Just a few attention-grabbing retro game ads that would land studios in hot water today. (more in post body)

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These are some of the tamest ads of that era, too.

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• weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What the fuck is the one on the very bottom.

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  • Bunnylux@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the classic your gf wants kinky sex but you’d rather play Gameboy LIKE A NERD, NERD

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    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      GameBoy Pocket

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    • menemen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but aren’t his hands crazy large?

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    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a nerd and I’d give up both motorcycling and gaming for a girlfriend.

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    • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Definite sex slave ambiguity

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• calavera@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The hand of the guy holding the yellow Gameboy looks like it’s coming from a PS1 game lol

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t figure out if it’s drawn or early 3d modeling that they decided to add to a Gameboy ad for some reason.

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• UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s a couple I posted a while back.

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• guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why not do these today? I think most gamers would laugh, which was the point.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Twitter would explode

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    • guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yay!

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    • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whatever would be said on Xitter would probably be drowned out by neonazi propaganda bots, as is usual nowadays.

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• Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty sad what the wokesters have done to society.

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  • stembolts@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being woke remains a good thing.

    It means being aware of societal challenges that exist and the historical context in which we live.

    The alternative is to bury ones head in the sand and say, “Everything is okay, question nothing.”

    I am thankful my mind is not simple enough to fall for made-up conservative slurs to discredit social awareness.

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    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every month they choose a new acronym to be afraid of.

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    • Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😂 ok

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  • hibsen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s plenty of porn; I don’t need it trying to sell me a video game.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Porn good. Ads bad.

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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boo fuckng hoo.

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  • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Better to be asleep than woke. I have a dream, someone said.

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• TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I watched a whole video essay on these the other day. The one at the bottom is… truly something

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• jenny_ball@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  there was a super Gameboy?

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It plugged into the SNES so you could play GB games on the TV

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It offered color for GB games before the GameBoy Color existed! 😃

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    • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolute best way to play Pokemon Red & Blue, IMO.

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some good nostalgia and my god they wouldn’t dare see the light of day anymore.

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