GBA The GBA advertising was something... Special?

[ThunderBoy]

I remember some magazine ads

Don't you think they were sublime?

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

For some reasons ads on 2000 where a bit weird! And some of them still weird!

I mean GBA made as a handheld console inspired from a man played with his calucator in a train,in same wagon with one of Nintendo staff(sorry forget his names)
That doesnt mean you should make this weird adds!

When they take their first bite they would throw GBA in water!

 

[ThunderBoy]

When they take their first bite they would throw GBA in water!

Well, I guess that's the fun part.

You're so caught up in playing that you didn't notice about piranhas.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

"The second best thing to do in dark!"
.......what?......is ....this?
*turn off jammer by shotting rockets at them*
What was in m their cursed mine?

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

I remember some magazine ads

Don't you think they were sublime?

What game did you think he was playing that was so good, he didn't even open his parachute?

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

What game did you think he was playing that was so good, he didn't even open his parachute?

Super mario bros sages. Perhaps a battle with purple one!

 

[ThunderBoy]

What game did you think he was playing that was so good, he didn't even open his parachute?

Aria of Sorrow

 

[PSVitaForever]

I think I remember the fifth one, I believe my parents got something to say about that!
But I wasn't into games yet, so I probably only saw it in some magazine.

Thank for sharing, some it's cool, some it's not But they sure don't go unnoticed, and that's what advertisment is for!

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

I think I remember the fifth one, I believe my parents got something to say about that!
But I wasn't into games yet, so I probably only saw it in some magazine.

Thank for sharing, some it's cool, some it's not But they sure don't go unnoticed, and that's what advertisment is for!

Have you ever dare to talk about GBA in front of them?

 

[qw90700]

I mean GBA made as a handheld console inspired from a man played with his calucator in a train,in same wagon with one of Nintendo staff(sorry forget his names)

Hmm IDK the situation but when Nintendo already developed Game & Watch, Gameboy and Gameboy Color way before IDK why they would need inspiration from it when also video games on digital watch was a big deal in the whole world and thus there were tons of handheld video games. I mean handleheld gaming was not a new thing around the era GBA was released nor was its popularity lost or something.

 

[Pippin]

There's also lauren holly, holding a gameboy and a cake

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I had no idea they were advertising it like THAT.

I honestly don't get it, though -- I know that kids immediately see what grown-ups consider cool as such, but my parents would have NEVER bought me a product advertised like that, nor would have many others I knew growing up.

 

[Sunnyside]

Classic stuff. And then its successor the NDS had that whole "Touching Is Good" ad campaign.

 

[MrChester]

Nintendo of America always went a little messed up for the handhelds. Here's a classic that I quote daily

Kanawi is an Indonesian female first name and Yawiga is a New Guinean surname (if you were wondering how far off they were)

 

[qw90700]

Classic stuff. And then its successor the NDS had that whole "Touching Is Good" ad campaign.

"I hope you first got permission to touch!!!!" -- the parts these ads forgot to tell lolol.

 

[Vexicrypt]

Reminds me of this classic:

 

[qw90700]

Reminds me of this classic:
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I blame the mentality that introduced an ad logic of "shocking and annoying ads are memorable" BS. They didn't think thus you may lose tons of customers lol.

 

[solnK!]

I remember seeing some very cute ads at Club Nintendo (a game magazine from Latam), they were just paper cutouts of some game characters placed over random people on scenes like ice hiking with the slogan "¿Quién eres?/Who are you?"
My favourites were the Fire Emblem and Mario & Luigi ones, sadly I couldn´t find them.

ing that was so good, he didn't even open his parachute?

Minish Cap imo

 

[UnDubious]

Considering how popular the Game Boy line always was, those ads clearly didn't hurt. We've been trained to ignore ads from birth because they're basically pollution, so doing something wild to get your attention probably does work.

 

[happymasksalesman happymasksalesman]

Considering how popular the Game Boy line always was, those ads clearly didn't hurt. We've been trained to ignore ads from birth because they're basically pollution, so doing something wild to get your attention probably does work.

Well in fact so many adds made to be intersting but turn to some sort of show unrelated to content!

 

[beefbowl]

Playstation has some cool and weird advertisements too, that was the era of weird adverts.

 

[qw90700]

Considering how popular the Game Boy line always was, those ads clearly didn't hurt. We've been trained to ignore ads from birth because they're basically pollution, so doing something wild to get your attention probably does work.

I have a personal mission to not buy products or stop buying them because of their BS ads. The BS of "there is no such thing as bad advertising" clearly never included people like me!!!! lol

 

[iamthemilkman]

It's not just nostalgia, video game advertising was so much better back then. I rarely, if ever, even see commercials for video games anymore.

 

[qw90700]

It's not just nostalgia, video game advertising was so much better back then. I rarely, if ever, even see commercials for video games anymore.

I see ads on social media a lot like some random OnlyFans woman and their "Switch or me or both? Which one you can handle?" BS lolol.

 

[Sunnyside]

It's not just nostalgia, video game advertising was so much better back then. I rarely, if ever, even see commercials for video games anymore.

I suspect that's another case of corporate firing all the creatives and replacing them with analysts.