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I distinctly remember an ad from the 90s that involved a guy overeating until he literally exploded. Was it for kirby superstar?
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A Smoke Break posted:I distinctly remember an ad from the 90s that involved a guy overeating until he literally exploded. Yoshis Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJJQHF4tTo 
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Jan 2, 2019 07:01
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Shibawanko posted:I never bought games with ads like that as a kid because they all looked like they were aimed at idiots so you felt like you were being pandered to?
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Jan 2, 2019 07:26
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There was a PC game called Drowned God around the late 90s,maybe early 00s that had an ad that just featured a bathroom toilet and microphone covered with a condom and some text explaining how the combination there of was used to create sounds for a game. edit: Looking up the game on wiki, this gem came up: " Around the time of the game's release, Horse stated that its story was incomplete, and that the rest of the story would be revealed in a sequel called CULT,[3] planned to center around Area 51.[12] However, he killed himself, as well as his wife and pets, a decade after the game's release,[16] and no sequel was ever completed." JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Jan 2, 2019 07:45
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lmfbo
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Jan 2, 2019 07:48
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God that was such a loving disgusting commercial. I remember having to sit through it like 20 times a day for like 3 months leading into the holidays. Not even the Earthworm Jim commercial can top it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53HNvK85CTE As usual, Japan rules "アースワーム・ジム...America New Super Hero, YEAHHHHH" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG2CdHeAqDk
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Jan 2, 2019 07:54
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I remember an old Heat.net ad from a gaming magazine in 2000 or 2001 that had two fat people in a pool hugging each other. On it was their screen names and a factoid about each of them. One of them was, "This is not <name>." EDIT: It took me a while, but I found it in an archived copy of Computer Gaming World. I was wrong a bit about the text, but the punchline is the same. 
Star Man fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Jan 2, 2019 08:02
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I hate this photo so god drat much. Never post it again. Celebrate her life instead.
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Jan 2, 2019 12:01
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QuarkJets posted:so you felt like you were being pandered to? Oh poo poo
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Jan 2, 2019 12:45
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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of video game advertising of that era was outsourced to marketing firms who had only a vague at best idea of what a video game was and also likely no idea how to advertise to what they presumed their target market was.
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Jan 2, 2019 16:26
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get that OUT of my face posted:Gex might have been the most '90s video game series ever created. the gameplay has aged as horribly as the concept of a gecko with attitude. at least it introduced me to Dana Gould, although it's only been recently where he's made things that were any good (namely, his podcast and Stan Against Evil) gex 2 literally ended with gex going to gently caress the girl from the pandemonium series (i think?) and a joke about how long his tongue is so the ad is honestly the most accurate to the gameplay contents of everything posted there
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Jan 2, 2019 16:41
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before i had my own pc to look at porn on, it was video game magazines and newspaper underwear ads as far as the eye could see
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Jan 2, 2019 16:46
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Jan 2, 2019 16:47
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Oh man, the Wheel of Time FPS.
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Jan 2, 2019 16:57
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of video game advertising of that era was outsourced to marketing firms who had only a vague at best idea of what a video game was and also likely no idea how to advertise to what they presumed their target market was. I'd say they hit their mark.
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Jan 2, 2019 17:04
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God that list of games makes me hard.
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Jan 2, 2019 18:13
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I need to find a printable Q2 shotgun STAT.
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Jan 2, 2019 18:18
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Vakal posted:Oh man, the Wheel of Time FPS. Yeah it wasn't very good
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Jan 2, 2019 19:30
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The 90s in general was a weird, edgy, juvenile and frequently unpleasant era for advertising. I mean, it's where 'edgy' basically got started. So I went back and read some old issues of Computer Gaming World, and holy gently caress, the ads...
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Jan 2, 2019 20:14
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Yeah it wasn't very good The game's multiplayer mod where you had to protect your base by placing traps and defenses and AI controlled guards and attackers was actually quite fun, but good luck finding someone to play against since the multiplayer scene was dead from pretty much the release.
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Jan 2, 2019 20:32
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Vakal posted:The game's multiplayer mod where you had to protect your base by placing traps and defenses and AI controlled guards and attackers was actually quite fun, but good luck finding someone to play against since the multiplayer scene was dead from pretty much the release. I just remember balefiring the last boss into oblivion in like three seconds
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Jan 2, 2019 20:39
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ditty bout my clitty posted:I just remember balefiring the last boss into oblivion in like three seconds Just being accurate to the books then.
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Jan 2, 2019 20:45
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Vakal posted:Just being accurate to the books then. Imagine if trevelyan at the end of goldeneye was some random mook with an uzi that you instantly brained followed by a u win screen. That's how I felt
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Jan 2, 2019 21:14
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ditty bout my clitty posted:I just remember balefiring the last boss into oblivion in like three seconds That's rude, you could've at least sent him to morrowind
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Jan 2, 2019 22:10
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I remember in Mega Man Legends... 2? I think? there's a quiz part and one of the answers is Hungry Like the Wolf and I've never felt more taken out of a game. Mega Man and Roll, lighting a spliff and listening to some Duran Duran.
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Jan 3, 2019 01:25
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naeka posted:I miss the mod era of like dod, firearms, action quake 2, the professionals, that vampire hunter one in half life etc and the endless supply of stuff on planethalflife or planetquake and that's how i ended up on SA originally in the early 2000s. My friends and i still play AQ2 and Urban Terror sometimes but the days where those kind of releases were coming out quicker than you could play them and had such huge followings ruled and i struggle to explain it to younger relatives. I must have tried dozens of mods that never got out of alpha testing that always had someone to play with 24 hours a day or had full on single player campaigns (THEY HUNGER) and even the biggest projects for like Skyrim or something don't have that same feeling despite being more professionally made. As good as natural selection 2 is my best memories are all from the early hl1 mod days even. Unreal Tournament was awesome for this too. Jailbreak, Carball (which rocket league completely stole and gave no credit), ActionUT, TacOps, etc etc. Too bad those days are dead.
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Jan 3, 2019 01:43
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I remember in Mega Man Legends... 2? I think? there's a quiz part and one of the answers is Hungry Like the Wolf and I've never felt more taken out of a game. yeah this is MML2 and the quiz takes place in a tribal village area that has been otherwise completely decimated the quiz is.....'quirky'
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Jan 3, 2019 01:51
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MML2 quiz has a question about how many sex pistol albums were released lol. I remember snickering about the word sex being in a megaman game.
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Jan 3, 2019 03:48
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Natural selection 2 is great and it's a shame no one plays it anymore
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Jan 3, 2019 03:56
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food court bailiff posted:yeah this is MML2 and the quiz takes place in a tribal village area that has been otherwise completely decimated With answers like that I bet it was changed from something super Japanese in the original. And the setting is pretty far gone post-apocalypse.
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Jan 3, 2019 05:45
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Halloween Jack posted:Not that long ago I was asking myself if the 90s was a uniquely adolescent decade, or if I was just thinking that because I was an adolescent in the 90s. 80s was a very plastic/futuristic/fake but still serious and computer games could be advertised by and too people wearing button up shirts and ties, then it flipped in a big rebellious way for the 90s.
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Jan 3, 2019 05:59
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A Smoke Break posted:I hate this photo so god drat much. I know it's terrible but that ad just reminded me of it so goddamn much.
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Jan 3, 2019 06:25
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veni veni veni posted:I know it's terrible but that ad just reminded me of it so goddamn much. Dunno what that photo is and not sure I wanna
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Jan 3, 2019 06:54
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Dunno what that photo is and not sure I wanna You don't which is probably a good reason for people to not post it.
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Jan 3, 2019 08:19
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I bought a games magazine when I was not holiday in Florida and I distinctly remember an ad that was a full page picture of vomit containing alphabeti spaghetti. The letters spelled out "I'm so excited I think going to...". There was another Nintendo ad specifically slagging off Sega (it was slagging off bad graphics or something and said "hint, rhymes with schmega"). I remember thinking at the time that you'd never get ads like that in the UK. They were juvenile, but not full on gross out, and never specifically mentioning competitors.
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Jan 3, 2019 08:32
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a bone to pick posted:MML2 quiz has a question about how many sex pistol albums were released lol. I remember snickering about the word sex being in a megaman game. The whole Jeopardy-loving family came into the room to help me with that quiz, with someone on internet duty when we weren't 100% sure. That question nearly ended the run because the person on the computer didn't know how to shut down Net Nanny.
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Jan 3, 2019 09:02
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McGiggins posted:Natural selection 2 is great and it's a shame no one plays it anymore I reinstalled it over the Christmas/New Year break and never got round to playing it 
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Flannelette posted:I can confirm it was the former.  As well as this:  In conclusion, gaming is a land of contrasts. 
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Linkle is a bad idea.
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