PC Engine on par technically with SNES / Genesis ?

[turboswimbz]

 

CrackTiger, you just won the forums

[Nando]

 

CrackTiger, you just won the forums

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[VenomMacbeth]

It has more hardware revisions than any console ever released and is impossible for real people to figure out.

You sure the Genesis isn't more applicable there? :lol

[esteban]

FRENCH IS THE LANGUAGE OF LOVERS.  

FACT: When it comes to aesthetics of consoles, the MegaDrive/Genesis is BUTT UGLY GOOFY KIDS TOY. Seriously.

[Mathius]

I just read all 21 pages. I enjoyed it thoroughly. BT's exaggerated rant at the end left me irked, speechless, then amused.

Honestly I kind of wish I hadn't read this thread. Now I feel I need to get my Duo-R RGB or S-Video modded. After I read Joe Red's post about the PCE's flickering backgrounds (Fantasy Zone) I immediately got up to see for myself. I guess I could live with it. Though I don't want to.

[fraggore]

The Mega-CD was pretty popular in Europe, and of course--nobody knew what a Turbo Grafx was.  

Being from the uk it was known as a pc engine in this neck of the woods at lease as far as i was concerned, the turbo was mythical story of intrigue mystery of release dates, pictures in magazines and tele games saying the uk version is here, but never seeing a consoles or games anywhere its only like 20 years later you can buy them on ebay.

[Tatsujin]

It's strange , i went to london in '96 and and accidentally found a gamestore
with a wand full of PCE games and to my surprise, even quite cheap.

Bought about 20 games there.

but going to some UK retro-forums, the PCE is almost inexistent.

[Joe Redifer]

Pfffttt you are all complete losers. PC Engine is better than everything!

graphcis:
PC Engine has more colors more sprites mroe backgronds and more awsome visuals. No Super Nitnedo. no TurboGrafx-16 or Geneiss game looks as good as any PC Engine game. Go to hell if you di You maybe think that the SNES has more colros but they are fake colors not real genesis has fake sprites we should laugh at genesis


Tell me that the PCE doesn't look like the best grfix this is the evidence pictures odnt lie

audo sound:
PC engine is once again best with better audio higher qulity and mbetter musics. u may think gensis and snes has more channels and more modern audio but pce is betetr because it can play tru stereo voice vlcps. Don't even bring TurboGrafx-16 into the argument beciause PCE detroyes TG-16 audio. TG-16 sounds like beefed up NES but PCE sounds like areola man. only losers would

CPU:
The central processing unti in the PCE is much better than eithe the SNES, Gensis or TurboGrafx-16. The PCE CPU processes real number in real time to make better games grpahcis and sounds but the other snes turbo and Genesis processors have to process slowly and with darkness and they suck and can't play games aat least not good ones.

controll"
pC Engine has the best controller with the fasteest presponse time and the other feel. snes geensis are like crap and have lsow response time they are suck. TuboGrafx-16 controller sucks because it has backwards numbers they can't even count in the correct direction but PCE has them in order because in Japan they read from right to left. anythibg in japan is betetr ythan everything in th eusa no exception

gamepaly:
The games play much better on PC Engine because of the hyper speed 1-6-bit power it's the only tru 16-bit system of the world. The games are also much more

the Games:
The PC Engine has the best game liebary as well snes and Genesis only have games that are not any fun at all and play like crap athat nobody wants to play but every PC engine game is a winner which has the fun to extreme.

[Mathius]

Oh my! It must be fanboy mating season. The amount of "Nerdosterone" in this thread just jumped by 256%!

Actually I would really like to know what the game in the lower right hand corner is. It's making my nipples hard.

[Tatsujin]

That's mystic formula.

 http://pc-engine.emuunlim.org/mystic/mystic_formula.htm

Visually a rather nice game, bur lacks some pepp and good gameplay imo.

[Mathius]

That's mystic formula.

 http://pc-engine.emuunlim.org/mystic/mystic_formula.htm

Visually a rather nice game, bur lacks some pepp and good gameplay imo.

Thanks for the link. So much potential that game had.

[BigusSchmuck]

That's mystic formula.

 http://pc-engine.emuunlim.org/mystic/mystic_formula.htm

Visually a rather nice game, bur lacks some pepp and good gameplay imo.

Wow, I hope I'm not the only one who hasn't heard about this game. Now I wants it.

[Psycho Punch]

I'm going to drop the harsh truth here, it's that the PCE doesn't have AWESOME helicopter games that make your boner have a boner like the GENESIS.

AND I TOLD YOU GUYS ALREADY THERE IS NO KYOUKO TIGER ON THE GENESIS DON'T WHINE LIKE THE OTHER FORUM MOD WHO BANNED ME (moron).

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[ParanoiaDragon]

That's mystic formula.

 http://pc-engine.emuunlim.org/mystic/mystic_formula.htm

Visually a rather nice game, bur lacks some pepp and good gameplay imo.

Wow, I played that game awhile back, I guess it never really sunk in on how nice it looked!

[Bardoly]

That's mystic formula.

 http://pc-engine.emuunlim.org/mystic/mystic_formula.htm

Visually a rather nice game, bur lacks some pepp and good gameplay imo.

Thanks for the link. So much potential that game had.

Yes, it could have been better, but it's actually a decent game.  (Of course, I love simultaneous multiplayer action, so I may be partially biased.)

[esteban]

That's mystic formula.

 http://pc-engine.emuunlim.org/mystic/mystic_formula.htm

Visually a rather nice game, bur lacks some pepp and good gameplay imo.

Wow, I played that game awhile back, I guess it never really sunk in on how nice it looked!

Mythic Formula looks and plays nice in some parts, but there are many segments of the game that are not particularly great/impressive.

But who cares about the aesthetics when the game itself SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ENGAGING.  I agree with the person who said Mystic Formula was lacking "pep"... it is a damn, shame, too. The cinemas seem nicely done (from what I remember).

DISCLAIMER: This game was on my " want" list for years, so I may be somewhat critical/tough on it.

[roflmao]

This thread is win.

[Gillian Seed]

Though I would probably say my favorites for exclusives would be 1st the SNES, 2nd Mega Drive and very VERY close 3rd the PCE.

Blasphemer

But it ranked very high conidering you have absolute no nostalgic feelings for it. So I would assume, that PCE would be your absolute #1 if you had it back in time.

I'm actually someone who has no nostalgia toward any of the 3. I *get ready for this* skipped out on the 16-bit gen. I owned only a NES until the 32/64-bit gen, and only played mostly Genesis and some SNES at friend's places. I finally got a SNES when I was 15 by trading a friend for my PSOne, a Genesis was given to me on my 17th birthday by my now sister-in-law, and I've only owned a PC Engine Duo for about a year and a half.

For me personally, I actually like the PC Engine the most. I also have to admit a lot of the reason for it being my favourite is how much more interesting the console is itself. All the hardware variations, the HuCard format, the great CD sound and cutscenes. How can you not be a fan of the console?

[Tatsujin]

Some peeps are not a fan of PCE for pure jaleousy reasons.
Just talked to one recently.

[MottZilla]

Some people aren't fans of PCE cause they just don't know it exists. I had never heard of the TG16 or PCE until around 2000 or so when emulation was getting popular. Or perhaps they just don't know about some of the amazing games that were made for it. I imagine perhaps one of the most well known games would be Castlevania Dracula X. One of my favorites is Lords of Thunder. However I have no idea how or when I found out about it. It may have been from stumbling across a Turbo DUO promo video that featured it.

[Gillian Seed]

I was really young at the time (I'm only as old as Sonic the Hedgehog ), but I know I didn't know much about the TG-16/PCE until about the same time as well. The only thing I really remember about the TG-16 from the 90s' are seeing Bonk ads in magazines and wanting to play it. I don't know if the media just didn't pay it enough attention or if I just skimmed through everything that wasn't a mascot (pretty sure this isn't true though, since I played many games back then).

[EvilEvoIX]

This thread is hilarious.

[EvilEvoIX]

So..., care to tell us in English which games the screenshots come from?

I recognize 7 of those, and a couple more seem somewhat familiar, but I would appreciate knowing which games go with which screenshots.

Unlike you, I have an internet connection. Therefore, I own all the games, therefore I have played all the games, therefore I know all about all the games, including all of the ones like Super Zelda 3, Super Mario Bro IV, Super Ninja Boy, Super Secret of the Stars, Super Darius Twins, Super Earthbound, Super Pit Fighters, Super Unicycles, Super Street Kombat, Super Drankon and Super Dragon Slayers I, -which show the limitations of the SNES hardware. If the hardware wasn't so limited, then these games WOULD NOT exist. This is indisputable proof than even fanboys can't deny.

I personally feel that the SNES is like a Super charged 2600 and sits on the boarder between Odyssey and real 16-bit consoles like  Intellivision. The thing required a freaking SATELLITE upgrade just to keep up with real video game systems, let alone all of the gun upgrades, mouse upgrades, etc. It has more hardware revisions than any console ever released and is impossible for real people to figure out.

This guy is speaking my LANGUAGE!!!!  The SNES actually did have some sort of Satellite upgrade in Japan.  Most of us knew about the Satellaview, but it just produced more fake sprites.

[Tatsujin]

This thread is hilarious.

This dude is hilarious.