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Okay, quiz time. To effectively market your video game console when it's struggling against two [[Nintendo Entertainment System|well-established]] [[Sega Genesis|competitors]], what would be the best course of action to take?
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B. Set up demonstration kiosks in stores to let gamers play these titles for themselves.
C. [[Insane Troll Logic|Throw caution to the wind and go all-out on one of your rivals with a series of comic book-styled propaganda and recycle the same two games within them as "proof" of your machine's superiority while introducing a laughable spokesman.]] }}
If you answered C, you may have been working for NEC in the early 90s as a marketer for their console the [[
# Episode 43: The Master Plan! -- Johnny learns that Feka is marketing [[Sega CD|a CD system]] as "the first of its kind," and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|this simply will not stand.]] Johnny takes out the Feka goons who were selling the CD systems, and more in the shadows promise their revenge.
# Episode 44: Let 'Em Dangle! -- [[Recycled Script|See above]], only this time, there's a great focus on the more recently released TurboDuo, which combined the TG-16 and its CD
# Episode 45: Sleepwalker -- Johnny's sidekick Tony gets [[A Day in
Today, Johnny stands mostly as a curious and forgotten footnote in the history of a company which was losing ground in the US to [[
▲#Episode 44: Let 'Em Dangle! -- [[Recycled Script|See above]], only this time, there's a great focus on the more recently released TurboDuo, which combined the TG-16 and its CD addon into one unit, a capability which the Genesis and Sega CD lacked at the time. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because everybody who wanted the Sega CD obviously didn't own a Genesis at the same time.]]
Seriously, read the whole thing. [[Narm Charm|It's much more amusing]] than it should be.▼
▲#Episode 45: Sleepwalker -- Johnny's sidekick Tony gets [[A Day in The Limelight]]. And he has one ''hell'' of a dream.
▲Today, Johnny stands mostly as a curious and forgotten footnote in the history of a company which was losing ground in the US to [[Sega (Creator)|Sega]] and [[Nintendo (Creator)|the Big N]], but thanks to the internet and webmaster Sardius, you too can experience the entire saga of Mr. Turbo [http://sardoose.rustedlogic.net/reviews/jturbo/ here]. The first two "issues", as noted above, are fairly typical gaming attacks, with Feka presented as a faceless man assisted by [[Me's a Crowd|identityless goons]], but then the third one -- most likely an utter last-ditch attempt for NEC to just make ''some'' sort of impact on the average gamer's mind -- got... [[Mind Screw|weird.]] [[Ho Yay|Very,]] [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|very]] [[Brain Bleach|weird.]]
▲Seriously, read the whole thing. [[Narm Charm|It's much more amusing]] than it should be.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Johnny and Tony. Driven beyond the bounds of human decency in "Sleepwaker" in as much as could be shown to kids.
* [[Big OMG]]: Several, among them the page quote.
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* [[Memetic Outfit]]: Everybody's, since they almost [[Limited Wardrobe|never appear in anything else]].
* [[The Men in Black]]: The Feka goons.
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Tony has a fricking ''orgasm'' over the [[Classic Cheat Code]] to unlock ''[[
* [[Nice Hat]]: The Feka goons. As for Johnny? Ehhhh... Maybe if someone other than him was wearing it.
* [[Off-Model]]: Whoever drew these comics seems to have gone to the [[Rob Liefeld]] school of comic artistry, and not just because of Johnny's infatuation with belts.
* [[Opaque Lenses]]: Johnny's goggles all of the time, Tony's glasses most of the time.
* [[Propaganda Machine]]: Feka is apparently the devil incarnate for persuading kids to give them their hard-earned allowances. So how does Johnny/NEC fight this? ''With more propaganda.''
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Again, Feka's boss. The goons hide theirs with their [[Sinister Shades]].
* [[Retool]]: "Sleepwalker". Feka is out, freaky [[Homoerotic Subtext]]-saturated dreams are ''in''.
* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: Feka is discovered to employ these '''not-even-humans!''' when Johnny fights a bunch in "The Master Plan!"
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: Johnny. Full stop.
* [[Say My Name]]: "... I just can't '''contain''' myself! '''''JONATHAN!!!'''''"
* [[Shout
* [[Single Tear]]: A random boy's reaction when a Feka goon gloats about how he'll need to spend another $100 for the main Feka console in order to use his shiny new CD system.
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* [[Small Reference Pools]]: For no good reason, the JT ads chose to focus exclusively on (admittedly very good) [[Shoot
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Interviews with real-life employees of NEC at the time, coupled with the downright ''bizarre'' direction "Sleepwalker" took, suggest that the artists and writers were using the comics to make fun of people in the company, as Jonathan Brandstetter ''really does'' exist. As does Tony, if he's the same person as Tony Ancona.
* [[Strawman Product]]: The TurboDuo has '''the arcade feel!''' And Feka's pack-in shooter game (''Sol-Feace'', for those wondering) '''doesn't even compare!''' to ''Lords of Thunder''! But of course, at the same time, Sega was doing the same thing to Nintendo in their own ads.
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[[Category:US Canadian Comics]]
▲[[Category:Johnny Turbo]]
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