Victor Ireland of Working Designs said that he thinks that only 40,000 Turbo CDs and Duos sold in the US, split evenly between CD and Duo systems.Â It’s likely that more Duos than that sold overall, because of systems Turbo Zone Direct sold off later on (Vic Ireland stopped releasing games for the TCD in mid 1993), but sales were quite bad, likely under 50,000 combining the CD and Duo together.Â Compared to this, the TurboGrafx-16 itself sold 900,000 systems in the Americas.Â That’s a low adoption rate, and it’s really unfortunate because so many of the best games for the system are on CD!Â Even just the limited US library below is loaded with good games, and the region-free nature of the system makes playing imports easy as well, though I am not listing those here. Then in 1992-1994, Hudson and TTI tried harder to push the Turbo CD in the US.Â The effort was unsuccessful, but did result in many more Turbo CD releases than were seen in ’91.Â From ’92 to early ’94 31 games were released, with only 2 of those being in 1994, plus one more game in late ’94 to make a total of 32 releases for the Turbo CD in ’92-’94, versus 12 in ’89-’91, or ’90-’91 if the games didn’t release until then as seems likely.Â It’s clear that it wasn’t until the Duo/Super CD/Johnny Turbo era that the Turbo CD was pushed much… but it didn’t sell nearly well enough, and TTI went bankrupt, hence only a few 1994 releases. Ouch.Â And most of those were released in 1990, with only a couple of lone releases in the mostly-empty year of 1991.Â 1991 really is the obvious gap in the US Turbo CD library, as anyone who reads this list should see!Â It’s too bad it didn’t get more releases that year, there were lots of games to bring over.

Release years is the most precise you can be.īut we do know that between launch in December 1989 (or maybe summer 1990? It’s unclear exactly) and December 1991, 12 CD games were released. The four 1993 CD titles came out after the Duo did as for the seven 1992 titles, there’s no way to really know, release dates for US TG16/TGCD releases are pretty much nonexistent. 44 licensed games were released for the TCD system in the US, evenly split between CD and Super CD titles.

This list should be complete and accurate. This is another one of those lists that was a lot more interesting and useful back before GameFAQs improved their search system, but hopefully it’s still got at least some amount of value.

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