It Just Amuses Me: This game advertising doesn't appeal to me

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• Cockatrice Chick
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> my reaction to this, being someone who has no idea what the advertisement is about

Incidentally, this is as bad as, and possibly worse, than me looking at advertisements in engineering trade magazines for machine parts.

edited 5th Jan '11 12:11:33 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

It's for some MMO called Rift, obviously. I got an ad thing from Nvidia or something asking me to join in.

What they should have done was throw in a Team Fortress 2 hat.

Cockatrice Chick

Dammit, I've been spending too much time on IJBM, because my mental image did not involve what I think they were going for.

Pykrete, I assure you they were not catering to the furry fandom in the advertisement. It came with images, so I know.

Shouldn't two pictures be worth two thousand words

^ Clearly, there were dictionary cutbacks.

Well, that's one thing I will totally do/not do!

Sigh.

One thing I didn't like was that they marketed games to the hardcore omgsobadass crowd, even back then. I didn't want Duke Nukem testosterone from my Final Fantasy VI experience, you idiots.

That time was a time of MANLINESS.

edited 6th Jan '11 12:20:49 PM by Marioguy128

^^^...I want it!

"YOU HAVE MISCALCULATED!"

edited 6th Jan '11 12:59:27 PM by RocketDude

AMERICAN KIRBY IS HARDCORE!

I don't remember street-brawler Kirby or bodybuilder Kirby being in Kirby's adventure...

Creative liberties with Fighter Kirby.

This SEGA promo failed to sell me way back when

SEGA always had odd commercials, but weirdness couldn't save this one.

What's with the "Deep One Spawning"?

Are they sure it's a good idea to give them out?

Sega should have translated the Segata Sanshiro ads.

edited 7th Jan '11 7:23:00 AM by Neo_Crimson

This SEGA promo failed to sell me way back when

There's also an eight minute promotional version. It is rumored that watching it in its entirety will make you less human.

edited 7th Jan '11 7:30:35 AM by Glowsquid

^Oh god, I should count myself lucky then. Bet the retail workers loved hearing that on loop all day. I kinda liked the Turbo Graphix 16 demo though.

^^Segata commercials are awesome. My favorite is the one where he throws some guy over a cliff because he doesn't like Bomberman. The guy explodes, and then explodes again while Segata is already on the ground, walking away from the conflagration without looking behind him. How this stuff avoided becoming a huge meme I'll never know.

Here's a better Sega Saturn ad. It's weird, but So Badits Good.

When I was a kid, I always found commercials patronizing when they told me it would make me all rebellious and independent and stuff if I'd only beg my parents to buy their game/system. But this one is probably the strangest. The Butthole Surfers in a Nintendo commercial? More likely than you think.

Hot Super Mario Brothers! Again, not bad, but strange.

GENESIS DOES

NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER.... SUPER POWER!!!!!!!!!!1111

@Mild Guy: Segata Sanshiro IS a huge meme, in Japan at least.