| shakarak said: I thought the use of subliminal messaging is to make you subconsciously remember something odd about the box art. Which encourage s your brain to remember the namegame well as well as do further investigating |buying|watching| the game or what not. Same way movie theatres used to flash a picture of popcorn for a millisecond to get u hungry for popcorn. |
You're exactly right. It doesn't always have to be something relevant to the product or even something that the person seeing it would want or want to see (though that's done too). The trick is to subconsciously get the brain going "something isn't right here." That's enough to draw the mind, apparently... to capture attention. Not sure how much it all actually works, but I guess it might. They do it all the time in magazine ads and such. Note that I don't personally imagine that that's what we have here. But you are right; subliminal messages can work the way you described.
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