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Old Game Advertisments/Posters
Topic Started: Dec 14 2011, 08:24 AM (3,673 Views)
Kharnivore2099
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I've been looking through archives of old magazines like Mean Machines Sega, Amiga format and Amiga Power quite a lot recently. Other than the fantastic articles and retro game reviews the thing i enjoy looking for the most are actually the game advertisments. I think these actually bring back just as much memories and nostalgia as the games themselves. Reminds me of scouring through game magazines and promising myself, "Im gonna get that, that, that AND that!".

My younger self never quite grasped the concept of money...

Anyway, I thought it would be interesting for us to share some game advertisement posters we remember from back in the day, or ones we just stumbled across recently. Im kind of thinking pre PS2/XBOX/GC era, only because i think thier advertisments are still kind of similar to what we have now. Its also so that we can see a few big names that just arent around anymore like Ocean, Gremlin and Bullfrog etc.

Should also state if you find any peripheral ads then post them too...i love seeing the price of joysticks and joypads from 20 years ago lol. The pics may be quite big too, just so you can read the writing. ;)

Heres a few i've found...

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Kharnivore2099
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If you dont do certain things at certain times then your fucked. Everyday you have to hang around the house and wait for the mail, if you miss the forst one then your screwed haha. It's very sierra-like in the way that you dont know what you did wrong so you don't really know how to rectify it. I dont think most people would even give it a chance these days, i needed a guide to get me to the end of it. :-/


Im currently in the process of aquiring every version of New Zealand story, gonna need to by an amstrad CPC and a Spectrum ZX but it'll be worth it to play all of oceans ports of Taito games.
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This old Gaiares ad always got my attention for all the wrong reasons. :p

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