However, because of an inferior marketing plan the TurboGrafx-16 never really took off in America the way that the people behind this videogame console expected and more than 50% of the games created for this console never saw action in the US at all.
When the TurboGrafx-16 landed in America it had already been selling in Japan for almost 2 years, building up a pretty significant library of games in the anticipated launch for the US. Grab all of your TurboGrafx-16 ROMs here! If you're looking to relive what gaming was like in the early days, but don't want to have two fire up the "same old, same old" games you played on the original Nintendo or the Super Nintendo, check out our TurboGrafx-16 ROMs for a real blast from the past! A bit of a cult hit, this videogame console has been lost to history a little except by fans that grew up with the amazing games this console made popular - games like Super*Soldier, Dungeon Explorer, and Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu. Only the SNES released shortly after the TurboGrafx-16 came to the US was able to compete graphically. This is a software program that emulates (imitates) the console on modern operating systems.The TurboGrafx-16 was originally launched in Japan all the way back in October 1987 and then was later introduced to the United States in August 1989, this videogame console was first intended to go toe to toe against the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).īut because it was a little bit "late to the party" it actually ended up throwing down against both the Genesis from SEGA and the Super Nintendo - and also had some of the most exciting video games available at that time.Īdvertised as the very first-ever 16-bit videogame console, the TurboGrafx-16 was actually running off of an eight bit CPU but had both a 16-bit video encoder and video display controller that allowed it to have much better graphics than the original Nintendo as well as better graphics than the Genesis. To play TurboGrafx / PC Engine games on Windows 10, you need an emulator. That means that you're officialy allowed to play the game only when you own the original.Ī selection of games that were released for the TurboGrafx 16 / PC Engine console: It's good to know that these games are still copyrighted. There are lots of websites that offer free downloads of these files.
You'll need an emulator to run these files. pce game file, it most likely is a PC Engine / TurboGrafx game cartridge converted to a file. These games were released on game cartridges. Nevertheless it had quite an impressive game library. In Europe, the TurboGrafx 16 console wasn't as popular as it was in Japan (known as the PC Engine) due to poor marketing.
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