Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts on the *regular* PC Engine - possible?

[_Matt_]

While on the SG subject, here are some scans from Onn Lee fanzines I bought BITD. The excitement back then when this dropped through the letterbox was something else. Import gaming in the early days.

They're awesome, I didn't know of PC Engine Fanatics fanzine back then but I did start buying it when it became Electric Brain.

 

[_Matt_]

Despite confusing me as a PC owning kid at the time, the PC Engine was an incredible piece of kit, considering it came out in 1987.
You'd have paid through the nose for it though. Not exact X68000 price, but I recall it was a fortune to import.

Why the hell they repackaged it into an air-filled monster of a case for the US, I'll never know.

I've got the Uk/euro Turbografx and I remember taking these comparison pics for a mate years ago and explaining that most of the US model was empty. In America bigger was better, idiots! It was only when I took that pic that I noticed how similar the right hand side of the US/Euro version was to the core graphics.

 

[Max...]

They're awesome, I didn't know of PC Engine Fanatics fanzine back then but I did start buying it when it became Electric Brain.

Yeah, Onn Lee was a legend, all run from his parents Chinese takeaway in Nottingham. Started with PC Engine Fanatics, then Console Ma’zine and finally Electric Brain and a listing in WH Smith’s. Happy days.

 

[_Matt_]

Yeah, Onn Lee was a legend, all run from his parents Chinese takeaway in Nottingham. Started with PC Engine Fanatics, then Console Ma’zine and finally Electric Brain and a listing in WH Smith’s. Happy days.

Yeah he did a great job as the mainstream magazines didn’t have much PC Engine coverage. Those were the days, you buy a magazine and read it from start to finish again and again

 

[kingtreelo]

Actually it was 3 buttons, run was light I think and you would toggle with the 4th button... but I played super famicom and pc engine with joy sticks, I tried fighting games with a pad but it just seems clunky to me.

It just felt amazing to play Street Fighter 2 on the tiny PC engine.

i meant the PC engine controller only has 2 buttons on it, i saw someone posted the other controller which looks a lot more suitable for playing, i also didnt understand people who loved the MD version over the SNES one, you had to flick a trigger to jump between punch and kick....urgh

 

[John Bennett]

i meant the PC engine controller only has 2 buttons on it, i saw someone posted the other controller which looks a lot more suitable for playing, i also didnt understand people who loved the MD version over the SNES one, you had to flick a trigger to jump between punch and kick....urgh

As Mortal Kombat came out first, we had 6-button joypads ready for the day we got SF2 on the MD.
I'd presumed all PC Engine owners would've got a 6-button pad too - it's painful with anything less.
It was remarkable how good the console versions of SF2 all were.

 

[thegreathopper]

i meant the PC engine controller only has 2 buttons on it, i saw someone posted the other controller which looks a lot more suitable for playing, i also didnt understand people who loved the MD version over the SNES one, you had to flick a trigger to jump between punch and kick....urgh

PC engine controller has 4 buttons if you include run and select. I also played this on my Turbo express with converter! that was very futuristic to have street fighter 2 on a handheld.