With great portable power comes great portable responsibility.
The box art for Game Boy’s launch titles was brilliant. So distinctive, playful, and irresistible. Even though the games themselves were blurry messes on the original Game Boy screen, the art makes me want to go back and buy those games all over again.
Discussion Topic of the Week: How many items on this flyer do you own?
World Series Baseball 98 for the Sega Saturn
I’ve written about gratuitous and graphic video game advertising of the 1990s more than a few times over the years, but I never get tired of revisiting this wildly bombastic era in consumer marketing.
Here we see a nice ad for World Series Baseball 98 for the Sega Saturn, complete with front-and-center forearm scrape. I don’t know about you, but this makes me want to play baseball. Injury sells.
Discussion Topic of the Week: Would a graphic ad like this make you more or less likely to play a certain video game?
