Early PC Engine pictures

When had been showed first pictures of the PC Engine ?
And the first pictures of Kung Fu ?
Thanks

 

well, here are some of the first pictures of the PC-Engine that I ever saw.

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/306/vgceapril19ln.jpg
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9315/vgceapril21nx.jpg
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1125/vgceapril34jb.jpg


they're from the April, 1989 Video Games & Computer Entertainment, which were no doubt put together in EARLY 1989 given the magazine lead times. Yet still, well over A YEAR *after* the PC-Engine had been released in Japan, in Nov 1987.



I am looking for the picture of PC-Engine R-Type that was published in a spring or summer 1988 issue of Electronic Game Player, the forefather to Electronic Gaming Monthly.

 

Hehe. Same here.
If I recall, Quartermann or Steve Harris referenced that pic in response to a letter in the mailbag section of an early 1990's era EGM.

 

http://nfg.2y.net/games/pce_protos/

 

GigaDrive : thank you very much for yours pictures, but PC Engine was released in october 1987 and pictures are to april 1989. I search the first pictures PC Engine in the summer 1987....with Kung Fu the first game.

StarWolf : Thanks, but I know those pictures, it´s just prototypes of the CD-ROM², modem,....

Very difficult to find those pictures after 20 years...

 

Indeed. I wonder if it'll be easier 20 years from now, now that everyone has a digital camera and a scanner.

 

yes, you're absolutely right.

this is it, I believe: http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/361/egmpceletter762x10162fn.jpg

the relavant portions are not glared out

 

Thibaut , yes I know, those April 1989 VG&CE pics are some of the oldest of the PC-Engine that I have, and I don't have any of the Kung Fu game....you don't mean China Warrior, do you?

 

It seems TurboGrafx-16 China Warrior was called Kung Fu on the PC-Engine, and this Kung Fu is from 1987

http://www.pcengine.com.br/cards/cwar/cwar.htm


THE KUNG FU / CHINA WARRIOR (HUDSON SOFT)












I remember China Warrior having huge charactors for the time.


http://pcenginebible.roarvgm.com/HTML_Games/Drunken_Master.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmR1xJAho_c
a commercial, most likely from 1989, comparing TurboGrafx China Warrior (PC-Engine Kung Fu) to Nintendo Kung Fu on NES



now as far as the very first pictures of the PC-Engine and Kung Fu that were published in 1987 in magazines, newspapers, etc, I cannot help you there....

or perhaps you are talking about some other, unreleased Kung Fu game for the PC-Engine? I don't know about it, if that's what you meant.

if we're meant to be on the subject of unreleased games (but not PC-Engine)
there *was* an unreleased Kung Fu II game by Irem for the Famicom / NES


http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nrhtml/kungii.htm

http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii1.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii2.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii3.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii4.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii5.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii6.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii7.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii8.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii9.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii10.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii11.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii12.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii13.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii14.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr2/kungii15.jpg

 

Spartan X (another Jackie Chan movie, but not related to "Kung Fu") was the original game on the NES and in arcades. The unreleased one above is Spartan X 2, AKA Kung Fu 2.

 

Kung-Fu is actually known as Drunken Master IIRC.

I've got an English mag called The Games Machne that covered the PC Engine in 1987, trouble is it's in the attic at my mum's house.

 

That's what it's commonly known as, but that isn't its title. I don't know where that Drunken Master title came from, but I bet it was made up by an importer that couldn't read Kanji but could identify Jackie Chan.

 

Ah, China Warrior. A tad repetitive and choppy, but always a personal favorite of mine. Pretty impressive stuff back in 1989.

 

"Pretty impressive stuff back in 1989"

Kunf Fu came out in 1987.

 

I'm talking about China Warrior, not Kung Fu/Spartan X.
The monstrously huge sprites that China Warrior featured were a far cry from the tiny sprites utilized in Kung Fu.

 

I scanned a very famous PC-Engine flyer which has some games I've never heard of. Dynamite Ball? Jungle-Ou? Not sure what Dynamiate Ball was. The latter might be Angoku Densetsu or something.

 

Very cool. Famous piccie indeed that top one.

I particularly like the cd unit, and what looks like a briefcase/monitor setup.

 

So is Thibaut. The Kung Fu (Chinawarrior) was the first PC-Engine game to come out, in October of 1987.

Those pictures are really cool! The car in Victory Run is a different type/colour. Jungle King (Ou) became Legendary Axe (Makyou Densetsu). Dynamite Ball could have been scrapped in favour of Alien Crush, but it's too bad; the PCE has enough cool-looking unreleased games as it is.

 

Well, we didn't get China Warrior in the US until 1989. That's the first time I got to play it, hence my response.

 

GaijinPunch : your flyer is great !! Fantastic !

Do you know the date of the Flyer ?

Thanks

Edit :
Could you please make some high scans of this flyers ?

Thanks again