The nineties was the best decade.

Not low effort posting IMO, this is a part of our culture & has historical value.

It strikes me that I have no point of reference because I haven't seen any ads for 20 years. If they stopped doing y2k edgy-style ads, what are they like now?

Thank you sir, may I have another?

Radical, as all your posts are. How the heck do you find the time?!

It's wild how crazy ads. The Mouse one for the GBA Micro still pops up into my head every once and a while. And my friend group still debates whether Mario is hiding a Tribal Tattoo somewhere

I have to admit, the GBA SP was pretty hot. I still have mine.

Thanks for this one, a really valuable find:

Reminds me of this post on Bluesky. These ads were wild at the time, too; even some that predate this era. There was Fear Effect, which was basically marketed entirely on the back of the game featuring lesbians when that was taboo. There was Rayman standing at the urinals with a guy in 9-5 business attire presumably staring at Rayman's dick. The Neo Geo "You need a pair of these" steel balls "to play one of these" ad. Plus the shockingly racist European white PSP ad; that was a billboard, not a magazine ad, but it had "video game magazine ad energy", in this case with "(negative)" at the end of it.

Nintendo advertising like this now is actually unfathomable

Thanks for sharing!

The Swedish GBA ad campaign is very unique!

Might not be exactly vintage but it is getting close to 20 years old (ouch my age).

The Halo 3 advertising campaign.

And specifically this "Believe" video.

I cannot describe the emotions of excitement I felt for this game to be released. Waiting for the midnight release for this game is still one of my favorite memories haha. And once we got the game, the hours and hours of fun with friends..... really was something looking back on it.

That Spider-Man box for Gameboy Advance gave me serious nostalgia. I never owned the game but I think because I saw it dozens of times behind the glass at Walmart growing up. I haven’t seen it in years. Back when they had the controllers out so you could stare up and give yourself wild neck pains from playing games while mom shopped.

The foot for your distraught friend/partner in prison is cold, damn I like these old ad campaigns.

Really want to find GBA Tribal Edition in the wild—if it actually exists.

Use protection. Buy ps2.