Awesome find, thank you!
How cool that this dumb joke has been taking up space in my brain since then…
Computer Game Review and CD-ROM Entertainment, Volume 3, Issue 8, Number 32 (March 1994)
Also, you know that big fantasy game where a lot of money was spent on Patrick Stewart doing a voice for a few scenes? Well, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion wasn’t the first time.
The place you want to go for a not-terrible Tomb Raider ad is PC magazines in the mid-1990s. So the console space quickly turned spicy, but the PC magazines were slower to follow because much of their content is still wargames and adventure games. So there is a sort of tameness and minimalism to the early Tomb Raider ad that we don’t see in what follows.
Exhibit A (the not-bad example): Computer Games Strategy Plus, Issue 71, October 1996, last page:
Exhibit B (going into objectifying her): Computer Games Strategy Plus, Issue 73, December 1996, first fold:
I dunno, having shag carpet and walking on it with shoes on is pretty bad.
You put hot sauce on your jock strap to increase groin area pain, which makes you run faster.
(Note: it will not make you run faster.)
Aren’t test drives free? (I’ve never gone for one.)
Also, sorry this is just incorrect: gamers poop from the front, and their poop is green.
