Worst video game related adverts

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curl-6 on 14 July 2018

Cerebralbore101's "worst cover art" topic running atm (http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=236970&page=1#) is great fun, and it got me thinking about another thing that's often facepalm-worthy in the gaming industry; awful advertising, whether it be TV commercials, youtube trailers, or posters.

What are some of the most hilariously atrocious examples of gaming advertisements you can recall?

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curl-6 on 15 July 2018

Some off the top of my head

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Johnw1104 on 15 July 2018

This one struck me as being a tad misguided:

They're lucky Twitter was only just being created when this one went up lol

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WHOASHIE

Edit: Also, the entirety of EarthBound's marketing.

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curl-6 on 15 July 2018

Johnw1104 said:

This one struck me as being a tad misguided:

They're lucky Twitter was only just being created when this one went up lol

Ah yes, a classic of poor taste.

If this happened in 2018 the internet would blow up like a truckload of mentos emptied into a pool of Coca Cola.

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Ultrashroomz on 15 July 2018

These come to mind immediately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60_WWLq3srE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJJQHF4tTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3c_JDDp99k

Also what are you talking about? That Zelda commercial is badass.

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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Ultrashroomz said:

These come to mind immediately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60_WWLq3srE

This is pretty bad,but it could be worse. At least they didn't used the awful "this game stinks" logo.

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