Game Ads of Yesteryear
60 bits of olde tyme game propaganda we dug out of our closets
Above: Eight different systems at once? And a cataclysmic crash of the games industry follows a couple years later? Whodda thunk?
Above: Frogger lives in a suicide-inducingly sad world with everything out to kill him
Above: It scares us to think our military still uses an Odyssey
Above: Ever since his death, Tutankham has been waiting for a home video game about himself
Above: You’ll need to turn your skin blue to command Air Wolf
Above: A “Password Feature” was once worth advertising
Above: We believe that quote is Mark Twain’s
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Above: Somebody’s compensating
Above: We never knew a plastic sword and a rubber throwing star held so much POWER!
Above: So in Castlevania III you change from Simon Belmont to Dracula to a ghost to a pirate? Also, this ad offers a chance to visit Transylvania, probably the most disappointing trip a child can take
Above: A little known fact about old Vlad is that he loves off-road racing
Henry Gilbert is a former 12DOVE Editor, having spent seven years at the site helping to navigate our readers through the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation. Henry is now following another passion of his besides video games, working as the producer and podcast cohost of the popular Talking Simpsons and What a Cartoon podcasts.