The More You Know Gaming: Turbo Duo, TTi & TurboZone Direct!

Let's pay tribute to the final form of the TurboGrafx-16! (More Below!)


Episode information
GTV 36 "The More You Know Gaming: Turbo Duo" Season 2 Episode 15
Original Airdate: October 10, 2017
Produced October 6-10, 2017
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my new (at the time) MacBook Pro
with, of course, pirated versions of Final Cut Pro and Photoshop.

This video came about because I thought it would be cool that I, an up and coming channel (at the time) could take a crack at guesting on a certain channel that asks if you know certain things about games, or something like that. They only seem to have guests so why not me? Well.. they never said yes, and if they said no, the reply must have gotten lost in the mail...


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The Turbo Duo debuted on October 10th, 1992. A little over a year after its Japanese counterpart, the PC Engine Duo. It cost $299, which was equal to the price of its main competitor, the SEGA-CD. To offset some of the cost, TTi threw in 6 games to get you started. Gate of Thunder was the main game and on the same disc, Bonk’s Adventure and Bonk’s Revenge were added. Bomber man was also on the disc, accessible by entering up, right, down, left, II (two) at the game selection screen. On top of that the RPG Ys Book I & II was on its own disc, and non CD game Ninja Spirit was also in the box. TTi also gave $50 of game coupons at $5 off each on future games. Do the math and that's the same amount of money just in games as the retail price of the TurboDuo.

Even though the recharged effort to make the Turbo a main player was stronger than any attempt before, the system didn't catch on, and the initial manufacturing order of 20,000 units never sold out. In May, 1994, TTi shut down, and the system was no longer officially supported. The TurboDuo did live on though Turbo Zone Direct, a company made up of a few TTi employees who offered new, unopened stock games, peripherals, hardware and repairs via mail and later internet.