More Worst Videogame Ads 70
An anonymous reader writes "1UP has posted another feature with the best worst videogame advertisements of all time. There are some absolutely laugh-out-loud ads and descriptions for the Jaguar, 3DO, Super Metroid, Bubsy, Super Street Fighter II, and a bunch of others, including some bizarre peripherals from the '90s such as the Interactor, a subwoofer that you'd attach to your chest. 'It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see on a particularly lame supervillian, except he'd at least be able to knock people down with some kind of ripply sound wave effect, as opposed to just looking like a dip while playing Mortal Kombat.'"
Today? (Score:2)
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I'm not sure what I bunch of kids running around throwing water balloons has to do with video game systems...
Re:Today? (Score:5, Funny)
HEAD ON! Apply directly to your forehead!
HEAD ON! Apply directly to your forehead!
Oh wait.. you were referring to annoying game advertisements.
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
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DENTAL PLAN! Lisa Need Braces...
DENTAL PLAN! Lisa Need Braces...
DENTAL PLAN! Lisa Need Braces...
DENTAL PLAN! Lisa Need Braces...
Re:Today? (Score:1)
freedom from hemmorhoids? FREEdHEM hemmorhoidal cream..
freedom from hemmorhoids? FREEdHEM hemmorhoidal cream.
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(I hate that commercial SO much..)
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The worst of today's ads... (Score:2, Interesting)
Also, most TV videogame ads that show FMV, FMV, FMV and nothing else. That's how Nintendo got fu
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Re:Today? (Score:2)
You need to look at this. (Score:2)
But the real reason I'm writing this post is that, since you're linking to a recent PA comic, there's actually a better example from their newspost [penny-arcade.com] archives.
I'd like to be able to read the text in the BlockBuster image, but at least you can get the gist of the advertisement without those details.
Anyway, Gabe's post there is a must read, even though he's a cheeseball.
Re:You need to look at this. (Score:2)
The Title (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Title (Score:2)
*getting a hankering for sausage for some reason*
Re:The Title (Score:1)
I bet I'm not the only one.
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Sega, mid-90's (Score:2)
My Favs (Score:1, Redundant)
Best line in the entire article. (Score:2)
Amen.
As if you couldn't read this yourselves (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=6&cId=
For: A Joystick Under a Napkin
From: STD
Appeared in: EGM, September 1994
Of course I'm prepared. I covered my joystick with a napkin to protect it from lightning strikes weeks ago. The imagery here doesn't capture the excitement of one-on-one fighting games so much as it looks like someone trying to hide an embarrassing erection at a restaurant.
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Re:As if you couldn't read this yourselves (Score:2)
But did it feature real-time weapon change?
Classic Atari TV ads (Score:3, Funny)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mLiBK3O1zHU&search=ata
There were other ads from atari not nearly as cornball, but these were in the highest rotation so yes I'm scarred for life.
Re:Classic Atari TV ads (Score:1)
If you really want to scar yourself for life, try seeking to about the 0:24 mark in the commercial, at the very end when the Atari logo pops onto the screen. The squeals of delight rapidly change into cries of horror, as if Atari mo
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Me - I like the guy with the pillow to the far right who looks like he's having a spastic fit of some kind. Poor guy. Someone
should put a mouth guard in him pronto before he bites his tongue off.
Still it's a pitty we don't get to see any melty faces. Perhaps I could overlay that scene from the movie onto that spot.
Where's my Raiders DVD...
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I was still excited, damnit
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http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey_other.htm [pong-story.com] (it's the yellow one).
True story about that one though - the RF modulators in those days were a joke. They were basically just air (we cracked one open), and allowed the companies to dodge FCC violations on interference by putting the crime into the hands of the people (customers) who hooked it up. At the time I was living some 60 miles south of St. Louis, and to get TV reception of any decent kind, you needed an arial similar i
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It'll bust your crank and leave skidmarks on your soul!
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In fact, I think every commercial should start out "HEEEEEY - You're a real JERK!".
It would be much more interesting to the average viewer and would be a nice bit
of disclosure at the top of the commercial break that you're going to be fed total
bullshit for the next 10 minutes.
Not really an ad, but... (Score:3, Informative)
Did not RTFA yet (Score:5, Funny)
I will get back to you after I read it.
Re:Did not RTFA yet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Did not RTFA yet (Score:4, Interesting)
But I was dissappointed these were only console video game ads, no PC ones. I can remember some damn awful ones from PC Gamer in the mid-90s.
Forgotten company/product: Picture shows shittiest, messyist room ever, with trash everywhere, leftover pizza, roaches, etc. There is no furniture, but sitting on the floor in the middle of the room is an naked, emaciated, disheveled man facing the reader, with his legs spread wide. His groin is covered up by a computer monitor, which he is staring intently at, while gripping the monitor like it's a hooker's head giving him a blowjob. The caption was something like: "Scientific studies have shown that monkeys will prefer recieving pleasure to food, water, or excercise. Are you a monkey?" I wish I could remember what the hell game that was for. Sure as hell did not make me want to get it.
Duke nukem 3D: A lineup of various very ugly people dressed as Duke Nukem, including scrawny redneck dude, several midgets, an old woman, etc. All of them making faces like a retarded child who has been told there's a monster under his bed. The caption: "Accept no substitutes." It didn't make me want to accept the real thing, either.
Tomb Raider: Every ad that tried to 'excite' us with Lara's polygonal body, ever.
Battlecruiser 3000 A.D.: Sexy woman in lingere. Speech bubble from off-screen: "Not now, honey, first I have to recharge the shields, launch missles, repair the hyperdrive...." etc.
Serf City: Crazy leprechaun-like dude in a top hat and big bulging eyes and wide grin swinging sledgehammer at reader. "Life is feudal." Indeed.
Some random online gaming service: Screenshot of Quake II, with big guys and gals with guns and camo facepaint from the game. (Badly)Photoshopped into the pic: teenager in yellow shirt and slacks, with the worst "I'm trying to look life I'm tough by roaring" face ever. I couldn't tell if he was supposed to be screaming because he's scared, angry, or having fun. Oh, and his gun was also badly photoshopped in, or maybe it was a cardboard mockup of the Quake II shotgun.
I wish I had my stack of PC Gamers here, there were way too many hilariiously bad ads back in the day.
the best worst best (Score:1)
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ARG! (Score:1)
Jaguar as a dental camera?! (Score:1)
More random than anything. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:More random than anything. (Score:1)
It seemed like they were just playing MST3K with old magazines, and criticizing the games as often as the ads. I've seen worse ads than any of the ones in the 'article'. - I don't think they went all out on this one.
Zelda 64 (Score:4, Interesting)
http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/profile/video_player
Ouch (Score:1)
I'm currently suffering the pain that comes from laughing Dasani lemon-flavored water up one's nasal passages.
From the Article (Score:1)
Hmm, I imagine most of us will kill ourselves during the third hour of John Galt's speech. (I know, why see the movie... well, why play the licensed tie in game if you haven't seen the movie? Besides, isn't there already an Atlas Shrugged computer game?)
The Aura Interactor (Score:2, Offtopic)
Oh, that thing. Aura was a sad story. They developed the first really powerful direct drive linear actuators, things that looked like hydraulic cylinders but were entirely electrical. (U.S. Patent #5,099,158) Some were so powerful that they were used for active damping on metal bridges, to reduce vibration when heavy trucks rolled by. These things were shown at industrial automation shows.
But they didn't sell. Good idea, too expensive.
Aura tried making the Interactor [avsim.com], a big subwoofer, using their a
Re:The Aura Interactor (Score:2)
Day must turn to night.... (Score:1)
What game is that by line from? I thought it was the dummest line ever...
three words... (Score:2)
(No, it's not a real ad, but it's the first thing that popped into my head.)
Pre-Dugg (Score:1)
on the heals of...Games that never got made (Score:3, Interesting)
Worth 1000: Beta Busts 5 [worth1000.com]
Another article (Score:4, Interesting)
Article about bad advertising in gaming mags [blogspot.com]
Honestly, where do they come up with this crap? I work in advertising, and from my perspective I really have to wonder who had the final say over the copy in this...it really is laughable.
A critique of the critique (Score:2)
Missed one (Score:2)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/07/26 [penny-arcade.com]
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and the game advertisements are poor also.