Despite having 57 TurboGrafx or PC Engine games in the lineup, it’s missing five of our 16 favorite TurboGrafx games, including the best game on the system, the Satanic pinball oddity Devil’s Crush. It’s surprising what games didn’t make the list, though.
Obviously it doesn’t have every single TurboGrafx game released in America, as I advocated for earlier this year. The bad news is it’s missing some of the TurboGrafx’s true classics. When you bundle those alongside old TG-16 favorites like Blazing Lazers, Ninja Spirit and Ys Book I & II, you’ve got an amazing little box full of great classic games that are both beloved and brand new to the American market. If you’re a TurboGrafx fan who’s never imported a PC Engine, or never downloaded any of the PC Engine games that were eventually ported to other North American consoles or released through the Wii Shop, the TurboGrafx-16 Mini will be your first opportunity to play games like Star Parodier, The Genji and the Heike Clans and Cho Aniki. There are also a few games well-known in America for their arcade and NES versions that will appear as their PC Engine versions, such as Gradius, Salamander (aka Life Force) and Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. Most of them were never actually released for the TurboGrafx-16 on this side of the world during the console’s lifetime, though, including the fantastic Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (aka Castlevania: Rondo of Blood), which was eventually released in the States in the ‘00s, after a Super Nintendo remake in 1995. Some of those PC Engine games were localized and released in the States, including Dragon Spirit, Super Star Soldier and Galaga ‘88 (which was known as Galaga ‘90 in North America). That breaks down as 25 games that were released in North America on the TurboGrafx between 19, and 32 games that were released on the PC Engine, as the console was known in its native Japan. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is going to blow even that out of the water: it’ll come with 57 different TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine games. The Sega Genesis Mini, which comes out next month, ups the ante a bit with 42 games, including two that were never actually released for the Genesis back in the day. The NES Classic has 30 games, the SNES Classic has 21, and the PlayStation Classic that everybody immediately forgot about has 20. The good news is there are way more games on this thing than usually found on these classic miniconsoles.
Konami’s announced the full lineup for the TurboGrafx-16 Mini, and it’s a real good news / bad news kind of deal for fans of the cult console.
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