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Congrats Rick! Good call on ordering the Turbo Everdrive, it’s well worth the investment!

Turbo Everdrive has been ordered.

Finally played!  If this was the only game I had for my TG-16 when I owned one I would have been very happy.  First time playing this game, ever.  Fun game.  Now I want a TG-16 again if just for this game.  12,516,100 points.

New personal best:
107,287,300
Thanks to @Atari Creep for coming out to the livestream on Instagram tonight and watching me play for a while. We've been doing that a lot lately and it's been fun!
Heads up about this score: You can do it too! You may have noticed playing this game you can hit things that award you "Special Points". When I was playing the game tonight, something interesting happened when my pinball hit the left side of the screen. I think it was on the 2nd board, the middle one. I hit something or did something on the left, and the game awarded me 100,000,000 specialty points. This was, for the most part, one of my better-than-average games, plus the bonus award. If that bonus award exists, others must exist too. Let's keep playing and see what we can come up with!

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I'm playing using the MESS emulator and a Genesis controller. 
 
 

Not so much with the Duo as with the standard TurboGrafx-16 system vs. PC Engine
Correct! EXCEPT the American version of the TurboDuo had the smaller "PS/2 style" controller port that was used in Japan on the PC Engine and Duo systems over there. American TurboDuo controllers are interchangeable with Japanese ones. What really threw us TurboGrafx fans off at the time here in the US was that although the TG16 and Duo controllers looked the same, all the TG16 stuff had the larger "PC AT style" control port, so nothing was interchangeable. When I bought a Duo I wanted to use my TurboStick arcade-style joystick controller, but since it was for TurboGrafx-16 it didn't fit the TurboDuo. Turbo Zone Direct made "Reverse TurboTaps" and "Reverse DuoTaps" which were 5-Player adapters that also served as TG16-to-Duo controller adapters, so you could use all of your TG16 stuff on the Duo. I have photos I will have to post.
TurboGrafx-16 is the only one of the consoles that uses the larger controller port, TurboDuo uses the smaller controller port from the Japanese systems.
My understanding is when they were planning the release of the PC Engine in the United States, it was determined that American audiences would perceive the tiny PC Engine as being toy-like and looking underpowered, as well as not receiving enough "bang for the buck". Focus groups told Atari the same thing about the Lynx which is how the first model ended up being so big! In beefing up the PC Engine into the TurboGrafx-16, they also realized that the small controller ports could potentially be too fragile for rough and tumble American kids who might bend or break a pin. Instead they used the larger connector which was more beefed up and less likely to be damaged. However when the TurboDuo showed up a few years later, the circumference of the larger connector was too big for the face of the Duo, so the US TurboDuo retained the smaller controller port from the Japanese counterparts.

This would be totally awesome.  But like so many sequels these days....what the heck takes them so long?

Think about it...Bladerunner, Star Wars (with original cast), Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, etc.  They waited 20+ years in most cases, and by then the momentum was gone, and the actors had aged considerably. 

You just have to respect something like the Back to the Future trilogy, which went ahead and filmed parts 2 and 3 back to back, and then closed the book.  No more sequels. 

One good reboot I can think of is Batman.  I think the Christian Bale "Dark Knight" series is much better than what came before. 

Star Trek is another.  I can't say it's better than before, but at least it brought new life and new fans to Star Trek. 
As far as sequels, Star Wars is a really fascinating one.  Watching episodes 7 and 8 really makes me wish they'd done these BEFORE episodes 1 - 3 were made, as the OG cast is really old.  They still get the job done, but it makes me sad to think of the missed opportunities. 

I hope that I'm selling this stuff at fair enough prices that it doesn't feel like a biblical sacrifice   I really like to see this stuff go to people I know, and that I know will enjoy them -- even if I get a lower price.  Win-win is always the best way to go. 

Those are good reboots that seem to be more of an exception.  I did not like the reboots for Robocop, Ben Hur, or Ghostbusters. 

I think people are hanging onto them. They tend to be a special piece of people's collection and also get a lot of play. I can tell you that in 1993 TurboGrafx-16, TurboExpress and TurboDuo were readily available in the little glass case at every Toys R Us I would stop at along the eastern seaboard, Lynx was a bit more elusive and it was the Jaguar that needed special ordered. TurboDuos are out there but I don't think people are giving them up easily. I know Lost Ark Video Games in NC usually has a nice selection at a fair price, fully serviced, and Pixel Vault Games in southern CA gets them in as well. Ebay prices can be brutal but keep an eye out. Japanese Duos almost seem to be easier to get your hands on than the ones we received.
 
It absolutely does! Half of the fun games to play were released in Japan and never made it to US shores. I don't think they were as good as Nintendo was at picking and choosing the best titles to translate and bring over. It's unbelievable how many fantastic titles they had that never made it here.
It's very easy to play those games on the Turbo EverDrive. You just select the PC Engine folders with PC Engine roms in the menu and they load like the normal games. The EverDrive is essentially region free, there's a little switch you set to tell it if you're using a US or Japanese system and it does the rest.

I hope that I'm selling this stuff at fair enough prices that it doesn't feel like a biblical sacrifice   I really like to see this stuff go to people I know, and that I know will enjoy them -- even if I get a lower price.  Win-win is always the best way to go. 

A Unisonic Tournament 2000 complete in box (with gun),  What sounds good to you with shipping Rick?

I agree.  The rebooted Footloose was not that great IMO.

At least they are sequels and not a stupid reboot. 

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I'm playing using the MESS emulator and a Genesis controller. 
 
 

Best multitap I've ever seen is on the Saturn.  8 player Bomberman! 

NEC pulled an Apple!  "headphone jack not included".  Ahead of their time. 

It's been almost 30 years and I'm still holding out hope to see these bodacious time travelers back on the big screen one more time, and done the right way!
 
 

Uploaded today is ITC#54 where you come with me to see the process of replacing the capacitors on a model 1 Sega Genesis. The video is sped up through most of it but was originally shot in real time so that you can get an idea on the amount of time involved with a project like this. Features a few midi tunes as captured from my Roland MT-200. So sit back, relax, and see what is takes to replace the capacitors in a classic console such as the Sega Genesis featured in this video:
 
 

I've sold a lot of stuff and still have a few pending items.  I will post more in about a week.  Thanks everyone!

SWEET!  Enjoy.  I have one more spare, which will be my backup. 

Lol.  Batteries not included.  Yep.  But the multitap does allow for I believe five controllers.  Not sure why ???

I finally got one!  See here:
 
 

Rick this is awesome news!  Welcome to the club - 2 player challenges coming soon!