These old video game ads were INSANE! 

Thanks PBG, happy upcoming holidays!

Just in case you get this, Sophia in that "Sophia Says" advert is from the fighting game Battle Arena Toshinden. Great fighting game for the PS1, I'm told.

This was great 😂

All the adult humor

I'm a mouse... Moo

I think that is more of the fault of the American advertising companies that Nintendo contracted to advertise the game in America

@@gamerzan953 You'd think so, but some of these ads were running in Nintendo Power. So...

I imagine it being him wearing those trousers and no shirt and all

Lol.😂

10:46 foreshadowed the live action Adaption.😮

Yes, that was very obvious, and hilarious.

They did that so they could put "full pin-up of Catherine" on the cover taglines

They tried to make it a meme but it stunk

It was Master Belch's fault.

Must be one of the top-10 worst advertising campaigns of all time in that regard.

True! It was like peebs mentioned one of those ads where I didn’t read the ads but looked at the screenshots and knew I wanted to play it but yeah even the strategy guide that came with the game even said “This players guide also stinks” 😂 what the hell, Nintendo!? 😂😂

ive beaten the game and it doesnt mention them at all lmao

True. An easy mistake to make though. Far from the strangest ad in the video.

When he hosted SNL in the 80s, they did a fake Polaroid commercial with him in it.

Is it though when the first paragraph text says "My friends tell me the graphics are the best... I don't know what that means but I know with the Atari 2600 they must be uptight and outta sight!"??😂😂 @@connorburton1009

Always like how they use to use sex to Sell a product.😂

Remember another gex one which was a t.v. dinner telling about the game.😂

I actually laughed so hard at that 😂

@@alliefurlong486 It's an excellent quote.

Damn

what's even sadder is according to legend he held his son up as long as possible to try and prevent him being boiled, shows how powerful paternal instincts are (before folk comment, yes, we're aware the historical accuracy is in doubt but it's legendary for a reason)

I remember reading Gameinformer magazine I had a couple until the ones it showed how racist it became I'm glad it went out of business.

Pretty much or there’s a half naked chick

Yep, whilst today they try to guilt you into installing mobile games by showing women and children being abandoned and freezing to death because someone can't match three symbols 😅

and it came with a scratch and sniff card too.

You could also use it to boot illegally burned isos of PS1 games

Thanks for watching! Hope your day gets better.

Woof luck with the rest of your day, bro.

​@@organicketchup5171 Thanks dude, it did get better as the day went on. Hope you have a good one.

Wrong. The target audience was young males, and young males think about sex a LOT.

It also backfired something rotten!

The only thing worthwhile to come (heh) out of Daikatana was "Superfly's Johnson" by The Laziest Men On Mars.

I wonder that as well...

Yep, advertising in the nineties was basically companies trying they're hardest to be edgy - they either tried to emasculate their audience or turn them on. Gross out and weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird were other frequently used tactics.

Awwwww this comment made me happy ☺️

Well it wasn't for babies you shouldn't had one toxic masculinity overt misogyny smh.

History is repeating itself with those godawful mobile ads. There's apparently only one advertising company that almost every game uses, who only have one advertising tactic, and it's basically misery porn: • Woman finds abandoned child and/or gets kicked out of their home • Woman and child go into a dilapidated house • Someone who's had several frontal lobotomies fails to do something simple • House breaks further • Woman and child start crying • Google Play store is forced open and crashes the app you were using, so you lose whatever progress/reward you had. I still remember an early version which actually depicted domestic violence in the ad. They used DV to promote a match-three mobile app... Any company that has the above as an advert is one that I will _never_ use - the ads show things that don't happen in the game, the story isn't anything like the ads and using children suffering to promote a game is just freaking amoral! The characters aren't real but it's still pretty scummy to depict a child suffering and likely freezing to death in order to sell something.

I need to see those they sounds so cute

Me too.

I've heard "beefeater" for like... guards, but not normal people.

Yeah it's a derogatory term the french use for us, which is why it had the french flag and the french sleeps with your women meme.