Posts tagged commercial
Commercial Flashback #5: It’s WILD, it’s DYN-O-MITE!
311/22/2010
Marketing executives are coming up with stupid shit all the time. I could write an entry in this series every day for the next five years and still have a formidable stockpile of stupid to run on. I’m confident there will never be a shortage because a) people will never stop advertising their [...]
Commercial Flashback #4: Mario Pushes the Borders of Flamboyancy
1011/15/2010
I believe that the bulk of the gaming community would mint the typical daisy-picking sing-a-long advertisement a fail. By all means, a gigantic fail. But what do you call a commercial so sickeningly cutesy that it could leap out of the screen and wink a rainbow at you, instantaneously decreasing [...]
Commercial Flashback #3: The Day Square Lost Their Minds
711/07/2010
A fairly lengthy write-up accompanied last week’s Commercial Flashback. This entry, however, will be pointedly brief. Why is that? Because… well, just watch the video:
…what the f**k is that?! Upon revisiting this commercial I realize there is nothing I can write about it that can be grounded to [...]
Commercial Flashback #2: Own a Game Boy? Sega Hates You.
510/31/2010
Let’s begin by establishing that no one made commercials like Sega did in their early 90′s marketing campaigns. No one.
The camera swerves in to focus on a Game Gear and a Game Boy, side-by-side. “If you were colour blind and had an IQ less than 12, then you wouldn’t care which portable you had… of [...]
Commercial Flashback #1: The Epic Oracles
210/25/2010
Behold the glory of 2001-era CG production:
This computer generated sequence hasn’t aged all that well, but it was awesome back in the day. And I mean awesome. Epic music, epic explosions of light, epic vine-climbing, epic shattered swords re-forging themselves into even more epic not-shattered [...]
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