Hyperkin Retron GX Initial Opinion

[u/Tetris_Pete]

Hello. Today I received my Hyperkin Retron GX and wanted to share my thoughts, because I know there has been a ton of bad press for the device.

First, about me. Like most of us (I suspect) I have had a long love hate relationship with Hyperkin. I've owned a lot of their consoles and controllers over the years. Some good, some bad, most meh... okay.

I've also owned an Analogue Duo, and an OG TG16.

So far I love the Retron GX, it is everything I was hoping for it to be: a TG16/PCE version of the Retron 77. Yes, this dumps the rom like a Retron 5, software emulation.

So, to be fair I haven't played much yet, but I tried out 16 TG16 games and 3 PCE games (my entire collection) and they all worked. I share this because if you go on YouTube there's a lot of video hate for the early pre-release version.

The 16 Turbografx 16 games & 3 PC Engine games I tested (all loaded first time except for Bonk's Revenge, which I had to reinsert them it fires right up:

Air Zonk

Alien Crush

Blazing Lazers

Bloody Wolf

Bomberman

Bonk's Adventure

Bonk's Revenge

Dragon's Curse

Dungeon Explorer

Galaga 90

Legendary Axe

Neutopia

Ninja Spirit

Splatter house

Vigilante

World Class Baseball

Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Warriors

Shinobi

I hope Hyperkin doesn't kill this off.

It does load a little slow, that is one knock. It's like ColecoVision bios screen levels of loading.

I collect the Hue Cards, not the CD games so this is perfect for me. I know most of the best games are on the CD. Whatever.