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| - Johnny Turbo is a superhero character created to advertise the Turbo Duo, a hybrid of the Turbografx-16 console and its add-on, the TurboGrafx CD, in North America. The character was conceived by Turbo Technologies Inc. (a venture of NEC and Hudson Soft) as a mascot of the console. Previously, NEC used Bonk as the Turbografx-16's mascot. Later, continuing this theme, TTi would adopt Air Zonk (a cyborg-Bonk who starred in horizontal shooters Air Zonk and Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly-Paradise) as the mascot for TurboDuo. (en)
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| - Johnny Turbo is a superhero character created to advertise the Turbo Duo, a hybrid of the Turbografx-16 console and its add-on, the TurboGrafx CD, in North America. The character was conceived by Turbo Technologies Inc. (a venture of NEC and Hudson Soft) as a mascot of the console. Previously, NEC used Bonk as the Turbografx-16's mascot. Later, continuing this theme, TTi would adopt Air Zonk (a cyborg-Bonk who starred in horizontal shooters Air Zonk and Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly-Paradise) as the mascot for TurboDuo. Unlike Bonk or Zonk, Johnny Turbo never starred in any games. Instead, his only appearances were in three comic book-like advertisements published in gaming magazines of the day, such as Video Games & Computer Entertainment and Electronic Gaming Monthly. The character was briefly revived for a playable appearance in the 2019 puzzle game Crystal Crisis. He was also used in the name and banner for Johnny Turbo's Arcade, a collection of TurboGrafx-16 games for the Nintendo Switch. Johnny Turbo and his partner Tony were pitted against monsters or androids from a company called "FEKA" (a thinly veiled parody of Sega), which, in the comics, misled children into wasting their money on their CD add-on system (a thinly veiled parody of the Sega CD). Johnny Turbo is the alter-ego of Jonathan Brandstetter, who is based on a real life game developer, John C. Brandstetter. Brandstetter provided the character's voice for his appearance in Crystal Crisis. Tony, the sidekick of Johnny Turbo, is based on Tony Ancona. (en)
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