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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bonus: here's some from the 1980s

[–] francisfordpoopola 8 points 1 month ago

Konami was killing it back then.

[–] warmaster 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

4 dimensional graphics

Like nowaday's AAAA

Bullshitting never changes

[–] Psythik 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is funny because the Neo-Geo was a very much sprite-based 2D machine. What did they even mean by "4D"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well it's 1 more than 3D so it must be better right???

[–] RagingRobot 21 points 1 month ago

The girl on the right has a weird butthole

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This PlayStation 2 advert (safe for work) came not long after that:

https://i.imgur.com/S6NxQYJ.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

E was really damn popular during that time, so why not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

safe for work

Where do you work??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I remember an ad for Half Life of all games that went "She's smart, has a great personality, and knows that the way to a man's heart is through his sternum."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll never forget this one. Never played the game though because it was famously riddled with bugs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

As a teenager of the nineties, I'm very, very aware of that. 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now we get to find out if Derek has a lemmy account.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Where were these?

Because I don't recall ever seeing ads like this.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 7 points 1 month ago

Someone elsewhere in the comments said they remembered seeing one in playboy magazine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember seeing the left one in EGM

[–] Bosht 1 points 1 month ago

Same. Definitely remember that one, tag line and all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I def remember at least three of these in magazines back in the day. I particularly recall being a confused child looking at the tennis one. What is in that girl's ass?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Probably in playboy and such

[–] ccunning 8 points 1 month ago

I vividly remember that first one from when I got into my uncles playboy stash in my youth…

[–] francisfordpoopola 7 points 1 month ago

It's NEO GEO... Come on. Of course he's playing it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If this sort of thing was commonplace, I wonder if this overtly male-focused advertising (I say "male-focused" as males, who are majority heterosexual, would be the largest collective that would be attracted to this sort of advertising) had anything to do with video games being stereotypically associated with males. Perhaps it's a sort of positive feedback. If so, I wonder what the initial bias towards males was.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

if it was, it happened really fast since the association didn't exist before 1986.

before the video game crash, game systems were sold in electronics stores. afterwards, when Nintendo wanted to lose the association with the crash, they went t toy stores... and toy stores gender every product, at least back then, so they had to decide which side to put it on.