History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful

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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Re:Recent Ads

[ReverendLoki]

However, that ad for Guitar Hero 2 with the two teens playing it in their basement, and the walls fall away to reveal the stereotypical screaming crowd of fans while they pull of every manor of rock god move, that's a damn fine ad. Gets the idea across about what playing the game is like quickly and in an entertaining fashion.

I've also been seeing the World of Warcraft spot that is basically a clip from Office Space, with Peter playing WoW instead of Tetris. Damn funny.

So, we know that videogame ads rocked as recent as 8 minutes ago.

1) How does one or two lone examples allow us to make sweeping generalizations?
2) People don't post on Slashdot because they're smart.