Today on CBM, we take a look at a far-gone time when men were men and games were rubbish.
When I try and think of three of the greatest arcade games ever circa the mid-eighties, I tend to think of anything other than Frogger, Popeye and Q-Bert. Frogger is a semi-servicable concept, but Horace Goes Skiing […]
Here’s a particularly brutal advert from the nineties:
“If you have the mind of a dog, well, perhaps you’d get a GameBoy.” Do they still do this? Is there a PS3 advert on US TV right now with a sneering voice going “It’s called wee… I don’t know, maybe you want to beat members of your […]
Yeah! Instead of doing a piece on Toejam & Earl II, I’m going to do a piece on the advert for Toejam & Earl II!! Postmodern or what?
Okay GAME WRITING HINTS #3968: DO NOT NAME YOUR GAME AFTER DIARRHOEA
In these technologically advanced days, the two activities of sitting in front of a glowing screen pretending to be an elf and sitting with like-minded friends pretending to be an elf have merged into one. But back in the dark days of the 1980s, they were separated by an immense gulf and nothing could bring […]
…so I’m going to make this quick.
This week, we’re taking a look at tanks! And blowing people up with them!
Come back with us now to a golden age of video gaming… the first ever NES advert!
Personally, I only bought it for the gyroscopes. You can never have too many gyroscopes.
While we’re on a vague Pac-Man kick, here’s an Australian advert for Pac-Man on the Atari… 2600, I think.
Notice the strange distribution of screen time here. We’ve got a cheery animated Pac-fellow, a family in paroxysms of mirth and even a chirpy hound, all ready to swear blind that this game is going to be […]
Time to take another trip into the wild, wierd world of old print adverts for strange computer games of before time. Today, we’ve got something of an odd duck - an advert for a game about a singularly nasty-flavoured soft drink that busts through other people’s walls while screaming. Like a terrorist.
What is the most often-used element in any advertisement? Take a look at this vintage ad for Superior Software/Acornsoft’s Barbarian and see if you can guess.
Yes! It’s a comprehensive price guide!
No, it’s sex.
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