This is shit advertising.
Get a second one and a link cable you dumb asshole.
A second girlfriend, that plays? Genius
Gotta start those “I hate my wife” jokes young…
At least a retro video game ad that isn’t objectifying women bodies.
Huh. I hear all the time about how the anime adaptations of Berserk fell flat after the original 2d release, but I’ve never heard of any Berserk games, much less one from 1999 for the Dreamcast.
I was dating a gal in my 20s and her roommate had a Dreamcast. I used to enjoy watching them play that. Mandragora!
It’s so weird that so many old videogame ads have a general theme of making fun of people who play videogames in a crass mean spirited way
I don’t read that at all from the ad. It’s just silly wordplay about jerking off; you’d see the same thing as a shitpost comment today. I think the only way to read it as mean-spirited is to project your own shame towards masturbation onto it.
Maybe if you’re looking at it in isolation, but I’m also talking about the OP ad, and a lot of others. There’s an overarching narrative here.
That shit is disgusting wtf
Capitalism for you. The videogame market crash taught game producers at the time that they need to market sexually to young boys to keep the industry alive…and well they did that.
That example was also Sega being deliberately risqué compared to Nintendo., to the point that their slogan was “Sega does what Nintendon’t.”
Oh, minor miscommunication. Game sticks in that era had to start flacod due to technological limitations. If you don’t rotate it in a circle or a bit yiu are just gonna lose at Sonic or whatever.
Kinda feel sorry for the girl. She looks so thrilled to be with him and he’s failing to live in the moment with her. But now I’m overanalyzing a silly ad.
Wow. It didn’t have to say “escape.”
But it could, and it did!
This is random but I have you tagged in my Lemmy client as “Their friend did weird things with Ace Ventura 2.” Can you please refresh me what this was about?
Only ever watching the first 30 minutes before turning it off and occasionally restarting it, if I had to guess
My tag checks out, thanks for confirming!
The sexism in that ad is weak sauce to this:
I don’t think that could be called sexism.
Sex appeal? Sex sells? Sure, but how’s it sexism? This is not prejudice against women or saying anything negative about them, quite the opposite? It says it’s a beautiful naked woman
Perhaps objectification is more accurate?
Puritans hate anything even remotely related to sex and adult themes. It’s much safer to throw in guns and guts and not have anyone complaining.
I had the special edition one that was painted like an OG NES console 😃
It got stolen tho… Then I got the Yellow one that came with Pokemon Yellow.
I had a lime green one from target? And iirc it came with donkey Kong country. But that came when i was too old for Nintendo and if my timeline was right I moved over to PSP/runescape (classic).
I had the gray one.
When only one of you is interested in doing a San Junipero.
From an advertising perspective this shit is so good.
How so? I get Boomer ball and chain level of toxic humor.
