I can’t explain it, but that seductive early '00s look, that Elizabeth Hurley was also known for, got me jimmies when I was young.
That 80s Bill Gates laying with the computers still gets me.
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90s and 00s era were pretty wild with advertising.
And 80s. The first 8 bit computers and consoles had lots of suggestive ads. They knew their market.
The 32x had some interesting ads:
French ad for the 32x:
Nice, not SEX but 32X.
SEGA did what Nintendidn’t.
Or, I guess, Sega did what Nintendalsodid.
What Nintendidn’t [yet], because that DS ad is a lot more recent and I don’t remember Nintendo itself having anything quite that risque in the '90s.
This reply is offensive. We both went to all that work and you didn’t even have the decency to say “What Nintendidn’tyetbecausethatDSadisalotmorerecentandidon’trememberNintendoutselfhavinganythingquitethatrisqueinthe’90s.”
The French magazine ads for tech in the 1990s were absolutely wild
I wonder how much of that came from being a time when the ‘parental advisory’ type content was starting to become more common, but people’s content was also still pretty compartmentalized.
Shows for kids where on at certain times on certain days, and these weird paper things called magazines where something you had to buy or subscribe to to view.
Now, barring some kind of active efforts, people see what they want when they want all on the same Internet so advertisers kind of have to pull back to avoid getting attacked for putting the wrong messages out.
There’s no way that’s a real Nintendo ad.
I remember seeing it in Nintendo powers because that was the day I learned I was stupid
I think your response is deadpan, but just to be clear, there’s no way that’s real. I can be convinced by someone creating a properly faked Photoshop of it in a real magazine, however.
Ebaumsworld
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
No way! Is that real?
They also had an animal neglect version, but only the bondage ad was pulled in the UK. Late 90s advertising for games and consoles tried to be as edgy as possible when published in magazines targeted at male demographics.
Wow. I’m a male gamer but I don’t think I’d want to be part of the demographic that ad is meant to appeal to. I wonder how different the history of gaming would be if they’d advertised to women too.
“touching is good”
And I clicked on the picture!
Naughty-do
This is gotta be satire, but I can no longer tell…
Video game ads were wild around the 90s and 00s.
The DS in particular was when Nintendo was trying to shake its “kiddie” image, but it’s handheld ads have been risqué at times since the original GB
Regarding the fact that these ads promote playing games instead of having sex … umm, that’s basically what happened. Sounds crazy but, ya, young people are having less sex today, and the birth rate has dropped precipitously. You can list a dozen other factors that would impact this as well (economy, education, etc) but access to video games does seem to correlate. Sometimes correlation IS causation.
Most times it’s not.
I don’t think this is true. You can disprove this by comparing the fertility rates to the popularity of gaming in different countries, for example in Sweden birth rates rose considerably between 2000 and 2010 despite gaming being an extremely popular pastime in Sweden.
There are lots of factors involved of course but the largest ones are things like widespread access to birth control, being able to afford to raise a child and feeling like you live in a stable, safe environment to raise a child.
Its immigrants getting lots of kids. Its common with 4-5 kids. I think whats happening is that native swedes are having less children but because of immigration, birth rates go up a lot.
Perhaps its possible to show this using statistics but probably not since they dont separate immigrants in those stats.
Okay? Even if that is true, so what? Do immigrants not play video games? lmao
Just explaining the stats for sweden. Without those, birth rates would be going down a lot.
I decided to investigate your claim because it smelled fishy - and yeah, you’re wrong.
Foreign born women do have slightly higher birth rates than native-born women, but it’s nowhere close to 4-5 kids: between 2000 and 2010, native-born women had, on average, around 1.7 children each, compared to foreign-born women having on average, around 2.1 children each. However, because foreign-born women make up comparatively few of the Swedish population, this effect only increases the average birth rate by around 0.1 child:
Furthermore, to hammer my own point home, income quartile has a much larger effect on birth rates, with the difference between income quartile 1 (0.9 births avg) and income quartile 4 (2.4 births average) having a much stronger effect:
So, yeah, it’s not video games, and it’s not really a migration issue. As I said in my original reply, it’s a lot more to do with financial security and stability.
Good info but sadly I dont trust the official numbers here. As i am sure you know, misleading with statistics is very easy. “Foreign-born” is what they use here, and they dont include people who came earlier, and are now considered Swedish citizens.
But still, good to get the official view! I had no doubt it would not show anything negative.
Misleading with statistics can certainly be done in some contexts, but it’s harder to do that than it is to be wrong with just ‘I have a gut feel bro’. The breakdown by income quartile here is, like, directly the narrative that the stats are intended to support and clearly a larger impact that immigration because… Well… Quartiles are quite big…
they dont include people who came earlier, and are now considered Swedish citizens.
That isn’t true. It’s just mothers who were born in countries other than Sweden. Even if they are now Swedish citizens, they are still considered foreign-born.
Good info but sadly I dont trust the official numbers here.
Yes, I was expecting you to say that. What’s your source, then?
Ss… Step-gamer?
Ss… Step-Stool?
Lol, there were seriously no rules.
I don’t think there should be rules, provided the risque ads only run in publications targeted towards adults. This ad in Nintendo Power would be a problem. This ad in GQ or Maxim would not.
It was a very different time back in the 90’s.
ETA, the other print ad:
I’m an asexual prude, but I feel we were really close to a more sex positive queer world in the overculture of the 90s, but the consciousness wasn’t actually there yet to be cool with it
As an Italian, it’s even funnier cause “sega” means handjob
The second best thing to do in the dark.
Seriously though, the SP was a life changing device for me.
I still have mine in it’s protective case that I play at least once a year. I’m nearly 40.
The micro was such a step up though.
Literally read this with my GBA SP in hand
I will just leave this here. NSFW!
Lady, maybe it’s best that Patrick Bateman over there is busy with his NeoGeo. You have no idea!
Neo Geo owners had the biggest games!
Pray tell, what are 4 dimensional graphics?
Maybe the game freezes now and then?
Haha, wow, is that Sharon Stone?
I remember this ad in one the computer magazines I had as a teenager. Don’t ask me why I remember it so vividly.
Same here, I remember thinking that this is what adult life looks like.
At least they’re not different races with the black one being the bad one this time.
