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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. How interesting... by SNR+monkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    a story about terrible advertisement in video games that strewn over 12 ad laden pages.

  2. Obligatory? by Tarlus · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the Legend Of Zelda and it's really rad,
    Those monsters from Ganon are pretty bad.

         ...I'll stop myself.

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