SEGA'S BIZARRE EARLY 1990S VIZ ADVERTS Sega could do anything in the early 1990s, such was the dominance of the Mega Drive. It was, dear children, a bit like the PlayStation2 of its day. Everyone knew its name, everyone wanted one, even the Game Gear was a bit cool like PSP and its TV adverts were stylish and much talked about. But sometimes power goes to your head... ...leading to the series of adverts that ran in Viz. Viz is a comic book for grown ups (students) full of the sort of sick, gutter humour we simply cannot stand. Sega went so far as to create its own special ads to fit in with the Viz style. They're not what traditionalists would call "funny", and even in 1992 the idea of "waggling a joystick" being a bit like having a wank was a very old joke. Besides, the Mega Drive pad had a little d-pad not a THROBBING SHAFT so it's not even based on reality. Sega doesn't piss in the snow, it pisses in the *wind*. Source : http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2006/03/segas-bizarre-early-1990s-viz-adverts.html
What you mean "we," kemosabe? I picked up a stack of Viz comix from a flea market when I was in high school and loved them for years (I have no idea what ever became of them, unfortunately). They were earlier than these issues with the Sega ads, though, so I've never seen them. That "which pair will be biggest on the beach?" could have been really funny if they'd worked a little harder on the punch line. BUt who wants hard work, I just want to see home guy's pig hairy balls sticking out of his shorts. That's comedy. The funniest running strip in Viz was the one about the guy with the enormous testicles that he had to carry around in a wheelbarrow. Great stuff! He was always getting in wacky trouble! ...word is bondage...
ddue agree totally, great adverts may be a bit strange but at least they got ur attention need more companys to do that and not just give us plain ads
UK Resistance is certainly an odd duck. Sometimes they seem to go a little bit too far out of their way to be 'comically offensive' and just wind up feeling uncomfortable, like the sort of joke you tell a bit too loudly in a crowded room but nobody laughs at, and everyone ignores you for the rest of the evening. There wasn't much article present (or needed) this time around, as the ads pretty much speak for themselves. Damn, those are bizarre. And the 'joystick wiggling' ad was obviously in reference to the Power Stick or whatever the MegaDrive/Genesis joystick from Sega was called (see the little line of the text advertising it for £34.99? (yikes!)); for a gaming site you'd think UKR would have caught that. And yes, I find the Blue Sky In Games Campaign to be endlessly hilarious, more for the amount of people taking it way too seriously and getting all up in arms about the allegation that modern games suck (see the comments section on the page) than for the actual ideology of the thing. Of course, I approve wholeheartedly.
Awesome ads! :lol: I doubt ads similar in humor to those ones would even make it out nowadays without critizism.
