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[Lime]

So I stumbled upon this amazing tumblr that posts old magazine ads for video games (mostly the 90's) with their cheesy marketing phrases and gamer hype. Thought they were worth a share and feel free to post your own:

Starcraft

Fallout

Dungeon Keeper

Quake 2

Mechcommander

Mechwarrior 3

Total Annihilation

C&C: Red Alert

C&C: Tiberian Sun

Dark Reign

XCom Apocalypse

Privateer 2

Shadow Warrior

Heavy Gear 1

Heavy Gear 2

Blade Runner

The Curse of Monkey Island

Settlers IV

Incubation

Worms 2

Battlecruiser 3000 AD

Final Fantasy 7

 

[Tenrius]

Love these.

 

[Yes Boss!]

PC Game ads.

No nostalgia there for me.

 

[Lime]

3D accelerators

3DFX

Voodoo

Reactor

Matrox Mystique

Matrox

Radeon

S3

And here are some of the more cheesy ones

Ad for IGN

 

[maquiladora]

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[lazygecko]

Needs more grunge fonts.

 

[Lime]

Shattered Steel (Bioware's first game!)

G-Nome

Battlezone

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries

 

[Bassmastergeneral]

Not really a game ad but I used to drool over these contest scam ads.

 

[maquiladora]

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[Lime]

Ground Control Dark Legacy

Homeworld Cataclysm

Z

Tomb Raider

 

[Sapphire Dreams]

The Fallout one is interesting. Didn't they lose the GURPS license during development ?

 

[Tizoc]

Some of dese ads doe.

I'd really like to see what the people who worked on and agreed on publishing these ads for graphic cards think of them now.

 

[Lime]

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans (damn I completely forgot about that one)

Diablo

Half Life

Oddworld

Virtua Fighter

No One Lives Forever

C&C

 

[Ivan Amiibo]

awesome stuff. 80s + 90s game mag ads ruled! so in my face.

 

[Lime]

Grim Fandango

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Swordcoast

Baldur's Gate 2: SoA

Icewind Dale

Alice

Sanitarium

Tomb Raider Chronicles

Tomb Raider 1-3

Freespace

Might & Magic

Die by the sword

System Shock 2

Metal Gear Solid PC

Duke Nukem 3D

Earthsiege 2

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Sega Genesis 32X

Paper Mario

Game Boy Advance SP

 

[Tizoc]

That Warcraft Adventures game was canceled wow.
Seeing as footage of it was uploaded to Youtube I'll give them a watch later today.

 

[squall211]

Not really a game ad but I used to drool over these contest scam ads.

I remember ads like this. These were scams?

 

[lazygecko]

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans (damn I completely forgot about that one)

"Actual orc voices"

Cool to know they found actual orcs to do the voice acting!

 

[Lime]

Game Boy Advance SP

haha oh wow that's pretty controversial.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Shadow of the Colossus

"Some mountains are scaled. Others are slain."

 

[CoryCubed]

 

[Lime]

"Actual orc voices"

Cool to know they found actual orcs to do the voice acting!

Apparently orcs sound like every other voice actor in a point n click game

 

[Yukinari]

The moment i saw this thread i knew which ones to post.

 

[Agremont]

This thread is great. Many old goodies I've played. Ah the 90's.

 

[Portman]

Thanks for posting those Lime. Takes me back to when I carried PC gaming magazines in my bag at school and I would go through them over and over.

Funny thing about it is back then a magazine would be 400 pages and sure 150-200 was ada but something about the sheer size because of the ads makes me wish for the old days. Funny how we don't want any ads moat of the time now.

 

[Wario64]

I used to scan magazine ads during the PS2 era on gaf but it looks like the images are broken, doh

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=2279

 

[Cleve]

Thanks for posting those Lime. Takes me back to when I carried PC gaming magazines in my bag at school and I would go through them over and over.

Funny thing about it is back then a magazine would be 400 pages and sure 150-200 was ada but something about the sheer size because of the ads makes me wish for the old days. Funny how we don't want any ads moat of the time now.

Well ads then were our only source of screenshots unless the mag ran a preview article. They were important stuff! I miss those days. I love seeing ads for DWANGO, and I'd forgotten all about those scammy contest ads that used to run

 

[michalmarek77]

.

 

[Melchiah]

Here's a bunch.

 

[Gorey]

Wow, thanks for this. The 90's were glorious. I have quite a few of old PC games those in boxes up in the attic. Wish I'd kept the PC Gamer mags, ah well.

 

[cj_iwakura]

That Alice one is fantastic.

Here's one of my all time faves:

 

[Darryl]

I remember that Paper Mario ad selling me on the game

 

[Mr Git]

Remember so many of these. I'll try and find some of the mags I kept. I took about 400 to the tip several years ago. Regret it but they take up so much space. :/

 

[Kezen]

Amazing thread. Those ads were so cheezy yet so effective.

 

[bishopcruz]

Nothing beats starting an ad by reminding people how much your genre sucks.

Amazed no one has posted this one:

And my favorite Sega CD ad, a 3 page monster that was possibly the most effective print ad for me of all time:

 

[water_wendi]

i love old gaming ads. There used to be a huge thread on this. i thought this was a necrobump actually. Scanning old magazines for ads is a hobby of mine, Thanks for that tumblr link.. might be sending them some stuff after i get a chance to look it over.

A couple more.. these ones are a bit older than the ones posted here but i didnt see every image.. my internet is slow and stuff is still loading.. so apologies if there is a duplicate

 

[jblank83]

Some amazing graphic design in here.

And then there's this:

So many laughable quotes:

15fps
"Funny with My Voice"
Rob Schneider

 

[blame space]

"Who wants some wang"

 

[BY2K]

WTF @ the Advance SP ad.

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

 

[blame space]

Does geodude really just float in mid-air like that?

 

[Lime]

Shadow of the Colossus

"Some mountains are scaled. Others are slain."

I've never seen this, but it's really good.

 

[AmyS]

Not a magazine ad, but the back cover of Back To Baghdad for PC.

 

[Bleepey]

the old MK ads were amazing. Comic book print ads were amazing.

 

[Lime]

Twisted Metal 2

Fallout Tactics

Fallout 2

Fallout 1

SiN

 

[BigTnaples]

Holy fucking nostalgia. Some of these got me.


I miss looking at PC boxes in the stores.

 

[TheAssist]

seamless 15 fps ... never change videogame industry, never change.
Though I kinda wanne see it now

 

[AmyS]

Here's one of my all-time favorites, and not posted very often.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I tore this one out of a unofficial DC magazine: