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henrycsc

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Worst Advertisement Ever
« on: April 24, 2012, 02:42:33 PM »
NEC America's marketing is considered one of the major contributing factors to the poor success of the Turbo Grafx 16.

Lack of 3rd party support, Not understanding the American market of the time, and of course Nintendo's stranglehold on developers didn't help....

When NEC gave up and passed the torch to TTI, it was probably lack of funding that kept the advertising low and accelerated the other issues.  It was during that time that TTI came up with this, perhaps the worst Advertisement ever....  July 1992 issue of EGM (possibly others).  Not the most desirable comparison here.  If you know of other super bad (as in really really bad) turbo ads, post em here.

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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2012, 02:54:35 PM »
yay for porta-pottys!
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 03:52:36 PM »
who the f*ck thought that would be a good idea.
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2012, 03:59:48 PM »
Wow.  :shock:  :-k

EDIT: Having said that, Alien Crush is an awesome game to play while sitting on the toilet.  :mrgreen:
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2012, 04:45:58 PM »
I'll let James say it for me...
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2012, 07:19:13 PM »
Turbo express =  MAD toilet  lecture :(
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2012, 12:42:06 AM »
This is far from the worst TG-16 advertisement!  Sadly, there are many print ads that are worse.  

I know you folks might like pictograms, but I'll take a Porta-Potty over a pictogram, any day of the week.

TTi's initial ad campaigns are abominable
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2012, 12:44:20 AM »
That's pretty f*cking bad.
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2012, 12:58:20 AM »
If they removed the toilet vignette at top then the ad is pretty competent. I didn't even notice it until I was done looking at the center piece and reading the text which is pretty well written and argues the advantages pretty well.
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2012, 01:20:15 AM »
the toilet ruins it though

they're equating the express to a portable shitter usually occupied by drunks at mardi gras or some shit
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[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2012, 01:26:16 AM »
Quote from: Arkhan on April 25, 2012, 01:20:15 AM
the toilet ruins it though

they're equating the express to a portable shitter usually occupied by drunks at mardi gras or some shit

Or both.
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2012, 01:35:51 AM »
The funny thing is that an example was not needed as the caption works best for the picture of the GT by itself.
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2012, 01:50:52 AM »
 They should have showed a pocket pussy in the top left corner.

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[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2012, 05:30:12 AM »
Don Draper would have fist-f**ked the idiot who came up with this ad.

Is shitting in a porta-potty "enjoyable"? Ever? You want to equate your product with taking a shit?

I agree that this is the worst ad ever.
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Re: Worst Advertisement Ever
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2012, 05:41:59 AM »
Even worse, they equate the 'Express to taking a shit in a place where you're afraid to sit down, holding your breath, and trying to get it over as quickly as possible.  Pure genius!
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