This page starts with what has to be the most ridiculous exaggeration ever made about the Sega CD. Not even Sega was willing to show a few dozen people standing in line to buy their CD system, it just wasn't that popular. Even when it launched it wasn't that popular. I remember buying the system at Software Etc. on day one and being one of only two people that got the system. The idea that there were that many people willing to fork over four hundred plus dollars is just silly. Heck, it's not just silly; it's also not a good thing to show in a TurboDuo advert. When I read this back in the early 1990s I thought to myself: "Gee, that Sega CD must be more popular than I realize, that really sucks for the Turbo." Then again, compared to the TurboDuo I'm sure the sales of the Sega CD felt like there were a lot of people lining up to buy one.

In the very next frame we see a kid standing on some sort of puzzle piece being told that he's going to need to buy another console to get this system to work. Apparently this makes the evil corporate man very happy, so happy that you can see his happy red eyes through his sunglasses. Now THAT'S happy! But wait, what is the corporate Feka dude doing selling the systems? Last time I went to a game store all I saw was some snot-nosed kid playing his Nintendo DS and trying to get me to reserve something. Oh how times have changed.

Perhaps the best part of this advertisement comes in the next frame, when it says that Johnny Turbo is "watching this crooked sequence of events." He is? He clearly isn't watching the event son TV, because that's a picture of Gate of Thunder, the TurboDuo shooter. Or maybe he's just playing that game in the store. But wait, if these guys were trying to trick people into buying the Feka CD why would they have a demo station for the TurboDuo? And seriously, since when did any store have a demo station for the TurboDuo?? As he said on page three, Gates of Thunder is way better than that stupid Feka CD shooter (Sol-Feace), so what sense does it make to show people the superior product??

FROM: Bad Advertising With Johnny Turbo