Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery

Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need the Winamp skin

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• PerfectDark@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like the Nintendo ones, there were ‘risky’ ads here, now they’re very conservative

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They were always conservative. A few years before these ads Nintendo participated in Senate hearings where they advocated for censoring the entire medium. They just had a “fellow kids” period in the early 2000s. Luckily, judging by the sales of the GameCube, most people weren’t fooled.

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    • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Meanwhile, Nintendo in their rebellious youth:

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      Note: mario didn’t exist at the time, but i got this image from a news site that added it to censor the woman’s breasts.

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  • catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My thoughts exactly. Some of these ads are just plain weird in a way that they would never dare today.

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