The only store in Japan which had one of each of the three was an
import store in Akihabara. Now I say "import" because this store, to
this day, really only carries North American Genesis, Dreamacst,
Playstation, etc. games. They have almost no Japanese stuff. (That seems to be a growing trend there. I was stunned to see
imported Dreamcast VMUs, keyboards, controllers and games at stores
like SofMap, Laox, and other big chains.) Anyway, about LGoH, I used to see them for sale through video game
stores that did mail order. In fact, I think that's where I got mine
(I only ever had the first one). Whether they are homebrew or not,
they are sought after and worth having if only because they are the
first "successful" homebrew attempts for the system. I say
"successful" because 10 years after their release, people are still
looking for them and we are still talking about them. But for
entertainment value, they are probably rated only a little higher than
the Saturn E-book disc. As for point of origin, I have to say Hawaii. I've never seen
these photos anyplace else so whoever made this probably had worked
with the person or people who shot these photos which apperently were
shot in Hawaii. Since I have never seen this content anywhere else, I
assume it was all exclusive to the Duo release. The English writing
and the fact that, if I'm not mistaken, "PC Engine" is not on there but
"TurboDuo" is have to account for something. The other thing that is interesting is that LGoH really got me
thinking that it was possible to do do unofficial things with the Duo.
I've always wanted to put together a photo Cd and stills of statistics,
photos of fans playing, screenshots, even fan art or brief video clips
of great Turbo games with my own remixes of fave Turbo music playing in
the background. a Turbo Tribute disc of sorts. LGoH let me think that
was all somehow possible because somebody was able to stick 50 Hawaiian
cuties onto a disc.
>I remember seeing one or two of these in store in Japan. It was
>definitely out of place compared to all the official PCE games >on the
shelf around it. This place was in a shopping center >and was a fairly
"mainstream" game store.Now that I think about >it, that store also had
some unofficial MegaDrive >games at one time too.
>David Woodford
>xxxxxx@umich.edu