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Anonymous Sat May 27 00:57:49 2023 No.9937314 [Reply] [Original]

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/

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 02:08:01 2023 No.9937458 Based Turbofaggot Pete wearing waffle armor

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 02:09:42 2023 No.9937462 >>9937314 >This was the best marketing campaign of all time Then why did it fail miserably?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 02:16:42 2023 No.9937485 >>9937314 Oh boy Sherlock Holmes

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 06:07:44 2023 No.9937874 >>9937314 >>9937485 THE Sherlock Holmes?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 08:14:35 2023 No.9938005 >>9937874 you mean THE Sherlock Holmes that was released on the Turbo Duo TWO years before the Sega CD port?

Anonymous Sat May 27 12:31:31 2023 No.9938360

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.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 17:10:53 2023 No.9938908 >>9937462 >YouTuber Johnny vs. Not using Shantae as mascot?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 27 19:12:30 2023 No.9939216 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.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 28 04:56:18 2023 No.9940545 >>9938908 Dude what?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 28 05:00:11 2023 No.9940556 >>9939216 internet.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 28 05:14:39 2023 No.9940589 >>9937314 >he canonically has a boyfriend who bakes him cookies

>>	Anonymous Sun May 28 05:18:11 2023 No.9940602 >>9937314 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.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 00:09:56 2023 No.9942429 >>9940589 And this guy was actually based on another TTI employee

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 01:29:56 2023 No.9942546 >>9940545 Don’t what me.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 01:32:34 2023 No.9942553 >>9942546 You write like a bot, consider doing something about that

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 01:43:26 2023 No.9942580 >>9937314 I remember this comic being retarded 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.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 01:54:26 2023 No.9942594 can somebody share the comic? you guys got me curious.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 02:03:08 2023 No.9942614 >>9942594 literally in the OP

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 02:18:36 2023 No.9942639 >>9942614 sorry, i tought it was just another link to some youtuber-like retard. please understand.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 07:17:26 2023 No.9943018 >>9940589 >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

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 09:45:25 2023 No.9943201 >the last issue is just the writers going "fuck it" and making it borderline explicit that Johnny and his roommate are in a gay S&M relationship Lol

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 09:47:48 2023 No.9943203 >>9942580 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.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 09:57:28 2023 No.9943213 >>9943203 I would pick Lords of Thunder over any sonic game.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 10:05:19 2023 No.9943226 >>9943213 The joke in a way is that Lords of Thunder was also released on SegaCD so you can have both.

Anonymous Mon May 29 11:30:42 2023 No.9943353

>>9940602
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

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 13:48:47 2023 No.9943607 File: 110 KB, 490x693, jt1-4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I also like the implication that Sega is ran by inhuman...monsters? Robots?

Anonymous Mon May 29 19:44:32 2023 No.9944445
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>>9943607
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.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:03:06 2023 No.9944504 >>9944445 why feka?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:36:15 2023 No.9944614 >>9944504 Because that's how low NEC was willing to go over this nonsense.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:59:42 2023 No.9944670 >>9938360 crystal crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqxBwqOlwI Also fucking Astroboy and Blackjack are in this game!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:07:35 2023 No.9944686 >>9942639 >youtube get over your fixation on youtube, you retard. you sound like a dumb fuck

Anonymous Mon May 29 21:09:52 2023 No.9944690

>>9943607
johnny turbo is an asshole, 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 retarded, 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.

Anonymous Mon May 29 21:27:24 2023 No.9944748

>>9944690
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.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 23:12:10 2023 No.9944950 >>9944748 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.

Anonymous Tue May 30 00:09:13 2023 No.9945063
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>>9944950
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..

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 00:10:44 2023 No.9945068 >>9945063 soul

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 00:15:00 2023 No.9945076 Were NEC the good guys? Have we been backing the wrong horse this whole time?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 00:30:06 2023 No.9945097 >>9944670 Who is Blackjack?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 00:55:20 2023 No.9945157 >>9945097 The greatest doctor in all of anime

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 03:01:07 2023 No.9945432 >>9945097 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.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 03:39:26 2023 No.9945495 File: 33 KB, 281x328, barf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9944670 >Nicalis

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 04:16:24 2023 No.9945551 >>9937485 >>9937874 >>9938005 Sherlock Holmes was really fucking 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)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 05:31:34 2023 No.9945676 >>9945076 >Were NEC the good guys? They pandered to the arcade and the otaku audience. They were more than good, they were our bros.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 08:08:39 2023 No.9945857 >>9945551 Wow!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 08:31:19 2023 No.9945881 >>9945495 >>Nicalis More like Fekalis, am I right

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