90s and 00s era were pretty wild with advertising.
The 32x had some interesting ads:
French ad for the 32x:
SEGA did what Nintendidn’t.
Or, I guess, Sega did what Nintendalsodid.
What Nintendidn’t [yet], because that DS ad is a lot more recent and I don’t remember Nintendo itself having anything quite that risque in the '90s.
This reply is offensive. We both went to all that work and you didn’t even have the decency to say “What Nintendidn’tyetbecausethatDSadisalotmorerecentandidon’trememberNintendoutselfhavinganythingquitethatrisqueinthe’90s.”
The French magazine ads for tech in the 1990s were absolutely wild
Nice, not SEX but 32X.
There’s no way that’s a real Nintendo ad.
I remember seeing it in Nintendo powers because that was the day I learned I was stupid
I think your response is deadpan, but just to be clear, there’s no way that’s real. I can be convinced by someone creating a properly faked Photoshop of it in a real magazine, however.
I don’t know Stupid, when can I meet them?
I wonder how much of that came from being a time when the ‘parental advisory’ type content was starting to become more common, but people’s content was also still pretty compartmentalized.
Shows for kids where on at certain times on certain days, and these weird paper things called magazines where something you had to buy or subscribe to to view.
Now, barring some kind of active efforts, people see what they want when they want all on the same Internet so advertisers kind of have to pull back to avoid getting attacked for putting the wrong messages out.
Genesis had a few more mature-themed ads at the time. They seemed to be trying to position themselves in a different niche from Nintendo’s more family oriented image.
And 80s. The first 8 bit computers and consoles had lots of suggestive ads. They knew their market.
The second best thing to do in the dark.
Seriously though, the SP was a life changing device for me.
I still have mine in it’s protective case that I play at least once a year. I’m nearly 40.
Literally read this with my GBA SP in hand
The micro was such a step up though.
I will just leave this here. NSFW!
Lady, maybe it’s best that Patrick Bateman over there is busy with his NeoGeo. You have no idea!
Pray tell, what are 4 dimensional graphics?
Maybe the game freezes now and then?
I remember this ad in one the computer magazines I had as a teenager. Don’t ask me why I remember it so vividly.
Same here, I remember thinking that this is what adult life looks like.
Haha, wow, is that Sharon Stone?
Neo Geo owners had the biggest games!
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Lol, there were seriously no rules.
It was a very different time back in the 90’s.
ETA, the other print ad:
I’m an asexual prude, but I feel we were really close to a more sex positive queer world in the overculture of the 90s, but the consciousness wasn’t actually there yet to be cool with it
I don’t think there should be rules, provided the risque ads only run in publications targeted towards adults. This ad in Nintendo Power would be a problem. This ad in GQ or Maxim would not.
As an Italian, it’s even funnier cause “sega” means handjob
Ss… Step-gamer?
Ss… Step-Stool?
Oh man, I remember these stick-on tattoos were such a thing here in the early 2000’s! Now I’m starting to miss those. Now I’m starting to wonder how many people actually got real tattoos of these back then?
Nintendo, the family friendly company
Nintendo ran an ad for the Gameboy Pocket that showed the outline of a Gameboy printing through the back pocket of a pair of jeans with the slogan “KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS.”
Sex sells. Video game ads have featured pretty girls since video game ads. You can go back to the late 70’s early 80’s and find an entire genre of ads that boil down to “pretty girl stands next to arcade cabinet.”
But then the entire 90’s happened, and there was a huge set of ads that seemed to say “play video games instead of having sex.” Which is…weird, right? Almost all products sold to young men are sold on the promise of attracting women. Show man with product, show woman having interest in the man with product, “Product: It Makes You Fuckable.TM” Video games postured themselves as something to do instead of your girlfriend or even more interesting than chicks. An ad for a 16-bit console featured a full-page centerfold with a few screenshots of video games scattered around with the slogan “If you look closely, there’s a beautiful naked woman on this page.”
No way! Is that real?
They also had an animal neglect version, but only the bondage ad was pulled in the UK. Late 90s advertising for games and consoles tried to be as edgy as possible when published in magazines targeted at male demographics.
Wow. I’m a male gamer but I don’t think I’d want to be part of the demographic that ad is meant to appeal to. I wonder how different the history of gaming would be if they’d advertised to women too.
I can’t explain it, but that seductive early '00s look, which Elizabeth Hurley was also known for, got me jimmies when I was young.
That 80s Bill Gates laying with the computers still gets me.
/s
At least they’re not different races with the black one being the bad one this time.
This is gotta be satire, but I can no longer tell…
Video game ads were wild around the 90s and 00s.
The DS in particular was when Nintendo was trying to shake its “kiddie” image, but it’s handheld ads have been risqué at times since the original GB
“touching is good”
Lmao wtf
Reminds me of the copy “Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn?” from Mad Men S2E6.
Ebaumsworld
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
