchers the bitrate and a LOT of detail is lost (I record at 30mbit and KZbin outputs it at around 5mbit at 1080p for audio and video combined) One of these days, I aim to upgrade my current El Cheap-and-Nasty-O upscaler to a FrameMeister, which would make the visuals even more true to the system's native format and remove the output lag (hopefully making me able to show more skilled play in my videos) - Infact that's one of the reasons I decided to start a Patreon campaign, as I've been recording N64 footage and it looks absolutely terrible through my current setup! Thanks for watching!

[@skins4thewin]

+Juganawt - No problem. lol funny how it seems like the blur from the Chinese Upconverter makes the game look more smooth... maybe my TV settings are sub-par. I am using the Retroconsoleaccessories RGB cable, so I dunno what else I could do to improve the quality. Perhaps I am expecting too much... it is an old pixelated game after all lol. Are you widening the picture at all? Because the picture looks slightly wider than the standard 4 by 3 ratio. Also looks like theres some Overscan, cutting off a slight bit of the top and bottom of the screen.

[@Juganawt]

+skins4thewin no, I don't widen the picture, I do the opposite! My HD upscaler stretches the screen to 16:9 as default and, using a template, I have to re-adjust the image back to 4:3 using my video editing software, which is time consuming and, again, is another reason why I really need to get myself a FrameMeister I think! Maybe one day!

[@skins4thewin]

Lol well I certainly hope you get one someday, it is worth every penny! Once you have one you will hate playing without it. That being said, I don't think it needs half the features it has, I dont use 80% of what it offers. I wish I could sacrifice all of those features for a nice HQ2x or Scale2x filter. That would be Retro gaming heaven! One thing worth noting is that there is nothing wrong at all with the cheap Ebay scaler, in fact it's quite a good value. No, it doesn't give the absolute best picture quality but it does pretty darned good for as cheap as it is. There really isn't a huge leap in quality from that to the Framemeister. It does add some screen tearing though and some significant input lag which the Framemeister doesn't have an issue with. The biggest difference I think are the colors. The colors are a good bit more vibrant and detailed with the Framemeister. Picture quality wise though, the difference is only minor in my opinion.

[@snatcher420]

I would have given Military Madness the #1 spot I played it way more than street fighter and I played SF alot. I still to this day play Military Madness on Turbo Grafx 16

[@swpdisciple]

Such an underrated system

[@gottrumpuke6062]

oh my, puzzle boy and his uberly catchy melody from hell

[@madebyLGrabowski]

Some of my favorite games left out but a great list anyways.

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome video

[@hellykerbert2838]

Hahaha that ending!!

[@flyhunterz]

You should have found a room in this for Zipang :p

[@videogameattic]

You get yourself an everdrive yet for the Turbo? They're awesome

[@Juganawt]

***** No unfortunately I don't have an Everdrive. It's something I might invest in at some point in the future as there are lots of games I'd like to play but don't yet own, but right now, if I was going to buy an Everdrive, it'd be for the Nintendo 64 - I want to make a "Top 64" list for it, but my carts were water damaged from storage, and N64 emulation is, frankly, disastrous.

[@jeff15]

isn't very expensive. about $300 if you can find it.

[@HyperTriggerEx]

This is a great video, you should do one for the PC Engine Duo :)

[@Juganawt]

Working on it. As I'm not familiar with the library, I'm playing through every single game before compiling my list. Less than 40 to go!

[@laylowcm6437]

5:44 I didn't know there was a game about Krillin actually being useful XD!!

[@VixXstazosJOB]

He was usefull in DragonBall, so....

[@MassimoVilla]

Great video, great list! You just forgot to include Final Match Tennis ;)

[@GuardYourFlanks]

+Massimo Villa Yeah, I'd say I'd put that one above Gunboat... then again Gunboat wouldn't even make a top 50 on my list.

[@skins4thewin]

Oh, and what kind of RGB mod did you do to your system? Are you streaming off a Duo-R, Duo-RX, CoreGrafx, which? I personally have an RGB modded Duo-R, but it has one of the older RGB mods that uses the older THS7314 chip instead of the superior THS7374. I really want to upgrade my RGB mod to the better chip eventually.

[@Juganawt]

Like you, I have an RGB modded Duo-R with the Arcade Card. I’ve also got the Core Grafx mini pre-ordered, and am thinking about upgrading my Duo-R for a PC-Engine / TerraOnion SD combo.

[@skins4thewin]

@@Juganawt Eh, I've heard too many bad things about that TerraOnion Add-On. I hear it still has some minor Audio-Video issues, even after they revised the board to fix some of the major issues it had. Supposedly they are aware of the ongoing issues but refuse to revise the board again to fix them. Due to that, I may never buy one of those. I do have their Mega SD tho which is quite fantastic, although I still prefer to play on my JVC X'EYE as it's RGB & audio output are simply fantastic. Seriously, it outputs crystal clear RGB and audio. It's quite impressive.

[@ddopeyy]

Why do Ken and Ryu sound the same? It must be confusing if you play with a friend. :P

[@Juganawt]

Y'know, I never even noticed! Ha! That's one way to shrink the game into HuCard!

[@messatsu1981]

+Dopey Donald if i remember correct they changed voice sound in super street fighter...back in street fighter 2 they make same sound effects :) , so it's correct...not a pc engine fault. this should be almost arcade perfect

[@damienpol5215]

Nice port of SF2:CE. They really knew what they were doing.

[@comicsans6487]

whats the name of the game at 1:30?

[@Juganawt]

That'd be "Keith Courage in Alpha Zones" - one of the launch games for the system in America

[@metalwolfzx]

the shmups were pretty good in my opinion.

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

1:45 *_Objection_* !!! Rule Violation #1 on *_Bikkuriman World_* and *_Dragon's Curse:_* As only one game from the *_Wonder Boy_* franchise is allowed: ...This is a 10-yard penalty & *_OP_* must redo the video & place *_Final Lap Twin_* higher in the list !!! ...Alternatively, *_OP_* can "punt" a donation to fund a translation of one of the Japanese only RPG's :P

[@MultiScone]

I'm awaiting a pc-engine in the post and you've given some good games to start buying up! What plug do you use by the way? I've been told a megadrive 2 plug works

[@Juganawt]

Glad to be of service! I wouldn't trust a Megadrive PSU. The plug might fit but they could very well be different polarity and / or voltage depending on the model you have. I use the default PSU that came with my Duo-R, which is then plugged into a step down transformer to change it from 110v to 220v

[@MultiScone]

+Juganawt ah ok I have a step down converter for a Japanese dreamcast would that work? It's a duo-r I've ordered, and I'm in the u.k as well

[@Juganawt]

+LivingRad it should do, but just double check the wattage of your transformer first to make sure it's powerful enough to cope with it. I can't remember how much juice the Duo needs, but you're probably gonna need 100w or more

[@nimaiiikun]

what emulator did you use to capture the game play and where are the street fighter animations from at the end? they look better than the SF2 HD remake sprites

[@Juganawt]

I used my RGB modded PC Engine Turbo Duo-R along with an Elgato HD game capture card. I found the animations on a Deviant Art page - apparently they were going to be part of a community project to turn SF3 3rd Strike into full HD. The project has since been cancelled though :(

[@nimaiiikun]

+Juganawt nooooooo, 3rd strike in HD would've been awesome. i hope it wasn't because of pressure from capcom.

[@TheTrueBro]

These kind of videos make me wish the TG Mini's Project Phobos was already complete, to add all these games (unless they are already featured, of course :p )

[@Juganawt]

I've been eagerly awaiting the release of Project Phobos, too. The PC Engine / TG16 / Core Grafx Mini has a solid library of games, but there are definitely some extra ones that I'd like to put on there to save me from pulling out my Turbo-Duo R every time I want to play them.

[@skins4thewin]

Strange... I don't remember these games looking this good on my original PC Engine Duo-R, even when using RGB Out and my Framemeister! How did you get the games to look so good?

[@Juganawt]

I'd imagine things would look even better on a FrameMeister? I really want to get one as I've seen what they can do and I feel it blows my setup away - especially with Nintendo 64, which I'm struggling to record cleanly at the moment. I'm also using RGB modded Duo-R, going to one of those cheap Chinese unnamed HD upscalers, which feeds through to an Elgato HD capture device for recording to PC. Then, KZbin does its thing and applies bitrate compression down from 30mbit source to about 5.

[@thunderforce3482]

I'm just happy to see 50 high quality PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 games at 60fps!

[@TheFoxRJ]

PC Engine was an 8-bit console that, thanks to its hardware, was able to run games with 16-bit quality.

[@Bloody-Butterfly]

There aren’t a ton of great games for this console but there are too many good games to ignore it.

[@msanseverino78]

How do you play street fighter with 2 buttons? Was there a arcade stick

[@Juganawt]

michael Sanseverino there’s 2 main ways to play. 1. Using a standard controller and using the I II and Run buttons as attacks, with the select button switching between punches and kicks. 2. Use a 6 button controller. Not sure if there was an arcade stick ever released for the system, but the 6 button pads are lovely.

[@horror36]

Nice vid.... but where was Chan & Chan (JJ & Jeff) or even Ninja Warriors??

[@Juganawt]

+horror36 Chan & Chan nearly made it, but upon replaying it to record footage, it wasn't as fun to play as I remember it being, so I dropped it from the list. Ninja Warriors, on the other hand, was never considered. I never really liked the arcade game, and have no idea what made the game so popular. I was given a copy of the Amiga version, and a japanese copy of the Sega Mega CD version was bundled with my Mega CD 2, and I didn't like either version. The only version I did like, was the SNES semi-remake, which was an amusing pastime....but I wouldn't consider any of the Ninja Warriors games to be among the best that any system has to offer.

[@halloween491]

Cool retro commercial ha ha!

[@Juganawt]

Timothy Monhollen It's extremely 90's. You gotta love that dancing!

[@bpet122]

Eli Manning at 1:05?

[@yeoedwin1619]

Hopefully this system deserves a re-release, just like SNES mini

[@ShadsPlays]

I don't remember many games for the PC Engine. Tales from the Monster Path was one iirc

[@Juganawt]

Yeah, Tales from the Monster Path was considered for the list originally, but when I played it again to record footage, I'd forgotten how unfair and annoying it really was! Still kinda fun, though!

[@herranton]

Technically, #8 at 22:20 is the sequel to #22 at 11:50. So that kinda breaks the rules...

[@Juganawt]

The Wonder Boy / Adventure Island / Bikkuriman / Monster World / Monica / Dynastic Hero / Dragon's Curse / Saiyūki World universe is a complex and convoluted one. Technically speaking, on the PC-Engine / TG-16 platforms at least, the games have no canonical relation to each other, despite the arcade origins and ties between each title when they were labelled as "Wonder Boy". So, while the inclusion of both kinda breaks the rules, they also kinda don't - it all depends on how you look at things.

[@DrKringle1968]

What do you do in Populous? It's hard to tell from the footage. (also, where did you get Coryoon? If I may ask)

[@Juganawt]

Populous is often credited as the first "God game". Firstly you have to populate the land by flattening it, allowing castles to be build which attract more people. When you have a big enough army, you can enshrine them to believe in you as a god, and they will fight for you against opposing gods. Once you have enough followers, you can wipe out your enemies by smiling them with volcanic eruptions, quicksand, earthquakes etc until your followers are victorious and remove the enemies from existence. Cotton actually came with my Turbo Duo -R when I bought it off eBay about 10 years ago, and it became one of my favorite games ever almost overnight!

[@DrKringle1968]

Okay, cool. And wow! Yeah, it looks really fun and super cute.

[@PeterVenkman760]

Military madness and it came from the desert was my favs

[@dede9806]

Salamander is TOTALLY Life Force on NES

[@Juganawt]

Yep. Salamander was renamed "Life Force" for the US, but kept it's original "Salamander" name in Japan and the EU.

[@Briangibson7825]

Shinobi,Altered Beast,Turbo Outrun,Super Hang On,Alien Storm,Mercs,Rolling Thunder,Dynamite Dux,Alien Syndrome,Road Blasters,Chase HQ,Bubble Bobble - Rainbow Islands,Galaga to name but a few missing.

[@Briangibson7825]

Yes they are

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

...uh... This list if for *_Turbografx-16_* ??? ...Not *_Sega Genesis_* !!! lol :P

[@Briangibson7825]

@@nikolaikalashnikov4253 yes

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

@@Briangibson7825 ...The video is a list for *_Turbografx-16_* ...But he has a list of games for the *_Sega Genesis_* ? ...Unless those games were on *_CD-ROM_* ? ...In which case, they're on a separate list.

[@Briangibson7825]

@nikolaikalashnikov4253 thank you

[@loveandrockets4life]

would love to see at top 50 Sega Master System games!

[@Juganawt]

cutejoshie Thanks for your suggestion! Believe it or not, I've been working on it for a while.. I've recorded the footage, and now it's down to the shortlisting process :) juganawt.tumblr.com/

[@Juganawt]

+cutejoshie Your wish is my command! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nafRemSvr7anl5o

[@loveandrockets4life]

+Juganawt wooohooooo!!!!!

[@adhaxxcer8719]

+Juganawt u r right

[@crazyoldschool6342]

turbo grafx 16 /pc engine was awesome back in the day.

[@Tony-ko6ll]

Blazing Lazers sounds familiar not to sure if I've played it though...😎

[@skins4thewin]

Did you use a Framemeister or an OSSC to stream this footage to your Capture Card?

[@Juganawt]

Neither. I used a cheap Chinese thing that I don’t remember the name of but only cost about £40. It then went routed through my Elgato HD capture device and rendered out to Sony Vegas.

[@skins4thewin]

@@Juganawt Oh no... don't tell me you're using those cheapo Chinese RGB upscalers.... those things are hot garbage. They don't process 240p signals properly, have all kinds of output artifacts & introduce a TON of input lag. You do own either a Framemeister or OSSC right? With as cheap as the OSSC's are now, you'd be a lot better off getting one of those. It processes signals correctly, has zero input lag and outputs a much nicer looking image.

[@Juganawt]

skins4thewin I thought about getting an OSSC, but I can’t justify the price for the time being. I was interested in the Framemeisters until I saw how they butcher Games that switch resolutions. The Chinese RGB box, while imperfect, is good enough for now, especially as I’ll be needing scalers that can support 8k in the near future so there’s no real point of splashing out over £100 for a couple of months use. The input lag was a bit of a pain and was rather undesirable, especially as the old Elgato HD I was using introduced even more lag. Luckily lag is no longer an issue with the setup I have now (it’s essentially lag free via pass through), so it’s manageable. While the picture quality isn’t 100% pixel sharp, it produces nice imagery, such as on the PcE and PCECD lists.

[@skins4thewin]

@@Juganawt But surely it doesn't upscale if you're simply doing a passthru, and I'm sure the conversion process is also adding lag. Sure, the image from those things is ok, but its still nowhere near what the OSSC can do. Also, I think youre kind of missing the point. There isn't an upscaler on the market that can do 8k, or even 4k for that matter. That also isn't the point of these devices. The point is to get the resolution to at least 480p so modern displays can handle the image from there, as modern displays simply dont play well with 240p signals. In fact, if you need a cheap high quality solution then look into the new SCART 2x from Retrotink. It linedoubles RGB signals to 480p via HDMI and has excellent quality output with no added lag at all, and it's under $100 USD. These devices will be useful far longer than just the next couple months. You might want to look a bit more into this stuff.

[@jefersonrodrigues6983]

I would exchange some of your list for others ... for example ...Life Force ... F1 Circus... Bomberman... Batman... Dead Moon... F1 super Lap...

[@fabriziodartoini6873]

which game at 1:30?

[@Juganawt]

That's Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones

[@fabriziodartoini6873]

ty :)

[@mrnickbig1]

It is appalling how badly the marketing assholes fucked up the PC Engine in the USA. If they would have just sold the PC Engine, it would have been a huge hit and captured the market. Instead, they redesigned to case to make it much bigger and stupider looking, they rewired the game connectors , so it was incompatible with the thousand or so games already out. They rewired the controller connectors, so none of the hundred or so controllers in Japan would work. All this sabotage delayed release in the USA until after the Super NES came out. Most of the games shown here were NOT available for the TurboGrafix 16, so this is very misleading.

[@Juganawt]

mrnickbig1 Even though there are slight differences between TG-16 and PCE, much like the Super Nintendo and the Super Famicom, I class them as the same hardware. You can play Japanese PCE games on a US TG-16 with the aid of a Kisado converter. Funnily enough, it's weird that it's only the Chip based games that are region locked - TG-16 CD games run on PCE CD and vice versa - no converter required (there will be a CD based list in the future, too). Unfortunately the PCE library never made it past 350 titles (the TG-16 had less than 100), but it did have over 400 cd-based games compared to the TG-16's measly 50. And yes, USA did screw up the marketing totally and utterly. Could be worse though - They didn't even bother to officially release the console here in rainy ol' England, instead forcing us to buy imported PAL modified consoles and games.

[@mrnickbig1]

The stupid changes to the console delayed the release for YEARS! They rewired the card connectors AND the peripheral connectors. I have a PC Engine, with about 100 games that I bought 1987-1989. If NEC would have simply sold the console as is, they would have captured the US market.

[@Juganawt]

+mrnickbig1 I don't know about capturing the U.S. Market, but it certainly would have gotten a fair market share (much larger than the Master System's) and would have been worthy competition to the later Genesis/Megadrive. I don't think that, even in 1987, any new competitor could rival the NES. The library was too big, the brand was too strong, and Nintendo was synonymous with video games. I just wish it had gotten a full release here. The NES wasn't so popular in the UK and Europe, and instead home computers and the Sega Master System ruled the roost. I wonder if the PCE would have changed that...

[@mrnickbig1]

The graphics were WAY better than anything else, at the time. It also had better sound than most systems. The PCE took Japan by storm.

[@14catorce]

mrnickbig1 the big anti Japan feel during the 80's in the USA was still fading at that time, and people liked big bulky USA made things, I don't know if the really japanese PC-Engine design would made it any better. It was really difficult to get a share of Nintendo's market at that time, it would have needed a whole great marketing plan and a huge insvestment to success, like Sega did. NEC was focused in Japan, were they were doing it fairly well, it was Sega who needed to open to new markets.

[@MrCalvin7892]

No legendary axe?

[@Juganawt]

MrCalvin7892 Thought about adding both Legendary Axe 1 & 2, but when I went back to record footage, I found it just wasn't as good as I remembered. Don't get me wrong, they're still very good, fun games, but they aren't among my personal favourites for the system.

[@MrCalvin7892]

Fair enough haha, must have been a tough list to do that's for sure, so many awesome games for this underrated powerhouse!

[@Juganawt]

The hardest part was deciding in which order the Shmups should go! I'm a big Shmup fan, and the PC-Engine has so many great ones!

[@jameshandshoe]

That opening commercial hurt my soul.

[@Yeowtch]

ótimo video !

[@jarretkarlson]

It came from the desert my #1

[@Tony-ko6ll]

Adventure Island ... looks familiar but not sure if I've played it before. On second though I might of.... been so long... 😎

[@johntucker23]

Do these work in the uk without modding?

[@Juganawt]

You'll need a step down converter for the power supply but aside from that you'll be fine