Love. Hate. Look, we're family, what's the difference?

[PixyJunket]

I never (rarely?) do introduction threads on forums, but I figure a collection of people still passionate about the TurboGrafx-16 and PC-Engine are probably a pretty tight group, so here I am.

I don't remember the exact circumstances (birthday, paper route, etc.), but I got a TurboGrafx-16 pretty soon after it came out. I remember cutting an enlarged photo of a Pac-Man multi-vitamin from one of my mom's magazines and taping it to the system like a sticker. I also remember playing the few games I had for it OBSESSIVELY. One of my current best friends, our friendship is owed to this. I met him through a mutual friend, and he had just bought Namco Museum vol. 4 for some other system thing. I asked for a turn on Pac-Land and proceeded to show him deep, dark, evil secrets of the game from putting hundreds of hours into it on the Turbo. His floor fell to the ground and it was (bro) love at first site.

Keith Courage, Double Dungeons, Parasol Stars, Galaga '90, Dragon's Curse, Final Lap Twin, Legendary Axe, Bonk's Adventure, Neutopia, Alien Crush, Devil's Crush, these are some of the other games I had and played when I was a kid.

I am also fuzzy on how I got a CD-ROM and I don't think I had it long, but it introduced me to Ys, which is one of the best things ever (well, maybe the last two aren't so great, but that's another topic for another day).

Years later, I am obsessing, quite hard, over an arcade game called Wonder Boy in Monster Land. This led me to buying a Core-Grafx II and Bikkuriman World, which was the only decent home version of the game (until Sega and Westone put a previously unreleased English version of the arcade original on Wii in 2012*swoons*). I also bought Tower of Druaga, another game I love more than I should. Then I blind bought a big box of games from a Japanese auction (because it had Legend of Valkyrie in it).

So my roommate at this time, we had been talking about getting a TurboDuo for years, usually when we had had a few beers. One night (probably beer fueled) I aggressively called him (or us?) out on our big mouths and threw a couple of benjis at somebody over at Digital Press for a PC-Engine Duo-R with a region switch. I eagerly bought Popful Mail (dat Falcom) and Dynastic Hero (dat Westone), thinking they would be the first of HUNDREDS of awesome import CDs. Sadly, my ADD brain quickly shifted to something else and the dream of having an awesome PC-Engine library fluttered away as I furiously built up an NES collection.

But the bug bit me again. I just bought a house and one of the rooms is going to be for retro gaming. So much Duo-R is back out and I've been playing all those mystery games from the bix box years ago and I've been stumbling my way through Monster Maker wishing I had stuck with my Japanese studies so long ago. And I've been buying a lot of new CDs.

Anyway, I'm rambling because I only slept four hours last night (I was playing The Last Story online until 1:00 AM since the servers were shutting down), so this will be a fun thread to look back on once I've rested.

But yes, hello there. Now sell me some Japanese CD-ROM²s.

PS: Konami is the devil.

PPS: Have some pictures.

[Tatsujin]

fakeler sapphire

btw. Welcome to the obey nest

[esteban]

Comrade, you have a nice bunch of games. You will be happy exploring this stuff.

If you like shoot-em-ups, you have a bunch of decent ones 

PsychoChaser is a nice oddball title (vertical shooter, but it isn't). Mr. Heli and Rabio Lepus are quirky, too.

Anyway, welcome.

[PixyJunket]

Comrade, you have a nice bunch of games. You will be happy exploring this stuff.

If you like shoot-em-ups, you have a bunch of decent ones 

PsychoChaser is a nice oddball title (vertical shooter, but it isn't). Mr. Heli and Rabio Lepus are quirky, too.

Anyway, welcome.

I do love shoot 'em ups, I haven't actively picked any up yet since they're generally a little pricier, so I figured I'd pump up my numbers with a few oddball RPGs first (the second and third pictures are my recent purchases).

From my stack, I've been enjoying the occasional round of Burning Angels, it's even got a strage, fake "tate" mode.

[NecroPhile]

Welcome aboard and thanks for the nice intro. (except for the sad part about the NES). 

[PixyJunket]

Welcome aboard and thanks for the nice intro. (except for the sad part about the NES). 

Oh I don't know how sad it is. I mean, I have stacks and stacks of duplicate games from raiding pawn shops and movie stores that I paid NOTHING for that can be flipped for $30 to $100 a pop now, which would do well to help fund grabbing some of the rare or expensive PC-Engine games I want.

[Bardoly]

Welcome to Pcenginefx!

And yes, you do have some good games there.  Some of my favorites are Bonk's Adventure, Bonk's Revenge, Dragon's Curse, & Parasol Stars for the TG-16 and Bomberman, Final Soldier, Sapphire, & Valkyrie no Densetsu for the PC Engine.

[NecroPhile]

Oh I don't know how sad it is. I mean, I have stacks and stacks of duplicate games from raiding pawn shops and movie stores that I paid NOTHING for that can be flipped for $30 to $100 a pop now, which would do well to help fund grabbing some of the rare or expensive PC-Engine games I want.

But that's time that could've been spent with PCE.   

[PixyJunket]

Is there an option to have large images squeeze into the frame properly?

Welcome to Pcenginefx!

And yes, you do have some good games there.  Some of my favorites are Bonk's Adventure, Bonk's Revenge, Dragon's Curse, & Parasol Stars for the TG-16 and Bomberman, Final Soldier, Sapphire, & Valkyrie no Densetsu for the PC Engine.

If you like Dragon's Curse, get Bikkuriman World and Dynastic Hero!!

[HailingTheThings]

Welcome aboard! Burn your NES games, yay! :3