cyclone3d wrote on 2021-04-17, 18:52:

I still have my TG16 with CD expansion and around 100 games. Kinda one of my favorite consoles.

This is an example of a console that didn't get a whole lot of games, but most of them were quality - very different from what we saw for PC-FX.

The main problem with the TG16 / TurboDuo was that NEC didn't really market it in the USA.

I didn't even know about it until I saw a Turbo Duo on clearance at I think Toys R Us around the time I bought a PlayStation. Should have bought it as it was only $50.

I still wouldn't say the PC-FXGA was a gimmick. Yeah, the PC-FX was a kinda flop of a console, but it wasn't a gimmick.

I would classify a gimmick as more of something like those RAM doublers, drive bay GPU power supplies, USB sticks sold as a way to add more RAM, etc.

Basically snake-oil type stuff.

The USA didn't "get" the Turbo Grafx (either the marketing or the release timescale - redesign the entire aesthetics of the system and rename it? Really???).... completely different to the rest of the world who went nuts over the PC-Engine. Europe was importing the PC-Engine in droves when it was released.

My personal opinion is that it was a brilliant little system that overlapped the 8 and 16bit generations and managed to stay relevant for pretty much it's entire lifespan. Although less said about the various redesigns, the better (and we will never ever mention the Super Grafx.... oh, crap).

How NEC/Hudson went from the awesome little PC-Engine to the PCFX, I will never know.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-04-17, 21:25:

I still wouldn't say the PC-FXGA was a gimmick. Yeah, the PC-FX was a kinda flop of a console, but it wasn't a gimmick.

It has a 3D accelerator that is used by something like a total of 4 games. PC-FX was canceled early because NEC was backing Dreamcast. If you go through archive.org and look at the PC-FX GA webring, you'll find the folks who made homebrew for it really annoyed over NEC's PC-FX GA phase out, and the way they did it. I'm not going to quibble over this with you. The PC-FX GA was a short-lived gimmick, just like the 3DO Blaster.

Yet another build I've always wanted to do - shove as much weird stuff into a system as I possibly could. Congratulations, furan!

For all the gimmicks though, it doesn't have a clock speed gauge.

This is such a fun build I love it. This is something that is love to build myself.

That is a really special machine.... Looks fun.