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Bofferbrauer2 on 16 May 2020
GoOnKid said:

Trying to make Yoshi's Story, obviously a kids game, look cool to teenagers was probably not the smartest idea.

Speaking of Yoshi...



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Leynos on 16 May 2020
Bofferbrauer2 said:
GoOnKid said:

Trying to make Yoshi's Story, obviously a kids game, look cool to teenagers was probably not the smartest idea.

Speaking of Yoshi...

Can't imagine where they got the idea



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

GoOnKid on 16 May 2020
Leynos said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Speaking of Yoshi...

Can't imagine where they got the idea

Okay I almost puked now. Enough internet for today.



COKTOE on 16 May 2020
GoOnKid said:

Trying to make Yoshi's Story, obviously a kids game, look cool to teenagers was probably not the smartest idea.

Wtf is this even. Bizarre, uncomfortable, no message, nothing.

The fact that the PS2 one was directed by David Lynch is pretty neat. I'm not even a fan really, but it's kinda cool that a big time, we'll respected director did something like this.

It's called The Third Space, but that stupid duck says: "Welcome to the third place."



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

hinch on 16 May 2020

Probably Ouya. That ad had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.



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Conina on 16 May 2020
JWeinCom said:

You win, that can't be topped.



kirby007 on 16 May 2020

anything outside of mario kart that looks like multiple people having fun on the couch

full on cringe



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curl-6 on 16 May 2020

That time Acclaim offered to pay the fines of anyone caught speeding on the launch day of Burnout 2, effectively encouraging, as Ben Croshaw aptly put it, "a motorized version of The Purge".

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/04/uk_govt_slams_irresponsible_speed/



COKTOE on 16 May 2020
CaptainExplosion said:
javi741 said:
Don Mattrick 2013-"If you're unable to get any sort online connectivity, we have a system for them, it's called Xbox 360"

Bernie Stolar 1997-"The Saturn is not our future"

Bernie Stolar really did help run Sega into the ground.

 The Saturn's fate was essentially already sealed at that point. One could even say he was just being honest. Only 9 months after that statement, the Saturn was discontinued, and they were obviously working on the Dreamcast, which launched roughly 17 months and 2 weeks months after he said "Saturn in not our future." Again, I kinda appreciate the honesty.



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SanAndreasX on 16 May 2020
Conina said:
JWeinCom said:

You win, that can't be topped.

Technically the ad wasn't wrong. Ouya was offering a system dedicated entirely to playing crappy games.