Spy Hunter

With its smart weapons, awesome cars, Spy Hunter was viewed as a very stylish game back in the arcades on the early 1980s. It was a title that playing into any boy's fantasies- secret agents, nasty weaponry, and a driving lincese. Make no mistake though, it was the action packed gameplay that kept people coming back for more again, again, and again...

1943

The year that the war ground on may have been 1943, when rationing continued to bite down hard, construction work on the Pentagon was completed, and the Japanese forces were driven back from Guadalcanal, but it's a whole lot more enjoyable if you think of it as this wonderful little vertical-scrolling shooter from Capcom, released for the delight of the arcade-going populas in 1987...

Diablo

The game isn't just a good looking isometric dungeon crawler, it is THE best dungeon crawler. A simple - almost brainless trek through caverns and catacombs filled with vile creatures, not to mention all the loot. Blizzard spent a lot of time working on the generation of the game's spaces, making items, enemies, and geography be different every single time you load up the game...

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls games are best known for the fourth chapter in the series, Oblivion, released in 2006. In comparison,The Elder Scroll's Morrowind is altogether more of a curate's egg, neither as commercially successful nor critically applauded as it's successor. Perhaps because of that, however, it's also a much more interesting game...

Rogue

Rogue first appeared on college Unix systems in 1980. It contains an infinite variety via a series of randomly generated, ASCII-rendered dungeons that must be explored in a bid to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor (Rodney spelled backwards) from somewhere behold the twenty-fifth level -- an unlikely achievement given the imposing difficulty of even the earliest dungeon layers.

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12 August, 2012

Totally Radical Video Game Ads

1:27:00 AM  D_Homes  No comments


In today's flashy, business-minded world, the people in charge of game advertising are creatively stuck-in-a-rut; they have to worry about unimportant things like 'making a game look good' and 'being in good taste'. 

 But in the 'all or nothing' days of the 80s and 90s, designers and advertising execs were true artists. They were responsible for game ads that were so beautiful, so enchanting and so magnificent, that they could make the majestic supermodel/author Fabio disgusted by his own immaculate reflection. 

 So join us for an edition of Totally Radical Video Game Ads, where we'll gaze in amazement at some incredible (in the good and bad sense) game ads and art from yesteryear. 







If it wasn't for the old game being advertised, you could be mistaken for thinking that this is a photo of a random group of annoying, modern-day hipsters. Luckily, these people have an excuse for looking so ridiculous. On a side-note - did the dog eat the kid and steal his sunglasses?




With all the pervy dudes that have likely ogled this poster, it's unlikely that the 'kit' was the thing that truly came first. (Seriously though, only in the 80s could that be an appealing look.) 




There's a revolution under way - hordes of talentless jagoffs have been destroying Aerosmith's 'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing' with their horrendous karaoke skills for far too long, and the only person that can stop it is Milla Jovovich in her Ultraviolet costume! 






The original Johnny Cage actually endorsed this piece of $#@+? Sub-Zero should have ripped his head off when he had the chance.





It's official - playing Taito games will give you gonorrhea. 




The sexual tension between these two is palpable. What you can't see is that just below the frame, they're already 'head-to-head'. 






To be honest, I can't really fault this artwork. It's flawless. It also makes me wish that it was publicly acceptable to walk around with a pair of nunchucks hanging from your belt. 



I'm trying to figure out what this view of an excited dude's nasal cavity has to do with Star Wars. Is he the final boss? Does Luke have to force-guide some missiles all up in there? 






Seriously, my mind is truly boggled by this ad. 'Wouldn't trade these adventures for all the slime in Hollywood'? What the $%&# does that even mean? Since when are the turtles massive slime-fiends? I missed the episode where Raphael was caught with a slime-needle sticking out of his arm. The half-assed attempt to link it to the live-action film is also pretty weak. They should've said 'All the Pizza in New York'. That would've made sense. Perhaps the guys behind this ad confused it with that other show, Teenage Hollywood Slime Turtles.





 It's official - Nintendo endorses criminal behaviour. Running and jumping while stabbing and looting? All in a day's work. Now with Nintendo's official golden seal of quality! 






Only you can save Maria - at 126 beats per minute. No wonder Dom failed to save Maria in Gears of War 2, he forgot to bring some funky house music to put her back in the dancing mood. 



Here we have Ben Stiller (in character as Simple Jack) telling us that it's cool to 'Kick Some Balls'. By the look of his exploding left testicle, someone took that suggestion all too literally.

 Source: IGN Australia 

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