This was the best marketing campaign of all time, especially when you realize that TTI blew their advertising budget on a comic just to make fun of an annoying fat coworker.
Source: https://sardoose.rustedlogic.net/reviews/jturbo/
This was the best marketing campaign of all time, especially when you realize that TTI blew their advertising budget on a comic just to make fun of an...
>This was the best marketing campaign of all time
Then why did it fail miserably?
>YouTuber Johnny vs.
Not using Shantae as mascot?
Dude what?
Don’t what me.
You write like a bot, consider doing something about that
Oh boy
Sherlock Holmes
THE Sherlock Holmes?
you mean THE Sherlock Holmes that was released on the Turbo Duo TWO years before the Sega CD port?
Sherlock Holmes was really fricking cool, one of the best FMV games out there.
(and it WAS better on the Turbo Duo, the Sega CD version is ugly as shit)
Wow!
Weirdest thing about Johnny Turbo is that they revived him to serve as branding on a bunch of Switch Arcade ports (basically doing the same thing Hamster does but with even less bells and whistles). I think he also appears in some puzzle game that came out a few years ago.
crystal crisis.
Also fricking Astroboy and Blackjack are in this game!
Who is Blackjack?
The greatest doctor in all of anime
another series created by Osamu Tezuka, Astroboy's creator.
basically the adventures of a master doctor and surgeon and his 'daughter' travelling around the world helping people.
>Nicalis
More like Fekalis, am I right
I liked how in the comic this TG autist came up with the superhero costume and name on the spot yet the "bad guys" somehow instantly knew his superhero name and were angry he had showed up.
internet.
>he canonically has a boyfriend who bakes him cookies
And this guy was actually based on another TTI employee
>Tony spent the whole day on the kitchen baking cookies for Johnny
>Johnny as thanks go into his room while Tony's sleeping and start chanting Bomberman codes to give Tony a wet dream
Reminds me of General Chaos for genesis.
When somebody tells me they spent a weekend playing that in one form or another, I know I've met somebody I can get along with. That game is like a 90's litmus test for genesis.
Lol.
I remember playing it very often as a kid. I didn't quite understand controls, more like just mashed buttons but somehow managed to progress and win. The game is great, it's like original Team Fortress.
Shame they didn't get remake/sequel funded on Kickstarter
I remember this comic being moronic and deceptive.
Nobody had heard of Turbo Duo and the few who had, hated the broken piece of junk.
Johnny Turbo was all hype and had nothing to back up the wild claims that were later debunked.
But Anon, how could anything compare to Gate of Thunder, which you get for free, and it's sequel Lords of Thunder?!
Which I only now learn is apparently related to Thunder Force.
I would pick Lords of Thunder over any sonic game.
The joke in a way is that Lords of Thunder was also released on SegaCD so you can have both.
can somebody share the comic? you guys got me curious.
literally in the OP
sorry, i tought it was just another link to some youtuber-like moron. please understand.
>youtube
get over your fixation on youtube, you moron. you sound like a dumb frick
>the last issue is just the writers going "frick it" and making it borderline explicit that Johnny and his roommate are in a gay S&M relationship
Lol
I also like the implication that Sega is ran by inhuman...monsters? Robots?
Nah, that's not SEGA, that's just FEKA. Clearly totally different.
I remember watching Larry Bundy do a video on this comic, it's so laughably bad. The main argument of the entire thing was that they claim SE-I mean, FEKA is lying that their CD system was first, and that they don't mention it's not a standalone unit. But from looking into all the articles he could find, he never saw any mention of SEGA ever claiming the SegaCD was the first CD based console OR imply that it was standalone.
And the other arguments he makes are mostly nonsensical such as claiming the TG games have "that arcade feel" or "are more intense", about the only thing that some autist on GameFaqs might actually bring up in an argument is that they got SOME of the games first.... like that shitty Sherlock Holmes point-and-click that was mentioned earlier.
And apparently FEKA's "master plan" revolved around..... making people think their console was the first CD based one? What exactly would that accomplish?
Very easy to laugh at this thing now, but I wonder if this thing was seen just as stupid back then by TG16 fans/owners or if any people actually fell for the arguments.
why feka?
Because that's how low NEC was willing to go over this nonsense.
johnny turbo is an butthole, he's not a demon! dude just had a strange eye condition, but of fuicking course the papers had to exagerate that and make the populace believe he was some demon guy.
...poor steve, last time i heard of him, he took his life and left his wife and children...
seriously tho. these comics were beyond moronic, and then theres the third one where apparently he had the power to invade dreams and basically brainwashed his roommate into worshipping the turboduo. the worst part of all, is that this crap was just not needed, if they werent such pansies as to not let the best PCE/CD games japan only, the system would have competed with the genesis on equal ground. hell! with how big the anime wave was starting to get in the early 90s, they could have localized the games based on the most popular animes of the time and made some decent bank.
Not sure if better software could have saved the TurboGrafx at that point, at that point most people didn't know the TG-16 was a thing and if they did they probably thought it was inferior to the Genesis. However, a better library could have made it a cult classic console much faster.
a lot of us saw their advertisements on tv and comics or video game magazines. the turbografx lacked a runaway hit, or having a good amount of recognizable games to sway the kids away from the genesis or nes.
There was a VERY brief window where the TG-16 and Genesis could have been considered in competition with one another. The TG-16 had some great games but the Genesis smashed it with it's American-friendly library and marketing. By the time the SNES came out, the party was completely over for the Turbo. A lot of the great Japanese stuff for the system never came out here and a lot of the western developed games for the system are some of the worst games of all time..
soul
Were NEC the good guys? Have we been backing the wrong horse this whole time?
>Were NEC the good guys?
They pandered to the arcade and the otaku audience. They were more than good, they were our bros.