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If you answered C, you may have been working for NEC in the early 90s as a marketer for their console the [[TurboGrafx-16]], because that's exactly what they did: they presented multi-page ads in gaming magazines centering around a "computer expert" named [[Awesome McCoolname|Jonathan Brandstetter]], better known under his alias Johnny Turbo, in his quest to teach gamers the [[Blatant Lies|completely unbiased]] truth about the TG-16 compared to NEC's self-appointed rival [[Sega|Se]]--err, [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|Feka]].
# 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 the Limelight]]. And he has one ''hell'' of a dream. ▼
▲#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.]]
▲#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]] and [[Nintendo|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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