GRcade

For when advertising was a bit bonkers.





























If there's any you still have or remember from newspapers, magazines and hoardings, post them here.

I remember almost all of those. The Battlecruiser one (forgotten the name of the glamour model there but I think she was quite famous) was censored in different mags I believe.

Tafdolphin wrote:I remember almost all of those. The Battlecruiser one (forgotten the name of the glamour model there but I think she was quite famous) was censored in different mags I believe.

Jo something.

EDIT: Guest. Very 90s. Very lads’ mag. Spoke like Joe Pasquale.

I've noticed in hindsight that the majority of the more sexulised and controversial adverts from the mid to late 90s don't feature at all in Official PlayStation Magazine compared to all the other PC and PS1 mags of that period so I don't know if Sony had some sort of ad policy in place.















While in the Netherlands, Sony took it too far...

rinks wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:I remember almost all of those. The Battlecruiser one (forgotten the name of the glamour model there but I think she was quite famous) was censored in different mags I believe.

Jo something.

EDIT: Guest. Very 90s. Very lads’ mag. Spoke like Joe Pasquale.

Probably a load of bollocks but apparently one of my mates at school was her 2nd cousin.

She is from Derbyshire so it seemed feasible at the time.

Anyone remember this


and this


Had a Sega mag with that as a centre spread, I ripped it out because I didn't want my mum to see it

Stashed it for 'research' purposes though

None of these ads would be allowed these day, some are just plain wrong when you think about it.

Lagamorph wrote:

Now there's something you definitely wouldn't expect from Nintendo.

Tafdolphin wrote:I remember almost all of those. The Battlecruiser one (forgotten the name of the glamour model there but I think she was quite famous) was censored in different mags I believe.

Jo Guest.

NSFW, contains some actual nudity (Is a YouTube link but putting in a spoiler box and not embedding it)

Can you imagine the reaction if these came out today?

I think that GBA one is actually fairly decent, there's nothing particularly crass about it and kind of shows that normal sexualy active adults can enjoy gaming.

Or something.

Psycho Pigs UXB | US Gold | 1987

Casual sexism was so prevalent in 1980s gaming advertising .

Edit: And, looking at those previous posts, 1990s and early 2000s, too!

Sega .

Lex-Man wrote:Can you imagine the reaction if these came out today?

Yeah, I can.

Words cannot do justice to how much I despise this Turok Evolution ad.