Growing up in the 80s and early 90s I was exposed to a lot of bizarre videogame advertisements. Japan’s Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past dance off? The creepy-as-hell proto-CGI NES ad?
That’s our collective childhood boys and girls. Shit was weird.
As a result, nothing much from the world of videogame advertising surprises me. At least, that’s what I thought before I stumbled on this spot for Atari’s home version of Joust. I realize that two minutes is a whole lot of advertisement to sit through, but stay to the end. That’s when things get really good.
(And by “really good,” I obviously mean “there is no god.”)
They were doing a lot of acid in the early 80’s. Fact.
I’m not really sure why I thought a 2 minute long commercial from the 80s was going to blow my mind.
Yes they were, Tom. And by “they” I mean “me.”
When I open my eyes and wake up in the morning at that exact time how the guy in the ad runs down the stairs is exactly how I do it to play with that new “toy” I have bought. -video games are more than toys-
(Todd, in one of your many lives in this lifetime did you helped to developed NES Games? yes or no!, a straight answer! also, did you did as an “extra” in a Troma movie? dont beat around the bushes now!)
Leaky, I would happily have did as an “extra” in a Troma movie, unfortunately I was only an extra in a Phantasm movie, a Clive Barker movie, and a Quentin Tarantino movie. I’ve never developed any games, in fact I’ve hardly played any, but I did almost blind Buckminster Fuller once, if that counts.