An old Xbox advertisement
from The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 12:28
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The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 12:30 next collapse

Bonus weird ad with the PS1 being used to open beer bottles:

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b026f560-cb26-486c-9cfe-c415d83ea76d.png">

disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 13:01 next collapse

This one’s my favorite.

youtu.be/7t3hrLFBufI

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz on 20 Oct 13:22 collapse

Those beer bottles must be tiny

ebc@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 13:41 collapse

I think you’re confusing the PS1 in the ad with the PSOne which came out later and had rounded edges.

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Oct 14:53 next collapse

Idk about that myself, but I think going off the picture, the way you open beers on it is the “side of a table” method, and in order to have enough room to do so with the table right there under the PS1, the bottles would have to be about half an inch long rather than about 10 inches (guesstimate of beer bottle length.)

And frankly I’m not sure it’d even work, the edges on the pictured ps1 may be too rounded themselves.

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 20 Oct 15:05 next collapse

Well, no one actually opened any bottles on the PlayStation in the picture, so…

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Oct 15:13 collapse

Sure, but “those beer bottles must be tiny” and in response “I think you’re thinking of the psone instead of the pictured ps1” both require a similar suspension of disbelief, and so I continued it.

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 20 Oct 15:17 collapse

True, true. Carry on my friend

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz on 20 Oct 17:07 collapse

I didn’t think I had to explain my quip, but you did it more comprehensively than I ever could.

Besides, I don’t even understand the comment you replied to, as swapping in any PlayStation model would change literally none of the stupidity of the image.

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz on 20 Oct 16:18 next collapse

I had an original PlayStation (pictured) and I don’t remember it being a gargantuan monstrosity that was taller than the average beer bottle.

bobs_monkey@lemm.ee on 20 Oct 18:30 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/1919842c-c388-46b8-a3b7-475390ad2901.jpeg">

paddirn@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 12:33 next collapse

Oh shit, were we supposed to be fucking our Xboxes this whole time? Is that how you get more games? <unziiiips>

jet@hackertalks.com on 20 Oct 13:27 next collapse

Achievement unlocked: 18-year mandatory Xbox live subscription

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 20 Oct 15:06 next collapse

That’s why it was so thicc

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 21 Oct 00:58 collapse

It’s how I got the red ring of death.

simple@lemm.ee on 20 Oct 12:36 next collapse

If we’re talking about weird video game ads, I want to give a shoutout to PS3’s baby ad

MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 13:11 next collapse

Also shout out to the Xbox birth to death ad

youtu.be/ELPRVu0GxYo?si=lrxD8RxlQKTa7J6-

The Chris Cunningham mental wealth PS2 ad

youtu.be/YWmbUMStlGI?si=uM3WlP-rmnon5IJB

And Sony advertising the PlayStation 9 instead of the PlayStation 2

youtu.be/iwhPkBHLdqE?si=aAcDm7xahIacUmr8

Maultasche@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 22:29 collapse

Don’t forget Segata Sanshiro sacrificing himself to save the world.

taiyang@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 14:41 next collapse

This is very… upsetting.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 16:05 next collapse

Meanwhile, the Dreamcast with its controller cord actually coming off the bottom should maybe take a paternity test.

Also, do look out for Tao Feng, but not for the reason the ad says.

aciDC14@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 18:31 next collapse

So who’s the Dad?

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 21 Oct 00:54 collapse

Yes.

Grimm@lemmy.zip on 21 Oct 17:16 collapse

I find these ads equally fascinating and cringe. Edgy male teenager humor to the max, though that was the prime demographic they were marketing to.