More Worst Videogame Ads

An anonymous reader writes "1UP has posted another feature with the best worst videogame advertisements of all time. There are some absolutely laugh-out-loud ads and descriptions for the Jaguar, 3DO, Super Metroid, Bubsy, Super Street Fighter II, and a bunch of others, including some bizarre peripherals from the '90s such as the Interactor, a subwoofer that you'd attach to your chest. 'It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see on a particularly lame supervillian, except he'd at least be able to knock people down with some kind of ripply sound wave effect, as opposed to just looking like a dip while playing Mortal Kombat.'"

Comments

The Title

[GrayCalx]

I think this title is the most worstest of all. There is not none more badder wrote.

As if you couldn't read this yourselves

[spyrochaete]

I'm sorry to just post something verbatim from the site but this had me rolling on the floor:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=6&cId=3 152506

For: A Joystick Under a Napkin
From: STD
Appeared in: EGM, September 1994

Of course I'm prepared. I covered my joystick with a napkin to protect it from lightning strikes weeks ago. The imagery here doesn't capture the excitement of one-on-one fighting games so much as it looks like someone trying to hide an embarrassing erection at a restaurant.

Classic Atari TV ads

[mgabrys_sf]

I think the run of ads around 1980 were particularly bad as each and every one of them showed people in near-orgasm at the sight of a few pixels:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mLiBK3O1zHU&search=atar i%20commercial

There were other ads from atari not nearly as cornball, but these were in the highest rotation so yes I'm scarred for life.

Did not RTFA yet

[El_Muerte_TDS]

But my guess for the worst videogame ad would be the "John Romero will make you his bitch".

I will get back to you after I read it.

Re:Did not RTFA yet

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Ok, the article is only about the ads between 1993 and 1995. So we'll have to wait a while.

Re:Today?

[chrismcdirty]

HEAD ON! Apply directly to your forehead!
HEAD ON! Apply directly to your forehead!
HEAD ON! Apply directly to your forehead!

Oh wait.. you were referring to annoying game advertisements.