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Archive for the ‘Ad Nauseum’ Category

October 19th, 2006

Prince of Persia - Flash Sands of Time

Earlier today I stumbled upon this viral marketing flash game for Ubisoft’s 2003 masterpiece “Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time“.
Viral ads are usually fun for all of 30 seconds, but this one is different. It’s a mini-game in which you must guide our hero to stop the evil Vizier from releasing the Sands […]

By Jonic Linley -- 4 comments

February 10th, 2006

Retro game print ads

They don’t make them like this anymore…
I’m amazed at how text-heavy some of them are… It’s not like now where you get a pretty picture that will never be in the game, they were far more representative of the product that was being sold… And you could read a bunch of marketing flimflam too!
Check out […]

By Jonic Linley -- 0 comments

February 5th, 2006

“Whoa, Nice Graphics…”

Back when “rad” was a word, everyone’s favorite asshats Cory & Brandon struck again…

Games commercials were never like this… Were they?
Listen Cory & Brandon… If you’re going to rap about The Legend of Zelda, follow James Kochalka’s lead:
Well The Legend of Zelda, It is the best,
Those Moblins put you to the test.
Open up a treasure […]

By alewing -- 4 comments

January 28th, 2006

What’s it like to play the NES?

Sometimes I secretly wish my house would blow up almost every time I hear the Mario theme… Let’s hope that Cory and Brandon’s frozen, whithered cadavers are yet to re-enter our atmosphere… Stupid hair… I’ve got a Zapper you fool, they’re not that awesome!
Although the noise that the trigger makes as it springs back brings […]

By Jonic Linley -- 1 comment

January 24th, 2006

Sonikku!

I just spotted these somewhat weird Sonic Adventure commercials on Digg.
We catch up with our intrepid hero and his friends (represented with plush toys which I’m sure were trying to be sold at the same time) aboard a plane. Sonic jumps out of the plane and, get this, impales his head upon a spear.
Really.
The other […]

By Jonic Linley -- 2 comments

January 18th, 2006

Get into the world of Nintendo

You’ve got to check this out.
Bill from Progressive Boink has posted a hilarious article featuring an old Nintendo catalogue from the 1990. Do yourself a favor and go and read it.
…These little conversation starters are filled with lithium batteries and a terrible resolve. Break them out at your next get-together and watch the party fire […]

By Jonic Linley -- 7 comments

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