Now that "old" Millenials have reached their mid-30s, the sweet nostalgia of bygone youth ushers in a great opportunity for consoles of Christmases past to make a comeback. In fact, Nintendo launched a mini NES console back in 2017, and this year SEGA plans to release their own mini Genesis in September.
Today, Konami announced the return of TG16, the PC Engine gaming console that was highly popular in Japan, and considerably less popular everywhere else, according to PC Mag, but not because it sucked. Conversely, the TG16 had a more powerful CPU than the Super Nintendo and a host of descent games. Its failure was largely due to a lack of third-party developer support and, unfortunately, being late to the market overseas. As a result, the TG16 never gained much ground toward inserting itself between SEGA and Nintendo, the gaming power houses of the time.
Better late than never, however.
Konami's TG16 along with a pre-loaded game catalogue will be highly anticipated by any fan of old school console gaming. For those never given opportunity to play around with the
Turbografx-16, this opens up a whole new virtual playground; and while there are a lot of retro gaming devices out there, the majority of the game titles that made the
TG16 so popular in Japan are worth exploring.
While there's no official release date just yet, one would assume an E3 announcement indicates a launch sometime within this year.