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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/

>>9856050
When they did try, kinda.

>>9835817
This autistic man was supposed to be the Turbografx's mascot in America, yuck...anyone wants to play some FEKA instead?

>>9384410
written by comicbook guy's cousin

USA aat the time was on the FMV = wave of the future, which looking back was not what cd consoles should have focused on.

https://sardoose.rustedlogic.net/reviews/jturbo/

>>6208241
TurboDuo could have been more successful if it was marketed better.

>>6199983
It was SEGA's message to Johnny Turbo.

>>5991409

>>4326867
>there are no FMV games whatsoever
But Johnny Turbo told me it has Sherlock Holmes

>>3757028
What do you think about this guy?

What is the best CD console made before Sega Satan and PSX?
Are there games that took advantage of the unlimited space besides of Red Book music?

>>3337567
>but we're still using discs to this day, so....
So?

>>3305597
>that selling point

>forgetting about Johnny Turbo

What ad is this clip from?

Great system. Anybody ever own one? Or a PC Engine?

They say print media is dying, but then again they said the same thing about radio when TV became a thing. Surely you can nowadays all the reviews and previews and screenshots straight from the internet, but magazines have still lot to offer and I'm sure they're going to be around forever. And with augmented reality and smartphones cameras, magazines are going to be full of new life.
There was this joke I heard in the 90s that is still relevant
>Do you think TV news is ever going to replace the newspaper?
>-Nah, you can't swap flies with a TV!

Why did NEC do this...

Look at this nightmare.

What in the holy mother of fuck were they thinking.

Why did NEC kill itself

>>2746082
Speak of the devil and he shall appear!

>>1541406

The system is rather tragic. It's a system as good, or better than the Snes or MD, but because of bad marketing, bad decisions, and bad luck, it never caught on in the West. In Japan however it sold well.

The stupid decisions range from big to small. Everything about the Western release is incompetent and stupid. They would take the original covers and then make awful new covers that look like children's drawings. Maybe it's a rights thing where they'd have to repay the artist. But that hurts the brand a lot. Some of the ads are insane. Jonny Turbo, who is this fat idiot is one of the Western ad campaigns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Turbo

Just look at this idiot. Someone thought this would be a good mascot for the system.

As for the console itself, It's got a big library and a lot of really good games. A lot of arcade ports, and a lot of CD games. Oh that's the other thing. Whereas Sega CD did okay, and was kind of niche, the PCE-CD actually did pretty well. That's why Sega and then Nintendo thought they had to bring out CD addons.

>Any love for the TG-16?

We call it the PC-Engine. That's the original name for it, and it's way cooler than the tryhard 90's name the West gave it.