I remember countless charming hours playing Turbografx. Bonk's Adventure, Keith's Courage, DJ Jazz Jeff, Splatterhouse and those pinball games, Air Zonk. Man, there still has not been a game system invented that left the same impression on me. The games were these tiny cartridges and the system was called "Turbo" because each controller had a turbo button. I never owned one. My brother received it as a Christmas gift. When we really started getting into comic books, he traded it to our friends John and Derek for some comic books. Now our comic books just sit in their cardboard boxes collecting no value but collecting plenty of dust.

I remember playing this catapult game at my cousin Dan (dan10878) and Dave (TheMemoryCrawler) Renne's House. We would arrange some of our action figures on these chalkboard trays on the floor and we would take turns firing balls from catapults at each others action figures. The team that knocked over the other team's action figures first won. I would always use these madball action figures heads with the Madball catapult. That was a sweet game.

I remember having GI Joe fights with my brother.  We used to pretend that our action figures were waging war with each other.  They would sneak into the enemy's base (each bedroom being a base) and attempt to take out the enemy.  It was funny because it was kind of arbitrary how we would determine whether or not one of the GI Joes successfully shot the other GI Joe.  I think it was based on whether or not we were willing to give up one of our action figures.  If it was one of our cherished Joes we would say "no way, you missed" or "he dodged it".

We would sometimes get in fights because one of us would claim that we had a straight shot at the opposing Joe.  It was a good time, nonetheless.

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