From: din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: TTI (NEC) TurboDuo
Keywords: For anime CD games!
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:32:37 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.anime
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Nov10.215147.4523@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John) writes:
>(In another article, Carl Elston writes;)
>
>>A  bit of advice, don't waste your money on the turboduo.  The games
>>are few and far
>> few between and stores aren't that interested in carrying
>>them either.
>
>>Carl Elston

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!  Any halfway decent video game supplier will carry
Turbo games.  Even if you can't find them locally, you can always
order them for the same store price through TTI!

>many users WANT to play anime based games.
>
>As for the Genesis, there are NONE, a BIG FAT ZERO. For the Nega
>Drive, there a a few, but you have to take a file to your machine,
>or the game cartridge.

Almost true.  Trouble Shooter for the Gen has anime.  It's nowhere
near as good as the TG/PC stuff, though, but it's anime.

>And for your precious $300, what do you get from Sega? Just the
>drive and a game. YOu still have to buy the main unit.
>For $300, you get the TurboDuo, TWO CDs, FIVE games, dollar off
>coupons, AND the game unit in one box. If you already have the
>older TurboGrafx (now $69) you can add the TurboCD for the measly
>sum of $149.

Almost true, too.  TG-16 CD owners will need to purchase the Super
System Card 3.0 to play Super CD games, but the price of this card
($95) in conjunction with the rest of the stuff (total about $313)
is still a better bargain and a much better play value than the
Sega Gen with CD (about $400).  Remember, folks, we're adding the
$99 Gen deal with one controller and NO Sonic cart (that costs more)
to the standard CD system.  For $69, you get a TG-16 with a game.
For $300, as mfolivo correctly points out, you get a slew of games
(great games), the game unit, and discount coupons toward the
purchase of future games.  There is no videogame company out there
who can match this great deal!

>For us anime fans, there are THREE Ranma 1/2 games, Urusei Yatsura,
>Nadia, Future Boy Conan, Bubblegum Crisis, Yawara!, Macross,
>and Macros II, for starters.

Let's not forget Last Alert, Final Zone 2, Valis 2-4, and the Y's
series!

Many of these games I can vouch for as top-notch games.  If the
Turbo were placed hidden in a cabinet and a sales rep displayed a
Gen or SNES, these games would surely be mistaken for Gen and SNES
games.  In many cases, with the Turbo's color and sound capabilities,
which are better than Gen and match the SNES at the highest graphics
modes, people would begin to wonder if what they were seeing/playing
was actually a Gen/SNES!  But let's put it simply... the above games
are not going to appear on any other platform any time soon and gamers
are interested in what they can get now.  If I had no video game
system and I had $300 to spend, I would definitely get the TurboDuo.
If I had $500 to spend, I'd get a TurboDuo and some games.

>At least the SuperNintendo has one, UN Squadron (Area 88).
>
>The point is, if you want to play anime games, there is only one
>choice, TurboGrafx/TurboDuo. If you want to be another cow in the
>herd, well, there is the Genesis.

As I have stated in the previous paragraph, I totally agree.
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Clarence K. Din
Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Pennsylvania
din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
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  "I have my toys (D-50 with M-EX, SR-16, TG-16 with CD-ROM, SNES, HP48SX)
   and you don't!  Nyah!!!"
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