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    Default just bought my first TurboGrafx-16 game

    Power Golf. It was one of the cheaper ones ($12.66 complete.) I rarely see them in stores and didn't get any in when I worked at a game store for 9 months. I have a penchant for the oddball systems that no one talks about and I always felt like the "non-Nintendo" systems were the real gamers' games. A lot of history there that isn't as well documented as Nintendo.

    At this point I don't know how much higher prices will get on these games and I'm sure they'll never come down but I gotta start somewhere. Lords of Thunder $180 on eBay um yeah that's insane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gbpxl View Post
    Power Golf. It was one of the cheaper ones ($12.66 complete.) I rarely see them in stores and didn't get any in when I worked at a game store for 9 months. I have a penchant for the oddball systems that no one talks about and I always felt like the "non-Nintendo" systems were the real gamers' games. A lot of history there that isn't as well documented as Nintendo.

    At this point I don't know how much higher prices will get on these games and I'm sure they'll never come down but I gotta start somewhere. Lords of Thunder $180 on eBay um yeah that's insane.
    Its not that insane considering its a rare and one of the best shooters and it was released 25 years ago.

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    $180? Yeah, that's pretty insane. Especially since I bought mine at a flea market for $2 a dozen years ago along with SimEarth.

    I personally love non-Nintendo and oddball consoles. There's always one good game in their library, pretty much. The key is finding a good selection of games for that system to find out which one's the "good" one. And usually those machines that were cast away by the general public are easy to find in the secondary market cheap. I think the TurboGrafx-16 was kind of considered the "rich kid's console" back in its day and is a little more coveted than its competitors. And now that the era's kids have grown up and banked some disposable income, they're spending a fortune on single games. I can't imagine spending nearly $200 on a game, even one that I've coveted for decades. But then I don't earn as much as those guys who can happily shell out that much for a title.

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    Turbo Grafx games have always been a little uncommon even at yard sales and fleas during the 90s and early aughts. I sold every single one of mine and got an everdrive- I've had particular concerns that the hucards aren't using maskroms at all and could be eeprom chips even like the original Hudson Bee Cards that were the progenitor format to the PC Engine.

    They also seem to spontaneously die more easily than with cartridges for other systems. Purely anecdotal there because I've never encountered a dead card out of the 30 or so that I had... but either way, the PC Engine has a greater variety and the prices to import are still more reasonable.

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    TG16,hucards are rare in the wild beside being pricey at auctions.While PCE hucards is far more plentiful and cheaper to boot.Unless,you want play certain games in english such as neutopia id suggest going with a turbo everdrive.For the current price of lords of thunder it used to be to cheap but not anymore.For games on CD either go with burns or stick to japanese release.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tron 2.0 View Post
    TG16,hucards are rare in the wild beside being pricey at auctions.While PCE hucards is far more plentiful and cheaper to boot.Unless,you want play certain games in english such as neutopia id suggest going with a turbo everdrive.For the current price of lords of thunder it used to be to cheap but not anymore.For games on CD either go with burns or stick to japanese release.
    Yeah, Ive got a Turbo/PC Engine collection, and I also have a Turbo Everdrive. The everdrive can be used on a US or Japanese system also. Its pretty sweet.

    Also I burn my authentic games like Lords of Thunder/Castlevania/Cotton and play the burnt discs so I can keep the originals in crispy condition.

    Also Lords of Thunder was released on the Wii Virtual console.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bratwurst View Post
    I've had particular concerns that the hucards aren't using maskroms at all and could be eeprom
    Is there a reason you think that other than pure speculation? NEC, I would think, would certainly know better than that.
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    Nothing affirmative, but if I had access to an x-ray machine I would love to experiment with erasure or just get an image of the glob tops. For a chip manufacturer like NEC it would have been trivial to produce either way.

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