A commercial that has been burned into your memory

BootlegPopeye said:
If you were a kid of the 80s, you saw this multiple times a day during the summer. And they kept repackaging it into the 1990s.

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Watching it now it's amazing what they could do with just a quick clip from a silent stop motion dinosaur film and barely anything else dino-related to show besides the product!
 
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Watching it now it's amazing what they could do with just a quick clip from a silent stop motion dinosaur film and barely anything else dino-related to show besides the product!
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And that clip is just an edited, colorized rip from the 1925 silent Classic 'Lost World':

 
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I won't link them, because they still haunt me, but the American Earthworm Jim and Yoshi's Island ads.

As far back as the nineties, they were trying to market games to asshole dudebros.
 
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Something mostly forgotten today though, is that dudebros ran gaming journalism then (esp GamePro but also EGM). As much as we hated their stupid smugness, I have to say we were better off with their asshole antics than the faggots now who despise their own readership and in fact hate games.

Dare I say it ? The late 80s/ 90s practically seems like a golden age of gaming mags compared to today.
 
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The 2000s had loads of phone commercials when there were multiple options to choose from. The company that made these ads got bought out by one its competitors and I guess, as result, Chad was given the boot.



Also bundle versus not bundling was a big thing and probably continues to be.

 
jennifermist said:
I won't link them, because they still haunt me, but the American Earthworm Jim and Yoshi's Island ads.

As far back as the nineties, they were trying to market games to asshole dudebros.
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When I was young the ad for Kirby Super Star absolutely terrified me, thanks to the sinister nurse popping kids with a needle the size of a railroad spike.
 
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jennifermist said:
I won't link them, because they still haunt me, but the American Earthworm Jim and Yoshi's Island ads.

As far back as the nineties, they were trying to market games to asshole dudebros.
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Oh man, what I wouldn't do to have asshole dudebros as the problem of the day. We desperately need them to come back and start shoving these pencil-neck geeks into their lockers again. They're the bullies we need but apparently don't deserve.
 
Cyclonus said:

Remember this ad for Murphy's? It's awesome but why would you use an anime advert for Irish stout?
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Some ad agency wanted to reach out to a specific niche group (mainly adults who were into anime when they were promoting it as hardcore adult-only fare in the 90's).

Seriously, that's what they did!
 
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Horrifying advert for Cravendale [filtered milk] with a hint of strawberry - "So good, the strawberry cows want it back"

 
An old Saab commercial - I’m occasionally reminded of its existence and then spending several hours trying to discover the full version of that tune.
 
Ok this is necro-ing as fuck but wow five bucks for Akira in 98 and twenty bucks for additional ovas? Shit I still have a couple late 80's Viz and Dark Horse comics with ads in the back and they were asking 75-90 dollars a tape depending on dub or sub.
 
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Martys_not_smarty said:
Ok this is necro-ing as fuck but wow five bucks for Akira in 98 and twenty bucks for additional ovas? Shit I still have a couple late 80's Viz and Dark Horse comics with ads in the back and they were asking 75-90 dollars a tape depending on dub or sub.
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Good times!
 
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If you were remotely interested in comic books in the '90s, you probably know the name Todd McFarlane. The image that instantly pops into my head is him sitting in the back of some absurd Spawnmobile, grinning like a loon, desperately trying to push over-the-top, gimmicky toys.
 
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Trilby said:
Good times!
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Wow that's old af, I always say that period of time for weebs was like that quote from gladiator when marcus aurelius said rome was a dream and one could only whisper it anything more and it would vanish in other words it was some rare obscure thing you might have heard of but availability was reserved to backs of comics like the aforementioned Viz and Dark Horse.
 
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