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Video Game Advertising Reaches New Lows
Anonymous Coward writes "The Guardian is reporting that Acclaim is attempting to purchase advertising space on gravestones of the recently departed in order to promote its new game ShadowMan 2. This certainly takes the encroachment of commercial messages on public space to new levels." I understand RockStar is looking for a molotov cocktail partner...
The phrase "pop-up advertising" could take on an all-new meaning...
~Ahem~ Ok. I'll go home now.
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If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
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This poor bastard was shot
by his girlfriend for playing
one too many games of counterstrike
and I'm sure they would be worried about a mad corpse
Only if they had sold the space to capcom.
Everything will be taken away from you.
What happens when the game is out of date? Imagine walking thru a cemetary in 30 years, and seeing ads on Gravestones for 'Mary Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16' or 'Ecco The Dolphin'
It's bad enough in modern day, when actual bill boards get outdated, (IE bill boards for Politicians still up months after the end of the election, or Movies which are already past the cheap seats)
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If this is real, then they should put an ad for Everquest on the grave of the guy who killed himself over it.
How ya like dat?
You know, I'll bet that kid who commited suicide after an Everquest binge was sponsored by... Nevermind. That was too easy ;)
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The best place for advertising would be on the dollar bills themselves.
I mean, they're buying the government anyway - why not be honest about it?
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I'll take one of those ads on my headstone in a heartbeat. Rather, lack of heartbeat.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Are you kidding? Are you nuts? You'd never take a quest to destroy the Pepsi-golem! Pepsi would never be associated with golem-like activities! You uneducated beast! Pepsi is associated with puppies, mom, love, apple pie, and most of all, hipness! You'd get past the Golem by giving him an ice-cold Pepsi, and after a single swig, it'd turn into Britney Spears, sing the latest hit, and bounce^H^H^H^H^H^H^H walk away, allowing you to pass.
(Corporate sponsered games would probably be as boring as the corporate sponsered games you can find on your local Happy Meal box. "The latest Disney licensed character's need something to make them happy. Unscramble the letters to find out what they need! : HAPYP MAEL.")
And your problem with your Palm Pilot stems from your reprehensible behavior with regards to the Marlboro Man! You do not ride past the Marlboro Man, you ride up to the Marlboro Man and type: " ASK MARLBORO MAN THE WAY TO FLAVOR COUNTRY ". (aside: Apologies if I've forgetten the details of that ad campaign...) He'll give you a cigarette, the you smoke it. Several sexy woman (or men, depending on what gender you claimed to be attracted to on your initial 6-page 'voluntary survey' you were required to fill out to play this fine game) will come out, and one of them will upgrade your "Palm Pilot" to a WinCE machine, which can later be levelled up into a MICROSOFT X-BOX, which will handily defeat the Playstation2, as Sony didn't pony up as much dough as Microsoft.
(Hint: If you type the secret code I WANT TO CARRY BILL'S BABY at the X-BOX level-up screen, you'll be able to watch an animation of Steve Jobs being crushed by the Windows logo! Mega-awesome! It makes me want to buy extra copies of Windows XP2005 just to play it safe!)
Really, these games are pretty cool, if a little easy. One last parting hint: Try typing BARE 'EM, BRITNEY while the Britney-golem is singing, and you'll get a nice surprise from the FBI (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate America).