Keith Courage in Alpha Zones

Keith Courage in Alpha Zones is the game that came with the TG-16 Console, if I could remeber whats the story line is that an Alien Invasion called BAD Guys, they slaughtered your Dad, which tried to but the BAD Guys in their place. Now you may be wondering why I've made BAD capitalized 3 times in a row now, it is actually short for something, same applies with NICE. I know that's totally dorky and lame. BAD is short for Beastly Alien Dudes while NICE means Nations of International Citizens for Earth. So of cause You have to fight the BAD Guys to save Earth with the Nova Suit your Father left behind.

There's nothing much to this game but beating up bad guys, and upgrading a sword, and buy bombs. In case you were wondering, there isn't armor, or helmets, or like that to upgrade, only your sword is upgradeable and buy some bombs. Besides all the upgrading and dorky story line, it's a great game.

Pac-land

Pac-land may look very much like Pac-Man, that's because it is Pac-Man. But Pac-Land isn't quite your typical Pac-Man Game, the usual is that Pac-Man has to eat all of those dots on the grid right? Not in this case, in Pac-Land, Pac-Man will have to go through a level in a 16-bit adventure, of cause avoiding those Ghosts hovering around, collect some stuff to get a bigger score. Like the classic Pac-Man there are big yellow balls that Pac-Man eats making all of the Ghosts into the same color, and you know what that means when that happens, you can eat the them, which also increases your score. Once you go through an level, and a big fairy gives Pac-Man fancy new shoes, Pac-Man has to go through the exact level backwards in order to go back to his home. Note that those fancy new shoes makes Pac-Man fly by pumping the jumping button. There are alot of levels, so if you enjoy Pac-Man alot this will keep you on end for a long, long, long time.

Final Lap Twin

Final Lap Twin is still one of my favorite RPG / Racing games I've played. The storyline is basically about being the World Camp of Racing, your Dad (on the game of coarse) gives you your car and $500 and he'll explain a few things to you, and basically you have to beat all 6 Local Champions before racing the World Champ.

If you ever played Pokemon Blue or Red, it is similar to this game when you are looking for pokemon in the grass, cave, etc, but instead when your not in a town, racers will come out, to race you (of course), when you win the race you'll get some cash to buy better parts for your car. Also like Pokemon, there are some hidden items you can not see, characters inside houses tell you where some of them are.

The Body, Fuel, Tires, Motor, and Wings are the parts of your car you can upgrade. The purpose of the Body is that it makes it easier to escape your enemies. The Fuel increases the amount of time you can use "Turbo", in order to use Turbo in a race press Up on the D-pad. The better the Tires the better tour not going to slide off to the side of the road while taking corners. The Motor is an obvious part, it'll increases your max speed. The Wings improves the ability to jump and increases the duration of your flights. So keep in mind what these parts do while your buying new parts, I suggest that you buy the tires first cause if you have a better motor than your tires, you'll be biting every corner you ever come across.

Mind you this is just the quest mode of Final Lap Twin, there is a Grand Prix mode were there is only just racing, so if your just looking for a quick race or two this is what you should play.

TurboGrafx-16

TurboGrafix-16

TurboGrafx-16 (appears on top) is NEC's 16-bit Video Game Console to compete with Nintendo's NES Console, as the same goes with Sega with their console Sega Genesis. TG-16 was a head during it's time do to the types of formats. SNES and Sega Genesis cartridges looks larger compared to TG-16 Hu-Card (short for Hudson Card) formatted games. What was really great about TurboGrafx-16's Hu-Card cartridges is that they were very, very, very close being the size of a credit/debit card. This makes it easy for NEC to make a portable version of TurboGrafx 16 called TurboExpress (appears on the left).

Another great thing about TG-16 is that it has an extension slot for the TurboGrafx-CD, making Turbo Grafix the first console that uses CDs as a format of gaming. Monster Lair (Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair) and Fighting Street (Street Fighter) were the initial TurboGrafx-CD titles.

Thats the biggest reason why I love about TG-16 is that it's very upgradeable, same goes with SNES and Sega Genesis, not like todays gaming, you didn't have to run out to get a entirely different model of the exact console cause it has more features. But sad to say, NEC didn't really made it far, most of the time you would of heard "Nintendo VS. Sega", not "Nintendo VS. Sega VS. NEC", I am not sure why TG-16 wasn't a great success, but it was a pretty fun console. Although I didn't have any extensions for TG-16 and have a few Hu-Card cartridges, I thought it was a great console, some of the games I though was great was Final Lap Twin, Pac-Land, and Keith Courage in Alpha Zones.

Introduction to GameSquires NEC Gaming page

Welcome to my NEC Gaming blog, I will be discussing gaming consoles like TurboGrafx-16 and TurboExpress. NEC is short for Nippon Electric Company, and since they work with different electronics, lets just focus on NEC gaming in this blog. As I have said already, I'll be talking about NEC's consoles, games and accessories. Enjoy :D