I happen to have a massive collection of old game ads.

But I won't be posting said collection because I just remembered most of it is in French. Je suis désolée. Have some old previews as well.

>>977150 >désolée POSTE SEINS

>>977150 >désolée Tes nichons ou casse-toi.

>>977177 >>977150 I Francesi fuori dal Pienocanale

>>977217 VAI A FARTI ENCULARE

>>977334 I falsi Italiani sono peggio dei Francesi

>French >Italian All shit

>>977566 Even one of the lewd artists who used to work on those magazines would later became a full blown flaggot through his socials.

May as well post the stuff I found from the last one of these threads.

>>977672 >virtua fighter

>>979469 God I miss old AVGN, nowadays even fan edits are funnier than James stuff.

I'm glad that we will never return to this dark times ever again.

I have never gotten adjusted to the end of print gaming magazines. I don't even see games advertised on TV anymore either.

>>979571 The last time I saw a video game advertised was in a movie theater of all places.

The digital beast destroyed the economic model of gaming mags. When you stare long enough into the gaming abyss, Alyssa Mercante's hollowed eyes thousand-cock-stare back into you.

>>979571 I think the last game I remember seeing advertised on TV was Dark Souls, way back when it came out. I can't remember the last time I read a gaming magazine but back when the first Metro game came out I read an article about it in one, so that had to be at least 10+ years ago too. I like that zzz made a zine project but it'd be nice if print media was still way more popular, I'd kill to subscribe to an actual gaming zine or even something more local.

>>979571 I'm sure vidya is still advertised on TV, but the last game I actually remember seeing a TV spot for was Borderlands, I think I was this one. That was 15 years ago now. I've probably seen others since then, but it would have been the yearly sportsball and dudebro shit that went in one ear and out the other.

Remember the late 90s - early 00s? Remember attitude? Remember "in your face" advertising?

>>1012670 Did you know the guy behind this ad co-founded Devolver? It's funny how Romero gets shit for this add when he A) wasn't behind it B) reportedly didn't even like it.

Underrated thread. Keep it active, I wanna see more.

>>1029473 >>1012670 >>977669 I like ads like these from the early days, not just games

>>977639 >Featuring Dante from Capcom's Devil May Cry 2 Certainly doesn't have the same ring to it.

>>979679 Vidya is advertised less on TV because the boomers that watch TV don't play vidya.

>>1029487 I own a magazine with this ad. I remember seeing it as a kid. >For more information on Tomb Raider III and for the new collection of the exclusive Lara clothign and merchandise range This is news to me. Unfortunately, it's not cosplay gear you can buy for yourself. It's just zero effort standard merch to promote the content. https://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/merchandise/lara-croft-clothing-line-01.html The ass shirt, the tits shirt, the nudie shirt, and the nudie poster are things you wouldn't see today, though.

I always loved the promotional artwork for Half-Life 1, especially the magazine ads and the renders from pre-release builds of the game. Some of the crossover promotional stuff advertising hardware was cool too.

>>1030668 The last two were promos for the ill-fated Dreamcast port.

Did you know the artist for a lot of the Half-Life art posted ITT, Dhabih Eng (his signature is visible on the Vort pic here >>1030670 ), did much of Half-Life 2's promo art also? These recognizable HL2 pieces were also by him. His art changed a lot between 1998 and 2004. He also did work on TF2, most notably designing Scout. What's really surprising is that he still works at Valve!

>>1030298 I had a halo 3 promotional tshirt I got as a gift from GameStop as a kid that held a lot of sentimental value, but years ago was ruined in the wash looked everwhere for a replacement, but I am pretty sure nobody makes them anymore :(

>>1030746 Funny, I had a Halo Wars t-shirt that I eventually grew out of. Acquired it from a points shop in high school along with a set of Master Chief dog tags.

Good old days

>>1029473 be the underrated activity you wanna see