Konami Files Fresh Trademark For TurboGrafx In The United States

Konami? Video games?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahaha... That's hilarious. Konami's a pachinko company.

I can see this happening. Personally I hope Sega, for example, decide to fully embrace the plug and play mini console, not just through third parties. But there are better consoles than this, surely?

How about Neo Geo mini 😬

Hopefully this means more tg16 VC (hopefully on handheld)

I wish Nintendo would buy the Bomberman IP from Konami.

I loved the turbografx. I owned the CD-ROM and dozens of games. Loved, loved, loved.

I wish military madness was on the 3ds vc.

I'd be down for a mini.

If this report is accurate then only TurboGrafx was updated, not TurboGrafx 16. So is it possible they are making a whole new home console under the name TurboGrafx?

Id be down just for Rondo of Blood.

But yeah anyone ready to hit the lever in a new sexy Turbografx pachinko machine? The ball is Kojimas head, the objects are all Hudson IP and the backdrop is a anthropomorphised PC Engine in a bikini.

@tomjscott TurboGrafx Pachinko, is you can call that a console.

More TG16 games on the Wii U VC outside of Japan please. 3 games in Europe? Seriously?

It doesn't seem likely at all, but I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Why can't Konami learn from Sega Sammy and make their video game business separate from the Pachinko and Pachislot business?

I'd buy a turbografx 16 mini. Konami hold the rights to the majority of games, let alone good games on the system now because of hudsonsoft. I've been toying with the idea of buying a US turbo duo for the collection and to start playing some titles I never got a chance to (it was never released here) but man are they expensive.

I can think of 10 to 15 worthy games. Beyond that though it gets a bit more sketch.

*stands in the corner with megaphone *

BANDDDWAGGOOOONNNNN!!!!!!

Interesting. I could see a plug-and-play happening, it's a great idea!

Side note, on Konami, do they even have the rights to the original Contra? It's never appeared on the VC. An iOS version of it came and was eventually pulled from the App Store. PS4 has a port of the original arcade rom, but not the NES original, and the recent NES Classic featured Super C instead. I don't recall seeing an official port on a Nintendo unit since Contra 4 on the DS. Just wondering why the original NES rom has been absent for purchase for so long.

Please Konami, I'm begging you to do something with this. A Turbo mini would be ideal but dumping out the roms on Wii U or 3DS or Switch would suffice. Or God forbid you actually hire people to make new games

@TruenoGT
The valis series would be an excellent addition, so would fausette amour.

I think it would be awesome. I'm glad these retro consoles are being released. I don't have much experience with TurboGrafx 16 a d U would rather have this instead of NES Classic.

Konami is Konami & Konami is the worst. They might just want to release TurboGrafx themed pachinko machines to rake in more of that "gambling money" they're chasing these days.

Since when is Konami a games developer

@ottospooky not if they are generous with import CD-ROM titles, no--I actually prefer the PC-Engine CD to the SNES/SuFami.

So they don't want to do anything with their original IPs, but they are going to push Hudson properties. That makes total sense.

@fortius54

Well....people have been wanting them to do something with Hudson's IPs. I don't see it as a bad thing if they do.

@TruenoGT I'd like to see Legend of Heroes, which was only released on VC in Japan (so counting the PSP remakes of 3-5, I think LoH2 is the only game that didn't get officially localized in some form).

And maybe Magical Chase, but very likely Square-Enix owns that now, and they wouldn't let Vic Ireland release Cadash, so I wouldn't count on it.

I love the PC Engine. Great system. Took too long to release it outside of Japan, which allowed Sega to be ready with their machine at the same time. If they were to release a mini console, it would be interesting to see what they'd pick to keep it balanced. Including CD games and getting Irem and Namco games on there would help. I wonder who holds the Naxat properties now.

Kudos to Damo for mentioning Image Fight. It's a good one.

I really still just want Nintendo to buy all the Hudson ips

This excites me but I can't help but see a similar situation with the NES Mini's shortages causing it to be targeted by greedy resellers and collectors driving prices up. They really know how to ruin a good thing.

I'll take both!! Gimme a mini classic TG-16 system(I'm sure they can put 30 games together) AND also please blast the PS4, Xbox one and Nintendo switch with TG-16 classics!! A few more on Wii U would be nice too as we only have 3! My $$ is ready konami!! GET moving!

Konami do fitness clubs

As long as they are doing something game related with the trademark then I'm col with it.

@TruenoGT Ys III and IV immediately come to mind.

Hopefully, this means TG-16/PC-E VC will return for the Nintendo Sandwitch. I probably wouldn't have known about titles like Military Madness, Gate of Thunder, and Ys Book 1 & 2 if they weren't made available on the Wii VC!

A mini PC-Engine? They were tiny to begin with. Will it be the size of a postage stamp??? (Sold either way, best 8-bit console by far!)

It seems more possible to me to re release some of those titles to digital services.

I would dream of a TGX16 mini with games such as Bomberman 93, Bonk, Castlevania, Splatter House, Devil's Crush, R-Type, Ys, Lord of Thunder (and why not JJ and Jeff just for fun lol)... But I highly doubt it will ever happen... The NES is known by everyone, even the non-gamers, while TGX16 is known by old video games nerds like me only. And a TGX16 mini would probably never generate the same hype/buzz as the NES mini did...

PS : I don't understand why some haters seem to forget ISS, MGS, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Suikoden, Contra, ZoE,... Konami, as Capcom, Sega, Nintendo,... will always be one of the greatest video games company for me

Is that the smell of Pachinko parlours?

@ElGrego It's just "cool" to hate on konami after everything recently. Not using or canceling IPs, the whole thing with Kojima, focusin on their billion euro a year pachinko industry (because wanting to make money as a business is wrong?)

Please please please bring out a TurboGrafx-16 Mini out, Konami, and please please please put Snatcher and Policenauts on it.

Maybe its a TurboGrafx themed pachinko machine

While it stinks that Konami is sitting on a treasure trove of classic gaming properties, it is a little unfair to say they are throwing money away. A lot of their properties started either A) costing a lot of develop making recouping the expense back or B) performed badly because they are niche titles. On the other hand, Pachinko is letting them rake in the cash.

While it would be great to have a TG-16 mini, you are talking about a console that sold 4 million units less than the Wii U. There is no guaranteed sales outside of collectors and hardcore fans. In comparison, the NES sold 60+ million worldwide and was loved by millions more.

Just saying before you all start a "@#$& Konami-fest", you might want to look at it from a logical standpoint. The management isn't exactly great people, but they are ruthlessly business smart.

If they do a TG mini, I hope they'll do a Core Grafx mini here.

If they made a Turbografx plug and play I would definitely look into it. It would not be hard to find 30 TG games that are worth playing, although some of the best were on CD and thus would probably not be selected.

I'd be happy enough if they un-abandoned their GameBox on iOS. http://appshopper.com/games/turbografx-16-gamebox

It is gonna be a pachinko machine...

It will probably be scalped but I can't see it being a widespread success with the casual crowd who happen to be many of the people buying the NES Mini. People reading this site have heard of the Turbografx but I know plenty of old NES and SNES gamers that have never heard of it.

I loved that system! TV Sports Hockey! Keith Courage! The Crush Pinball series! Soldier Blade! Blazing Lazer! ....and one of my favorites, and one that no one else remembers.....Tricky Kick!

@Rontanamo_Bay Well, I never had a TurboGrafx, and I've never even played any game on it except for Rondo of Blood and Moero Twinbee on the Wii Virtual Console, but there are so many cool-looking games for the system that I would love to try, but the Turbo is not exactly the cheapest and easiest system to start collecting for.

By the way, I absolutely love Konami... or at least what it was in the 8, 16, and 64 bit era: they were easily the best game developers after Nintendo. Too bad they had the biggest fall ever... And where's my new Goemon game? The series almost had 30 games made until 2005, and then it just stopped. Sure, the main people behind it have left Konami at that time to form GoodFeel (the creators of stuff like Yoshi's Woolly World), but still, it's ridiculous that they have done nothing with the franchise for 11 years (other than Pachinko), when they were releasing games of it almost every year, many times even more than one.

In regards to the snarky remarks, maybe if we show Konami there's still a market for their games, maybe they'll come back to the game industry.

Any chance Konami filed the trademark so they can sue that idiot Kanye West if he uses the name without their approval? It's been put out there that he is going to name his next album "Turbo Grafx 16"

@Rontanamo_Bay Don't even mention Life Force. I just played it some months ago for the first time, as I could get my hands on a Famicom copy (and believe me, it's easily one of the best-looking Famicom carts out there), and I absolutely fell in love with it. It's easily the best shooter on the system of what I've played, and it became one of my all-time favorite shooters as well. So good. Games like that make Konami's fall even more painful.

Also, as much as I like SotN, I'm not sure it's the best Metroid-like Castlevania game out there. Sure, it was the first one (if we don't count Simon's Quest), but I think many of the GBA and DS games used that game as a base to create something even better.

Bring on the mini console! Heck a mini console with 5 controllers and bomberman 94 would be worth it. The number 1 played multiplayer game in our home ever.

@Spoony_Tech would make for a sweet Mini Console. Bonk 1,2 and 3, Bomberman 93,94, Soldier Blade, Neutopia 1 and 2, motoRoader 5 player is awesome, aeroBlasters, Blazing lazers, Air zonk, Double Dungeons, World Sports Competition, World Class Baseball, Silent debuggers these are just a few off the top of my old brain but a mini system would be awesome. I hope thats their intent