Top Seven: TG-16

I know everyone's getting the point: the Wii will be able to run a lot of games. Well today I'm talking about a system Nintendo left for dead in the marketplace... NEC's TurboGrafx-16. This was an oddball system with an 8 bit main processor and a 16 bit graphics chip. I traded one for a spare Sega Genesis I picked up and played the heck out of it. Now it's back, on the Wii.

1. Devil's Crush/Alien's Crush - two great pinball games. Strange and biomorphic.
2. Veigues Tactical Gladiator - a forgotten shooter/platformer hybrid. A giant robot you could upgrade to battle your enemies in this side scroller. This was the TG-16 game I played the most.
3. Galaga '90 - Galaga, but updated for 1990. Retrofuturesque!
4. Darkwing Duck - There really was a Darkwing Duck game for the TG-16. Who knew?
5. Splatterhouse - an early Survival Horror game. Scary.
6. Military Madness - popular and addictive strategy game,
7. Keith Courage in Alpha Zones - originally the pack-in game for the system. Not so great that one doesn't need to buy more games, but good enough to show the system doesn't suck.