When did the iconic wild-west style commercial for games truly die out and why? They were weird for sure but it was a pretty light hearted way to advertise your game.
>>12477776I grew up watching cartoon network and nickelodeon in the 90s and early 2000s but honestly the only video game related commericals I remember seeing are:the mario 64 got milk comercialsome day time tv advertisement for a 99-in-1 lcd game thing?a tak and the power of juju commercialone time mom told me there was a doom 3 commercial on during lettermankingdom hearts and ff7 dirge of cerberus commercials on adult swimI even started watching tech tv then g4 around 2002, its where I watched silent mobius (anime with big sturdy women) and remember seeing a gta sa commercial twice and that's basically it.Were video game commercials not aired on channels kids watched at the time? Should I have been watching more saturday morning cartoons? I watched yugioh on fox a few times and even then...more cereal than video games. I am from new york and this is my experience with video game commercials. I ended up watching dozens on youtube in the mid 2000s and thought it was weird I never saw basically any of them.
>>12477781>Were video game commercials not aired on channels kids watched at the time? In my country it was mostly just pokemon game boy commercials.
>WhenAround the mid 2000s>WhyBecause people (faggots really) complained about them being "Too quirky" and "dumb", and now whenever you see a vidya ad drip out, it's just some micro cut of the trailer or some shit. Sometimes they'll have some fun, but it's some shitty unfunny bullshit that tries to parody old ads but falls way short.
>>12477776The only retro game commercials I vividly remember are the original Smash Bros commercial and the Ruby/Sapphire commercial.https://youtu.be/K783SDTBKmghttps://youtu.be/br0ErE0BGU0To add to what >>12478276 said, gaming companies have been hyper-focused on pushing and maintaining "LE BRAND" for the past two decades that even when they try to hearken back to "the good ol' days" it usually comes of as quirky-corporatism. Just compare the SNES' launch commercial to the Switch 2's.https://youtu.be/eSBFw93V3Rghttps://youtu.be/IqDxUfYSa-E
>>12477776I really like this William Shatner VIC-20 commercial shitting on Atari and Intellivision. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_JAU9Ntpoms&pp=0gcJCcQBo7VqN5tDFor those who don’t know, it’s a spoof of this commercial:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3nqv_ic7oWhich in turn was a response to this commercial:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SqTxWZerumo&pp=0gcJCcQBo7VqN5tD
>>12479034And kids think console wars began with Nintendo and Sega.
>>12477781>Were video game commercials not aired on channels kids watched at the time? From the early 1990s onward game commercials moved to MTV, and WCW/WWF raw by the late 1990s for the male 20 year old demographic. Those are people who actually bought games.Kids didnt buy games, just birthday christmas kid of things. It was still the rental era. Some still aired during kids shows though.This aired during the batman animated series, and animaniacs. Syndicated after school shows at least where I lived:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MqGP8OyU02kThis one for sure aired during the peak attitude era of pro wrestling in 1997:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b7kBcJOZisY
>>12477776I think at some point once everyone was discussing games online constantly they realized traditional 30 second tv spots were just not as effective or necessary as they used to be.If you made some amazing game the magazines and game sites hyped it up for months before it came out and that's how you built awareness. And if you released some turd even if you bought a sham review from the magazines the gamefaqs messageboards would alert everyone to the fact that it wasn't worth buying. Commercials were redundant in the former circumstance and ineffective in the latter. If you had a phenomenon like GTA3 the word of mouth was enough and if the internet was just unilaterally lambasting your game a goofy commercial wasn't going to undo the damage.I remember very few commercials for anything after the PS1 era. The first Devil May Cry had a memorable "holy shit what is that" commercial but after that most of the ads I remember are for the consoles rather than individual games. Which makes more sense. If you're selling the Sony brand that's an ongoing thing and you can just do it continually instead of emphasizing the flavor of the month
>>12480987>If you had a phenomenon like GTA3 the word of mouth was enoughLol no. Rockstar advertised more than any other company in PS2 era. GTA vice city and san andreas commercials used memorable music and were palyed constantly in prime time. They spent millions on their ad campaigns. When something is big you spend $10 million and make it bigger.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4KZNXhB9CU8https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yOzcbtsw_pQThey are some of the most memorable commercials of the decade.
Gameboy Color ads mostly what I remember.
>>12479034And all 3 died with Nintendo but Atari specifically was salty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0nvtNfDRMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNTpXX43QxY
>>12480958>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MqGP8OyU02k>Nintendo actually hired the Butthole SurfersMan, they were really going for it after those Sega commercials ripped on them, huh?
I mostly remember Sega commercials, they played a lot on cartoon stations.Nintendo advertised heavily on Much Music (canadian MTV) for the N64.
>>12483096some of those were kind of creepy
