Sega
In 1991, Sega released its Game Gear hand-held gaming console to compete with Nintendo's Game Boy. Whoever came up with these ads clearly knew Sega's target audience: the adolescent male.
The text for this British ad (above) says: "Now you can play with yourself for hours with SEGA's hand held, full colour games system. The arcade-quality SEGA games and graphics plus back-lit screen means you can even fiddle around in total darkness! And when you need a breather from that fast and furious hand action you can turn the GAME GEAR into a colour TV using the handy SEGA TV adaptor (it's COMING soon). Thus refreshed you can call on a friend for some head to head action ...
The text for this joystick ad says: "You sit there, eyes glued to the writhing, arcade-quality graphics, pulling and squeezing your knob. Now you're breathing heavily over the digital stereo sound. Now you're shooting all over the place, but it's no use ... GAME OVER."
4 comments:
Those are great.
Bravo!!! to whomever came up with those ads. Brilliant!
We, here in the US, have a new ad (video) that is also brilliant. I will be posting it today - or at least a link if I can't get the video embedded.
Amazing!
That's a riot!
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