Talk:Kids Go HoJo with Sega

To do

• PRIORITY: Migrate Kids Go HoJo Fun Club (non-italicized?? do you italicize groups/clubs?) to its own section, and all relevant content as well, per context here.
• Find the Bob template for advertising campaigns and get it on the article.
• Find a Sega-relevant photo of the actual hotels (preferably that lobby Sonic standee)
• Write a brief history of Kids Go HoJo in general.
• Write a brief section on likely investment vs. return?
• Create a press releases section.
• Browse through the comment sections of all these VHS tapes' YouTube videos for any information/experiences/etc.
• Brief mention of relations to Post Sega Game Tips Video.
• Per Reddit user's firsthand experience: Only a few games were available for rent at once, and renting the Game Gear required a $150 deposit in case it was broken.
• Also the above experience mentions a likely Sega Saturn-HoJo promotion!! This is interesting: Either the Saturn was approaching and HoJo with Sega finished off their campaign with a few very early Saturn mentions, ORRR there was an entirely new campaign after this one. Which wouldn't seem too unlikely given its success. OR OR OR it was merchandise from one of their post-campaign video game competitions. Asagoth's got a couple relevant articles uploaded for further research :) Seriously, I wanna see some HoJo Saturn stuff.
• Get whatever information can be gleaned from this (other than 1: A Kids Go HoJo talent show, and 2: more proof a lot of this/all of this was produced in Canada.)

CartridgeCulture (talk) 06:03, 26 October 2021 (EDT)

Yes, it lists (bottom)--Asagoth (talk) 06:11, 26 October 2021 (EDT)

Oh awesome, thanks for pointing it out :) Got it added back. CartridgeCulture (talk) 06:26, 26 October 2021 (EDT)

Kids Go Hojo did not started with Sega... it started in April 1990 ... initially with other franchises such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (kids who joined the Kids Go HoJo Fun Club at the time were also provided with toys, the very first edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magazine and a t-shirt of the club for example)... but it only became a thing when Howard Johnson's partnered with Sega :) ...--Asagoth (talk) 13:56, 26 October 2021 (EDT)

"The chain will also sponsor an international videogame championship at 100 of its properties..."...--Asagoth (talk) 16:03, 26 October 2021 (EDT)

Sega Game Gear Tips actors...

What about those two guys?... I know that the actor who plays the guest is known, but I can't remember his name... but what about the other guy? (I don't know why but he reminds me a bit of Kyle Anderson from "Last Man Standing" :) ...) I could almost swear to have seen this guy in another show back then, but I might be wrong... his face looks familiar...--Asagoth (talk) 04:52, 27 October 2021 (EDT)

im dying, this article is the funniest thing ever. thank you for enlightening me to this, the research is awesome. And yeah, his face is kinda familiar, but I cant place it either. I think I have a vague memory of seeing either an interview or something with one of these guys years later, but I can't remember where to find it. Either way, if you remember what the guest's name is, please share :) I'd love to get a mention or two added, especially on the video-specific articles ;) CartridgeCulture (talk) 05:03, 27 October 2021 (EDT)

Yep :)... it would be cool to have some information about those two guys ... maybe we'll get lucky...--Asagoth (talk) 05:12, 27 October 2021 (EDT)

I discovered the name of the actor who played the guest ... it's Canadian actor / voice actor Robert Brewster (here and here)... he starred in at least two episodes of the original release of Nicklodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? horror anthology television series, in the role of a "dad /father" ... one of the episodes is The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner (+ 07:23) ... =) ... --Asagoth (talk) 15:30, 27 October 2021 (EDT)

His CV ... and official website ... "A CRAZY PROMOTION FOR HOWARD JOHNSON'S & SEGA. FILMED DURING MY CHUBBY PERIOD. HERE'S PART ONE..." he said... =) ...--Asagoth (talk) 15:39, 27 October 2021 (EDT)

St. Michel Productions?

• So, the production company that created the two Tips tapes... I can't find much under "St. Michel Productions", but in France/Canada that's often written as "St-Michel", "St.-Michel", or more importantly: "Saint Michel Productions", which IS returning leads. Not great ones, I'm getting a film production company in France active around the same time... which is likely them, given they're French, and it was produced in Canada. Might be a coincidence, but if anyone's doing research on this studio, it's a start. EDIT: So it might be them? They released a few videos in Canada, per this link, and appear to also go by the name "Saint Michel" or "Saint Michel Company". BUT maybe not... this is all educational/art stuff.... BUT then again, this database would prefer those listings over something like promotional work... hm. I wonder if this is the same company after all...

CartridgeCulture (talk) 21:56, 27 October 2021 (EDT)

I think not... it must have been a company based in Quebec, Canada... but I couldn't find anything... even on the Wayback Machine... but I know who made the television advertisements thanks to Barry Parrish... the now defunct New York-based advertising agency Christy Macdougal Mitchell (later known as Christy Macdougal Mitchell Bodden, Inc after a merger)...--Asagoth (talk) 06:26, 28 October 2021 (EDT)

Links

• 1994 article about HoJo video game competition.
• 1997 article with the rough number of Kids Go HoJo-participating properties (around ~600 in March 1997.)

Cool! :) ... I will upload this stuff to Retro CDN...--Asagoth (talk) 05:24, 30 October 2021 (EDT)

youre the besssttt, ty again dude. and also ty for all the new research, sick job on finding that Christy Macdougal Mitchell lead ;) CartridgeCulture (talk) 05:43, 30 October 2021 (EDT)