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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: jorel on August 29, 2004, 05:55:42 PM
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hey you guys remember those turbo points on the back of the instructions for tg16 games? anybody know what they were for?
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I believe once you acquired enought turbo points, your were eligible to mail them in for a free game. There was a list of games you could choose from. It was long ago, but I'm pretty sure that's what they were for.
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There was going to be a catalog, where you could order cd wallets, Turbo water bottles, T-Shirts, etc...
TTI never got around to it.
I got a free Lords T-Shirt + Dungeon Master(probably would've been DEII if I hadn't listed the games I owned) in mail after writing one of my letters to TTI back in the day.
Of course they never took my advice in bringing over quality games, which I even listed by name.
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Hey I'll buy that Lords of Thunder shirt off you :D . I saw an auction on Ebay a couple years back selling a big Duo collection and it had some sweet extra stuff like a Devil's Crush and Bloody Wolf shirt. I also saw another auction for a awesome Spatter House mug with a TG16 logo on it and another mug of some game I forgot with the TG16 logo on it. I think it was Bloody Wolf, but not sure.
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Hey I'll buy that Lords of Thunder shirt off you :D . I saw an auction on Ebay a couple years back selling a big Duo collection and it had some sweet extra stuff like a Devil's Crush and Bloody Wolf shirt. I also saw another auction for a awesome Spatter House mug with a TG16 logo on it and another mug of some game I forgot with the TG16 logo on it. I think it was Bloody Wolf, but not sure.
I remember NEC home electronics (pre TTI) had a catalog with shirts, posters and a lot of other stuff in it. It was very cool, I wouldn't imagine anyone here might still have a copy of that catalog?
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I remember NEC home electronics (pre TTI) had a catalog with shirts, posters and a lot of other stuff in it. It was very cool, I wouldn't imagine anyone here might still have a copy of that catalog?
I used to have that catalog as a kid, but I actually threw out tons of my stuff in the mid 90's.
I (and some fellow turbo fans) have been looking for it. The catalog I remember had:
1. waterbottles
2. hip packs
3. small duffle bags (I actually got one of these for free, but I used it until it fell apart, which was pretty quickly since it wasn't designed for heavy use).
4. maybe 2-3 shirts?
5. maybe a nylon wallet?
Of course, nearly everything was nylon and in flourescent green, orange, yellow, black and emblazoned with the TG-16 logo. The shirts were white and/or black cottton w/ prints on front and back.
Should we find this catalog, I will definitely make page scans available on my upcoming site.
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oh yeah, getting back to the original question:
Advertisement: Join the T² Team Club! Redeem TurboPoints for ...neo geo and LaserActive? (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-four/DW-03-05.jpg)
From the final issue of DuoWorld (http://home.comcast.net/~turboplay-magazine-archives-tg16/DuoWorld_TurboForce_Collection_03.html).
EDIT: I forgot to include this little "news" item announcing the T2 club (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-four/TF-03-05.jpg).
From the third issue of TurboForce (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-four/TF-03-05.jpg)
I've never seen this catalog, so I tend to agree with the previous post (that TTi didn't follow-through with T² Team Club... should I update my commentary? How reliable is this info? Thanks in advance :)[/url][/url]
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oh yeah, getting back to the original question:
Advertisement: Join the T² Team Club! Redeem TurboPoints for ...neo geo and LaserActive? (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-four/DW-03-05.jpg)
From the final issue of DuoWorld (http://home.comcast.net/~turboplay-magazine-archives-tg16/DuoWorld_TurboForce_Collection_03.html).
EDIT: I forgot to include this little "news" item announcing the T2 club (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-four/TF-03-05.jpg).
From the third issue of TurboForce (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-four/TF-03-05.jpg)
I've never seen this catalog, so I tend to agree with the previous post (that TTi didn't follow-through with T² Team Club... should I update my commentary? How reliable is this info? Thanks in advance :)[/url][/url]
All I remember is that they never went through with everything, but I remember seeing some sort of listing of what they were offering(I don't remember if it was an actual cataolg).
The other thing is, you were also supposed to send in the UPC sticker from every game. I believe that this was also for ordering stuff.
Foolishly, I peeled almost every one from my games as soon as I got them, but never got to redeem them.
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Yeah, if you read the commentary I wrote for DuoWorld #3, I think I mentioned that you also had to send in the receipts as well (of course!)...
Like I mentioned on my site... How many goddam points would have been necessary for NeoGeo or LaserActive? Even if you bought every single DUO game they released... you still wouldn't have enough!
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Those are some awesome prizes though and I'm surpised they had money for that kind of stuff if they pulled through with it.
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I actually have one of the nylon wallets floating around somewhere...I think it's with my JJ & Jeff HuCard in my old playhouse! Gotta get back home and dig through some boxes! :D
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I actually have one of the nylon wallets floating around somewhere...I think it's with my JJ & Jeff HuCard in my old playhouse! Gotta get back home and dig through some boxes! :D
you forgot to add this to the end of your post: "And, upon finding the wallet, I will send it to stevek666, who will cherish it forever."
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You made a typo there, Steve. It's for "Keranu", not "steve666" :D . Hey I'll give you five bucks for that wallet if you find it!
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I have a Legendary Axe II mug ... it's pretty cool.
(http://www.vibelicious.com/remixes/turbo_mug.jpg)
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That mug does rule. I hope to have some of this cool extra Turbo stuff someday.
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goddam, that mug does indeed rule...mostly the TG-16 logo since the LA II text is generic. but who cares? that mug is gorgeous!
i have/ had a legendary axe II shirt (white).... but the art on the front was very, very corny (one of the reasons why I disliked it back in the day but love it now). I can't find it though.... but i did find my devil's crush shirt (black)... but the art is not nearly as goofy kool as the LAII shirt.
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You should try looking up the Splatterhouse mug because it had the bloody Splatterhouse title along with the TG-16 logo; absolutely stunning!
Damn a Devil's Crush shirt must rule! Of course no one in public would quite understand what it was, but it's still awesome to us Turbo fans.
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Hey, I'm heading back to my folk's house in like 2 weeks, I'm planning on diggin through some of my old junk. If I find it, I will let you guys know...but it'll be mine baby...sorry. If I can't stick my milk money in the pockets of my Roos any more, I can stick my snack machine bills into my TG wallet! :D
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you guys are hopeless,the turbografx had lame marketing,johnny turbo still gives me nightmares.I own a Pc Engine briefcase combo with arcade card pro now.No more crappy box and cover artwork for me!!!
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you guys are hopeless,the turbografx had lame marketing,johnny turbo still gives me nightmares.I own a Pc Engine briefcase combo with arcade card pro now.No more crappy box and cover artwork for me!!!
Well, they did have marketing other than Johnny Turbo. All the years before JT and the Turbo Duo he was created to promote and after.
I still remember commiting to buy a Turbo CD asap after seeing some of the early ads with screenshots of Ys & Valis II.
The carniverous caveman Bonk's Adv & multi-game TV spots impressed all my console-wars Genesis & NES-loving friends.
And they nailed the best campaign with the "It's easy to beat the competition when you've got them outnumbered" ads(back when the TG was supposedly in the lead).
If only they'd stuck to bringing out the quantity that when filtered out still yielded at least as many quality titles as the Genesis.
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you guys are hopeless,the turbografx had lame marketing,johnny turbo still gives me nightmares.I own a Pc Engine briefcase combo with arcade card pro now.No more crappy box and cover artwork for me!!!
awesome. you might be sincere, or you might just be teasing us :) ... but I was inspired to respond...
tg16 didn't have too many television ads (and those they did have didn't run too long)... but this was due to $$$$. the tv ads that did run were not bad (more on this later).
but when you go back and look at print ads, and really look back at them... it's actually pretty surprising. the genny print ads weren't as amazing as i thought they had been, and the tg16 ads were much kooler than I had given them credit for:
splatterhouse 1 (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-one/TP-03-02.jpg)
splatterhouse 2 (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-one/TP-03-03.jpg)
devil's crush 1 (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-one/TP-03-26.jpg)
devil's crush 2 (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-one/TP-03-27.jpg)
of course, here's a third party ad... certainly not the koolest or hippest tagline:
SHOOT 'EM or SCOOT 'EM (http://home.comcast.net/~archive-one/TP-05-32.jpg)
(I pulled all of this, by the way, from one issue of TurboPlay, October / November 1990 (http://home.comcast.net/~turboplay-magazine-archives-tg16/TurboPlay_Collection_03.html).
until the last year or so, i thought that the tg16 print ads were amateurish compared to the professional, hip genny ads... but i've been going through 1989-1993 magazines a lot recently, and damn... sega had some bad, bad ads (the segaCD ads, as a whole, were particularly lame). of course, sega had some great stuff as well... sega 3rd party ads were uneven as well (of course, tg16 only had 2 viable 3rd parties :( anyway).
sega + third parties must have had thousands of ads (literally)... while the total tg16 ads number in 100-200 range... so to level the playing field, we'd have to talk about the crap : kool ratio in ads. i don't think tg16 ads would do much worse than sega or nintendo.
i could get into nintendo's marketing as well... but i used sega as a reference point because sega had a much hipper, kooler sense for ads (and, "sega does what nintendon't" and "welcome to the next level" were done by different ad agencies for Sega, IIRC)...
anyway, the point is that tg16 marketing wasn't as lame as you put it. tg16 ads weren't as SATURATED as Sega and Nintendo (you need $$$$$ for that)... but the actual content of the ads weren't that bad. did tg16 ads have the kool dude screaming SEGA! at the end? No, tg16 ads weren't that hip.
nonetheless, the early tg16 commercials (launch 1989) were totally kool... they appeared before Genny's (at least in the NYC area) and were an andrenalin rush montage of Blazing Lazers and other launch titles.
finally, johnny turbo has become an urban legend. i love the sardius site and his documentation of JT (it's funny as hell), but the JT campaign consisted of only 3 ads over 3 consecutive issues of EGM, gamepro, VG &CE ... and that's it. JT is funny as hell, totally insane, but hardly represents tg16 marketing. It's an anomaly, not the trend.
P.S. your pcengine suitcase set-up is very, very kool :)
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I remember ads on TV for the TG16 way back in the day. They were comparing the TG16 to the NES. The funniest part is when they showed that the TG had the CD attachment and compared it to the NES...with a record player. :lol: That ad also had shots of Legendary Axe II in it, which didn't hit our shores until two years later.
And of course who could forget Sega's cheesy stuff? Anyone remember "Genesis Does What Nintendont"?
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you guys are hopeless,the turbografx had lame marketing,johnny turbo still gives me nightmares.I own a Pc Engine briefcase combo with arcade card pro now.No more crappy box and cover artwork for me!!!
Hey this is just part of the reason why we love the Turbo so much! And also I love all of the ads, even if a few are not so great. The ones Steve mentioned are some totally badass ads and I think they are just as cool if not cooler than ads any other company threw out :D . The only TG-16 commercial I have seen is that Bonk one and a TG-16+CD one that's on PC Engine FX, which I both thought were awesome! I also love the two Duo commercials PC Engine FX has hosted.