The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is great nostalgia for a select few, but an even better history lesson from a crucial era for videogames. Read our review.
Given its low profile in the United States, the TurboGrafx-16 might seem like a weird choice for a microconsole. If you’re at all familiar with NEC and Hudson Soft’s proto-16-bit system, though, you probably have one preordered already. That would have been the smart call, at least: this is easily the best of the nostalgic mini machines from the last few years, even if it is basically devoid of nostalgia for the vast majority of people who play videogames.
—or, more accurately, started to realize even “low-brow” media like comics, nighttime soaps, and rock’n’roll could be a little more stimulating than what I was used to. Coverage of the TurboGrafx in magazines likemade it seem riskier and edgier than what Nintendo was releasing, with the demonic and horror movie imagery of games likeselling me on the system.
Even if I wasn’t a sucker for this exact thing, I’m pretty sure I’d still find the TurboGrafx-16 Mini to be the best in its class. It is historically the most significant of these machines, if only because of the gaps in knowledge it helps fill in, and its menu design, display options and form factor make it the most aesthetically pleasing.
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