Terrible magazine ads (slightly nsfw)

yeso

from november 1996 issue of ultra game players (courtesy of the videogame history foundation)

yeso

imagining the gamepro fun factor heads but instead gamer piss and crap levels

Moon

Everyone remembers Adam Sessler’s GG Allin phase.

rarya

i think about that neo-geo ad in the original posts as an idle timewasting fantasy sometimes, imagining the luxe life of a rich 90’s guy with the money for a giant tv and a local NEO・GEO dealer. to be free of feelings of financial insecurity, be confidently living at the end of history, and to have neo turf masters ready to rock.

(in these daydreams i am nicer to the lady in the foreground and invite her to play with me)

Moon

rarya

GigaSlime

mr-domino

GigaSlime iconic

yeso

good grief lol

fridgeboy

Yeah that one is real bad

Syzygy

I remember every one of these which makes me think my old magazines in storage are probably a goldmine.

yeso

Syzygy this one has never left my nightmares

and I’m sure it never will

kory

yeso An entire generation is still recovering from the “Play It Loud!” campaign

robinhoodie

kory Hey, this ad being burned into my brain got me into the Butthole Surfers

Shit… that was the last band I saw live I think

Syzygy

Thanks for that >:(

kory

Edit: this ad seemed a little too…avant-garde…even for 2000s era Sony so I tried to do my due diligence and there is barely any meaningful info about this ad campaign actually existing. This may even be a mock-up or proposal for all I know.

I’ll leave this up, but in the future I will only post ads I’ve either personally seen or verified!

fridgeboy

kory I’m sorry… wat??? Am I missing some context here or… WAT

kory

fridgeboy I don’t know…but your comment made me do some due diligence and after several searches and a reverse image search I was only able to uncover a handful of Spanish language websites (e.g https://www.adlatina.com/articulo.php?slug=/marketing/el-universo-sin-fin-de-playstation) that (from what I could tell through machine translation) attribute this to an ad company called “Grey Mexico,” though I’m not even sure if this was a mock-up or a true ad campaign.

As with many things on Twitter, I should really have done some verification before reposting, I’ll edit my post to reflect that.

fridgeboy

kory well thank you for looking into it - I was just super confused by how bizarre this thing was. And of course it’s got an early aughts whiff of transphobia to boot. All of this seems perfectly in bounds for this thread and some of the other stuff people have posted. I was very interested in the origins of this thing and now it just seems even more mysterious.

Syzygy

kory
Oh, it’s real. The PS3 initially had very experimental advertising outside of Japan/USA, I remember it well and how fast they dropped it (because they didn’t need more bad press in the era of $600 USD).

yeso

fridgeboy

yeso “Female players may find difficulty with the higher skill levels”

they always find a way

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