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Yes. Firstly - do we have any PC Engine fans/experts on the board?

I'm pretty sure we have a few. I am something of a big fan of the system and can certainly offer opinion on a huge proportion of the system's library, though am not an expert on the horrendously complicated hardware side of things for the format (surely the most convoluted series of hardware revisions for any system in history).

When I am no longer at near-death with this mystery vomiting bug that sent me home from work, I'll post more!

Having had nothing better to spend my money on for some time, I got a load of PC Engine VC stuff about six months ago. Utterly gutted to have missed this console the first time round - it would almost certainly have been my preferred format.

EXCELLENT. Goatboy, also.

I have just bought a PC Engine*. Please nobody tell my bank manager

Can anyone RMD?

* specifically, a TurboGrafx, which should be PAL. Yus.

For RMDs, this place is fairly on the money. Personally, much as there's stuff missing, PCE Shinobi is the only home conversion that retains anything like the soul of the original. Get that.

EDIT: Oh, the Software Bible is down at the moment, I see -- pity, it's really quite comprehensive.
EDIT: Hang on! The index at the bottom still works! Hoorah! Use that!

I've had a PC Engine for a little while but I must confess I've not used it half as much as I should've done. Pac-land is superb though.

I briefly owned a Core Grafx II, though sadly a temporary brain malady caused me to sell it on eBay. The PC Kid/Bonk's Adventure games are very, very good and the console is home to my absolute favourite port of Out Run (save for the Saturn/Dreamcast versions, which are identical to the arcade).

i was about to buy it, but for some reason i didn't, the pc engine has bene by far my mostdownloaded Virtual console games series though, with nektaris, the starsoldier series etc..

http://www.vc-reviews.com offers a nice list reviews

The PC-Engine, more than any other console, makes me wish I spoke and read Jap-o-knees.

Still, pcenginefx.com is also a good place to go.

Quick recommendations -

Pacland (almost certainly the best version of the game, including the arcade original, and for me the single best game on the system)

Wonderboy in Monsterland (absolutely brilliant port, albeit with the boss character sprites replaced with characters from a random Japanese comic)

R-Type (probably the best home port there ever was, though the screen has a little bit of scrolling up and down to accomodate the original screen size, which some people loathe)

Parodius (actually a port of Parodius Da and not the original Parodius, great conversion though aso has the up/down scrolling like R-Type)

Gradius

All the Bonk!/PC Kid games

Bomberman '94

Soldier Blade

Super Star Soldier