Home From 99p Sale My Library My Account Pocketmags Plus+ Title A-Z Category A-Z Best Selling Magazines Latest Offers Gift Vouchers Activate a Subscription Blog Help & Support
GB
0 Basket
Login Plus+
BEST SELLERS OFFERS Hobbies & Craft Aviation & Transport Leisure General Interest Sport
United Kingdom  

SITE SETTINGS

LIGHT MODE
All Categories
Art & Photography Art Design Architecture Photography Aviation & Transport Motorbikes Aviation Automotive Rail Family & Home Kids Parenting Animals & Pets Food DIY Landscaping & Gardening Property Interior Design & Home Food and Drink Cooking & Baking Drink Vegetarian & Vegan Gluten Free & Special Diets General Interest History & Fact Astronomy Education & Literary Spiritual & Religion Trade & Professional National & Regional Books News & Current Affairs Health & Fitness Medical Running Women's Health Men's Health Slimming Spirituality & Wellbeing Hobbies & Craft Collecting Radio Control Modelling Scale & Millitary Modelling Sewing & Knitting Woodworking Arts & Crafts Leisure Interest Travel Boating & Yachting Poker & Gambling Caravan & Motorhome Camping & Outdoor TV & Film Tattoo Horse Riding & Equestrian Wildlife Men's Interest Lifestyle Gay TV & Film Men's Fitness Motorbikes Automotive Football Fishing & Angling Gaming Gadgets Newspapers All Music Classical Heavy Metal Other Rock Pop Practical & Playing Hi-Fi Sport Football Cycling Rugby Cricket & Golf Football Programmes Fishing & Angling Shooting & Archery Boxing & Martial Arts Horse Riding & Equestrian Other Watersports & Board Athletics & Running Motorsport Ski & Winter Sports Outdoor & Adventure Tech & Gaming Apple Gaming Internet Gadgets PC Mobile Trade & Professional Money & Investment Building & Architecture Military & Defense Education Media Retail News Farming & Agriculture Catering Business Transport Politics Travel Women's Interest Hair Celebrity Weddings & Brides Fashion & Lifestyle Healthy Food & Slimming Fitness
United Kingdom  
Digital Subscriptions > Retro Gamer > Issue 243 > TurboGrafx-16
  
You are currently viewing the United Kingdom version of the site.
Would you like to switch to your local site?
1 MIN READ TIME

TurboGrafx-16

TurboGrafx-16 fact

ESSENTIAL GAME

Unlock this article and thousands more for just 99p Get unlimited access to 650+ titles

30 day trial, then just £9.99 p/ month.
One per customer. Cancel anytime.

Learn more
Pocketmags Plus
Unlock this article and much more with
You can enjoy:
Enjoy this edition in full
Instant access to 600+ titles
Thousands of back issues
No contract or commitment
Try for 99p
SUBSCRIBE NOW
30 day trial, then just £9.99 / month. Cancel anytime. New subscribers only.


Learn more
Pocketmags Plus
Pocketmags Plus
More Options:
SUBSCRIBER LOGIN | PRINT OFFERS | DIGITAL OFFERS | DIGITAL BACK ISSUES
SUBSCRIBER LOGIN
PRINT OFFERS
DIGITAL OFFERS
DIGITAL BACK ISSUES

This article is from...


View Issues
Retro Gamer
Issue 243
VIEW IN STORE

Other Articles in this Issue


LOADING
THE RETROBATES
WHAT GAME DEFINED THE EIGHTIES FOR YOU?
LOADING...
The Eighties was a fantastic time to
RETRO RADAR
ROGER KEAN: A LASTING LEGACY
Friends pay tribute to the co-creator of many classic gaming magazines
FANTASTIC REALMS
Danny Passarella discusses his videogame-themed art exhibition
Gaming prejudice
COLUMN Who is Iain Lee? Iain Lee is
Upstaged by Mario
COLUMN Who is Paul Rose? Paul is probably
Akka Arrh
Jeff Minter on revitalising a lost Atari gem
THE LATEST NEWS FROM JUNE 2006
JUNE 2006 – EA has a guaranteed football
REVIVALS
Trashman
CLEANING UP THE STREETS
THE 80s A DECADE OF INCREDIBLE GAMES
THE EIGHTIES WAS A TUMULTUOUS DECADE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRIUMPHS AND PIONEERING CONCEPTS, AND AS A RESULT IT IS PERHAPS THE MOST-INTERESTING TEN YEARS IN GAMING HISTORY. JOIN US AS WE REMINISCE ABOUT THE REMARKABLE GAMES THAT WERE PRODUCED IN THIS GOLDEN ERA
Cobra Triangle
THAT’S ONE ANGULAR COBRA
EnIGMA VARIATIONS
Development and publishing company Enigma Variations became prolific in the late-Eighties and early Nineties, producing numerous licensed computer games based on kids’ TV shows like Postman Pat and Thomas The Tank Engine, and big title conversions for Nintendo consoles
ULTIMATE GUIDE ALIENS
OF ALL THE GAMES BASED ON ALIENS, NONE HAVE CAPTURED THE CL AUSTROPHOBIC TENSION A ND RELENTLESS ACTION AS WELL AS KONAMI’S COIN - OP. JOIN RETRO GAMER AS WE DISCOVER WHY THIS ARCADE GAME IS MORE THAN JUST A NOTHER BUG HUNT
Cosmic Smash
BALLS TO THE WALL
Contra 4
FEEL THE LOVE
ESSENTIALS
THE WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST
ALTHOUGH FAR FROM THE FIRST BEAT-’EM-UP ON HOME COMPUTERS, THE WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST WAS THE EARLIEST TO FEATURE MULTIPLE MOVES. LET RETRO GAMER TEACH YOU THE WAYS OF GREGG BARNETT’S SEMINAL FIGHTING GAME
GILDED LILLY
NEWS BYTEN
All the latest news, handily arranged by
MUDDY RACERS
ANDREA BALDIRAGHI (THEROBOZ)
How reading books about old software companies got Andrea interested in programming his own homebrew
PROCESSING
THE HTML GAME CONCEPT PROJECT SWOOSH FROM TUXEDO GAME DEVS WILL BECOME COLOCO DX FOR MEGA DRIVE
HYPERDRIVE
FORMAT: AMSTRAD CPC 464 (DANDANATOR/CPR CARTRIDGE IMAGES) CREDITS: JUAN J MARTINEZ PRICE: FREE DOWNLOAD WEB: BIT.LY/HYPERDRIVE-464
MAGIC AND LEGEND – TIME KNIGHTS
THE PRICE ISN’T RIGHT
We chat about the cost of gaming
YOU’RE HIRED!
Lord Sugar once discussed creating an Amstrad museum but Jaime González Soriano may have beaten him to it
MATTERS OF IMPORT
In which Nick accuses Nintendo of killing import gaming
MAILBAG
HAVE YOUR SAY… SEND US A LETTER OR MAKE YOURSELF HEARD ON SOCIAL MEDIA – TWITTER.COM/RETROGAMER_MAG
ENDGAME
FINAL FIGHT: STREETWISE » Fun fact: this revival
FEATURED
THE MAKING OF MARKO'S MAGIC FOOTBALL
WHEN LONDON-BASED DOMARK BECAME A SEGA THIRD-PARTY LICENSEE IN 1990, IT KICKED OFF A SUCCESSFUL PERIOD FOR THE PUBLISHER. HAVING ESTABLISHED ITSELF WITH A SERIES OF ARCADE CONVERSIONS EARLY IN THE DECADE, IT WAS TIME TO CREATE SOMETHING TOTALLY ORIGINAL. AT LEAST, THAT WAS THE PLAN…
THE MAKING OF SIM COPTER
FLY AROUND THE DANGEROUS STREETS OF SIMCITY (OR YOUR VERY OWN SIMCITY 2000 MAPS), ARRESTING CRIMINALS, DOUSING FIRES AND RESOLVING TRAFFIC JAMS. IT’S ALL IN A DAY’S WORK FOR A HELICOPTER PILOT IN SIMCOPER, WILL WRIGHT’S FINAL ENTRY IN THE ORIGINAL SIM SERIES
Classic Controller
» PLATFORM: Wii » YEAR: 2006 » COST:
CHRIS LANCASTER
From converting Matthew Smith’s masterworks to the Commodore 64 to coding the ‘other’ Sheep In Space, Chris Lancaster tells us about his short but eventful time in the games business
REVIEWS
Blazing Rangers
RED-HOT RETRO ACTION
PICK OF THE MONTH
Toaplan Arcade Shoot ’Em Up Collection Vol. 1

Basket -

Your basket is currently empty.
Continue Shopping
Or, read for just 99p with
Pocketmags Plus
You can enjoy:
The issue in your basket
Instant access to 600+ titles
Thousands of back issues
30 days for just 99p
TRY PLUS+ FOR 99p
30 days access, then just £9.99 / month. Cancel anytime. New subscribers only.

Learn more
View Issues
View Issues
Chat
X
Pocketmags Support