Playing PCE-CD games (and to a lesser extent playing Sega CD games) feels like a glimpse into an alternate universe where CD-based consoles became a thing in 1990. Some of the best CD games (I'm looking at you Ys) are incredible in a way that nothing else at the time was. Ys I+II earned the same score as SMB3 from Famitsu, and playing it, back when that actually meant soenthing.
Can you collect all of your non famicom daily videos that aren't in a playlist yet into a playlist? It gets very hard to find some of your more interesting ones when I have to scroll through a page of videos, then youtube hangs instead of loading more, then the load, only famidaily, scroll again, wait again, rinse and repeat....
I recently started emulating the PC Engine and playing its incredible catalogue of games for the first time and I feel like I've discovered a whole new world I never knew existed. I can't imagine how it must've been for the people who grew up playing it. Super excited to see you cover it
A few years ago I did some casual emulator-exploration of the PC Engine library and was truly astonished by how many really cool, really unknown games it had. For someone who grew up in the US encountering Nintendo everywhere but having almost no exposure to the TurboGrafx-16, it felt like stumbling into an amazing alternate timeline of game history. This is a worthy topic and I’m glad you’re doing it!
Your "The End" video for the Year of the FDS tricked me. You made it sound like you'd considered doing the PC Engine and then changed your mind. I'm glad you're tackling this project and look forward to your reviews!
Spida1a's Turboviews videos were and still are my favorite retro game content and it's nice to see someone else talking about the system from a mich more broad perspective
I'm really excited about this! When you were going over the Famicom and kept mentioning the PC Engine I had never really hard about it and wanted to learn more. This is going to be awesome
After years of you posting on SA I caught up a year or two ago while bedridden with covid and have been a dedicated viewer ever since. as an American Strong Bad plays a large role in my knowledge of the PC engine/ TurboGrafx and I look forward to actually understanding more about this era of videogames that have been so formational to me
Yup, this made the most sense in hindsight; thought initially you'd either pick this or something you haven't talked about in the last video. PC-Engine here in (most of) Europe existed mainly among import collectors; other than that, it was a very, very minor system (especially compared with the Mega Drive). I like quite a few of the games though, and the CD stuff still looks/sounds really good (there 'will' be many visual novels and quite a few RPGs though!) Looking forward to the next few years of PCE.
In America, I never even heard of the TurboGrafx-16 while it was on the market; all the TV advertising was Nintendo vs. Sega... then vs. Sony. Sounds like if anyone here remembers it, it was mainly just for Bonk?
@@BagOfMagicFood Yeah, here they just dumped some units in France/UK and it was a 'very' limited release (supposedly fewer than 100000 units sold, though that's not fully confirmed AFAIK). They made one batch for a full European release and backed out when they saw the low North American sales. They were mostly "grey imports" (unofficial imports) later on. So, terrible performance compared to Mega Drive which was quite popular, and even SNES (which was less popular).
@@mariusamber3237Sodipeng (i.e. the Guillemot family) distributed the PC Engine in France, Benelux and Italy but I believe they were not directly involved in UK imports, so the local releases in the UK would not have been directly related to what came out in France.
Thanks for this new project! We'll even get the return of the Dragon Ball joke! Looking forward to the episodes on Final Match Tennis, Linda Cube and Tengai Makyō II most of all.
For a swede like me PC Engine was something I was completely unaware of growing up. It was only in the early 2000s I heard of it and it seemed like this mystical piece of alternate reality. Now I have a collection of mostly Hu-cards. The console is more known in the west thanks to the internet, but I still consider it one of my most exotic machines. It’s always fun to hear somebody talking about it, so I’m glad you picked this subject!
As a die-hard SEGA Saturn fan, I have a great deal of respect for the PC Engine. That may not immediately make sense, but if you know a fair amount about each system's reputation, regional legacy, and fanbase, I think it should be clear enough.
Both platforms are sadly horribly underappreciated in the West... well, PCE just sold a pitiful amount of units and is mostly just unknown, unless you're into history of gaming, whereas the Saturn was completely overshadowed by PS1 in Europe and PS1/N64 in the US. Too bad, they both deserved better.
I am so excited that you are doing both the cards, the CDs, and everything in between. There are SO many forgotten games that need attention, and a humongous amount of Japanese CD RPGs that NO one is discussing. This is my favorite retro system, and the choice I was hoping for. Thank you for all your hard work.
The PC Engine seems to have been really formative in Japan while being almost unknown to the English speaking world, so it really makes sense as a follow-up. Looking forward to finding out more about it.
I’m looking forward for more! I was seeking a content like this for the PCE because I want to see which game I’ll add to my collection. PCE game recommendation often revolves about the same games. Glad to see a new documentation project.
My favorite retro system! I've been curious for many years about a multitude of games on it that are inaccessible to me due to the language barrier, and its fan-TL scene has been slower than other consoles to catch on. One other hardware difference between PCE and TG-16 is the controller port. TG-16 uses a different kind. This was fixed for the US Duo, though. Anyway, thank you in advance for your efforts.
As someone that isn't super familiar with the PC Engine and its games, I'm really interested in seeing more about the system's history and its vast library.
This was the best holiday gift you could have given me. Bless you and thanks so much! This is the perfect next undiscovered country for you to explore with us.
Yes! I had previously requested and hoped that you might consider the PC Engine next! Can't wait! I'm most interested in playing and collecting for the Famicom, PC Engine, and Japanese Saturn (I don't know how you would ever tackle that one lol). Looking forward to the coming years of content. What an incredible undertaking. Your Famicom series is like the Bible of Famicom I continually come back to, as there is nothing else like it I've found out there. I'll be watching every episode with anticipation. Thank you for doing this!
Fun fact: The console only had 121, or 18% of its games released internationally. So it had better international support than the Saturn with 17%, but worse than the SNES/SFC with 20%.
@@RndStrangerSuperGrafX is definitely going to be a strange one. Adding the logos (HuCard, CD-ROM, Super CD-ROM, Arcade Card etc.) in the preview image of each video to identify the different formats might be helpful, maybe.
@@nate567987 The LD-ROM games on the LaserActive since it's the system is thousands of dollars on its own and games are nearly as bad. No one has come up with a good solution for emulating the platform, either. I'll do something for them, but it'll be a challenge.
Recent founder of your channel. Was obessed with 'Chrongaming' channels around 5 years and was pleasantly surprised to see someone insane enough to completely cover both the Famicom and FDS. Very happy I get to experience the start of a new series as it comes out. Looking forward to the next two years with your channel.
I'm glad you decided on PC engine. It's probably one of the systems I've heard less about in detail and out of all the archival channels out there, I haven't seen one for PC Engine yet so this sounds fun.
This is the next project I most hoped for! PC engine library is so interesting. I've always wanted to dive into it's game library but very few games get modern releases. Someday I'll get a Mister or something to play these games! I am super excited for all the videos ahead! :)
Here in Europe it was essentially a unicorn; mostly just decently popular in the import scene, but overall nowhere near the level of Mega Drive or even SNES (which was less popular here than MD). IIRC 4/5th of its library are Japan exclusives, so I bet we'll see a lot of RPGs and visual novels once the CD format is firmly established. Guess here most people just emulated it, seeing how incredibly rare it was on the market.
Looking forward to this whole project! I'm not as familiar with PC Engine as the Nintendo systems, so it'll be interesting to see what I've been missing.
PC Engine: [Has as much possible colors than the Sega Genesis (512)] Also PC Engine: [Can use more colors on-screen at a time compared to the Genesis (482 colors on screen max for the PCE VS 64 colors on screen max for the Genesis)... also, all of the adons, shumps, and Ys ports, that helped in Japan]
@@noveltyman6723 Speed gets complicated as Hell. Afterburner and Ys III are good examples of what it could do insanely fast vs. what it should leave to Genesis.
I was so excited to see this in my sub box. I really like this console and have wanted to spread more awareness but you can only do so much when someone like myself can't read Japanese. This might make me wanna do what I did when Famidaily was happening and go replay or try out games before episodes come out so it's nice to know 2025 starts with a nice surprise.
Neat! I was wondering if SotN Richter mode in the last video was a subtle hint that it would be this. This will be really helpful as a resource as many of the best PC Engine games remained in Japan, although some great Shmups and Ys I+II snuck in.
My guess and hope was PC Engine. Wish granted! Excited to see this series, even more that it's not just the PCE itself but all the other stuff associated with it as well, like CD and SuperGrafx.
So happy to see this. My PC Engine Duo R stands as my most expensive and most cherished console to date but there's slim info out there about how a lot of games play outside of little 30 second or less clips and even less on accessories.
I wish you all the luck in the world for this new endeavor. The PC Engine is quite overlooked outside Japan for two things, the shadow of the TG-16's failure and its shooters, which most SHMUPS fans make it look like it's the only thing worth for it and the only thing you should play. Man, even most so-called "retro gamers" but Dracula X way below things like that SFC tech demo, for f sake. This will be quite a ride that will make many go look for more games other than the shooters and SF II'.
This is great!! NEC man. What a company! Not to mention Hudson.. Great library full of left in Japan gems to be explored! Hopefully some will spark enough interest to initiate a translation project. This made my New Year a little but better, so thank you!! Cheers 🍻
Yay! The system with one of my favorite Bomberman games on it, and my favorite Bonk game! Also, a whole bunch of other stuff, but, it’s Hudson. Gotta shout out Bomberman and Bonk.
Always wanted one of these things ever since I saw a demo kiosk of a TG-16 running Air Zonk at my local Toys R Us. Unfortunately, TRU was the only place I ever saw selling them (with no discounts,) and no rental store carried the games which was an immediate deal-breaker for jobless kid me. By the time I was old enough to get a job, the PlayStation was wrecking faces. Oh well.
I was sooo hoping it would be this; this is one of those niches of gaming that I've wanted to know more about for so long, so I'm ecstatic to be on this ride from the start this time, how wonderful.
This reminds me of what Chris Bucci (sp?) did with Turbo Views. He covered the complete TurboGrafx library and a few PC Engine exclusives. It's cool to see that you will be covering the PCE's library. I admire your dedication to this, but I hope you don't burn yourself out doing these videos.
Great stuff. I never owned or really played the system until I got one in 2018 and I've finished 75 assorted PCE and TG-16 titles since then. I can't say it's my favorite 16-bit machine just due to my SNES nostalgia, but I seem to resonate with its library a bit more than the Genesis/Mega Drive's.
Awesome, PC engine is my favorite retro console and a lot of the Japanese games have very little info in English, thanks so much for continuing the content you’re the best!
There's been information on the Turbo but not as much comprehensive information on the PC Engine especially for English speakers so this series is going to be good! You're absolutely right in that it's a system designed for hardcore gamers and the library of games, regardless of the developer, just have a distinct look, feel, sound and charm to them unrivaled by any other console. Let's go! 😎
Ok in the back of my mind I was thinking TG16/PCE when you mentioned the new project -- can't *wait* to see how good sugoroku games played on this back then.
suppose PCE makes the most sense! especially the way things played out for hudson during the famicom days... not a system I ever owned personally but definitely played a decent amount of via emulation! looking forward to seeing the coverage of the system.
Thank you for your efforts! I was really hoping for either the PCE or the Saturn. Will relish the coverage of J titles that you may be be the only western coverage thereof ever. Congratulations, enjoy all those shmups!
YES!! PC engine is my favorite console of all time; I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on the hucard library. Also this video was a great intro to the circumstances that lead to the PC engine and how it came to be in a way that synergizes with the overarching narrative of famidaily when it comes to Nintendo’s tenuous relationship with the third party publishers
Awesome to see you cover the PC Engine, I've been interested in this system since they added it to the Wii Virtual Console when I was younger. I'm really curious about the Japan only rpgs which we barley got, besides stuff like YS. Also have fun with all the baseball games that I'm sure this system got. PS. Are you gonna cover the PC-FX whenever this series wraps up, as I feel it completes the whole PC Engine story.
It's years off but it's a small enough library that I'm not going to take it off the table. It might make a good wind down, though the library is pretty awful.
I've long wondered what would have happened in the NA market, if Hudson/NEC hadn't dragged their feet bringing the PCE to the west. Would they have been able to convince players in 1988 to abandon Nintendo? Not sure, but I have a suspicion it would have done better than it did in our timeline. Releasing in direct competition to the Genesis was not a good move.
I get into this a bit in the Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru episode, but in short, my feeling is that it would have done better but probably still been a distant third. The Sega marketing machine was just too powerful so when they hit they were going to capture a huge chunk of the market.
The primary reason to buy a PCE was for shmups and RPGs; only turbo-nerds cared about the latter back then and trying to convince parents to drop 50 bucks on identical-looking variations of the former that were coming out every other month would have been an uphill struggle
Made the most sense to me, considering you were cringing at 4000 PS1 releases, and also considering the commodore 64, which has more than 20000 and is still getting new games all the time at retail, I didn't think you would even try to attempt that machine.
4:39 Wrong to say about HuCard and don't mention Sega's SG-1000 and Master System games on MyCards! And also this card technology even was patented by Mitsubishi!
Yay i kind of called it, thank you thank you for this. The PCE is fantastic, I'd put it between the SFC and the Megadrive in Japan as the audio visual package and game quality was remarkable and holds up very well, better than a lot of Sega stuff with the corners they cut. Shame the US market got so many dregs and odd exclusions Japan got that would have easily localized as the variety and quality was just there. I've had a Duo, DuoJ, Core and CG2 over the years and enjoyed them so much, but the disgusting toxicity of the scalper market put me out of it a few years back, traded laterally kind of to a PCE Mini and enjoy that, then hakchi'd a spare SNES classic edition I found with the card set for the system that way. Shady, sure, care? Nope. :) NEC reissues (Konami) it proper to combat the scummy sellers I'd return.
9:55 theres actually a pretty easy mod out there called the TurboNanza that gives you rgb, composite and even s-video! Might be enough time between now and the first super cd game you record to where you can mod it!
@RndStranger I looked through the git just now and looks like it's been updated somewhat recently to be compatible with duo/r/rx systems! For sure NOT as easy as the regular PC engine for installation but still doable
@@pcb123lol Problem is, for most people, you need soldering skills and proper materials and a fat wallet if you screw things up, even more if you need to do extra fiddling to make it work (I have soldering skills, and it made me shiver). @RndStranger You managed to get really good quality footage from your capture devices when doing the FC videos. I'm sure it will be fine when you get to the CD games on the Duo.
A quick google search says that PC Engine has 678 games which is 1.858 games per day. please don't overwork yourself. I rather enjoy your steady, detailed output of videos.
I've never really went into PC Engine/Turbografx-16, or looked what it has to offer. My entire opinion about this console has always been "Looks cool, but sucks that it never came out over here.".
i find funny how the hardware was "Tailor made" for videogames... yet it also for some reason lacked some things the Famicom was designed to do without much effort.
And Nintendo wisely decided to never backstab a company that ends up making their own console ever again.
So if nintendo decided to team up with hidson soft for an addon, then the turbo express might have never existed!!??
What you on about???? they screwed over sony!
@ScotsmanGameryes they screwed over sony as well, but still…
@@johneygd there is no but still they're wrong period!
@@johneygd *coughs* tower of power you're just speculating here
Playing PCE-CD games (and to a lesser extent playing Sega CD games) feels like a glimpse into an alternate universe where CD-based consoles became a thing in 1990. Some of the best CD games (I'm looking at you Ys) are incredible in a way that nothing else at the time was. Ys I+II earned the same score as SMB3 from Famitsu, and playing it, back when that actually meant soenthing.
Holy shit!
I didn't dare to hope you'd tackle a story this big. Chronturbo seems rather dead. Thank you for this.
True, I miss what the "Chrontendo" guy did.
Can you collect all of your non famicom daily videos that aren't in a playlist yet into a playlist? It gets very hard to find some of your more interesting ones when I have to scroll through a page of videos, then youtube hangs instead of loading more, then the load, only famidaily, scroll again, wait again, rinse and repeat....
I recently started emulating the PC Engine and playing its incredible catalogue of games for the first time and I feel like I've discovered a whole new world I never knew existed. I can't imagine how it must've been for the people who grew up playing it. Super excited to see you cover it
A few years ago I did some casual emulator-exploration of the PC Engine library and was truly astonished by how many really cool, really unknown games it had. For someone who grew up in the US encountering Nintendo everywhere but having almost no exposure to the TurboGrafx-16, it felt like stumbling into an amazing alternate timeline of game history.
This is a worthy topic and I’m glad you’re doing it!
Your "The End" video for the Year of the FDS tricked me. You made it sound like you'd considered doing the PC Engine and then changed your mind. I'm glad you're tackling this project and look forward to your reviews!
Spida1a's Turboviews videos were and still are my favorite retro game content and it's nice to see someone else talking about the system from a mich more broad perspective
I'm really excited about this! When you were going over the Famicom and kept mentioning the PC Engine I had never really hard about it and wanted to learn more. This is going to be awesome
After years of you posting on SA I caught up a year or two ago while bedridden with covid and have been a dedicated viewer ever since. as an American Strong Bad plays a large role in my knowledge of the PC engine/ TurboGrafx and I look forward to actually understanding more about this era of videogames that have been so formational to me
Yup, this made the most sense in hindsight; thought initially you'd either pick this or something you haven't talked about in the last video. PC-Engine here in (most of) Europe existed mainly among import collectors; other than that, it was a very, very minor system (especially compared with the Mega Drive). I like quite a few of the games though, and the CD stuff still looks/sounds really good (there 'will' be many visual novels and quite a few RPGs though!) Looking forward to the next few years of PCE.
In America, I never even heard of the TurboGrafx-16 while it was on the market; all the TV advertising was Nintendo vs. Sega... then vs. Sony. Sounds like if anyone here remembers it, it was mainly just for Bonk?
And Bomberman!
@@viejodamis09 I did get a laugh out of Bomberman judging the swimsuit contest in Galaxy Fräulein Yuna.
@@BagOfMagicFood Yeah, here they just dumped some units in France/UK and it was a 'very' limited release (supposedly fewer than 100000 units sold, though that's not fully confirmed AFAIK). They made one batch for a full European release and backed out when they saw the low North American sales. They were mostly "grey imports" (unofficial imports) later on. So, terrible performance compared to Mega Drive which was quite popular, and even SNES (which was less popular).
@@mariusamber3237Sodipeng (i.e. the Guillemot family) distributed the PC Engine in France, Benelux and Italy but I believe they were not directly involved in UK imports, so the local releases in the UK would not have been directly related to what came out in France.
Thanks for this new project! We'll even get the return of the Dragon Ball joke! Looking forward to the episodes on Final Match Tennis, Linda Cube and Tengai Makyō II most of all.
make a joke about the story of Sailor Moon
Man I was certain it was gonna be the Mega Drive. Glad to see the PC Engine get some much needed love though! I love this system so much.
For a swede like me PC Engine was something I was completely unaware of growing up. It was only in the early 2000s I heard of it and it seemed like this mystical piece of alternate reality.
Now I have a collection of mostly Hu-cards. The console is more known in the west thanks to the internet, but I still consider it one of my most exotic machines. It’s always fun to hear somebody talking about it, so I’m glad you picked this subject!
As a die-hard SEGA Saturn fan, I have a great deal of respect for the PC Engine. That may not immediately make sense, but if you know a fair amount about each system's reputation, regional legacy, and fanbase, I think it should be clear enough.
Both platforms are sadly horribly underappreciated in the West... well, PCE just sold a pitiful amount of units and is mostly just unknown, unless you're into history of gaming, whereas the Saturn was completely overshadowed by PS1 in Europe and PS1/N64 in the US. Too bad, they both deserved better.
Additionally, both of them were big hits in Japan, at least among more "hardcore" gamers of the time.
I am so excited that you are doing both the cards, the CDs, and everything in between. There are SO many forgotten games that need attention, and a humongous amount of Japanese CD RPGs that NO one is discussing.
This is my favorite retro system, and the choice I was hoping for. Thank you for all your hard work.
The PC Engine seems to have been really formative in Japan while being almost unknown to the English speaking world, so it really makes sense as a follow-up. Looking forward to finding out more about it.
Absolutely love the series title! Looking forward to this!
I’m looking forward for more! I was seeking a content like this for the PCE because I want to see which game I’ll add to my collection.
PCE game recommendation often revolves about the same games. Glad to see a new documentation project.
My favorite retro system! I've been curious for many years about a multitude of games on it that are inaccessible to me due to the language barrier, and its fan-TL scene has been slower than other consoles to catch on. One other hardware difference between PCE and TG-16 is the controller port. TG-16 uses a different kind. This was fixed for the US Duo, though. Anyway, thank you in advance for your efforts.
As someone that isn't super familiar with the PC Engine and its games, I'm really interested in seeing more about the system's history and its vast library.
PCE!
This is the channel that keeps on giving
This was the best holiday gift you could have given me. Bless you and thanks so much! This is the perfect next undiscovered country for you to explore with us.
Yes! I had previously requested and hoped that you might consider the PC Engine next! Can't wait! I'm most interested in playing and collecting for the Famicom, PC Engine, and Japanese Saturn (I don't know how you would ever tackle that one lol). Looking forward to the coming years of content. What an incredible undertaking. Your Famicom series is like the Bible of Famicom I continually come back to, as there is nothing else like it I've found out there. I'll be watching every episode with anticipation. Thank you for doing this!
Nice! Can't believe you're covering all of the formats and the TG16 releases as well. Good luck!
Fun fact: The console only had 121, or 18% of its games released internationally. So it had better international support than the Saturn with 17%, but worse than the SNES/SFC with 20%.
I'm still working on a solution for one of the formats, but I'm going to try.
@@RndStrangerSuperGrafX is definitely going to be a strange one. Adding the logos (HuCard, CD-ROM, Super CD-ROM, Arcade Card etc.) in the preview image of each video to identify the different formats might be helpful, maybe.
@@RndStranger game express?
@@nate567987 The LD-ROM games on the LaserActive since it's the system is thousands of dollars on its own and games are nearly as bad. No one has come up with a good solution for emulating the platform, either. I'll do something for them, but it'll be a challenge.
Recent founder of your channel. Was obessed with 'Chrongaming' channels around 5 years and was pleasantly surprised to see someone insane enough to completely cover both the Famicom and FDS.
Very happy I get to experience the start of a new series as it comes out. Looking forward to the next two years with your channel.
This is a gift to hear that you’re starting on this endeavor! Excited to watch along.
The PC-Engine! One of my favorite underrated consoles aka the TurboGrafx 16
Good luck on this new endeavor! I'm so happy you are including CD games here because the CD library has some of my favorite oddities of the era 😄
27 Mahjong games HYPE
strip mahjong too
@@nate567987 lewdjong bestjong
I'm glad you decided on PC engine. It's probably one of the systems I've heard less about in detail and out of all the archival channels out there, I haven't seen one for PC Engine yet so this sounds fun.
This is the next project I most hoped for! PC engine library is so interesting. I've always wanted to dive into it's game library but very few games get modern releases. Someday I'll get a Mister or something to play these games! I am super excited for all the videos ahead! :)
I don't know much about the PC Engine outside of its awkward US debut as the TG16. This will be an interesting series and I'm sure I'll learn a lot!
Here in Europe it was essentially a unicorn; mostly just decently popular in the import scene, but overall nowhere near the level of Mega Drive or even SNES (which was less popular here than MD). IIRC 4/5th of its library are Japan exclusives, so I bet we'll see a lot of RPGs and visual novels once the CD format is firmly established. Guess here most people just emulated it, seeing how incredibly rare it was on the market.
Archive.org actually has a set of UK PC Engine fanzines from the time which are fascinating reading.
Looking forward to this whole project! I'm not as familiar with PC Engine as the Nintendo systems, so it'll be interesting to see what I've been missing.
Yay, PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 coverage. Definitely looking forward to this
PC Engine: [Has as much possible colors than the Sega Genesis (512)]
Also PC Engine: [Can use more colors on-screen at a time compared to the Genesis (482 colors on screen max for the PCE VS 64 colors on screen max for the Genesis)... also, all of the adons, shumps, and Ys ports, that helped in Japan]
I've heard the PC Engine also has a much faster cpu than Mega Drive.
@@noveltyman6723 Speed gets complicated as Hell. Afterburner and Ys III are good examples of what it could do insanely fast vs. what it should leave to Genesis.
I was so excited to see this in my sub box. I really like this console and have wanted to spread more awareness but you can only do so much when someone like myself can't read Japanese. This might make me wanna do what I did when Famidaily was happening and go replay or try out games before episodes come out so it's nice to know 2025 starts with a nice surprise.
Neat! I was wondering if SotN Richter mode in the last video was a subtle hint that it would be this. This will be really helpful as a resource as many of the best PC Engine games remained in Japan, although some great Shmups and Ys I+II snuck in.
Yay, I was hoping you picked the PC-Engine!
My guess and hope was PC Engine. Wish granted! Excited to see this series, even more that it's not just the PCE itself but all the other stuff associated with it as well, like CD and SuperGrafx.
The boulder falls again
So happy to see this. My PC Engine Duo R stands as my most expensive and most cherished console to date but there's slim info out there about how a lot of games play outside of little 30 second or less clips and even less on accessories.
Nice. I'm looking forward to another series on a system I'm not so familiar with.
Yeeeeeeesssss. I'm so stoked. I love the PC Engine in all its forms. Shmup heaven.
I wish you all the luck in the world for this new endeavor.
The PC Engine is quite overlooked outside Japan for two things, the shadow of the TG-16's failure and its shooters, which most SHMUPS fans make it look like it's the only thing worth for it and the only thing you should play. Man, even most so-called "retro gamers" but Dracula X way below things like that SFC tech demo, for f sake.
This will be quite a ride that will make many go look for more games other than the shooters and SF II'.
Finally a new series!
The wait times are just getting interminable at this point.
This is great!! NEC man. What a company! Not to mention Hudson.. Great library full of left in Japan gems to be explored! Hopefully some will spark enough interest to initiate a translation project. This made my New Year a little but better, so thank you!! Cheers 🍻
Yay! The system with one of my favorite Bomberman games on it, and my favorite Bonk game! Also, a whole bunch of other stuff, but, it’s Hudson. Gotta shout out Bomberman and Bonk.
Always wanted one of these things ever since I saw a demo kiosk of a TG-16 running Air Zonk at my local Toys R Us. Unfortunately, TRU was the only place I ever saw selling them (with no discounts,) and no rental store carried the games which was an immediate deal-breaker for jobless kid me. By the time I was old enough to get a job, the PlayStation was wrecking faces. Oh well.
Thank you for doing this. Looking forward to so many games. It's going to be a every-other-daily delight, cheers!
looking forward to 2030 when i'm done watching all your other series and get to this one
I was sooo hoping it would be this; this is one of those niches of gaming that I've wanted to know more about for so long, so I'm ecstatic to be on this ride from the start this time, how wonderful.
This reminds me of what Chris Bucci (sp?) did with Turbo Views. He covered the complete TurboGrafx library and a few PC Engine exclusives. It's cool to see that you will be covering the PCE's library. I admire your dedication to this, but I hope you don't burn yourself out doing these videos.
Great stuff. I never owned or really played the system until I got one in 2018 and I've finished 75 assorted PCE and TG-16 titles since then. I can't say it's my favorite 16-bit machine just due to my SNES nostalgia, but I seem to resonate with its library a bit more than the Genesis/Mega Drive's.
I have never played the PC Engine.
This is going to be great!
Awesome, PC engine is my favorite retro console and a lot of the Japanese games have very little info in English, thanks so much for continuing the content you’re the best!
There's been information on the Turbo but not as much comprehensive information on the PC Engine especially for English speakers so this series is going to be good! You're absolutely right in that it's a system designed for hardcore gamers and the library of games, regardless of the developer, just have a distinct look, feel, sound and charm to them unrivaled by any other console. Let's go! 😎
Yesss I was hoping it was gonna be the PC Engine! So excited for this!
Ok in the back of my mind I was thinking TG16/PCE when you mentioned the new project -- can't *wait* to see how good sugoroku games played on this back then.
Ayoooo im so glad we doing the pc engine, it's a system that just absolutely fascinates me
suppose PCE makes the most sense! especially the way things played out for hudson during the famicom days... not a system I ever owned personally but definitely played a decent amount of via emulation! looking forward to seeing the coverage of the system.
Very excited for this new series thank you for your efforts 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Looking forward to this series. The PCE/TG16 is my favorite console.
Thank you for your efforts! I was really hoping for either the PCE or the Saturn. Will relish the coverage of J titles that you may be be the only western coverage thereof ever. Congratulations, enjoy all those shmups!
Godspeed to you in this project *salutes*
I'm glad this was the console chosen.
YES!! PC engine is my favorite console of all time; I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on the hucard library. Also this video was a great intro to the circumstances that lead to the PC engine and how it came to be in a way that synergizes with the overarching narrative of famidaily when it comes to Nintendo’s tenuous relationship with the third party publishers
Awesome to see you cover the PC Engine, I've been interested in this system since they added it to the Wii Virtual Console when I was younger. I'm really curious about the Japan only rpgs which we barley got, besides stuff like YS. Also have fun with all the baseball games that I'm sure this system got.
PS. Are you gonna cover the PC-FX whenever this series wraps up, as I feel it completes the whole PC Engine story.
It's years off but it's a small enough library that I'm not going to take it off the table. It might make a good wind down, though the library is pretty awful.
Really looking forward to this series. Not super familiar with the console, so it should be fun learning about it all!
I've long wondered what would have happened in the NA market, if Hudson/NEC hadn't dragged their feet bringing the PCE to the west. Would they have been able to convince players in 1988 to abandon Nintendo? Not sure, but I have a suspicion it would have done better than it did in our timeline. Releasing in direct competition to the Genesis was not a good move.
I get into this a bit in the Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru episode, but in short, my feeling is that it would have done better but probably still been a distant third. The Sega marketing machine was just too powerful so when they hit they were going to capture a huge chunk of the market.
The primary reason to buy a PCE was for shmups and RPGs; only turbo-nerds cared about the latter back then and trying to convince parents to drop 50 bucks on identical-looking variations of the former that were coming out every other month would have been an uphill struggle
Can't believe you're still going strong after all this
so almost 4 years here cool
Made the most sense to me, considering you were cringing at 4000 PS1 releases, and also considering the commodore 64, which has more than 20000 and is still getting new games all the time at retail, I didn't think you would even try to attempt that machine.
Really excited about this new project. The PCE/TurboGrafx are a bit of a blindspot of mine. So was the FDS now I think about it.
This is so exciting, I've always wanted to know more about the Japanese pc-engine library
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Wrong to say about HuCard and don't mention Sega's SG-1000 and Master System games on MyCards!
And also this card technology even was patented by Mitsubishi!
You are a madman! But I’m here for it. Do your thing! (I thought it’d be TurboGrafx-16 just to limit the scope, but I’m happy to be wrong!)
PC Engine Super CD Rom^2 was my third console. I also had GT. I'm looking forward to the new series.
Very excited for this.
Yay i kind of called it, thank you thank you for this. The PCE is fantastic, I'd put it between the SFC and the Megadrive in Japan as the audio visual package and game quality was remarkable and holds up very well, better than a lot of Sega stuff with the corners they cut. Shame the US market got so many dregs and odd exclusions Japan got that would have easily localized as the variety and quality was just there.
I've had a Duo, DuoJ, Core and CG2 over the years and enjoyed them so much, but the disgusting toxicity of the scalper market put me out of it a few years back, traded laterally kind of to a PCE Mini and enjoy that, then hakchi'd a spare SNES classic edition I found with the card set for the system that way. Shady, sure, care? Nope. :) NEC reissues (Konami) it proper to combat the scummy sellers I'd return.
The best system ever, hell yeah
This is exciting. This was such a great console.
Props, brother. Keep it up!
I had a feeling it would be this.
Hope you enjoy your new journey! It’s one of my favorite systems for sure. Are you going to include the supergrafx games as well?
And here... we... go!
Whoa, this is good stuff!
Wonderful stuff.
9:55 theres actually a pretty easy mod out there called the TurboNanza that gives you rgb, composite and even s-video! Might be enough time between now and the first super cd game you record to where you can mod it!
Not compatible with the Duo, I'm afraid. And I'm already using a plug in solution on the original PC Engine.
@RndStranger I looked through the git just now and looks like it's been updated somewhat recently to be compatible with duo/r/rx systems! For sure NOT as easy as the regular PC engine for installation but still doable
@@pcb123lol Problem is, for most people, you need soldering skills and proper materials and a fat wallet if you screw things up, even more if you need to do extra fiddling to make it work (I have soldering skills, and it made me shiver).
@RndStranger You managed to get really good quality footage from your capture devices when doing the FC videos. I'm sure it will be fine when you get to the CD games on the Duo.
And here I thought you were gonna do all N64 games
Can't wait for the Shin Megami Tensei episode
Great Stuff!
YEEEAAAH! We're getting PC Engine!
Yeah makes sense
best thing happened to pc engine recently... is you! :)
A quick google search says that PC Engine has 678 games which is 1.858 games per day. please don't overwork yourself. I rather enjoy your steady, detailed output of videos.
YOOOOOOO THIS IS HYPE
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I've never really went into PC Engine/Turbografx-16, or looked what it has to offer.
My entire opinion about this console has always been "Looks cool, but sucks that it never came out over here.".
i find funny how the hardware was "Tailor made" for videogames... yet it also for some reason lacked some things the Famicom was designed to do without much effort.
Could you elaborate on that? I can’t think of anything really important that it couldn’t do that the NES did.