{"id":20364,"date":"2020-08-14T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20364"},"modified":"2020-08-02T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T13:06:57","slug":"the-games-of-the-turbo-grafx-16-mini-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/the-games-of-the-turbo-grafx-16-mini-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of the Turbo Grafx-16 Mini: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>And here\u2019s the last of the blogs about the games on the Turbo Grafx-16 Mini\u2019s US releases.\u00a0 Well, mostly.\u00a0 I\u2019ll combine a few of them that had both US and Japanese releases on here like I did last time.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take a look at the rest of them!<\/p>\n

Ys Book 1 & 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The game that started it all.\u00a0 Although these top down action adventure series started out on PC, I think the Turbo Grafx-16 was one of the few US releases.\u00a0 The music is awesome in these games, and the intro to Book 2 is especially rockin\u2019!\u00a0 The reason why is because Yuzo Koshiro did the music!\u00a0 One bad thing about these first few Ys games is that since they were originally on PC and were more simplistic, you didn\u2019t have a button to swing your sword. You would just ram into enemies and hope for the best.\u00a0 Usually I prefer the old ways to do things in video games, but this is one case where I prefer more modern controls with a sword button.\u00a0 But this is still a good game.\u00a0 You can play the Japanese version of this on the PC Engine menu, but I\u2019m not sure why you\u2019d want to.<\/p>\n

Neutopia<\/strong><\/p>\n

And speaking of top-down action adventure games, Neutopia was the TG-16\u2019s answer to Zelda.\u00a0 It\u2019s so similar that you even use bombs to blow open doors to caves and such.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as good as Zelda and has poor hit detection.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still good enough that I probably would\u2019ve had these games if I owned a TG-16 back in the day.<\/p>\n

Neutopia II<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just more of the same.\u00a0 You play as the son of the hero from the first game.\u00a0 You\u2019re out to rescue your dad who has gone missing.\u00a0 You can also play the Japanese versions of both these titles on the PC Engine menu, but the text is all Japanese.<\/p>\n

Parasol Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah!\u00a0 This is one of the many sequels to Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands and it rocks!\u00a0 You use an umbrella to dispatch enemies in single screen mazes, but the way you use the umbrella is so versatile.\u00a0 I once called this game \u201cBubble Bobble with technique\u201d because of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m really glad this is on the collection!<\/p>\n

Cadash<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another Taito game.\u00a0 It plays like a 2-D side scrolling hack and slash, kind of like another one of their games called Rastan.\u00a0 Except in this one, there are more RPG elements.\u00a0 You can talk to people in towns, collect money and experience points, and select from four different characters.\u00a0 My friend and I first played this game in arcades, and we thought it was neat how it still had RPG elements and two people could play this at the same time.\u00a0 We hoped they would make a NES version so we could play it together, but sadly it only came out on the TG-16.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a good game, but very unforgiving sometimes because if you fall into the water, you\u2019ll take knockback damage and will never be able to get out until you die.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 What\u2019s interesting is that both this game and Parasol Stars were brought to the US by Working Designs.<\/p>\n

Space Harrier<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems weird to think that some of SEGA\u2019s games came out on the TG-16, but it happened. I think because the TG-16 might\u2019ve come out a little before the Genesis maybe?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this one is any better than what it could\u2019ve been on the Genesis, but it still plays all right.\u00a0 The voices are horrible and so muffled, though.\u00a0 Did you know this game is set in the same world as Fantasy Zone?<\/p>\n

Splatterhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

While it may look cheesy now, this horror themed 2-D action game was very controversial back then because of the violence and gore.\u00a0 It was very shocking that this was on a home console!\u00a0 Unfortunately, shock value is all it has, because the gameplay is not very good.<\/p>\n

Chew Man Fu<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had this game on the Wii Virtual Console and really liked it.\u00a0 You just push giant marbles around a maze and get them to sit on the same colored squares.\u00a0 You can also kick marbles to temporality dispatch enemies.\u00a0 Two can play at the same time, too.\u00a0 Just a fun little game right up my alley.<\/p>\n

J.J. and Jeff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holy crap this game is awful.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D platformer and it\u2019s one of those like Super Mario Bros. where you can\u2019t scroll the screen backwards.\u00a0 Controls are slippery and you have a puny kick attack and it reminds me of Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, another awful game.\u00a0 Did you know that in Japan, this game was called Kato and Ken, and starred two popular Japanese comedians who had their own comedy variety show back then?\u00a0 One of their segments was brought to the US and would become America\u2019s Funniest Home Videos!<\/p>\n

Military Madness<\/strong><\/p>\n

And last is this strategy game that reminds me of Advance Wars.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not a big fan of these kinds of games so I couldn\u2019t get into it.<\/p>\n

And those are all the US releases on the TG-16 Mini!\u00a0 For the last two blogs we\u2019ll look at the Japanese PC Engine games on here!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here\u2019s the last of the blogs about the games on the Turbo Grafx-16 Mini\u2019s US releases.\u00a0 Well, mostly.\u00a0 I\u2019ll combine a few of them that had both US and Japanese releases on here like I did last time.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take a look at the rest of them! Ys Book 1 & 2 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20366,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions\/20366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}