Embarrassing Corporate Song mixtape

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Let's make a mixtape of corporate jingles/songs/etc from or sponsored by (and directly featuring) game companies.

I'll start with my two favorites.

1) "Do me a favour" by DJs Nick and Steve, who as I understand it won a competition to make this!? The original source site is gone but that's what I remember. I put this in the "everything sega" thread but it deserves more: http://ukresistance.co.uk/2006/04/the-incredible-sega-rap/

The cockney lady making joystick jokes to pre-teens. the talk of loading being "wick-wack." It's all here.

2) infogrames is innovation... or maybe it's called infogrames rocks my world? either way it's a fantastic cringe-fest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522bVV-82qQ

Well, what else have we got!? I've got an AIM song waiting in the wings if we can't find enough game ones.

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I'm trying to find it but I think they might have scrubbed that Pepsi lofi radio that made the rounds a few weeks ago

https://youtu.be/jwLmFk1vpdE

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A little more business than gaming but I love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cGh9EeMIY

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WOOONDEEEERRMAAAAN

A bizarre creation by Right Said Fred made for the promotion of Sonic 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0RipAu70I0

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https://youtu.be/dwBocvnNg4A

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@MichaelDMcGrath#8992 I unironically love this one. Snoop has a lot of fun with it

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does this count? if they didn‘t get paid….then I don’t know what to think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOSWLGKuaE

We‘re gonna play the game the Playstation all day,

with Metal Gear Solid to Tekken 3.

And from Omega Boost to Resident Evil

just play for the fun

Cause we got it going on.

Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid

Resident evil, Gran Turismo, Omega Boost,

Bloody Roar, X-Files, another world

come on

Ridge Racer

Odd World

we get a living

that came in our possession

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid

Resident evil, GranTurismo, Omega Boost,

Bloody Roar, X-Files, another world

come on

Ridge Racer

Odd World

we get a living

that came in our possession

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

We’re gonna play the game the Playstation all day,

with Metal Gear Solid to Tekken 3.

And from Omega Boost to Resident Evil

just play for the fun

Cause we got it going on.

Ridge racer

Odd World

we get a living

that came in our possession

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not getting paid for this just makes it more embarrassing in my view

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@hellomrkearns#9007 X Files and Omega Boost stand out like a sore thumb there.

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Here’s a song that Epic Games commissioned Imagine Dragons to write for their mobile game Infinity Blade III.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_sIavGjkc

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@FlutterSprite#8989 I recently learned that “Wonder Man” is kind of a “Candle in the Wind” situation where the song predates the campaign, but the lyrics were (slightly) rewritten later to be about Sonic the Hedgehog.

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@MichaelDMcGrath#8992

Another one from Snoop Dogg…featuring The Doors…

The Doors Riders on the Storm (Fredwreck remix)

Need for Speed Underground 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWL8VAPoYw

Hey yo Jim man

Why don‘t ya

You don’t you kick some of that

You know, you know how you do it man

It‘s a trip people don’t even believe were together right now (wow)

But tell your story, man

You know the one I like

Say it for me (Ride, ride, ride)

Riders on the storm (Ride, ride, ride)
Riders on the storm (Ride, ride, ride)
Into this house we're born (Into this house we're born)
Into this world we're thrown (Into this world we're thrown)
Like a dog without a bone (Like a dog without a bone)
An actor out on loan(An actor out alone)
Riders on the storm (Ride, ride, ride)

There's a killer on the road (Killer, Murder)
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday (holidays, holidays)
Let your children play (play)
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet family will die (Die)
Killer on the road, yeah (Killer, Murder)

[Snoop]
Goin' off of this roll off of that with the Lizard king
Bumpin' in the back (wow) how bout that (yeah)
Driftin', Liftin', Swiftin', coastin', Testaroastin'
But the wheels won't stop 200 (errrr) on the highway fresh
Up off the block he's a rider, na he's a killer dresses in all black
But his hat says Stella (Stella)
Pedal to the metal I gotta go hard
Drive by and say hello hey Fredwreck you my mello now let me
Hear what I sound like acapella (shhh) wow ride dip swish now
Bring it back just like this like a dog with out his bone unlike
A G with out his chrome it's hard to imagine the homey dog in a
Jag and he's checkin' for the checkered flag comin' in first never
In last cause my car to fast (zoom, zoom) I neva eva run out of
Gas cause I just to clean I do it upper class so fasten your seat
Belts it's so hot it will even make heat melt (woo, woo) so get a bowl
And roll and ride slip through the slip and slide

Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Away chameleon

Need for speed I'm trying to take the lead hold on little homey
Before you run into the trees (watch out, watch out) I've seen things that
I would have never saw before hey yo Jim let'em in, let'em in open up
My back tire smokin' (errrr) the whole street and now the police wanna
Flash there lights and chase the Dogg all night (woof) but I won't pull over
Nor give up, 'cause I just don't give a fuck (What, What, What)
Yeah from the side boy where we was born and raised straight up to ride
Boy (west side) continuously, (continuously) we get to it expeditiously
Keep the light on east side on Snoop Dogg and The Doors
And yeah we bout to ride on

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown (were thrown)
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm [4x]

And let's ride

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lol are you transcribing these lyrics?

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@yeso#9036 hell no. I C&P'd them.

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well in that case I salute the anonymous nerd who typed out P.L.A.Y.S.T.A.T.I.O.N. several times for the greater good

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Might as well add to the pile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw4gbmqQ3cM

strip tekken

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I worked in video games marketing for five years and had no idea this was a thing. That Commodore one gave me embarrassment chills so bad it cured my headache.

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Let us not forget what killed Free Radical and Timesplitters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IssLAON48s

Also, Megadeth did a song called "Gears of War" that was used in marketing the game Gears of War, but the lyrics have little to do with the game so I do not count it. It's more of a critique of the war economy of the 2000s.

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@Lacquerware#9057 yes it is blowing my mind that these exist

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This isn‘t about games but it’s BURNING ME UP not posting it so I‘m just going to. AOL packaged games with its discs sometimes so I’m going to just pretend that means it's relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRHDJYwifdE