Good Price for a Turbo Grafx 16?

[mutantcamel]

I live in the UK and have been thinking about buying on of these things. I've seen a few games I loved as a kid including Pacland which I would love to play a decent conversion off. What's a good price, I've seen a new boxed one for sale but want to know if £35 is too expensive.

Looking around I've noticed the CD add on and the many different versions and am really confused. Should I get a CD version, if so which one and how much would you spend?

I don't want to spend too much money on one really and thought the old TG16 with it's cards would be a good option anyway.....

IS IT REALLY WORTH BUYING???

Also how come games like After Burner & Columns appeard on it, did NEC buy the rights of Sega at the time?

[Rich]

I was looking for somewhere to post this, and here looks like as good a place as any.

I just picked up a TurboGrafx-16 today, boxed with all the leads etc, plus Alien Crush and Blazing Lazers for £12.49p from a pawn shop called Cash Generators.

I am really pleased with myself and can't wait to get it home and have a propper play with on it.

[Eltigro]

I can't say exactly what would be a good price for a TG-16 today. When I got mine, they were still a couple hundred US$. (This was back in the early 90's, btw.) But I didn't pay for it, my parents got it for me for Christmas. Mine came with a coupon that, if I sent in a photocopy of the receipt and cut out the UPC from the box, I could choose a game from a list to receive for free. I chose Blazing Lazers. The system came with Keith Courage of course. My parents had also gotten me The Legendary Axe.

As far as the different versions, I'm not sure what you mean, but I can run through the ones that I'm familiar with.

There was only one version of the TurboGrafx-16 for the American market. The basic TG-16 would play the TurboChip games. There was an add on CD peripheral for CD games (obviously) that plugs into a large multipin connector in the back of the unit. I never had one of these, but it appears that there are several different cards that plugged into the TG-16's TurboChip port when you used the CD-ROM drive. There were a couple of versions (such as 2.0 and 3.0), but I'm not sure of the difference.

That same connector in the back of the TG-16 was used for the TurboBooster (which provided composite outputs and stereo sound) and the TurboBooster Plus (which added the TurboBooster abilities and contained memory to allow for game saves).

In Japan, the TG-16 was of course known as the PC Engine and there were a couple of different versions and colors. (One of which was something like the "Core" version.) I'm not sure of the difference between them.

Then of course there is the TurboDuo, which integrated the TurboGrafx-16 and the CD-ROM drive into one unit. The Duo has the latest version of the CD card and, I believe, the ability to play discs from any region.

I have the basic American TurboGrafx-16, two standard controllers, one TurboStick controller, a controller extension cable, and about ten or twelve games. As a matter of fact, just today, I played R-Type, Bonk's Revenge, and World Court Tennis.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

One of these just came up for sale in the local classifieds in like-new condition, maybe in box (I forget) with a couple controllers and a couple games. It was $100.

I'll get one eventually, but I'm not at that stage in my collection recollection yet. I actually just finished off my Nintendo collection by picking up a perfect N64 with expansion pack, and now I'm moving onto Sega. The TG16 will be next after the Sega collection is complete.