Who remembers the good old TurboGrafx-16?… Nobody? That’s understandable, as NEC Home Electronics and Hudson Soft’s collaborative venture into the game console market failed to catch on for American players. Their 16-bit console just couldn’t compete with the likes of Nintendo and Sega. Nintendo has already released two highly successful mini consoles, and Sega is slated to release its Sega Genesis mini this September. Likewise, after seeing the massive success a mini-console can have, Konami clearly wanted in on the action. Surprisingly, Konami released new information about The TurboGrafx-16 mini and PC Engine Core Grafx mini.
Konami announced that the TurboGrafx-16 mini will include a catalog of 50 games with 24 of them being original TurboGrafx-16 games featured in English. The additional 26 are PC Engine titles and will be in their original Japanese language. This confirms that the games will overlap in both the TurboGrafx-16 mini and PC Engine Core Grafx mini. This includes titles such as Bomberman ‘93, New Adventure Island, Fantasy Zone, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, Ninja Gaiden, and many more.
Konami also revealed that both of their mini consoles will be sold exclusively on Amazon. The TurboGrafx-16 mini will launch at a retail price of $99.99 USD and the release date is set for March 19th, 2020. Pre-orders went live Monday, July 15th, just in time for Prime Day. In addition to the mini consoles, Konami will also be selling three optional accessories. An additional Turbo Controller can be bought for multiplayer action. The Multi-Tap adapter will allow up to 5 people to play at once. An official AC adapter is also being sold, although most people probably have one laying around.
Here are the 24 TurboGrafx-16 games:
- Alien Crush
- Victory Run
- Blazing Lazers
- Neutopia
- Dungeon Explorer
- R-Type
- Moto Roader
- Power Golf
- Ys book I&II
- Ninja Spirit
- J.J. & Jeff
- Space Harrier
- Military Madness
- Chew-Man-Fu
- Psychosis
- Bonk’s Revenge
- Parasol Stars
- Cadash
- New Adventure Island
- Air Zonk
- Neutopia II
- Soldier Blade
- Lords of Thunder
- Bomberman ’93
For the rest of the catalog, we have 26 PC Engine games in Japanese.
- The Kung Fu
- Jaseiken Necromancer
- Fantasy Zone
- Appare! Gateball
- Nectaris
- Dungeon Explorer
- Neutopia
- PC Genjin
- Ys I・II
- Super Darius
- Super Star Soldier
- Daimakaimura
- Aldynes
- Neutopia II
- Gradius
- Salamander
- Super Momotaro Dentetsu II
- Ninja Ryūkenden *Japanese ver. of NINJA GAIDEN
- Star Parodier
- Snatcher
- Gradius II – Gofer no Yabō –
- Chō Aniki
- Akumajō Dracula X Chi no Rondo
- Bomberman ’94
- Bomberman Panic Bomber
- Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire
For more on the TurboGrafx-16 Mini, PC Engine Mini, and the available accessories, check out the USA Amazon listing or the Japan listing.
