Johnny Turbo

[Anonymous No.10589337]

Has there ever been a videogame mascot more embarrassing than Johnny Turbo?

Yeah yeah, you're about to post Sonic or Mario, very funny and original.

I mean, sure, there have been a lot of really really stupid videogame mascots. Or ones that are weird, creepy, lame, or just plain confusing, but in terms of just embarrassing for the company I can't think of one worse than this guy. They made comics that were basically a console war over statements they claimed SEGA said that they never did (Namely, that the SegaCD was the first CD based console and that SEGA tried to make it seem like you didn't need a Genesis to use a SegaCD, SEGA did neither of these) and the system itself didn't outlive the SegaCD in the US.

The character never even appeared in any games No, his meme appearance as a joke character in the 2019 game "Crystal Crisis" does not count and was more or less a mockery of one of their developers, Jonathan Brandstetter, whom they apparently didn't like and intentionally made the character as a mockery. Some argue the mascot actually hurt sales of the system ion the US even more than it already was struggling with.

[Anonymous No.10589381]

>>10589337
He only wants you to play Gates of thunder and tell you how to play Bomberman on your new turbo duo, that makes him pretty based.

[Anonymous No.10589398]

More like Johnny TURDO LMAO mascot of the TURDO POO-O

[Anonymous No.10589409]

>>10589337
>all he had was 3 comics
can you imagine if they had TV ads with johnny turbo?

[Anonymous No.10589417]

>>10589381
Is that why it's sequel came out in the SegaCD and their version of Bomberman was ported to the Genesis?

[Anonymous No.10589459]

>>10589337
>Has there ever been a videogame mascot more embarrassing than Johnny Turbo?

[Anonymous No.10589479]

>Has there ev-ACK

[Anonymous No.10589490]

>>10589337
I think he is awesome. He just wants everyone to know that NEC was the original compact disc game system.

[Anonymous No.10589491]

>>10589337
The bigger question is, why is G-Mode using him to sell random Data East arcade games that had nothing to to do with the PC-Engine or TurboGrafx-16?

[Anonymous No.10589498]

>>10589337
>and they're giving you games released that we already have

lol, there are plenty of multiplats that released later on pce. truxton came out a good 3 years later, even if its superior, its uber rare

[Anonymous No.10589505]

>>10589498
>uber rare
Milschmädechengung

[Anonymous No.10589517]

>>10589417
>it's

>>10589479
>who's

[Anonymous No.10589540]

>>10589517
I see what you did they're but nobody here gives a shit about there grammar, go back to Twitter, the people over their will care about that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.10589550]

>>10589337

HEY KIDS I'M AN ADULT MAN IN COSPLAY APPROACHING YOU WITH A GUN DRAWN! HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD WORD ABOUT TURBO DUO??

[Anonymous No.10589591]

>>10589337
Sonic

[Anonymous No.10589595]

>>10589337
Mario

[Anonymous No.10589665]

[Anonymous No.10589734]

>>10589479
I keked. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.10589763]

>>10589417
Well... Lords of thunder released first on the turbo, I honestly don't know anything about the Sega CD port, only that it exists and some people like the soundtrack more than the original (it was probably ported because the Sega CD sold more than the Turbo CD/duo).
On the other hand, Mega Bomberman is a bad port of Bomberman 94 (the last one for the PC engine) and was only available in the US and Europe because the Turbo was already dead.
The TurboGrafx is pretty depressing.

[Anonymous No.10589798]

>>10589763
>The TurboGrafx is pretty depressing.
Says the anon who never owned one. I did and back in middle school I was the envy of all the other guys who thought games like Splatterhouse were cool. That's it. It had cool games. It didn't matter that it had fewer of them.
I also had a Genesis too and more, so I wasn't
fanboying.

[Anonymous No.10589870]

We posting mascots with no gaems?
Storytime

[Anonymous No.10589873]

>>10589870

[Anonymous No.10589875]

>>10589873

[Anonymous No.10589880]

>>10589875

[Anonymous No.10589881]

>>10589880
The second story

[Anonymous No.10589883]

>>10589881

[Anonymous No.10589889]

>>10589883
One last one

[Anonymous No.10589892]

>>10589798
I didn't owned a TurboGrafx back in the day, but I do own a PC engine and it's a pretty cool system, sadly most of the great games never released outside of Japan.

[Anonymous No.10589893]

>>10589889
And that's it, that's the final one

[Anonymous No.10589948]

>>10589337
Johnny Turbo is based and Sherlock Holmes came out TWO YEARS before your shitty version!

[Anonymous No.10590024]

>>10589870
Unrelated to Atariman himself, but isn't impossible mission the game that was literally unwinnable?
Also he has a toy gun, his mother fucker is stronger than Goku

[Anonymous No.10590043]

>>10589337
Hear me out.
Johnny Tubo and Segata Sanshiro Sr. battle for the third place supremacy.

[Anonymous No.10590060]

>>10590043
Nah

[Anonymous No.10590061]

>>10590043
Segata wins, she is way to powerful, knows karate and his flying kicks have kill a lot of cyborgs

[Anonymous No.10590164]

how many kids fell for s*ga's dirty tricks?

[Anonymous No.10590175]

>>10590164

[Anonymous No.10590202]

>>10589540
Double faggot.

[Anonymous No.10590213]

>>10590164
more like Johnny Turbo-Gay

[Anonymous No.10590220]

>>10589893
Wow, that's pretty damn bad too.

Honestly, I think Johnny Turbo is still the more embarrassing one, even with the WW2 propaganda cartoon era racism in the Atari one. They at least tried to have an actual Superhero with the Atari comic, even if it's a clear ripoff of Superman. I was confused at first why the bad guys were Japanese until I noticed at the end of the first issue that the Atari 7800 was mentioned, I thought this was during the 2600 era and that the Japanese systems had not entered the US yet. The 7800 era was kinda late to go "We are the best! Nintendo sucks!", that's like the CD-I trying to mock the PS1.

Johnny Turbo though was literally just some fat dude with no powers who was such a PcEngine/TG16 fanboy that he made up a superhero costume and just started shooting people to go on a literal console war over claims that SEGA never even made. To say nothing that Atari was trying to be serious with their superhero/comic/mascot while Johnny Turbo was made to mock one of their programmers.

>>10590024
>but isn't impossible mission the game that was literally unwinnable

Well it's not called Possible Mission, they flat out told you on the cover it's impossible.

>>10590043
Johnny is not even close to the same league as Sanshiro. He had commercials, a game dedicated to him, has since appeared in crossover games, and even today is remembered. His SON has now appeared in commercials (although for Ramen, but they still play on the fact that his father was Sanshiro).

>>10590164
Gotta love how in the first comic starts with them talking about how their "Master Plan" is to... make people think their CD system was the first. HOW this is somehow a plan and just WHAT it would even accomplish is never brought up. At least that one has a small tinge of logic, to make money, even if it's pathetic amounts for what is apparently a massive evil organization.

[Anonymous No.10590224]

>>10590202
Sentence fragment

[Anonymous No.10590231]

>>10590224
"Sentence fragment" is also a sentence fragment.

[Anonymous No.10590249]

>>10590231

[Anonymous No.10590256]

>>10590224
Wow, that was an invaluable contribution. You should pat yourself on the back. The one thing anonymous boards are missing is pedantic linguists that fancy themselves as editors. You are awfully unique and special. Thank you, everyone will always appreciate you.

[Anonymous No.10590270]

>>10590256
Thanks, but I was the one mocking the other guy for being a grammar nazi

[Anonymous No.10590272]

>>10590256
Probably just a bored janny trying to coax some poor fool into getting banned.

[Anonymous No.10590291]

Why didn't they just go with Bonk?

[Anonymous No.10590294]

>>10590220
Good, fans of the wrong console deserve to be shot, you know who you are on this board

[Anonymous No.10590479]

>>10589459
Very funny and original, anon!

[Anonymous No.10590635]

>>10589479
Why does he look like fucking Ron Jeremy?

[Anonymous No.10590640]

I like Johnny Turbo. He's a kickin ass fat nerd, just like me, beside the fat nerd part.

[Anonymous No.10590653]

>>10589893
i feel like first issue was the only good one. but i would bang atariman's girlfriend. anyway turbo is better both as a superhero and as a comic.

[Anonymous No.10590713]

>>10589337
I just find it funny that they used Sherlock Holmes of all things... Probably because there aren't any other examples
Is there any other examples? I'm guessing not because this is a jab directly to the Sega CD, is it not?
Is Sherlock Holmes actually good?

[Anonymous No.10590727]

>>10590713
>Is Sherlock Holmes actually good?

From what I have seen of it, it's a FMV-laiden game where you mostly watch videos and then read newspapers and other "clues" and mostly clicking on icons on a UI that makes Night Trap's UI look like it was designed by Apple.

Also, pretty sure I saw this same game on the CD-I.

[Anonymous No.10590743]

>>10590727
Yeah I saw footage a while back and it didn't seem very exciting, but I could've been wrong. Definitively doesn't seem like a game kids would find exciting

[Anonymous No.10590752]

>>10590713
>Is there any other examples?

sort of, but also a lot of the latter. unlike snes/genesis multiplats, the majority of genesis/pce multiplats were by separate developers and separated years apart

some of the more exceptionally far apart examples include truxton, forgotten worlds, strider, and bonanza bros, these all came out years later on pce

[Anonymous No.10590803]

>>10589893
Why the last one? And now? Will Atarian save us from Ninja-Endo? Or will America succumb to those evil japaneses? I refuse to believe in a future without Atari.

[Anonymous No.10591876]

>>10590803
Because it was the last Atarian magazine.

[Anonymous No.10592182]

>>10589337
Because NEC doesn’t use Shantae

[Anonymous No.10592185]

>>10589337
Was he a YouTuber?

https://youtube.com/@SomecallmeJohnny?si=eazgvQMgHeuntav_

[Anonymous No.10592423]

vr should team up to make him a game

[Anonymous No.10592462]

>>10592423
That's not AI is it? The art style screams AI to me, but it's far too consistent in details, especially the text.

Also, he did appear in a recent game that came out on PC and Switch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqxBwqOlwI

You can see him at the 0:50, 1:05, and 1:20 marks.

[Anonymous No.10592556]

>>10589459
Pepsi v. Coke of video james

[Anonymous No.10592558]

>>10592462
yes that's AI. quite a lot of prompts

[Anonymous No.10592796]

There's an ancient web 1.0 website that goes into a ton of depth about the Johnny Turbo comics. I thought that shit was hilarious back in the day, I wish I could find it.
When I saw that they were using his image to sell old arcade games a few years back I thought I was having a stroke.

[Radiochan !!8R5IcuH3PgQ No.10592815]

>>10590635
He was based off of a real person, John Brandstetter. He was on an episode of Computer Chronicles showing off the TG16, but I can't find the episode now.

[Anonymous No.10592821]

>>10590220
The fact that Johnny Turbo was a joke makes it less embarrassing. It's actually pretty funny with that context.

[Anonymous No.10592838]

>>10592815
That video used to be linked here but it appears it's dead now.

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

[Anonymous No.10592876]

>>10589337
Sherlock Holmes? Jesus tittyfucking Christ, I made a huge mistake. I'm sorry, Johnny Turbo!

[Anonymous No.10592897]

>>10592876
Wait! Come back! We have Sewer Shark!

[Anonymous No.10592936]

>>10592838
>>10592815
Holy cringe…not 90 enough

[Anonymous No.10593419]

>>10592815
>>10592838
https://youtu.be/7cUjJui26zY?t=931
Here you go

[Anonymous No.10593438]

>>10592838
I haven't thought about Johnny Turbo in literal decades but I remember visiting this site and reading his breakdown of the comics. Damn man this is a blast from the past.

[Anonymous No.10593519]

>>10593419
huh, he uses a term here when describing Lords of Thunder's genre I've never heard before. He calls it a VHD shooter, short for Vertical/Horizontal/Diagonal. I really like this term, way more descriptive than shmup or shootemup

[Anonymous No.10593520]

>>10589479
The lettering makes it look like Turbo Dud.

[Anonymous No.10593561]

>>10589948
>Sherlock Holmes

It’s amazing to think that this game was supposed to be popular with children while we really wanted more games like SPLATTERHOUSE!

Idiots.

And dumb marketing. That too.

[Anonymous No.10593679]

>>10590713
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective was one of the very first FMV games and it became a mascot game for pushing CD-ROM technology in the era before Myst. It was a memetic thing, nowadays you'd probably get no value from playing it.

[Anonymous No.10593937]

>>10593679
Yeah I figured it was pushed because of the live action FMVs, which as far as I'm aware, there weren't much on the console in the first place, wasn't it? It's mostly full screen (or almost) sprites cutscenes that's voiced, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.10593960]

>>10593419
The host burying Lords of Thunder is pretty funny. It's easily the best aged piece of software featured here.

[Anonymous No.10594026]

>>10593937
Yeah, full motion video is rare on PC Engine. From the top of my head there are Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, John Madden Football, It Came from the Desert, and a bonus CD for Galaxy Freulen Yuna which contains a bit of OVA.
Maybe Sexy Idol Mahjong games have some FMV? They use a lot of digitized photos. I haven't played those for long though.

[Anonymous No.10594092]

>>10589873
>suddenly turns into WW2 anti-jap propaganda

[Anonymous No.10594226]

>>10594092
Bit strange since they use Japanese word.

[Anonymous No.10594453]

>>10594092
>Anti-Japanese WW2 propoganda
>Copyright date: 1989

That's just confusing at that point.

[Anonymous No.10594526]

>>10594453
A lot of American boomers were afraid of Japanese due to their exceptionally rapid economic growth during the decade. Jack Tramiel, owner of Atari Corporation, was personally afraid of Japanese product competition above anything else for the whole of his adult life because he was burned by that very thing twice already.

[Anonymous No.10594546]

>>10590164
>sega with a cd shooter that doesnt even compare
Sol-Feace?

[Anonymous No.10594592]

>>10594546
that ones meh
android assault is probably closest thing, it straight up feels like the sgea cd's version of gate of thunder

[Anonymous No.10594626]

>>10594453
Japan's production of cars and electronics was at their absolute peak around the 80s, and you had loads of Americans become anti-Japanese as a result, thinking they were going to take over and get rid of their jobs. That, and WWII vets were still very much alive and still generally disliked Japan.

[Anonymous No.10594634]

>>10594592
I was wondering if sol was the sega cd shooter they were referencing, rather than suggesting it as a counter to tg16s gate.

[Anonymous No.10594821]

>>10594626
>WWII vets were still very much alive and still generally disliked Japan
It eternal seethe from Kiwi and Aussie too

[Batowl No.10594917]

>>10589337
Based Marios other brother.

Petty to make fun of someone like that desu.

[Anonymous No.10595083]

>>10593960
Perhaps John was based all along and we just misunderstood him back then
Hope he's okay now

[Anonymous No.10595093]

>>10590164
im sure nobody, because Sega NEVER lied about the Genesis and the Sega CD. they always made clear that the SCD is an addon and requires the Genesis to work... and for the record, thats how it went with the TG16 too before the release of the DUO.

[Anonymous No.10595096]

>>10592462
Johnny Turbo should have been playable on Blade Strangers too.

[Anonymous No.10595638]

>>10595096
That would require effort. Not too hard to toss in a 3D model with a handful of animations that are just superfluous eye candy for a puzzle game.

A LOT more effort to create hundreds of HD sprites for a 2D fighting game character... even if it would make more sense to have a "superhero" with a gun in a fighting game instead of a featureless Issac or a girl riding a giant cat.