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Anne_Nonymous writes "Here's an interesting story on the use of video games as advertising. They claim 'advergames could be a $1 billion industry by 2005'."
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But don't the gunmakers already get free advertising from video games?
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
My favorite game has already big advertisements all over it. I won't tell you what game it is, just that it's *very* addictive and I have quite a good score (Karma: excellent).
As the Coke Human tribe slaughters the evil Pepsi Ogres.
We prefer the term ADVERTAINMENT.
Seriously, these "market analysts" are such one-trick ponies. I bet if I paid them enough they would say my penis will be a $1 billion industry by 2005.
Now, instead of games with advertisements, we are going to get advertisements with games.
And how does anyone suspect it can be a $1 billion/year industry? I don't see how playing McQuake IV and blasting away the Hamburgler or helpless French fries could be considered fun.
But hey... How about iQuake: You're Steve Jobs as you battle for aesthetics against Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and their evil minions.
Of course, the real aesthetic enemy in the axis of ugly is Linux, but I digress (for fear of being modded flamebait).
A great game in store for us now: A fully realized virtual environment in which you sit at a table and eat a bowl of Macaroni 'n' Cheese. You can even wash out the bowl and put it in the dishwasher when you're done!
+ G to tha Izzo, A to tha Tizee, Talking Giz-oat, Ya'll Bettah Feel Me... +
...for every time I head about the next "billion-dollar industry", I'd have a shit-ton of nickels.
I think Chex Quest came free with a box of Chex cereal and it was advertised as a non-violent video game because you didn't kill the aliens, only zapped them back to their own dimention.
Zapping seemed to leave a lot of slime puddles however.
"Heh heh, what...a...mess.... good thing *I* have Mop n' Glow."
"Go ahead, make my day...with a refreshing Vanilla Coke!"
"Pizza Hut...Who doesn't want some?"
"D***... I forgot to use 10-10-220."
"Nobody steals our Eggos...and lives."
"D***, I'm lookin good... with LA Looks Hair Care Products!"
I sure hope RealDoll comes up with something like this!
Trolling is a art,
The bitter wind plastered the snow to the asphalt, turning blacktop into white death for joyriders. I had a hole in my arm, a half-empty ammo clip, and three thugs waiting within open arms and loaded weapons around the corner. It's at times like these I wondered when this crazy ride started. Good thing I had Advil. *Max holding a box with a wry grin* "Advil: The Pills That Ease the Payne!" (Recommended by 9 out of 10 ex-cops seeking vigilante justice!)
"Miller Lite" NASCAR disc I retrieved once
I love it! Virtual drunk drivers going 200 mph around a racetrack. Now that's my idea of big fun!
The
Good.
Now I can shoot that damn battery bunny.
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
It's called greed.
Anybody who actually downloads and installs a 350MB binary that was written by the U.S. government permanently yields their right to complain about the Total Information Awareness project.
STEP 1: Write an advergame.
STEP 2: ???
STEP 3: Profit!!!
That is all I have to say. Advertisements make crappy games.
Yeah. So it's a minor step from the Driving simulators we used to get for free.
Perhaps showing what people can expect (or would like to believe really happens) when they drive along in such and such car or truck.
You drive along and all heads turn to watch you drive along. Ego=+5
You drive along and no warning lights ever come on advising you to shift up for better gas mileage. Comfort=+5
You put to a stop and a beautiful model sauntures up and gives you a "do me" look. Lust=+5
What you never actually do in the game:
Pull into a gas station and watch the dollars drain from pocket.
Fail to get it started in a dark parking lot in a bad part of town at 11 PM
Have take it in for routine maintenance and remember your first car cost less than the hourly charge and any part costs more than your enter first full-time paycheck.
You find a nut or bolt lying on the carpet and you can't figure out where it came from and if it's important.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Does it have a cell phone that you can talk on while you are driving on the freeway.
Hey that might be kind of fun having a networked game with a cell phone in the car that you can talk on it will make you feel just like you are driving down the road in an SUV.
I loved Chex Quest! Especially the way it ate my hard drive that one time. But remember the big spoon gun on level 3? That was sweet.
Is that a Canadian measurment? More or less than than a metric ton?
How many "Library of Congress" units is in a shit ton?
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
Please type the UPC code from a bottle of Michelob Ultra to proceed to the next level....
bun-fhuinneog agam!