/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3374167
WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?!?!?!?!?!

>>3374294
I think it's an STD joke

I can't find it, but there was this Sims as with this gorgeous redhead on the beach and the punchline was something like "Getting her into a hot tub? Much harder."

That one, because hot redhead. Can't find it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi5EaocGaY

>basing your print ad on the one thing that can't be shown in a print ad

>>3374346

Whoops, forgot the pic.

>>3374339
Is this it? I can't really read it and couldn't find a larger size.

>>3374360

Oh fuck yes

Thanks, anon

>>3374370
No problem. I'd love to see a bigger scan if you ever find one.

>>3374360

I have a magazine with this ad somewhere. I remember fapping to it back in the day.

>>3374167
Man I fucking love these old '90s gaming ads - the ones that are sexual in nature but are written subtly like that so that it would go over innocent kid's heads. That shit is fantastic. Some of these I remember seeing as a kid and having no idea what it meant (but I knew on some level that I was missing something) but now all these years later and it's like 'damn'.

Is Croc actually a good game? I never played it.

>>3375065
>getting kicked so hard it breaks a baseball helmet

jeeesus

>>3375418
Great setting and music but meh gameplay.

Kanga's so fucking chuffed with his jetpack.

>>3375046
>>3375972
Is this the same kid in both of these?

The one with the foot and the GBA.

>>3374167
>he faps his over-sized ears
what

>>3375418
Who is he supposed to have eaten there?

The N hat is obviously Mario, what's the other stuff?

>>3376261
*I'm thinking the guns are Lara?

>>3375002

Pretty sure I have some Tips & Tricks magazines with the ad in them somewhere. Although I'm pretty sure I cut it out of at least one of them for... reasons.

>>3376261
As the quote shows Mario (hat), Croft (guns), and Crash (shoes).

>>3375418
>PSExtreme
If they gave Bubsy a 90% score I wonder what score did they give to Croc

>>3374167
Good ol' neocron... and its comin back with a brand new team. PK'ing noobs and stealin their loot. Dont forget to tip the strippers in pepper park.

>>3375418

It's a good game but is best played with the dualshock, controlling it with the d-pad is a pretty painful time.

>>3375418
Wasn't it originally a Yoshi game for the N64 before Nintendo canned it?

Best ad ever

Instead of pressing more copies SoJ gives SoA a huge advertising budget to push a game that was already sold out

>>3374167
Can't decide if this ad worked or not. For over a decade I remembered the ad itself but never the game it advertised.

>>3377130
Wow. I remember seeing this so much back in the day and i forgot about it. I never half paid attention to what game it was advertising, just always saw a fucked up hand.

This threads making me miss game commercials and magazines.

As shitty as some of the magazines got, I feel like they're still better than some game sites today.

Probably just the nostalgia hitting me though.

>>3375065
What's up with that screenshot of Jaws? He's nowhere near that huge in the game.

>>3377130
oh shit i saw one of these at my game store, this advert just worked.

>>3374360
wow they really fucked up the demographic there

>>3377090
I concur.

>>3376615
Something like that.

>>3379565

I dunno, I bought sims and I liked this ad.

I already had it at that point though.

>>3377825
What you gotta remember is that when you were a kid, the magazines were basically all you had. And you'd read it over and over and go over stuff you wern't even interested in because you already bought the whole magazine and it was there and something to do. They might also seem better because you knew what was going on without actually being involved in the gaming culture and all its bullshit. A kind of safe isolation.

I've been going over old magazines a lot in the past few months. Most games sites today area trash but, the writing in the rags is almost always even shittier. It's far more dry reporting, more blatant advertisements than even modern corporate dick sucking, and incredibly cringey attempts at humor. For fuck's sake, Game Pro was Poochie in magazine form. Generally, the main things of value are archival purposes, finding specific art and ads, getting an idea of how things were at the time and finding interviews with developers. "New Games Journalism" is practically /vr/ in its own right at this point, but it was really the best thing that could have happened to games writing, whether you like it or not. Stuff like personal experience with games, actual discussion of game design, and using games to talk about other topics and issues is far more interesting than the latest press release.

Like the magaziens are charming in their own way, I wouldn't be going to the trouble of finding this shit it was wasn't. But anybody who seriously things games writing was better in those days is either just fucking delusional or the most boring man on Earth.

What you gotta remember is that when you were a kid, the magazines were basically all you had. And you'd read it over and over and go over stuff you weren't even interested in because you already bought the whole magazine and it was there and something to do. They might also seem better because you knew what was going on without actually being involved in the gaming culture and all the bullshit that comes with it. It was a kind of safe isolation.

I've been going over old magazines a lot in the past few months. Most games sites today are trash, but the writing in the rags is almost always even shittier. It's far more dry reporting, more blatant advertisements than even modern corporate dick sucking, and incredibly cringey attempts at humor. For fuck's sake, Game Pro was Poochie in magazine form. Generally, the main things of value are archival purposes, finding specific art and ads, getting an idea of how things were at the time and finding interviews with developers. "New Games Journalism" is practically /vr/ in its own right at this point, but it was really the best thing that could have happened to games writing, whether you like it or not. Stuff like personal experience with games, actual discussion of game design, and using games to talk about other topics and issues, etc. IN ADDITION to just having the latest press releases can only be a good thing.

Like the magaziens are charming and important in their own way, I wouldn't be going to the trouble of finding this shit if it wasn't. But anybody who seriously, SERIOUSLY thinks games writing was totes legitimately better in those days is either just fucking delusional or the most boring man on Earth.

>>3381632
Oh, sorry. I meant to quote >>3377825

>>3377090
Is this real holy shit

>>3381632
>Stuff like personal experience with games, actual discussion of game design,

This improves games writing

>and using games to talk about other topics and issues, etc.

This -could posibly- be used to improve games writing, but currently has only been used to whine about things.

>But anybody who seriously, SERIOUSLY thinks games writing was totes legitimately better in those days is either just fucking delusional or the most boring man on Earth.

This is why GameFan/GamePlayers/Tips&Tricks were so great: They weren't just boring fluff, but instead they either were legit excited about the games they covered (In terms of GameFan at least, they covered even Japan Only games that they simply were excited about, in turn making them seem even more enthusiast than a press releaser like EGM) or they covered ancillary material (I.E. AnimeFan, or the backpages of T&T).

>>3381632
this is the most false thing ever posted on /vr/

someone should screencap this for future cringe threads