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On The Quality Of Videogame Commercials

Posted by simoniker on from the and-the-quality-of-mercy dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their opinion piece discussing why many videogame TV commercials sell the product short. They cite the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance spot, in which: "Three kids, pretending to be three characters from FFTA, were pretending to man phone lines, urging kids to call in to help them progress in their quest", and a recent Everquest PS2 commercial in which "a businessman, a slacker/skater, a punk girl, and some other stereotype get together to play EQ after the businessman makes a call on his cell phone, proclaiming, 'It's time to slay the dragon.'", suggesting that "If gaming is to truly grow up... then it really needs to get its act together with its commercials." Which game TV commercials work for you, and what do companies need to do to improve them?

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  1. First Zelda commercial sold me by setzman · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A couple of links (...) so you can see it for yourself:

    http://www.fileplanet.com/files/110000/112186.shtm l

    http://zc.zeldaxtreme.com/movies.shtml

    and google

    If fileplanet doesn't work for you, please use zeldaxtreme or google, but don't slashdot any of these fan sites.

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  2. My Favs by Cap-America · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Only a few come to mind.
    First: Metroid Prime, this add was just so freaken cool! I got such a rush from it when I saw it on the big screen. I was wishing it was really going to be a movie.

    Second: Orignal Super Smash Bro. This one was just to funny. seeing Yoshi, Mario, Pikachu and DK walking threw a feild with happy music playing then all of a sudden their kicking each others butts.

    Third: Zelda Wind Waker, there was just something about it that just made this a great ad.

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  3. Old sega commercials by gades · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really liked the old SEGA commercials. They seemed to be pretty popular with the target age group. Gotta love it when that guy would scream "SEGA!" at the end =)
    some old sega aommercials