It's Friday. Let's celebrate with a retro ads thread.

>>11862167
>only one of these retailers is still around
Grim.

>>11862167
I'm always curious if anyone actually won these contests.

>>11862304
I've never even heard of Media Play, and pretty sure I haven't heard of Wherehouse Music but I might have just forgotten.

Also not sure if Funcoland counts as not being around since they just changed their name.

>>11862304
Ever been in a Best Buy recently? Its sad

>>11862584
They’re still chugging along somehow.

just saw this one this morning reading the feb 1995 issue of VideoGames.

Loaned a game mag to a friend in middle school, pic rel was tore out.

Bump.

The girl was gay but people laughed if you said that to be funny.

>>11862167
The 3D render aged better than the car. Looks weird.

>>11862617
Yeah there was an entire series of print ads aimed around making sex jokes in connecting the 32X to the Genesis

>>11864354
You could say the Genesis was being gangraped by the CD and 32x.

>>11862158 (OP)
I choose nigger brown game boy
captcha 8NKKK

Imagine spending a ton of money on an advertising firm to come up with a catchy campaign for you and this is the best they could do.

>>11864598

>FF2, but it's actually the 4th game in the series

Why didn't 2 and 3 come to the US, again?

One of the best games of the 90s, and this is the best they could think of to market it. If it wasn't for the rave reviews and good word of mouth, it would've sold like absolute shit.

>>11864612
mostly because it took them forever to even bring out FF1. 87 in Japan but 90 here. By then they were already gearing up for the SNES. An attempt was made to port II but I doubt they would have touched III, V was skipped because they didn't think Americans could handle the Job system. Instead they were thinking of making a PC port and calling it Final Fantasy Extreme because lol only PC nerds could handle it

>>11864612
>Why didn't 2 and 3 come to the US, again?
By the time FFI was brought over to the states, FFIII was just launched in Japan. The NES was also being rapidly eclipsed by the new 16-bit hardware coming out, and Square didn't want to waste its limited resources translating old games for a dying platform. They made the decision to just translate FFIV and release it instead. I think it was Nintendo of America's decision to name it II rather than IV in order to avoid confusion.

>>11864612
An attempt was made. There's a promotional poster for CES 1991 floating around showing concept box art for FFII and FFIII. FFII was about halfway translated when the decision was made to cancel it.

>>11864598
>>11864615
At least Sega understood how to market games. They knew kids only cared about one thing: screenshots.

>>11864642
>screenshots

Truth. I remember pouring over screenshots on the back on game boxes, inside game magazines, etc.

It was a big deal. We didn't have the internet in the early '90s. It might be our only exposure to this game that we ever had. Not every game had commercials. Not every game was in the rental store or at our friends houses.

>>11862167
A fucking Toyota echo?

>>11862614
Because they sell stuff like fridges and cameras for boomers.

>>11864612
FF2 translation was 90% done and planned for release; while they were talking about releasing FF3 on NES down the line as well. Then in a matter of months they did a 180 on that.

I have a schizo theory that Nintendo of US prevented the release of FF2 (and by extension, 3) on NES out of spite for Square not going through them for the publishing anymore (FF1 but also Rad Racer and 3-D World Runner were published by Nintendo in the US and were all best sellers, then Square sat up shop in the US) and because they were afraid they could out perform them.
For the SNES they needed all the chips they could get to make customers buy a new console (the SFC had a very slow first year in the Japan so the US branch had an example not to follow) they wouldn't have bothered FF4's release.

This thread needs more Genesis Does What Nintendon’t

>>11863690
what a cunt, can't blame him though

You know we lived in a different world when they could put this much money into stupid ads.

>>11867990
guess he kicked his own ass

>>11862158 (OP)
>give the monkey the banana colour
based Nintendo

>>11868024
It only looks like excess because it was the only outlet for focused advertising
Reminder that there's at least 5 million BetterHelp sponsored videos on youtube to this date

Wario Dude

When Nintendo was cool

Lots going on in this one.

>>11862158 (OP)

>>11868241
It’s a shame that YouTube has gone the way of network television.

>>11867997
I always thought it was weird how carts were marketed as being lightning-fast compared to CDs, but then you find out games like Super Mario 64 were only 8-megabytes. The only way something like Resident Evil 2 was able to get an N64 port was by compressing the absolute fuck out of everything to fit on a 64-megabyte cart.

>>11862158 (OP)
wtf it's tuesday dumbass

>>11862158 (OP)

>>11862158 (OP)
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>>11871936
time vortex, there has been a slip effecting people by as much as 16 years. Its July 2021 here and there are several people trapped in 1982

>>11863690
>jerking off to the majors ass
>have batou's pupil-less eyes staring at you
>judging you

>>11868241
I'm sure too they're all shot in a phone video aspect ratio and have things like a zoomer getting into bed and reeling things off to the viewer from a script.

>>11871046
I can feel the heat of Spain in 1998 looking at this.

>>11867446
>leather goddesses of phobos
what a name