The picture of a TurboCD is not mine. In fact, I never owned the TG-16 CD add-on. Not many of us could when it debuted. You see, it was a whopping $399 for the CD add-on that opened up arcade quality abilities in the TG-16. Games like “Fighting Street” (Street Fighter Prime) and full motion movies and sounds like Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and of course Dragon’s Lair.

Nintendo brings TurboCD games to the affordable masses now on Wii VC and today comes of TurboCD’s best and most beloved games.

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. There were other versions of this game available (Sega Saturn and PS1), but this was a 16-bit console doing the same graphics and sound (okay, close). Amazing back in the day considering you wouldn’t hear or see this game again until the 32-bit console wars.

Was TurboCD worth the $399 to jump ahead a generation? Not really. TG-16 was still two separate 8-bit processors doing 16-bit work and adding a TurboCD to the mix of an already $200 console? Well, you might as well as gotten a Neo-Geo system at that price.

Still, we couldn’t afford TurboCD back then and we still can’t now. The game is quality and totally worth the buy on Wii VC. I’m getting it in a few minutes, so what are you waiting for?

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