Advertising is a lost Art...esp in gaminghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58kEt2P2KG4

Advertising is a lost Art...esp in gaming

Ads for games no don't really stand out and chances are if you buy a game you wanted it to begin with not because of the ad.

Even the CDI had great ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Gnnm-ga48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnFZ-Mj35xs

I heard Matt got a Sega Genesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7Byc0esko

I'll take both!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58kEt2P2KG4

Genesis does
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTn5Vr-YJ0

How about you guys what classic ads (print or otherwise) do you remember?

 

In general all ads have drastically changed from decade to decade. Some of the old ads from the 80s and 90s are very bizarre and funny. But it seems to me most ads from the last 10 years are very forgettable. But maybe they aren't to little kids.

 

How'd that url get in the subject anyway.

90s ads were the best even if they were not that different from 80s ads.

 

Yeah, 90's game ads where great.

Though I do think sony's most recent ads have been good.

I mean COME ON..... (god the aroma therapy line was golden)

 

Zelda Rap, yo.

 

You can't belive everything you hear on the internet other wise I'd be a Nigerian Millionare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_l1oZ2b2M

I find that ad offensive. The 2 kids were well...nerds.

This however

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kle0vau26xQ

 

Meh, ads and those who make them are far too up their own asses these days.

It's funny how advertisers used to be funny people, but lately they all seem over the top, they sell a yogurt like if it was some divine enlightment.

You can all thank apple and starbucks with their "spiritual experience" strategies, which mainly consists of making people feel superior if they buy their products, and that they MUST be HAPPY when they do, no questions asked.

 

In reality; I hate almost all VG TV ads... but the MATT HAS A GENESIS one rocks

My favorite type of modern day bullshot advertisement are those with all those cool, hip and trendy people who gather in front of a game console and totally enjoy it to the limit - no booze, no drugs, no pizza, no nothing - only pure 110% pure fun on their 60th floor Central Park-view sunny-side apartment! (usually with the black behemoth itself, w/no cables attached, just standing on the floor in a living room arranged by a blind donkey, while the trendy youth puts on their best facial expressions to show how great fun that FMV shot applied to the TV really is)

Ooops... hope it wasn't too obvious that I was talking about the cool Sony PS3 advertisement stock footage

(I seem to recall there being some similar shots from Activision for that Tony Hawk game with the skateboard too... so cool...)

 

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Yeah, Gaiares totally smokes, whatever that means.

Maybe it's just 90s nostalgia, but Sega's TV ads were always classic to me.

 

For some reason, this commercial for Sonic 3 really stuck with me over the years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpAJgbuQQ8

And this one for the "Nintendo Power Phone", because I used to have old VHS tapes of She-ra recorded from tv, commercial and all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKF5L8N3jVw

 

The Power Phone...lol

900 Numbers died with the internet

 

ok, this is your site then:

http://www.defunctgames.com/shows.php?id=commercialbreak-1

http://www.defunctgames.com/showarchive.php?showtype=commercialbreak

there are 50 episodes. read 'em all :lol:

 

The SNES Zelda japanese commercial is absolutely insane. The only way I can explain that is I heard M. Jackson was very popular in Japan and would guess that has something to do with why they did it like that.

I think I saw the Sonic 3 commercial before. It's pretty crazy.

 

Mr. jackson was popular in every funking country on this planet.

 

That reminded me of the Sonic & Knuckles commercial;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hRSuTv3Jzk


I've always seen that ad as some weird symbolic mockery deal. Where the two midgets are some sort of representation of two halves (Sonic the Hedgehog 3 + Sonic & Knuckles) that together form the mass of one whole man (or in this case: game) :lol:

 

I remember that I got Sonic 3 for free thanks to McDonalds (they had a give away contest and I magically won).

 

This is a better ad for Bayonetta than the actual ads for Bayonetta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxE6H83Xw0s

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VakiwDmJ-lI

 

the late great Phil Hartman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lROb1vWNiig