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Greatest Video Game Commercials of All Time

These classic video game ads put this year's crop of Super Bowl commercials to shame.

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DarkSniper5560d ago (Edited 5560d ago )

Dark Sniper believes that GameDaily left five critically valued commercials that affected the way gaming is advertised to this day. When you think of the greatest gaming commercials, these come to mind.

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Commercials 2-5 really show in comparison how much of a joke Microsoft is when it comes to competing with competition. When Sega was in the console industry with the same Modus Operandi as Microsoft, instead of spreading false internet lies and inflated numbers Sega went directly at their competition. Sony, Sega and Nintendo battled it out with direct in your face advertising that would drive fanatics of today's modern day console war rabid.

When it comes to console wars in the 90's, companies and their fanboys battled it out like men. Instead of hiding behind a keyboard and creating multiple accounts like most of the Microslaves do here on N4G to oppose against Dark Sniper, He had physical playground brawls with Sega Drones during the 16 bit era and Nintendouches in the 32/64 bit era. There was no internet at the time to voice your opinion, therefore Dark Sniper left many foes bloody and brutal in real physical time at school and served several suspensions due to his loyal defense of Sony and Nintendo.

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unicorndeathcamp5560d ago

i absolutley hate you and think you need counceling, but awsome post

Max Power5560d ago (Edited 5560d ago )

i pulled the crash commercials up for the gamer zone, my two favs are the swimming and then nintendo ones.

unicorndeathcamp5560d ago

mabye not counceling but a good hug haha

ZombieNinjaPanda5560d ago (Edited 5560d ago )

Every Ratchet and Clank Commercial made are some of the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Edit:

Pikman Commercial was hilarious!

And I remember the Super Smash Bros Commercial! Brings back good times.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Donkey Kong 64 ^^

Kirby 64 (:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

IzKyD13315560d ago

Why the hell isn't this on the list?!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

It's freakin amazing

pumpkinpunker5560d ago (Edited 5560d ago )

Uhh, maybe you misread. they're listing off GOOD commercials. That PS commercial is mad corny.

Fat guy on couch stuffing cheez-doodles in his mouth:

"I've conquered legions."

"STFU. No, you haven't. You live in your parent's basement and you haven't been laid since 1989. PSone, anyone?"

Lombax5560d ago

But maybe thats because I live in my parent's basement and haven't been laid since 2004.

yog-sothot5560d ago

the "double life" commercial fot the PSone is absolutely awesome ! Actually, that's one of the best commercial ever (not only in videogames) and it was recognized so by the professionals.

I think it's the summit of the very well made marketing campaign that helped Sony to rule the 32 bits era.

shovelbum5560d ago

The Mad World trailer was an absolutely perfect advertising campaign for Gears. That song is so haunting against the backdrop of a rain-soaked Marcus running among the shadows of destroyed buildings.

TheRealSpy5560d ago (Edited 5560d ago )

I thought the gears of war 2 commercial was pretty good too.

i think that atari commercial was lame.

also, i owned an intellivision and that commercial is a pretty accurate representation of how fun it was to play.

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twoheadedturtle5560d ago

Ladies And Gentlemen Good Evening

xlx-russ_925560d ago

dude that commercial kicked a$$. Sony needs to make more commercials like that one.

Rise Of The Bad Guy5560d ago

Agreed ^,the Ratchet&Clank commercials are by far the best ones out there.

pumpkinpunker5560d ago

Best video game commercial ever.

ZombieNinjaPanda5560d ago (Edited 5560d ago )

The song was what made it great. Dontcha think?

Edit @ pumpkin Below

Totally agree, Mad world is my favorite of the two also.

pumpkinpunker5560d ago

Epic kind of dropped the ball with the Gears 2 commercial but it's still a pretty decent commercial. It just doesn't look so hot compared to Mad World.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.

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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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