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TurboGrafx 16 EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag This Splatterhouse custom is the definition of badass 7 Reliving painful gaming memories we've repressed is the norm for this gig. Upon seeing Splatterhouse's Rick in glorious custom toy form over at Tomopop, I was reminded how I never did beat Splatt... MEAT! Bonk: Brink of Extinction to hit WiiWare/XBLA/PSN 17 Hudson is really mining the hell out of its TurboGrafx-16 library these days, and I for one couldn't be happier about it. Before the SNES was released, the TG-16 was my 16-bit system of choice, d... Rondo comes home: Dracula X Rondo of Blood to hit the Japanese Virtual Console 26 When the Wii's Virtual Console was first announced, the collective "meh" uttered by fans of illegal video game emulation was so massive, it could be heard around the world. Pirates had ... Boner alert! Hudson to release a new Alien Crush for WiiWare 38 I think I need to sit down. You see, I am absolutely obsessed with the pinball “Crush” games on the TurboGrafx-16. In fact, I play them each and every night befo... This week's VC releases: Harvest Moon, Lords of Thunder 28 Nintendo continues its streak of delivering the "one less than we've come to expected" two Virtual Console titles this week. But with goodies like these, I'm finding it hard to be mad a... RetroforceGO! Episode 34: TurboGrafx-16! 38 Well everybody, another Monday is upon and with that, another RetroforceGO! Can you feel the excitement? Me too. Or maybe I'm just over-caffeinated from the gigantic glass of Diet Pepsi that I ju... RetroforceGO! recording episode 34 tonight: TurboGrafx 16 and PC Engine 76 Tonight we take a look at the TurboGrafx 16 and all the shooters games that made it great. From shoot-em-ups to cute-em-ups, Bonk to Zonk, to its weird controller and everything in between, we th... This week's VC releases: Greatest game ever, Power Golf, comes home 19 Best Virtual Console week ever? You bet! Nintendo has announced that the "greatest game ever" will be coming to the Wii Shop Channel today. That's right, we're talking about Virtual Gol... This week's VC releases: prove you're tough edition 15  A new challenger, Gate of Thunder, has entered the Virtual Console's already formidable shmup cage match.  One of the pack-in release games for the TurboDuo, Gate of Thunder is an exce... Hudson drops vintage TG-16 CD goodness on Wii's Virtual Console 13 Sometimes I feel alone in my dislike for most of the Wii's Virtual Console releases. Most titles are ones that I already have multiple versions of, and I feel that many of the titles are a tad bi... This week's VC releases: What is this learning nonsense? 22 In honor of "back to school season," Nintendo has released Donkey Kong Jr. Math (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) on the Wii Shop Channel today. The irony of this is that today is Labo... This week's VC releases: Super Metroid, Shinobi III, Neutopia 32 As reported, this Monday sees the release of Super Metroid (Super NES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points) for Nintendo's virtual console. Easily one of the greats among a solid Super NES library, the game... This week's VC releases: Dolphin Park is in the house 12 Nintendo must have heard my cries last week, when I whined about receiving the "Wii-kly Update" e-mails late, or not even getting them at all. I woke up this morning to an e-mail that w... This week's VC releases: Paper Mario and some games that aren't Paper Mario 30 Now you can stop whining -- after an excruciatingly long wait, the North American Virtual Console is finally getting Paper Mario (Nintendo 64, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points). It will be joined by tw... This week's VC releases: Mach Rider, Yoshi, and Air Zonk 18 Nintendo brings fans another rousing round of classics with this week's Virtual Console releases. Mach Rider (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points), Yoshi (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points), and Air... This week's VC releases: show Wart some respect, damn it 21 Let's get this out of the way first -- Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points), Ecco: The Tides of Time (Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points), and DRAGON SPIRIT (TurboGrafx-16,... This week's VC releases: fast-driving, high-flying, hard-hitting 18 Maybe I'm dating myself here, but does anyone remember what it was like in 1992 when the arcade break-out hit, Street Fighter II, was about to hit the Super Nintendo? The hype could have made... This week's VC releases: how many wolves must die? 30 With Father's Day behind us, Nintendo has gone forth and released some manly-man classics the Virtual Console today: NES Open Tournament Golf (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points), World Sports Comp... Today's VC releases: Nintendo is totally awesome, four games to choose from 26 Last week, Nintendo was kind enough to give us a heads up about how awesome they were, and that they'd be bringing Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) to the Virtual C... Today's VC releases: I just woke up edition 31 Today is Memorial Day, which in the United States is a federal holiday. In many ways, it marks a true first day of summer -- pools open, we cook out, and many people even have off from work. Such... Today's VC releases: we heart ninjas edition 19 This week's Virtual Console releases are surprisingly solid for a batch that contains zero first party Nintendo classics. By "surprisingly solid" I mean, of course, two of the three... Today's VC releases: two 'mons' and a 'man' 22 Simon, Goeman, and Shockman -- together at last. This week, the Virtual Console sees a relatively solid line-up with Castlevania (NES, 500 Wii Points); Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES, 800 Wi... This week's virtual console releases: "Where da' gold at?" 53 Once again, Nintendo and company see fit to release three games I never knew I wanted. Gradius III (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points); Wonder Boy in Monster World (Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Po... Virtual Console releases: Nintendo continues shooter and TurboGrafx16 fetish 29 It's Monday, and in America that means it's time for Nintendo to serve up some Virtual Console games you haven't necessarily been waiting for. Again. This week brings R-Type III: The ... Today's Virtual Console releases - Skinny, Medium, Fat Edition 21 Four new Virtual Console games are about to land on the Wii! As reported earlier, the Turbo-Grafx sci-fi pinball title Alien Crush is among today's releases. It's joined by the NES sports... Alien Crush and Dungeon Explorer are coming, we promise 7 When I was a boy, my father would drink heavily until he could barely see and he would sit on the wood pile out back where he would think of a good reason to beat me with his belt until he was ... Hudson shows mystery Virtual Console love this Monday; probably not Splatterhouse 10 The meat of this story is that Hudson Entertainment has confirmed that another TurboGrafx title will be hitting the Wii's Virtual Console. On their official message boards they tease that &q... TurboGrafx-16 games arrive on the Wii 10 According to various sources on GAF, Bomberman 93' and Bonk's Adventure (NEC's answer to Mario and Sonic back in 1990) are now available for purchase on the Wii Virtual Console. Unl... TurboGrafx-16 games arrive on the Wii 10 According to various sources on GAF, Bomberman 93' and Bonk's Adventure (NEC's answer to Mario and Sonic back in 1990) are now available for purchase on the Wii Virtual Console. Unl... Wii love retrogaming 2 European gamers now know everything there is to know about the Wii's Virtual Console because Nintendo just announced the complete VC launch lineup. While the lack of SNES and N64 games is distu... American vs. Japanese box art 0 1UP took a good long look between the differences and similarities of American and Japanese video game box art. Fear not America-lovers, because Japan doesn't always get the better looking art.... Weird Game Wednesday: Cho Aniki series 3 Cho Aniki is probably best known for being among the most arguably homosexual video games ever created, or to be objective it stars more muscular men in thongs than any other shooter ever. It'... Weird Game Wednesday: Genpei ToumaDen 0 The PC Engine wasn't exactly a hot seller by the measure of Super Nintendo fandom, so the larger lot of us missed a few oddities on that console. Unless you lived in Japan in 1986 you've proba... Before the Symphony, there was Akumajou 1 It's a little known fact that Akumajou Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (or Chi No Rondo) ever existed, an import on the TurboGrafx 16 (or PC Engine). The CD-ROM based game looked similar to the othe... Weird Game Wednesday: Toilet Kids! 0 New Destructoid feature! Every wednesday we will bring you a hand picked weird game from the past you may have missed. Some will be good, but today's is definitely crappy... TG16's TOILET KID... TurboGrafx remembered: Son Son II 0 "A nice action platformer that's a bit on the cutesy side, but don't let that image fool you. This game is tough! It's a PC Engine only sequel to Capcom's 1984 Japanese arcade game featuring t... TurboGrafx 16 & Saturn Commercials 0 So I'm feeling a little retro tonight, shoot me! Here's a classic case of 80's video game advertising complete with the Saved By The Bell looking dork rocking out in his parent-free unregulated... The Most Wanted TurboGrafX 16 Games 0 Games daily is running an awesome 6-page article on the very best games of TurboGrafx 16, just to refresh our memories so we can shop for them on the Nintendo Revolution. NOT ME THOUGH. I say ... Emulation: The Benevolent Pirates of MAME 2 MAME, as many of you know, is the bomb. It is the mother of all emulators, and if it were a lady, the mother of my children (sorry Cath, we go way back). This multi-system software specialize...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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