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History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful

Posted by Zonk on from the argh-not-the-noid dept.

headcold writes "Scott Sharkey of 1UP just penned his third retrospective of Game Ads, The Best Worst Ads 3, this time culling the tragedies from a stack of old CGWs. Where the two earlier installments dealt with the atrocious videogame ads from the late eighties and early nineties, respectively, this episode explores computer game ads from the mid-to-late nineties — proving, at last, that advertising sucked as recently as eight years ago."

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  1. Gears of War Commercial... by Quaoar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anyone else think that the Gears of War commercial is one of the best, if not THE best, video game commercial ever made? Very memorable...

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