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Videogame ads from 72 to 96

  • 19-12-2017 11:20am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭


    This came from reddit, but though I'd repost here.

    This guy put together an album of all the video games ads he could find from 1972 to 1996: https://imgur.com/a/gPEEe


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The MASH pyjamas are class!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    this actually made me flashback to a desktop game I had years ago that was even crap in the 80's :)

    can pick one up for €28 but even at that price it's too much :D




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    It looks like one of those calculator games!


  • Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


    I love old marketing ads, cheesy,risqué, bizarre. Everything is so homogenized and formulaic now in comparison.For me I think it peaked around the early 90s.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    unfortunately the Stevie Wonder one is a fake :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


    Skerries wrote: »
    unfortunately the Stevie Wonder one is a fake :D

    Haha thats a shame. I wish some of the Sega ads were fake! what they got away with around the time of the megadrive was scandalous :D


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Haha thats a shame. I wish some of the Sega ads were fake! what they got away with around the time of the megadrive was scandalous :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    oytot91vxpemzlptnrka.jpg

    real picture


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