Some videogame ads from the 1990s
from The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 14:34
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The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 14:34 next collapse

Bonus: here’s some from the 1980s

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1db1c6e5-963e-4633-9e2d-d0017d395500.jpeg">

francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 17:59 collapse

Konami was killing it back then.

ccunning@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 14:42 next collapse

I vividly remember that first one from when I got into my uncles playboy stash in my youth…

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee on 20 Nov 15:02 next collapse

Where were these?

Because I don’t recall ever seeing ads like this.

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 15:15 next collapse

Someone elsewhere in the comments said they remembered seeing one in playboy magazine.

pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online on 20 Nov 15:15 next collapse

Probably in playboy and such

Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Nov 20:43 next collapse

I def remember at least three of these in magazines back in the day. I particularly recall being a confused child looking at the tennis one. What is in that girl’s ass?

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today on 21 Nov 00:09 collapse

I remember seeing the left one in EGM

Bosht@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 06:42 collapse

Same. Definitely remember that one, tag line and all.

[deleted] on 20 Nov 17:35 next collapse

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PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 20:57 collapse

She is. ;-)

francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 17:58 next collapse

It’s NEO GEO… Come on. Of course he’s playing it

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 20 Nov 18:14 next collapse

I remember an ad for Half Life of all games that went “She’s smart, has a great personality, and knows that the way to a man’s heart is through his sternum.”

mox@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Nov 21:21 next collapse

This PlayStation 2 advert (safe for work) came not long after that:

i.imgur.com/S6NxQYJ.jpeg

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Nov 03:19 next collapse

E was really damn popular during that time, so why not?

lars@lemmy.sdf.org on 22 Nov 11:04 collapse

safe for work

Where do you work??

UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk on 20 Nov 22:47 next collapse

I’ll never forget this one. Never played the game though because it was famously riddled with bugs.

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/4a79fefa-0780-4ee7-b233-940427ea2929.webp">

waz@feddit.uk on 21 Nov 06:13 next collapse

Jo Guest

UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk on 21 Nov 22:17 collapse

As a teenager of the nineties, I’m very, very aware of that. 😂

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee on 22 Nov 12:20 collapse

Now we get to find out if Derek has a lemmy account.

warmaster@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 00:57 next collapse

4 dimensional graphics

Like nowaday’s AAAA

Bullshitting never changes

Psythik@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 03:45 collapse

Which is funny because the Neo-Geo was a very much sprite-based 2D machine. What did they even mean by “4D”?

tiramichu@lemm.ee on 21 Nov 17:49 collapse

Well it’s 1 more than 3D so it must be better right???

RagingRobot@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 06:25 next collapse

The girl on the right has a weird butthole

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works on 22 Nov 05:56 collapse

If this sort of thing was commonplace, I wonder if this overtly male-focused advertising (I say “male-focused” as males, who are majority heterosexual, would be the largest collective that would be attracted to this sort of advertising) had anything to do with video games being stereotypically associated with males. Perhaps it’s a sort of positive feedback. If so, I wonder what the initial bias towards males was.

lime@feddit.nu on 22 Nov 06:29 collapse

if it was, it happened really fast since the association didn’t exist before 1986.

before the video game crash, game systems were sold in electronics stores. afterwards, when Nintendo wanted to lose the association with the crash, they went t toy stores… and toy stores gender every product, at least back then, so they had to decide which side to put it on.