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More Worst Videogame Ads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-worstest-of-the-worst-bestest dept.

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.'"

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  1. The Title by GrayCalx · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  2. As if you couldn't read this yourselves by spyrochaete · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Did not RTFA yet by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Today? by chrismcdirty · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    --
    It's like sex, except I'm having it!
  5. More random than anything. by hal2814 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone get the idea that someone just took a stack of circa-1994 EGM and Gamepro magazines and just picked out random ads to put here? I mean, some of these are bad, but they're hardly the worst I've seen. In fact, these ads seem to me to be par for the course in that era. And to be honest, I thought the Lords of Thunder ad was decent even if their math was a bit lacking. I wasn't in awe over it but I don't remember thinking it entirely stupid when I first saw it.

  6. Zelda 64 by AnarchoAl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Surely the UK advert for Legend of Zelda: the Ocarina of Time has to be the worst ever: A game that women enjoyed playing at a time when almost all gamers were men, and they advertise it with the slogan "Willst though get the girl? Or play like one?"

    http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/profile/video_player. php?id=cSE2xDes5b4KuT8