What’s the worst gaming magazine ad/article you’ve ever seen?

[Skeleben]

...this is real btw

 

[Tonberry]

...this is real btw

I always knew my hero Rayman had a giant cock.

 

[DanCalibur]

This one. What did they mean by that? Did they run some studies and came to that conclusion?
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I think they compared it to the real sport

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Everything written by that Waffles dude. He should get his hands smashed.

While not necessarily BAD, but the articles on the old AZ-Diez magazine were really hurt by their limited word/page count.

 

[Vexicrypt]

I think they compared it to the real sport

Wow, thats a real thing? Well I still dont see how "fun" it can be to put a ferret in your trousers, but its not the weirdest thing people do for fun I guess.

 

[bjork]

It's really fuzzy so I think it might've just been a "from the editor" or something, but there was briefly beef between Gamefan magazine and... I think everyone (?) over the unlimited continues in Strider 2 on PS1. About how it was watering down gameplay and making it too easy to beat a game or whatever, and whoever wrote it was really riled up. Like... dude, just don't use the continues, who cares.

Ah, found it:

Gamefan Volume 8 Issue 10 October 2000 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Hot off the digital press, get it before Dave shows up.

archive.org

 

[Leon_Squallhart]

I've always unironically loved this ad from Dazed & Confused Magazine, Issue 77.

 

[snes9x]

John Romero's About to Make You Lunch

 

[gekiganwing]

Game Players magazine's review of Earthbound from almost thirty years ago...

 

[GardeniaSky]

Game Players magazine's review of Earthbound from almost thirty years ago...

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Nice.