/vr/ - Retro Games

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/vr/ ads

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It was wild back then. This is how they solicited actual job applicants.

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>>10994672
That post is fucking dumb, the ad worked well, they all did. Zoomers have no fucking clue why or how they worked and post retarded opinions like that.

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>>10994672
Lost.

Nintendo's Play It Loud campaign was something, man. They took a hard turn toward the weird and gross as a counterpunch to Sega's infamously confrontational marketing strategy. They leaned heavily into the Ren & Stimpy and Nickelodeon slime vibe of the era.

https://youtu.be/Z0E2lmgLF_k?si=IpAW4sf-j2Im5ER6

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>>10994661
More like Pissgnosis, eh?

[Anonymous No.10994743]

>It burns when I pee
>WA-HOO!

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>>10994686
The ad campaign probably fucked Earthbound though. They went waaaay too hard and made it look like the game was about literal garbage. And unlike Mario, Yoshi, Kirby, etc. there was no built-in fanbase to carry the game through bad marketing.

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>>10994661
literally me

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Stunning

Seeing these ads

Its so obvious why boomers have fucked up sense of humor and can't take life seriously

Just gross people telling gross jokes and if anyone is upset that's their problem

What entitled personalities

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>>10994661
Did they pay a man to piss his pants, or did they lovingly pour a hose into his pants with gentle precision, inbetween each photo?

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>>10994824
>Just gross people telling gross jokes and if anyone is upset that's their problem

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>>10994809
What the FUCK did he mean by this?

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>>10994824
>Its so obvious why boomers have fucked up sense of humor and can't take life seriously
>
>Just gross people telling gross jokes and if anyone is upset that's their problem
>
>What entitled personalities

s/boomer/millennial/g

t. millennial responding to b8.

[Anonymous No.10994848]

>>10994672
can't stop chuckling at this
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>>10994809
Seeing such suggestive ads is a bit alien as a youngfag. they took this from me
>>10994828
Of course he pissed his pants. Multiple times, until the art director got the perfect photograph of the perfect two piss stains. He would not settle for less.

[Anonymous No.10994856]

Anyone remember that Soul Reaver ad with the impaled corpse on a pike? Shit gave me nightmares

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>>10994709
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>>10994748
Man, they really had no idea what they were trying to sell.
It's like they saw a minute of gameplay, locked onto one thjng that they saw, and rolled with it.
>mario's a baby, let's build on that
>klonoa sounds like chlamydia and inflates enemies, print it
>that slime guy belches, fuck it

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>>10994709
>dat Mr. Creosote reference in the ad
lmao nice

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>>10994865
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>>10994875
Wow, these ones couldn't even bother using real words.

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>>10994748
Most of the stuff I saw was articles and whole write-ups in Nintendo Power showing the colorful graphics, and selling this idea that we're following the journey of a kid traveling the world, getting on buses to go to his next destination, including letters written to his mom back home. That's what sold me on the game.

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>>10994681
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>>10994896
Ngl, I miss the risque attitude people had in the '90s and '00s when it came to ads. In fact, I miss the juvenile sexual humor from that era in general. IT was immature but in a tounge in cheek sort of way versus an offputting overly sexual kid of way or just being a pseudo-puritan that you see people act now.

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>>10994672
>bad
and yet fuckboi here not only remembers it, but still seethes about it

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>>10994848
>they took this from me
its still just marketing bullshit
i wouldnt get too teary-eyed over it

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>>10994860
They knew what they were selling, they just wanted to ape the "kid power" vibe of the 90s where being a gross little goblin was "cool." Nickelodeon started it. Back when they were a fledgling network with no money forced to air cheap anime and Canadian shows from the 1970s they stumbled onto their first hit: You Can't Do That On Television, a kid-focused sketch show. One of its running gags was that if anyone said "I don't know" green slime would pour on their heads from above. Nickelodeon stole the concept and created Double Dare, making slime and "gak" the main marketing gimmick of the entire network.

https://youtu.be/wPadzQ6n5Fg?si=5aZSpC8cgSgWBTnc

And so you had an entire decade's worth of gross out humor.

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>>10994973
>unsolicited nickelodeon history lesson
ok

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>>10994848
if you never had it it wasn't "taken from you" dumbass.

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>>10995086
The only thing that will never get taken from you is your virginity, faggot.

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>>10994885
AI generated

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>>10994672
>anons replying as if that's a real ad

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>>10994686
chill out

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>>10994748
This is fucking hilarious. They really didn’t give a fuck

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>>10994962
It's culture and you sound like a fag.

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>>10994936
>being a pseudo-puritan that you see people act now
they're 100% fucking behind your back
t. service wagie

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https://youtu.be/trds9sixvN8?feature=shared
This ad will forever live in my memories

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>>10994681
>Windows 95 instead N64
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aicdacSg3uo

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>>10994661
the psygnosis logo was cool af

>>10994748
>this game stinks
>ppl don't play it
>suprised pikachu
but even that couldn't prevent it from gathering a cult following, and then exploding onto the internet.

>>10995558
this

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>>10994661
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>>10994672
Too be fair....

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>>10995772
This ad is incredibly funny and memorable though, suck it down gets me every time, I think its even better that the game itself sucks

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>>10995496
I like how they were truthful about the game being stinky shit, but were ballsy enough to make it a selling point.

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>>10995179
Nobody thinks it's real. It's just hilariously on the money. If not for the flagrant profanity it probably could have been a real ad.

[Anonymous No.10995838]

This one is great because of how the box art still has happy Kirby totally undermining everything else.

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>>10995179
Are you fucking stupid?

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>>10994661
Exclusive

[Anonymous No.10995841]

Squaresoft had some kick ass ones back then.

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>>10994672
It wasn't just games, all "grunge" advertising was nearly ubiquitous in the media sphere from ~'91-'96. Grime, dissonance, and most importantly, VOLUME. Shit was LOUD and IN YOUR FACE and it DIDN'T MATTER if ANYTHING MADE SENSE because TIMES ARE CHANGING, GRANDPA

[Anonymous No.10995849]

This is an example of a print ad that sold me on the game alone. I had no idea what it was or that it existed but seeing this in Official PlayStation Magazine convinced me.

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>>10994805

Oh, now I know what they meant by blast processing.

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>>10995179
Nintendo ads were so batshit crazy back then I was forced to at least consider the possibility.

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>>10995840
The World Trade center with a plane flying between them... wild

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>>10994681
>ywn be a 20-something gamer programmer in the mid-late 90s
why even live bros?

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>>10995772
>Romero's shills his game as being the next Quake
>a comically pitiful piece of shit is released instead, proving that Romero is nothing without Carmack's tech autism

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>>10995772
Majority of people reading this had no idea who John Romero was.

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>>10995892
Post a collection of these on 2channel's retro board and see what the Japanese fans think of them.

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>>10996220
>on the left: shitty old games
>on the right: /vr/

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>>10996226
Basically.

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lmao

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What was Bill Gates thinking

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>>10994686
>the ad worked well
That ad never existed you dumb fuck.

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>>10994835
the equivalent of quoting some /v/tard's incomprehensible babble in your ad
bizarre

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>>10996263
They made Incel Uprising simulators even back then?

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>>10996258
>Age of Consent: II

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>>10995558
>culture is what corporations shove down my throat
Only in America

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>>10996283
In the end it was him who was truly fucking stupid yoshi's island afterall

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>>10996154
>see what the Japanese fans think of them
This: >>10994885

[Anonymous No.10996323]

I only have Japanese shit

But this game's dialogue is as insane an American 90s ad

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>>10996202
>no way fag

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>>10996285
That actually sounds like a lot of fun.

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>>10996326
One step ahead of ya

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>>10994835
Fear Effect 2 has 4 boobies but Danger Girl has 6 boobies. You can't refute it.

[Anonymous No.10996378]

Things were less dumb in the 80s and early 90s and it wasn't uncommon to find ads that expect you to read more than 1 line

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challenge

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Triple challenge

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Daring you to get good

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Meanwhile in Japan, drawings, tons of screenshots, and sharp square pixels that will make the CRTfags seethe.

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>>10994661
>no Rayman's giant cock yet
ffs niggers

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Objectively the greatest era for video game ads.

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>>10996396
the screenshots don't have sharp square pixels. those are just the character sprites which would obviously be pixelated before displayed in game.

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>>10994805
I'm pretty sure this one's from an British humour magazine intended for adults.

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>>10996205
>Sir, there has been a second moon

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>>10996220
I pulled this out to play, basically boxed up everything but playstation and gameboys.

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>>10996676
Enjoy it running at 15fps.

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>>10996213
That's an edit, this is the original

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>>10996775
I think I still have that wheel buried in some boxes somewhere - it has pedals as well. Hmm, I might see if it is complete and dig it out but I bet i've misplaced the power cable.

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"pretentious till the end, still this feel like it isn't over yet"

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You know remember:

Karembeau
Bobby Robson
Louis Van Gaal
La septima
Newcastle

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>>10996796
anyone know the third game on the second row?

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>>10996232
I wasn't sure what Simon Cowell had to do with that game until I realized it was a different page.

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>>10996254
What the fuck, EA

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>>10994936
I agree. The "maturity" of the current age feels like overcompensating and polite fiction to defend ourselves from the current wave of moral OCD, since apparently we've decided the entirety of the world shifts according to American "discourse" created by people with no deep understanding of anything.

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>>10995713
I'm in my room at home though. I have a couple pinups at my house like pic related.

>>10996987
It's not even that I don't get the concept of not talking about it all the time (like around kids, at church/work, etc). It's just the weird overreaction people have towards sexual things clearly meant in jest or just risque but not outright degenerate. It's like they never got past that phase as kids where the opposite sex is icky.

I have no idea how this happened because I remember the 2000s being full of these types of jokes and even the early 2010s. It's like social media not only makes you retarded, but it makes you mentally regress as a human.

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>>10997463
They're okay with making everything fucking GAY though.

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>>10996952
It isn't from an american magazine so lol is the answer.

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>>10996609
you faggots have moved the goalposts beyond the observable universe at this point

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>>10996915
Pretty sure it's from this Ridge Racer tech demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVywE2LkUGs

[Anonymous No.10997675]

>when the ad is so 90s advertising it looks like a parody making fun of 90s advertising

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>>10997675
That period between the M and the C bothers me. It clearly should have been McKids.

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>>10996331
Always makes me chuckle.

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>>10995772
if the game was good this ad would go down in history as one of the greatest

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>>10994661
>This game is so good, you'll piss your fuckin pants.
This is going to make me want to buy this game?

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>>10994672
These kinds of ads were way better than what we got now. I can't stand gameplay footage where the presenter is moving at a snail's pace trying to pretend it's super cinematic and immersive. No one fucking plays games like that. At least back then ads were honest about the fact video games were meant to be fun.

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>>10998049
play the game pee pee baby piss boy

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>>10996793
I loved this game as a kid, still listen to the soundtrack sometimes, its great

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The classic

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>>10998212
that's a bit gay isn't it?

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So glad we are past the age of toxic masculinity.

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Paper Mario 64

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>>10994865
el matador del marios bross

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>>10995828
>>10995839
First and fourth replies.

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>>10998220
You don't know what masculinity is.

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>>10998249
Its Andrew Tate Donald Trump racist garbage. You can keep it.

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>>10998252
Thanks for proving my point.

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>>10998212
Romero is actually a really chill guy and everybody assumes he's an asshole because of this ad.

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>>10996987
>since apparently we've decided the entirety of the world shifts according to American "discourse" created by people with no deep understanding of anything.
Deeper understanding of "anything" than you, other-wise your country would be the cultural epicenter of the world, not the US.

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>>10998353
Not going into politics too deep, but the only reason the US is the cultural center of the world is because the Europe was pretty much ruined after WW2 or in Soviet hands. The only two continents to make it out relatively unscathed was North America and Australia and even then, only the US had the capital to fix Europe via post war loans, which gave it a lot of influence over the region. That's the only reason America is the cultural epicenter of the world: just monetary influence, not any deep understanding of other cultures.

It's really scary how little their own history most Americans know. I get not knowing every war/battle/election/social to an autistic level of detail, but a basic crash course of history should be a civic requirement to vote or hold office. Same with knowing about other major cultures in Europe and Asia. I don't get how a functioning adult in the Information Age doesn't have the impetus to learn shit like this as he needs it or sees fit, especially in the age of globalization (for better or for worse).

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>>10998353
>literally defending globalism
KEK

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>>10995892
That is next level shit.

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>>10994896
This might be the most clever one in the thread.

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>>10994824
>((()))

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>>10995756
SEGA CHADTURN

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>>10994809
>>10994835
That's the greatest thing I've ever seen.

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>>10995086
>((()))

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>>10996787
That is a FAT fucking dog!

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>>10997675
>>10997695
M.C. Kids sounds cooler than "McKids".

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>>10997710
They've got a point.

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>>10998353
I don't think you understood that post (ironically enough).

Also, I just had to share this captcha, because holy shit lol.

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>>10994973
You forgot about the other thing they dumped on their heads.

As far as pushing envelopes, besides Ren and Stimpy I also thought Roundhouse epitomizes that energy. Funny she3. Will come back eventually but only after the madness.

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>>10995849
nice ad, don't forget to unplug your phone too

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>>10998249
It's why he trooned out. To try and rid his self of "toxic" masculinity.

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I was enthralled the first time I saw this in a magazine. Turns out the advert was better than the game itself. Say what you will about Working Designs but they knew how to sell you on a game. I think their ads stood out specifically because they were the polar opposite of all the edgy ads at the time and went for more of a whimsical tone.

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>>10998791
These ads aren't doing anything other than showcasing japanese promo art as is. Maybe you're just being sucked in by the 90s anime art style alone, I don't blame you since it looked good.

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>>10998830
True the art is doing a shit ton of the heavy lifting but the formatting is also really solid. The way the screenshots are laid out and the three line flavor text that makes the games seem like they're going to be an epic adventure that rivals the best fantasy films. They're just really well put together. The consistency also didn't hurt. You knew a WD game when you saw it.

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>>10998830
>These ads aren't doing anything other than showcasing japanese promo art as is.
To be fair, that was kind of rare back then, too. It seems like a simple idea but very few publishers just let the game speak for itself, ESPECIALLY if it was anime.

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>>10998212
And all I got was this shitty game.
>>10998293
He had to be chill to go along with all this edgy marketing done with his name.

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>>10998224
Incredible.

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>>10996635
Holy shit, absolutely lost it

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>>10998604
is that a motherf***ing JoJo reference!?

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>>10994896
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>>10997710

So sad those ones would have never been tolerated in the present times.

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>>10996232
>Ready 2 Rumble clone

I had no idea this even existed.

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>>10996241
NICE!

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>>10999258
Off the top of my head it came out reasonably late and was a fairly B tier game even then so nobody remembers it.

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>>10994870
A GameBoy for just 51€. Wow.

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>>10994672
lmao

>>10995179
Anon, I...

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>>10999350
i always remember this ad playing during smackdown wrestling when i was a kid
i was like 13-14 and i'm still surprised i got the joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OESBOX-rsw

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>>10994681
Why did they make her sound Irish?

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Gaming peaked not in any game, but in the magazine ads.

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>>10995846
https://youtu.be/6n2iAY28kAw?si=pRNXzpgTMFsn25gf&t=77

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>>10994672
Is that a Bogdanoff

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>>10998224
one of my favorites

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>>10998609
hawt

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>10994672
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>>11000303
Reported. Go back to Trooner.

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>>10996202
He... He looks like me..

He's built like me... I... thank you <3

#RepresentationMatters #Logitech

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>>10994709
Did Miyamoto pay royalties to Taito for the use of Arkanoid blocks?

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>>10996628
god why couldn't they have just given us another game like final fantasy 1 but with more classes and 2 sexes worth of sprites
why were final fantasy 2 and final fantasy 3 what we had to contend with

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>>11000174
Hah, yes. Nice pick, that's one of my girlfriend's favorite movies.

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>>10994936
call me a faggot but i'd want a middle ground. have some fucking respect for the shit you're selling, i don't want STDs-powered klonoa or whatever the fuck, it doesn't tell me shit about the product. sell me something actually arousing, don't take a steaming shit in my brain

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>>10996727
it has a pc port with better framerate, but idk how well it runs on modern machines

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>>10994661
> Dead or Alive 6
> Dead or Alive 3.

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>>11001606
Unlocking framerate changes game speed.

>60 FPS and 120+ FPS
>Capped at 16 FPS. Changing FRAME_LOCK 16 in config.dat changes the game speed.[2]

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>>10994869
>there's other fighting games for super nintendo, but none are final fight 2

spanish isn't hard if you're not retarded

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Help me out here

Ages ago I saw a magazine ad in, i think it was UltraGamePlayers, that was an all-black page with a cartoon undead angry and bloody chef about to swing a cleaver. It bothers me I can't remember what game that ad was for, anybody have an idea?

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>>10994672
Kek based

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>>11001740
wonder if you can somehow use a controller

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>>10998394
So, you admit that Eurotrash can't keep their shit under wraps. Thank you for proving the superiority of the The American Way.

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>>11002946
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>lookin_good.png

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>>10996213
>the high score meme was used by a real corporation.

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>>10995753
Sorry ASUS Republic of Gamers, Psygnosis was the original gaming owl

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>>11003812
I think that's where it started?

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>>11003829
indeed. pic re not an ad but I have to post it anyway

>>10998394
tl;dr the US and Soviets won WWII, the US won the Cold War, now we're about to get our comeuppance.
>I don't get how a functioning adult in the Information Age doesn't have the impetus to learn shit like this as he needs it or sees fit, especially in the age of globalization (for better or for worse).
too many tards who use our powerful tech to consume mindless junk.

>>10997463
>It's like social media not only makes you retarded, but it makes you mentally regress as a human.
exactly.

>>10997493
the only sexuality not allowed is straight male, unless you're black & rappin.

>>10995863
quoting myself, but I always thought that was one of the better depictions of Shao Khan. the other is cool too, but this one is perfect.

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>>10998353
the absolute irony of this post

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>>11001843
Through cosmic coincidence I only learned this game existed an hour ago.

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>>11004816
DD raw really is raw to play - honestly the series never should've been let out of the hands of reflections. The first two games have some great music in them (and 2 has an actual thrash metal album done by a local band that never went anywhere - the songs in the game are virtually the only surviving part of the album minus a couple vocal tracks that aren't in game).

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>>11004814
This one is makes sense because if you've seen the TV show then you'll know what you're getting into, and it was one of those ubiquitous shows that everyone has seen.

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>>11004810
this is honestly the most disturbing one

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>>11004549
>the US won the Cold War, now we're about to get our comeuppance.
Yeah, and now we're being subverted from the inside by Cultural Marxists. Former KGB agent warned about this very thing happening. Commies lost the cold war so they decided to fight the longer culture war instead. It's subversion of our values, nothing is allowed anymore.

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>>10996252
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>>10996995

based

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I have a few (20 or so) old comics with old video game ads but no s banner so sorry

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>>10995892
uh oh, stinky

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>>10996323
why did kawazu even make this game

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>>11005967
It's really not.

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I'm now convinced he browses 4chan.

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>>11007459
The cutscenes in that game are some shlock-y shit. The enemy mech designs are pretty weird in places which I think is kind of cool.

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>>11005985
Sad but true, not just subversion, but inversion. Between that, the uncontrolled debt & inflation, and the rise of BRICS (with Russia winning in Ukraine), it's all going to crash sooner or later. But it seems we must destroy & rebuild.

>>11007457
back when there was patriotism...

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can't leave out the greatest game of all time, can we

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I've actually been trying to track this ad down after I remember seeing it on a wall in a game shop in the early 90s.

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>>11007606
I think I'd choose the Gamer GF over the SP. She looks pretty cute and funny.

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>>11007974
Ah DOA2 - the game that broke the camel's back for me. I did not acquire enough proficiency and that coming off from being of poor competency at tekken some years earlier I rage quit fighting games for good. 20 years later I regret nothing.

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Non sequitur magazine ads always made me think the game must be fucking garbage, that it couldn't get even one piece of concept art good enough for a real magazine ad.

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>>11008034
based 80IQ anon

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>>10998293
he was also really against this particular ad campaign.

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>>11008034
>Non sequitur

I don't think you know what this means.

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>>10999537
shitty grammar due to the way the ad is drawn. I had to reread it myself once or twice before it clicked.
>You want a piece of me, program boy?

is how I had to correct it in my head.

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>>11009518
This is the only way I've ever read it but now hearing it as "You want a piece of me program, boy?" cracks me up because all I hear is Cait Sith.

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>>11001567
Fair enough. I just hate how looking at hot women is verbotten in CURRENT YEAR, as if human nature is that malleable.

Doesn't have to be straight-up porn or an STD ad. Just make your product high-quality and palatable and sell it as such.

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>>10994661
This perplexing print ad for Riven: The Sequel To Myst

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>>11007294
>You're Bruce Willis, starring as Trey Kincaid
No I'm not

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>>11009576
kek, I was wondering what he meant about it sounding Irish, now it makes perfect sense.

>>11009586
as I said, the only sexuality not allowed is straight male, unless you're black & rappin. It's about an inversion of values, but it's also a feminist power structure controlling males.

>>11008123
this. retro ads are not for brainlets.

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>>11009652
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!

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>>11010431
You have to decipher it. Personally, I think it's spot on.

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>>10996995
>>10996781
I will now play your game

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>>10994672
redditor mad

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>>11010431
You're too cynical to go there. Sad.

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it's mid

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>>11010431
What the advert does to normal people
>hmm this caught my eye and would like to know more
What the advert does to brainlets
> ARE YOU TRYING TO SELL ME CAR INSURANCE I DON'T UNDERSTAND
The latter is usually followed by a bout of screeching and then some sobbing in a corner.

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>>11010645
I still struggle to believe nightdive released a remaster for that.

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>>11010658
the latter is why the villain has to spell his whole plan to the hero in movies and why there are 841864 pages of lore entries in modern action games

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What were japanese ads like?

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I've always liked this tagline.

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>>10994672
funny cuz tru

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>>11009652
This is almost literally >>10994672

What I think a lot of people who didn't grow up in the 90s don't understand is just how much "lol so random" comedy had the culture by the balls. Mel Brooks was still making movies. Spaceballs was 1987 and then Robin Hood Men In Tights landed in 1993. The Naked Gun franchise and Leslie Nielsen himself were very popular. Shit, Pauly Shore was a leading man.

This is the American Chrono Trigger TV commercial:
https://youtu.be/AYQeITtzRl0?si=Lga8sD8RkmYZzpKt

It's literally just the Japanese one with bullshit subtitles. Absurdist tangents and total nonsense were all the rage. It's why Kenny dying every episode in South Park and everything about Family Guy existed. Shit didn't have to make sense or connect to anything. Just random zaniness out of left field was considered funny.

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>>11010056
The sheer laziness of this ad offends me. It doesn't look like they bothered to hire the model on the right. It looks like some generic free image they grabbed off Google.

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>>10994672
Pedos btfo

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>>11010598
>Redditor
The guy with a Mastodon blog?

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>>11011005
half of this website are also redditors. now what

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>>10995756
>BAH DAH BOOM BAH DAH BING KNOW WHAT I MEAN

what did he mean by this

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>>10996312
he does not mourn the ads themselves but the culture that permitted them you brainlet

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>>10996378
i'd watch a Terminator parody with a young Ed O'Neill in the role of the robot.

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>>10998293
>everybody assumes he's an asshole
do they now?

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>>10994936
Most of the world has become a bunch of pussies and hall monitors.

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>>10996396
Those screenshots are literally photos of CRT’s you big fag

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Post ads you ducks

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>>11011164
Nothing changes

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Why was that one pic deleted?

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>if you don't play duke 3D
>you like men!

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>>10998819
sweet mother of kino

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>>11007982
I still do not fathom what they meant by this

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>>11012914
Running over loads of hedgehogs. This becomes relevant as that is a UK advert and is a reference to multiple things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4Ye4EZo00
https://youtu.be/HZbQ3lTObas?t=21

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>>11010925
Google wasn't giving you images hi-res enough to put to print back then.

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>>11010681
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Wonderful. Masterpieces.

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>>10994748
I remember first hearing about Earthbound through one of these smelly ol' Nintendo Power ads and while it didn't make me run out and buy the game I never forgot it either.

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>>10994672
why'd you delete this masterpiece, faglord?

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>>11014371
Imagine the smell

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>>11016259
>only game with murray walker
>f1 2001
"no"

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>>11003812
You have to be 18 to post in this website

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>>11016682
>in
Good morning!

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Fapped to this more times than I care to admit.

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>>11016939
I'd fap to those screenshots too. I suppose the woman isn't too shabby either.

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>>11002096
she cute

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>>10994860
Man, you're a retard.

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>>11018309
he's right, those ads have almost nothing to do with the games
earthbound, being the one exception, covers a 5-10 minute portion and tried to sell based on that

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>>10995843
I remember seeing this ad in an issue of GameFan and being enthralled. I loved time travel, I thought the Epoch was cool, I thought Lucca was cute, and holy fuck is that a frog? With a sword?! Sick.

It's weird that I never asked my parents for the game, though. I don't think I even knew it was an RPG, and I probably wouldn't have liked it back then anyway, but I think I at least had the notion that this game was above my head.

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>>11018319
>those ads have almost nothing to do with the games
Correct. And it was on purpose. Not because "they had no idea what they were trying to sell". Fucking retard.

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>>11018334
No, that's absolutely true.
Marketing execs in the 90s knew jack shit about video games except for the few bullet points the dev told them.

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>>11018339
Nope. That's factually incorrect and not how advertising works. Execs are given a FUCKTON of info, typically even a copy of the game to play. But they only latch onto what they think is going to help sell the game which, in the 90s, was gross-out/x-treme crap, especially in cases where the game itself was some cutesy Japanese stuff that wouldn't overtly appeal to western players unless you put some kind of twist on it.

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>>11018359
>execs are given a ton of info
>so the actual team making the ad can choose not to use it
Hyperbole aside, that kind of treatment was pretty unusual.
More often than not, they'd be given a list of headline features and talking points along with a press kit (a collection of art assets and in-game shots, maybe some footage of the game being played). That's still how it works now, in fact.
Companies were very protective of their work, and typically weren't giving up a pre-release copy of the game to a fucking ad agency.

They're good ads, in that they sold a product. But let's not pretend they're at all indicative of the product they're selling.

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>>11018359
>>11018421
It was a trend in 90s advertising that even 90s advertising itself was aware of and occasionally poked fun at.

https://youtu.be/pVtsS14MAjk?si=H21jfBSdL7R2yQIx

https://youtu.be/5rYIXOmDpRA?si=9py3MU8v9BIqRI4l&t=284

It's not really an issue with video games specifically.

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Any one for a English Koudelka?

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>>10994661

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>>10994661

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Anyone have a high quality version of the Worms advert where a woman is giving birth and the doctors are pulling out a huge worm (styled from the game) from her?

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>>11020508
This game was so shit and had no medical fetish scenes in it either

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Find you way to inner peace.

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>>10994868
There's something special about these kinds of ads. You get the feeling that whoever made them knew nothing about (if not flat out disliked) videogames, was given a plot summary and a few screenshots, thought the game sounded retarded and beneath him, and so he made an ad which reflected that. Ignore almost everything about the game itself, and just make an ad that boils down to "this shit sounds so kuraazy and stupid, but I bet you dumb kids who actually play this garbage will think that's a positive, so here you go, enjoy your brain rotting digital toys."

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>>10994661
Is this urine or ejaculant?

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>>10999501
Of all the screenshots to put front and center, why a fucking Lau mirror match

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>>10994865
Imagine marketing to a Spanish

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>>10996202
OMG she is trying to eat him but he is too distracted by Nintendo

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>>10999252
I believe its possible to still get away with ads like these. Biggest issue is when the company relies on Tw*tter, T*mblr and potentially Yout*be audience and influencers for feedback, which causes big entities like shareholders, sponsors and other companies giving bonus funds like Bl*ckR*ck. Sadly ignoring those factors is too much for every company these days.

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>>11007490
>the rise of BRICS (with Russia winning in Ukraine)
This one always amuses me.
It's the rise of India and China. Brazil, Russia, and South Africa are doing fuck all and have barely grown at all in decades. It's not BRICS, it's just IC.

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>>11021740
Yeah, and she's starting with the ears. Must be Bulgarian or something.

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>>11019370
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>>11019376
>fun anyone?
whoever came with that slogan deserves to get stoned on the streets

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>>11016259
LOOK AT THIS
AT
THIS

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>>10994661

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These ads were always complete shit; for the life of me I don't understand how you people are nostalgic for leftover advertisements pulled from the bin after they weren't good enough to sell to the people making Capri Sun or Lunchables.

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>>11023215
It's a reminder of a better and easier time....

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>>11022253
You're correct about Brazil and South Africa being irrelevant, but Russia has really turned around under Putin's leadership, and they're winning in Ukraine.
BRICS will really be Russia, China, Iran, and to a lesser extent India and possibly Saudi Arabia.

>>11023215
brainlet

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>>11023185
>3DO
for what purpose

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>>11023753
3DO developer/publisher after they sold off the console business.

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>>11023181
For me, it's the girl on the bottom row, second from the left.

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>>11023181
For me, it's the girl on the bottom row, second from the right.

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>>11014359
wall-eyed freak

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>>11007604
>Let's see Paul Allen's NEO•GEO

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>>10996237
I don't understand, do you play as the cow? Is the cow the antagonist?

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>>11024158
>doesn't understand aliens
Yes, just as planned little earthling.

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>>10994681
This ad directly targets naive talent who will work for far less than they're worth under terrible conditions in exchange for imagined "prestige".

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>>10995739
I don't understand this. FFVII didn't even use CD quality sound. It was all midi shit. The game would have sounded exactly the same.

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>>10994860
How else should you advertise a game in print during that period, with dry and comprehensive descriptions about gameplay and features?
If you're seeing these ads you're likely reading a magazine full of this kind of content written by independent reviewers.
The point is to interrupt and grab the readers attention effectively, and at this time puerile, edgy humour was popular at the time.

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>>10994824
Correct answer is >>10998573
Boomers were spoiled and mislead by subversive elements, the majority of "adults" are children, ideologically, and require good leadership and training in order to live right.

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>>10996148
>Majority of people reading this had no idea who John Romero was.
This looks like a print ad for game magazines, there's probably a preview of the game and a profile of Romero in the same publication

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>>10994748
Nah it was just how boring it looked to kids, I rented games from a local owned shop as a kid and always picked up RPGs, when it released I was a regular so the owner was always telling me about stuff he just got that he figured I'd like. So he shows me earthbound one day and my first thought looking at the back was "I'm already a kid why would I want to play as one?" I wanted cool knights, and whacky future tech sci-fi RPGs not one about a kid walking around a suburban neighborhood.
My dad convinced me to try it anyway so I did and I instantly fell in love with it after playing, but I imagine most kids felt the way I did and skipped it altogether I would have skipped it myself if my dad didn't nudge me to try it.
He's also the reason both me and my cousin own a physical copy, he bought us each one later because my cousin fell in love with it also after visiting when I had rented it.

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>>11023215
It's a reminder of when times were more fun, even if these ads obviously only existed for corporate interests.

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>>11024280
>DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PLAYSTATION
Is that a threat?

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i really wonder if older people working at advertising agencies miss how much they were allowed to flex real creativity for these and others ads before the late 2000s. it has to suck seeing what has essentially been the death of a long running industry in favor of two second embedded loop title gifs on websites, half-assed host reads on podcasts or youtube, and calculated demographic all identity safe commercials on the little bit of tv people still watch.

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>>10994661
Big fan of how for Nintendo's Volleyball they created designs for girls from all the countries, used them for this one flyer, and then nothing else

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While not videogames directly (but is gaming related) i just wanted an excuse to post it.

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>>11025362
What's TUN? Tunisia?

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>>11026482
Yeah, it appears the teams in the game are based on the participants of the '85 FIVB Women's Cup (except the USA, which didn't compete in the games, replacing Peru). Tunisia participated that one year so they ended up in the game

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>>11024217
Let me paste the description here for you:

>Square's hardware jump from Nintendo to Sony in the mid-90s garners a lot of discussion. There's kind of a zietgiest about what Final Fantasy VII might have looked like if it ended up as a Nintendo 64 game. It's fun to watch the old SGI demo with Terra, Locke, and Shadow. Sometimes voices on N64Brew speculate if the PlayStation game could be ported to the Nintendo 64.

>Here I've taken a MIDI track from the PC port and compiled it into a Nintendo 64 ROM. SGI's Audio Library utilizes MIDI playback, so the sequence was more or less interchangeable. It's playing with the default compressed soundbank provided by Nintendo (which Squaresoft likely wouldn't have used) via NuSys and the n_audio library.

>Hopefully it's a fun listen, and provides a bit of discussion material!

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>>10994681
>You've got to be a damn good programmer to work on Final Fantasy VII for Windows 95

The 1998 PC port of FFVII was absolute shit, so I guess the ad didn't find them the program boys they were looking for.

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>>11026685
I doubt anyone who submitted a resume ended up working on the game. The project this ad is referring to never actually came to fruition. The PC port that actually released was outsourced to Eidos. I guess shortly after putting out this solicitation they figured it would be cheaper to just have another developer handle it than hiring new staff internally.

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>>11026723
Yeah, I joke, but it really was an awful port. I had a Playstation, but my buddy didn't, so he got the PC version.

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>>11026741
The port was fine though.

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>>11026745
Maybe his computer just wasn't up to the task back then, but I never heart of anyone in the day having it run as good as the Playstation copy. Did you manage to get it to work well out of the box?

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>>11026524
>>11026482
yes, TUN is Tunisia. not sure about URS though... United Republic of Sexy?

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>>11029532
>hor

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>>11028357
It's the Soviet Union/USSR. Their real life uniforms had CCCP. USR was their FIFA code which is what the ad is using.

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>>11028357
It's the Soviet Union/USSR. Their real life uniforms had CCCP. URS was their FIFA code which is what the ad is using.

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>>11030091
oh ok, never knew that, only knew about CCCP. I should've guessed.

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>>11031247
>i'm going to take a warm shower, surely anon could not be lurking in my bathroom right?

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>>11007609
This from the company that had panic attacks over nude statues and crosses on tombstones.

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>>10999537
>tifa l. o'ckheart

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Flesh Feast

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>>11009586
are you retarded? sex will always sell

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>>11029536
>sportsball games
cringe

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>>10994661

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>>11032387
Most hip-hop tank crew in vidya, da wardenz.