Keith Courage in Alpha Zones

When TG-16 first came out (back in the day) this was the game that started you out and we (my family and I) loved it! Now,.. all these years later, I still love it. I thought it could be a little cheezy seeing it again after so much time had passed (maybe I romanticizing how cool it was?) but nope! still love it and it's still fun! My husband had never played it before even got into it and commented how fun it was (and how ahead of it's time the game station was) AND... as a 1st time player he died multiple times (ha ha!) on level one so the challenge does still exist!

THIS GAME WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN FOR THIS WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN THE RETRO AGE OF GAMING & FOR THOSE WHO STILL BE EXPERIENCING THIS CLASSIC GAME........ABOUT 100 GAMES EXIST FOR THE TG-16 LIBRARY..........THE JAPANESE LIBRARY IS MUCH MORE EXTENSIVE !

Strange pack in title for the Turbo Grafx 16. Decent enough action platformer for the system, but certainly not anything extraordinary. Decent graphics and sound. The bizarre story line used in an attempt to "Americanize" this highly Japanese-influenced release is what really makes this game notable. All and all, not a bad title to add to one's collection.

just as good as i remembered it was back in the day. harder to play then remember. guess its the fewer button on controller.

It a game, thank you.

It is so awesome!!! A++++

The TurboGrafx-16 video game system was doomed from the very beginning, and I would wager that a good reason for this failure (in addition to the terrible marketing, of course), was the absolutely mind-boggling decision to bundle "Keith Courage" with the console when it launched. Who at NEC thought this could possibly be a good idea? While happy Genesis owners got to transform into werewolves and dragons with the simplistic yet enjoyable "Altered Beast" and SNES kids got the legendary "Super Mario World", the TG-16 was saddled with this backward, clunky, mechanically unsound "platformer". After an untold number of hours of toiling away, I was able to complete this game as a child. But it felt far more like work than play... it simply wasn't fun. I do enjoy reminiscing about some of its supreme cheesiness, such as riding a rainbow to transform into a mechanized combot, or the obscenely bad storyline (your enemies were called B.A.D., for "Beastly Alien Dudes"), but under no circumstances would I attempt to play this game today. Simply watching a clip of it on YouTube makes me cringe, as the player tries to deal with the horribly shoddy gameplay. If only the TG-16 had been bundled with "Legendary Axe" or "Bonk's Adventure"... things could have turned out so much differently for NEC!

Keith Courage came with my Turbografx, back in the day. It's a platformer with sword attacks, upgradable equipment, and a transforming hero. The plot is hilarious. Keith works for a group called N.I.C.E., and fights against a group called B.A.D. Seriously. And it only gets better from there. Apparently all the names and basic plot was changed from the Japanese release, and in the process went from cheesy to LOLtatsic. Each world has two sections. In the first half, Keith fights against smaller enemies, inspired by Japanese folklore. Here you gain gold to upgrade your sword and recharge special attacks. The higher end weapons will take a lot of boring grinding to acquire, unfortunately. For the second half, you ride a rainbow beam, strap on some power armor, and go Voltron on everything in your path. It's like Keith was just goofing off and padding the fight for the first half, and now out comes the Blazing Sword and stuff just got real. Pretty much everything is more awesome here, the music, pacing, enemies, everything. Who can say no to an enemy that's a giant walking revolver? I have to admit, I really don't like the overworld parts of the game. Keith moves slow and killing the same enemies over and over to collect gold just isn't any fun. The underworld sections balance this out a bit, and are really fast paced and fun. So in conclusion, this game is both N.I.C.E. and B.A.D.