This one’s not so mini…
Unlike most modern “mini” pack-in play consoles, theTurboGrafx-16 Minihas neither become impossible to find nor has it seen drastic price-drops. It’s the very definition of a middling success, which is more than the original iteration of the system could say for itself. Due to a variety of reasons, the system never took off outside of Japan, though it’s still home to a litany of classics:Bonk’s Adventure,Snatcher, andCastlevania: Rondo of Blood, to name a few.
My guess is the modern “Mini” version of the console has fared better so far due to years of passionate word-of-mouth praise from TG-16 obsessives such as myself. If it were up to me, it would be Bonk, not Sonic, battling Mario at the Olympics, palling around with James Marsden at the movies, and eating chili dogs in the dreams of many a millennial.He’s my favorite 16-bit baby boy.
That said, the TG-16 Mini wasn’t truly the best vessel for him, and the TG-16 library, to make its return. It’s missing so many classics:Bonk 3,Valis 2,Legendary Axe 1 & 2,Bloody Wolf,Keith Courage, andFar East of Eden. Sure, you could just hack the thing to add the ROMS of those titles to the console, but for those that want to play the original software sans tampering, Analogue has the solution.
