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Blore07
11/25/09

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Did anyone here have Mcdonaldland for the NES?

Good times with that game. good times.
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Tye-The-Czar
11/25/09

@Blore07: The Treasure-developed one for Genesis/Mega Drive is superior.
Oh, and I'll just leave this here:
[www.mcspotlight.org]

Oh, and there's nothing credible about Billboard, they're the people partially responsible for the destruction of American music during the 90's(*cough* Britney, Backstreet Boys, Christina *cough*).
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NeVeRMoRe666
11/24/09

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That reminds me of a game I use to have for the SNES based on the Cheetos character. As I remember, it was actually pretty good. As a kid, I didn't realize at the time it was marketing, I just thought it was the cool cat character from the chip bag.
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GLaDOS
11/24/09

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Ah the memories.
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Dakobah
11/24/09

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ahhh yes classic 90s video game ads, how i miss you, they were fun but hard
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Kaddisfly
11/24/09

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I bought this game back in the day, and god damn proud of it.
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jayntampa
11/24/09

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Cool Spot was a surprisingly good game.
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n00b_pwner
11/24/09

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Cool Spot is one of the best games that's an advertisement ever! Advertising and games is kinda like chocolate pizza, it just doesn't go together, so Cool Spot is a rarity that it's actually good.

Such an underrated classic that game...
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Atomsk88
11/24/09

@n00b_pwner: So I guess you could say it's a cookie pizza?
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dracosummoner
11/24/09

@Atomsk88: @n00b_pwner:

If I'm not mistaken, chocolate pizza and cookie pizza both actually exist.
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Atomsk88
11/24/09

@dracosummoner: Yes, cookie pizzas exist. It's just a giant cookie you have to eat in slices, like a pizza. I don't know if Papa Murphy's still sells them, but I remember having cookie pizzas from them.
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spannu
11/24/09

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You can dare to say whatever you want, but the results would suggest that things are definitely worse now.
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Omelet_Pants
11/24/09

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I'll go a little old school and bring up "Tapper." The original game had a big Budweiser logo in the game. IIRC, there was a big uproar and they made a variation of the game called "Root Beer Tapper." I don't remember if it was sponsored by a root beer company.
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Mentuss
11/24/09

@Omelet_Pants: There's a Japanese version which advertised Suntory, too.

As far as I recall, though, Root Beer Tapper was brandless.
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PapaBear434
11/24/09

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You know, it was blatant advertising and shamelessly "90's" in it's "coolness," but it was actually a pretty cool game. Moderately well done platformer with one of the best games ever played on a MIDI file.
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Mit
11/24/09

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They reintroduced Fido Dido in the 2000s in international markets for 7up.

We're long overdue for a Cool Spot revival.
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Mister Jack got an iPod Touch!
11/24/09

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That's a bad idea to shill alcohol in M-rated titles. Since the age limit for one is 17 and the age limit for the other is 21, they're not exactly consistent and it would be pretty bad for the image of any company who got caught doing it.
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Atomsk88
11/24/09

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The 7 Up Spot was one of the coolest mascots back in the 90's.

Anyway, the last game(s) I can think of that were glorified ads were the BK games some years ago. Advertising has improved. I say that because at least we have straight up ads in typical ad locations in games now. It's not like there's a need to hide them now to subconsciously make us think of a product while playing our latest game.
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Vecha: One more Month
11/24/09

@Atomsk88:

"it's not like there's a need to hide them now to subconsciously make "

Movies do this.

Most recent is the 2012 movie...they are all wearing vans...or some type of tennis shoes on the arks.

As well as everyone in Washington owning a vaio.

Anyways...my poing being...Why do games not have a need to do the same?
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Atomsk88
11/24/09

@Vecha: One more Month: Well, sports games can easily market clothing and such since it comes with the territory. That's one of the things I remember about the Tony Hawk games.

As for movies, most people will experience a film once, so product placement is always obvious and pretty much has to be if the movie had support from the company of the product. Take Transformers for example. A Mountain Dew vending machine transformer, and the Nokia transformer too. I don't think movies are really trying to subconsciously sell us the products now, and if they are it's pretty terrible because it's been pretty obvious. Just displaying the latest product in the latest media really.

Now, selling would be like in the Wayne's World clip, with lines and etc.
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Vecha: One more Month
11/24/09

@Atomsk88:

I see...makes sense!

#speakup
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WhiteMåge is in fact a boy, damnit
11/24/09

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OH MY GOD COOL SPOT

screw whatever the article is about

that's

freaking COOL SPOT!
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D-K, Anarchist
11/24/09

@WhiteMåge: Platforming at it's most basic.. but damnit if it wasn't the best time ever playing cool spot.

Man.. were my standards low back then..
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Revenge_of_Nekojin
11/24/09

@D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*: Liking Cool Spot doesn't mean you have low standards. Cool Spot was a pretty damn good game from what I remember.
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fuchikoma
11/24/09

@Revenge_of_Nekojin: I don't know what I could say about the game objectively that made it good, but I loved it too. Maybe it was just playing a funky tiny character in a huge everyday setting? It was great though...

I also really liked the NES Cool Spot game that played like Infection/Ataxx (...and of course, I loved Ataxx too... wow, I'm going to find that game tonight and fire it up...)

Pepsi (who makes 7UP) did it again on the PSX too... in Japan they released a game for their Japanese mascot Pepsiman - you'd run away from the camera at a fixed speed and try to jump, duck, and dodge obstacles in your way like things falling off of trucks, and even fences between yards and objects as you take shortcuts through people's houses, lol... it was so simple, but fun to play.
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spiderweb1986
11/24/09

@Revenge_of_Nekojin: Cool Spot was awesome, in large part because David Perry - the guy behind the (superior) Genesis Aladdin game and the Earthworm Jim series - worked on it.
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D-K, Anarchist
11/25/09

@Revenge_of_Nekojin: It wasn't good, that's nostalgia talking. Don't get me wrong, i liked it as much as the next person, but comparing it to other games that also featured kid's heroes, it's very basic.

The Rescue Rangers, Mickey Mania, Ducktales... there were just so much better games that you can't qualify it as a good game, regardless of the fun it provided.

I dare you to download and play it.
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SagiMewtwo
11/24/09

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It's funny cause Nintendo ended up doing a bit of advertising in Pikmin 2, which made it a little bit cooler in a sense cause the items felt a little more closer to home.
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Stephen Totilo
11/24/09

@SagiMewtwo: Both Pikmins, no?
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spannu
11/24/09

@Stephen Totilo: The first one had some everyday objects, but none of them were branded. Most of the parts were just random shapes.
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N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
11/24/09

@Stephen Totilo:
I don't recall there being any branded products in the first Pikmin, only the second (i.e. a Duracell branded battery). While it kept the item names as Olimar would describe these "alien" objects, they looked a bit more "real" to us.

It's one case where product placement made sense. He's a visitor to our world, filled with our objects... from a very tiny perspective.
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Stephen Totilo
11/25/09

@N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels: I must be remembering Pikmin 1 wrong. Doesn't matter. Pikmin 2 is one of the best sequels I've ever played and probably in my top 10 favorites overall. Hell of a game.

#speakup
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