90s and 00s era were pretty wild with advertising.
The 32x had some interesting ads:
French ad for the 32x:
SEGA did what Nintendidn’t.
Or, I guess, Sega did what Nintendalsodid.
What Nintendidn’t [yet], because that DS ad is a lot more recent and I don’t remember Nintendo itself having anything quite that risque in the '90s.
This reply is offensive. We both went to all that work and you didn’t even have the decency to say “What Nintendidn’tyetbecausethatDSadisalotmorerecentandidon’trememberNintendoutselfhavinganythingquitethatrisqueinthe’90s.”
The French magazine ads for tech in the 1990s were absolutely wild
Nice, not SEX but 32X.
I wonder how much of that came from being a time when the ‘parental advisory’ type content was starting to become more common, but people’s content was also still pretty compartmentalized.
Shows for kids where on at certain times on certain days, and these weird paper things called magazines where something you had to buy or subscribe to to view.
Now, barring some kind of active efforts, people see what they want when they want all on the same Internet so advertisers kind of have to pull back to avoid getting attacked for putting the wrong messages out.
Genesis had a few more mature-themed ads at the time. They seemed to be trying to position themselves in a different niche from Nintendo’s more family oriented image.
The second best thing to do in the dark.
Seriously though, the SP was a life changing device for me.
I still have mine in it’s protective case that I play at least once a year. I’m nearly 40.
Literally read this with my GBA SP in hand
The micro was such a step up though.
Lol, there were seriously no rules.
It was a very different time back in the 90’s.
ETA, the other print ad:
I’m an asexual prude, but I feel we were really close to a more sex positive queer world in the overculture of the 90s, but the consciousness wasn’t actually there yet to be cool with it
As an Italian, it’s even funnier cause “sega” means handjob
Ss… Step-gamer?
Ss… Step-Stool?
Nintendo, the family friendly company
At least they’re not different races with the black one being the bad one this time.
I can’t explain it, but that seductive early '00s look, which Elizabeth Hurley was also known for, got me jimmies when I was young.
That 80s Bill Gates laying with the computers still gets me.
/s
“touching is good”
This is gotta be satire, but I can no longer tell…
Lmao wtf
Naughty-do
Better days
