It's Friday night, so let's have a retro game ad thread.
I've had this one saved for a while for a Christmas themed thread I haven't gotten around to making so I'll post it here. Nothing special but I just find this scene very cozy and nostalgic!
I remember the Spiderman game being good. Other than that, I had a SNES and NES and those were good too.
Altered Beast is fun.
it's fucking saturday
>>11386793This is not from Mad Magazine
https://youtu.be/3LuOQ8eh26g
>>11388556>the color videogame you can get away with.look at him struggle to pull that fuckin brick out of his jacket pocket. no you couldn't.
>>11388556>0:08sThey had to use the external power brick just to get the ad filmed.
>>11386906God who the fuck actually liked all these shitty sports simulator games
>>11388546I don't think it's real either.
>>11389207Kids who actually went outside.
>>11389207 Older kids and adults. These games carried the system in its early days. Not everyone liked Mario crap
>>11386919These were my favorite kinds of ads. Yeah, cool original art, well written copy or an amusing clever idea were nice but what mattered to me most was seeing what the games looked like. Doubly true for TV ads. In an era where there was no YouTube to look up game clips this was sooo important.
>>11389207Sports games carried pretty much every system until 7th gen. It was the reason dads bought the console for kids in the first place. Its the reason every garage sale you go to and every thrift shop are full of them, and its the reason collectors ignore them. They have always been the backbone of the industry.> gen 1 were virtually all sports games (pong and other tennis sims, or driving/shooting games)>gen 2 was off to a slow start and it took several years for the 2600 to be embraced by consumers. It was carried by sports games until asteroids/space invaders emerged as killer apps. Activision sports titles in particular stood out.>for 3rd gen, 7 of the NES launch titles were sports games. The famicom in japan was carried entirely by baseball and mahjong for its early years. The master system wisely chose to embrace hang on as the bundled game along with safari hunt to match nintendos duck hunt>4th gen saw the genesis launch with a lot of sports titles and it began the era of "ea sportsball of the current year". Sport games helped genesis dominate the west for the first 3-4 years>5th gen continued ea sports but also saw a surch in atv, skateboarding, jetskii games go mainstream plus driving sims helped sony win this gen>6th gen saw the ps2 launch with 11 sports games. Madden series became the backbone of the industry for normalfags>7th gen saw the most successful console carried entirely by wii sports. Like 90% of families bough it for that game alone as it was one of the few titles using the motion control as intended.
You're all a bunch of sorry looking pee asses itt
>>11389207Non-babies. Some of them are fun for a play. You wouldn’t get it if you grew up on baby games like Pokémon and Kirby.
>>11389261You are on 4chan.
>>11389207A lot of people. Sports were generally popular with kids back then and kids bought games. The whole "GAMER" subculture really only came into being in the later part of the 2000s.
>>11386906It took this system too long to find the great games back in the 90sAll the stores near me never carried anything for it and there were no magazines (that I knew of) to find the games for it. Found out too late about the sports, shmups and racers that it had
>>11391892I'd argue that's when it started to die out. It started in like the 5th gen.
>>11386823This is what a typical Interact advertisement looked lie in gaming magazines back in the day. They loved to use a great white shark in their magazine ads.
>>11392223here's a counter magazine advertisement from 'STD' who also made peripherals for various game consoles. Why they used the name 'STD' is beyond me, though.
>>11392223I meant to say Asciiware, not InterAct.
Burning Rangers was released at the end of the Saturns life in 1998. Game had a minimal adverting campaign at best.
Sega's adverting team really wasn't trying very hard (stuff) at this point.
1998 Game Boy Color ad.
Mario Party (1) two-page ad from 1999.
Silent Hill ad for the PS1
>>11386793It's Monday. Dumbass!
Random ad for the PS1 Atlus game Trap Gunner.
>>11388546>>11389216It's an ad of Wonder promoting a Mu Tron synthesizer that somebody photoshopped.
>>11392320It's Tuesday
>>11392339>>11389216
>>11392260I get what they were going for here, but "complete neglect" really reflects what Sega was going through at this point.
>>11392397And im usually off of work on tuesdays, but not today.
>>11392398Wait...That's REAL?!
Will OP kindly tell us what a Friday has at all to do with retro game ads please?
>>11389207A lot of people can't comprehend how impressive all these games would have been on a home console in 1989, it felt like having an arcade machine in your home to the average kid or gamer.
>>11393532>>>11389207>A lot of people can't comprehend how impressive all these games would have been on a home console in 1989, it felt like having an arcade machine in your home to the average kid or gamer.That ad is from 1990. back in 1990, the SNES wasn't available on the market, home computers were still expensive, and the Genesis/ MD was technically the best piece of hardware on the market for sports games. Even after the SNES launched, the early sports games for that system suffered from slowdown and many were technically deemed inferior to what was on the Genesis previously. Sports games was a huge selling point for the Genesis/ MD outside of arcade ports pack then.
The art is horrendous with the GLOBS of SWEAT(?) but what's really funny is the mockup screenshots that look nothing like the final game.
fuck the bloody swamp
>>11393532I feel like a lot people these days not only have a trouble understanding that things were different but that they even COULD be different.
>>11389207Normies, black people, rural fat people
>>11393767PC was still unremarkable in 1990 until wing commander arrived at the end of the year. PC was lagging behind the amiga when it came to VGA games, so a lot of the 1990 PC stuff was just remakes of sierra quest games, and SSI goldbox. They were bleak and most looked way worse than the genesis launch titles. Aside from wing commander, monkey island stood out as visually spectacular by PC standards. 688 attack sub as well (but it was a glorified slideshow of mostly still VGA images, no real action). Amiga up to 1990 had some good colorful screenshots and pretty looking action games (when not in motion) but in motion most Amiga games up to this point were sluggish and not great action games. Turrican was one of the few that played well at this point (1990) but strider looked and played way better.
>>11395908I get that feeling whenever someone here acts flabbergasted by the fact that renting games was considered a perfectly legitimate way to enjoy them way back when.
>>11392398the sad part is that laserdiscs eventually go funny and lose their video quality, at least the very oldest ones do anyway. But still, I'm glad based ray was here to call people fuckheads for bothering with vinyl.
