I love when I used to not notice something was a video game advertisement for a solid 10 seconds because it was just a huge photo of something unrelated with tiny screenshots at the bottom
The best part about the Duke Nukem ad is that it probably doesn't just say "You're gay" because gay was considered a bad word back then and they didn't want children to see it
I wish we still had game ads that made me feel like I’m missing out on some cool shit instead of every ad being targeted specifically to brain dead children
Most of the "9/11" ads you mentioned _predate_ the actual attack though. In fact, on the subject of Red Alert 2, box art featuring that image was _recalled_ when it happened. The game was released in October 2000, almost a full year before the attacks.
See, I never saw the Kirby eyes as being "angry"; more like just DETERMINED, ready to fight the evil, save his friends, make things right, and get back to dessert.
that kirby represents kirby's disdain for every boss, every deity, every monster that tried to tear his life apart. that kirby, while not seen outside of specific events in the games, can be felt through gameplay. that fighting spirit under the cuteness is what makes kirby such a hero.
yeah American Kirby was canonized when, during the final boss of Forgotten Land, he runs over the multidimensional, interplanetary threat with a SEMI-TRUCK, while angrily shouting like a dragon ball character from the intense struggle. KIRBY HAD A BEAM STRUGGLE USING A SEMI-TRUCK
I distinctly remember around 2011 or 2012 seeing a trailer for a new NASCAR game that featured an increased focus on confrontations and fights rather than the actual racing aspect of most NASCAR games. The game was said to have the option to pursue drivers following or during the races and throw a few left hooks at them, curse out certain drivers, and even had a feature that allowed drivers to flip each other off during the race. Naturally, this game had an M rating as opposed to the E rating that pretty much every other NASCAR game has. I'm 99 percent sure this was some fan made trailer, because the game was never made, and I can't find the trailer anywhere on TH-cam. Which is unfortunate, because that premise sounds awesome.
Okay the Snapcube Eggman fandub announcement caught me so offguard. I've watched that scene so many times, I can almost recite the whole thing verbatim from start to finish
0:44 we have a arcade in Western Australia called Leisure Island. they still do tokens to play and give physical tickets from games. The sad news is we only have 1 left...
As someone who likes men, and has played Duke Nukem 3D for exactly 4 seconds on the menu screen before it crashed and refused to relaunch the executable.. I can verify you like men either way for some reason
@@WreckedPanzerschreck Duke Nukem himself called you megagay and refused to let you play his video game. I firmly believe if I even tried to download the file to Duke Nukem my computer would combust before it was even fully downloaded.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Klonoa STD ad, one of the most tone deaf ads out there that stands the test of time as a comedic disasterpiece.
The "hot woman next to arcade machines" reminds me of a similar thing where they had the actor for Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat playing a different fighting game called Blood Storm, and he looked really excited about it. I have no idea if it was effective at all but it did look really funny.
The costumed women beside arcade machines ads were pretty good, but I’d like to see an ad for Donkey kong featuring the Super mario super show actor that plays mario wearing just overalls and his hat, laying suggestively in front of the machine with a latina dressed like pauline beside him. Appeal to both gay men, bi men AND straight men, yk?
You do know that Mario was played by Captain Lou, right? If you wanna see shirtless Super Show Mario, just go watch some old WWF clips. You’re welcome.
I got to meet Romero once. He was so freaking nice, and so genuinely into the art of making games, that you can really see what an impact that ad must've had to harm his rep for as long as it did (in conjunction with Ion Storm, which wasn't entirely his fault.)
I get that the idea of putting a hot model on a video game ad is to draw your attention to the advertisement... but I was a teenager once and I can guarantee 0% of people these ads were targeting could tell you what the ads were about.
I have that Paper Mario advertisement hanging in my room! I love it, glad to see the recognition! I was born in 1990, so this whole video was a trip down memory lane.. truly, thank you Hugbees for doing what you do!
I was really hoping you would cover the "kill your friends guilt free" ad for the original guilty gear. It's notable to me cause i love guilty gear, and a former president of the United States covered these ads and said them outloud. A sequel to this video would be awesome just for the bill clinton clip
I still have a lot of gaming magazines and I can tell you that 30 years later, you can still smell the "hot pepper dog" on those Earthbound ads. I check once a year.
I can not stand that mobile ads now are literally just: "Here are all the different ways you can collect our fifteen currencies in this game!" It's just Skinner's Boxes with no reward at the end. I need someone telling me Microsoft does what Sony don't.
I actually had to do a written report on an ad that I thought was particularly great, and I did mine on that Paper Mario ad. It absolutely crushes. Top-tier ad.
My boyfriend calls things he doesn't like gay all the time. He's bisexual. The end result is me telling him *he's* gay immediately afterwards every time.
Even in the 00s it was pretty common to use gay to mean bad and as long as you don’t do it now I don’t see any shame in admitting you did as a child conditioned to believe it was normal. Hell I said it when I was little and now I’m openly dating another woman, everyone said it
Yeah. Its still in my vocab as a bisexual man, modern advertising is gay as fuck man, gayer than I. Tis just a word the intent is what gives it meaning That being said, I never used it as a derogatory phrase towards others purely as an object pejorative
Same with the other f word -- It had absolutely nothing to do with being gay, and it wouldn't make sense to use it to describe a gay person.... Unless they were being one
If you think about it - they didn’t phase out leaded gasoline til 1996 so all the children whose brains developed in a biome of lead fumes where the only refuge was to go within the lead-painted walls of their home to snack on some wall chips… I mean. The culmination of those generations would’ve been the ‘90’s teenager. In that light, many of these ads seem much less insane.
Ah yes Thomas Midgley Jr. As an individual he most likely caused the most harm to humankind to date. Standard Oil(New Jersey) is a cancer on the human race.
Grandpa was poisoned by asbestos, dad was poisoned by lead and you are poisoned by microplastics. I wonder what the next generation will be poisoned with?
31:34 As someone that was for some reason hyper-fixated on PANIC! as a kid on early 2010’s TH-cam that was fascinated with weird retro games (still am), considering that PANIC! is literally just “press buttons and watch absurdist wacky shit that Data East Japan found funny for a few minutes and nothing else”, I think that ad fits it perfectly, maybe even undersells it One of the gags in the game is a small child drinking a potion that causes massive uncensored breasts to grow all over his body, have a good time spending hours’ worth of TH-cam searching for that shit
There was a game ad for a game I can't remember in a magazine I can't remember. It had scratch and sniff stuff that purposefully stank REALLY bad, and after inhaling it, I farted that smell for days after.
Next are ads that absolutely don't make any sense on making you want to buy the product I saw a car crash commercial that acts like this new car is better than the last one you just got in a crash in Dove telling you that you are beautiful.......then telling you to buy their beauty products An ad that wants to stop people from getting anorexia but it scares people instead which only causes more stress And so on
@@SparrowIZ I would like to take the time to ask you this. What in the world were you thinking when you took time out of your day to type out these words? How in the world is this even an insult? You probably thought of this, snickered to yourself, and thought, "Oh boy, I struck gold with this one." News flash, you haven't struck the air outside your mother's womb with those words. That's a mom joke.
I work at an arcade, and we still use tokens because our owner refuses to switch to cards because it'd be "too expensive" even though we spend thousands of dollars to get more boxes of tickets
The Duke Nukem Ad is hilarious. It's the people who *don't* play a game advertised by a muscly guy wearing a tanktop that are gay, not the ones who go "this guy looks hot, I'll buy whatever he's selling". The latter group are the ones who don't like men, naturally.
Those Command & Conquer ads would get you banned from certain websites today. That whole era of edgy advertising was both terrible and amazing at the same time.
I feel like there should be a video dedicated entirely to Tomb Raider’s marketing campaigns over the years. The amount of sexualization, misogyny, and bizarre commercial appearances are a fascinating rabbit hole that really just makes you go “This is how they treated the first lady of gaming?”
The Duke 3D ad at 37:50 is very obviously not a real ad which is blatantly evident by simple cursory examination of it. This (egregiously so) fabrication was created within the last few years and inexplicably attempted to be passed off as real, which it seems to have been a rousing success on the easily gullible.
I remembered it more for that video where someone voice acted a lot of edits of it “IF YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D YOU LIKE MEN” “IF YOU LIKE MEN YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D” “YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D” “YOU LIKE MEN” and other shit along those lines
unironically i want a video on Bodacious '90s Fashion. well it KINDA bleeds into the 80s and 2000s just a little but god, that Ace Ventura look fills my heart with warmth
If advertisements these days were even close to resembling the ones of old, I genuinely believe that we would all be more accepting of them, and might even become actually interested in their products. Side note: writing this comment was incredibly difficult, as I had to break up a fight, fend off a gang, master the art of jujutsu, and defeat Graglu the Consumer. And that's just so I could begin writing it.
Honestly I've always wanted us to still make ads like this, like if I ever make a game and run ads I 100% plan on doing some wild bs akin to older ads Side note: writing this reply was almost very hard as I had to fend off Jiren and Beerus, while saving a puppy from a tree, while mastering the art of HEMA fencing, all whilst destroying the shadows from the forces of the curse placed on me from the wizard of eternal night, who cursed me after I gave free will back to her minions. (Who I also have a date with next weekend, turns out me and the wizard of eternal night have a lot in common) though as I defeated the curse from the wizard of eternal night I have angered sharuk, lord of universes end, who put the puppy in the tree and taught the wizard of eternal night everything she knows, as I disgraced the honor of his star pupil he challenged me to a duel in the land of sha'kar, birthplace of the primordial darkness, where his magic will be the strongest. Which will be a bit of a hassle as sharuk is known for his magic but it must be done. And that was just so I could read the first comment.
Damn, that’s awful that you had to fend off all those things Side note: Writing this was very hard, because a clone army of John wicks attempted to slaughter me and my fellow Russian gangsters for what my boss’s son did to his dog, and I somehow survived.
I'm very confused what's going on. Side note: Writing my grasp on the reply section was very hard, as I had to beat every pope resurrected in a boxing match all at once, while also giving a speech on thermodynamics to a group of 3rd graders, to the point where they all had a grasp on it, and attempting to survive the wrath of Qurbapix the Resentful beams of annihilation after I had laid xis wife, while also acting as a third party in their divorce proceedings (it was very awkward) and that was just to go into the comments section
As a professional plumber, anytime I repipe someone's home I always move the washing machine box to the kitchen. Just to save the wife some time in her daily commute. Call me a trailblazer, most do, I'm just doing what I was called to do.
"BUILD AN ARMY, TRUST NO-ONE!" >series involves doing things like sending your Cleric with glass bones to talk to the myrmidon who's being paid to kill her
The funny thing about Daikatana is that (as showcased by a certain time traveling federal prisoner of possible Eldritch origins) there was a solid game hidden behind the bad friendly AI and atrocious first few levels.
16:27 No because my brother pre-trans thought he was gay, then thought he was straight but then finally realized well he IS gay but for guys actually and he can definitely admit WOMEN.
12:03 I’d rather live in a fictional dystopian setting that’s main goal is to be depressing because it’s gotta be less depressing than the world these ads are set in
Man that Duke Nukem ad is straight up Dick Kickem energy. It's also funny how Ion Fury got shit for having bottles of "O'Gay" being an in universe thing many years later. Props to the devs because that would be on point. Also yes, I did play Daikatana and on the N64 even with that "controller" thing. I think it made me the man I am today because Jesus... that experience would kill a spineless crybaby. Meanwhile Doom is going hard still and Johns a cool dude and still very active in the community. Never did answer the question though... what are those holes on the cacos backside? Crazy how I remember some of these ads especially the scratch and sniff earth bound shit sticker. I thought my cat relived himself on it.
Cannot agree more. The Dreamcast would have thrived if the Saturn didn’t exist. It being such an objectively terrible console required the Dreamcast to sell absurdly well just to make up for all the losses Sega had to endure under the Saturn. And it just didn’t happen simply because no amount of marketing could convince people to trust Sega after how bad the Saturn was. God I wish people realized how amazing that console was then so more companies would have done stuff like make the memory cards their own little simple handheld console because good god was the Dreamcast amazing for that alone
The Saturn was fine, hell one of if not the most powerful console at the time. Sega just couldn't get their shit together and told consumers the day it released before retailers even knew to stock it or for games to be made beforehand. To this very fucking day I still do not understand the logic they were using here
Damn bro when you said ‘Best video game ad of all time’ I thought ‘well it won’t be better than the Paper Mario free demo one’ and then I did this in real life: 🤯
The next DOOM ad should go the Daikatana route, I would buy it on release if they did that, not just because it's DOOM, but because that ad would kick ass
There are some great barcades in the Seattle area. Places like Add-A-Ball and Another Castle do in fact require quarters to feed their machines, and these machines range from Foo Fighters pinball to Street Fighter 2 Turbo to Ms Pac-Man to Death Ball. It's a fantastic time and a great place to take a date.
As someone that's childhood was Command and Conquer...yep it was kinda like that...laughs in a Red Alert 2 (Only Allied CD now works) copy that came out before 9/11...(the 3rd level originally was centered around the WTC...crazy how things just kinda happen like that...) Also, hell yes...the Paper Mario ad...I had a field day with that ad for weeks til I rented the actual game (not to mention the ESRB "Comic Mischief" adding to it, mockingly)
That tongue ad is even better when you consider they probably just hired somebody who can do a Gene Simmons and painted his tongue 6 times because it cost like $20,000 for a computer that can do photoshop type stuff back in those days. Like the 75 Silicon Graphics Workstation that they used for Jurassic Park. That thing cost $40,000 for the base model. And you need more than that to get it to do anything useful. So, more likely $60,000.
I'm really surprised that you didn't cover Acclaim. They committed actual crimes to advertise their games in an edgy way. Just one example: Sneaking into a graveyard and defacing the tombstones by etching ads for their next game into them.
32:17; This is funny to me because you can easily imagine a non-racist version of this ad and it would be hilariously dark. Something like; "Mr. Takahiron is personally accountable for programming fun code. If you and your friends aren't completely freaked out with fun, and as a result the projects he works on don't produce an acceptable margin of profits, then he will be fired. We hired Mr. Takahiron because he cannot find work anywhere else, so he cannot negotiate his pay or working conditions. If he is fired, he will not be able to provide for his wife and three children, and will resort to taking his own life for an insurance fraud scheme so his family can collect the benefits."
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can we kiss?
@@proton..real
I love when I used to not notice something was a video game advertisement for a solid 10 seconds because it was just a huge photo of something unrelated with tiny screenshots at the bottom
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The best part about the Duke Nukem ad is that it probably doesn't just say "You're gay" because gay was considered a bad word back then and they didn't want children to see it
Gay also used to mean "jolly". You don't want your message misinterpreted by some f
The duke nukem ad is not real.
The best part about the Duke Nukem ad is that it's fake
As a kid people said stuff was 'gay' all the damn time so that didn't fix anything, clearly.
@@WTFisTingispingisthey still do
I wish we still had game ads that made me feel like I’m missing out on some cool shit instead of every ad being targeted specifically to brain dead children
thats your mom.
@@SparrowIZchild spotted DEPLOYING INTELLIGENCE
@@SparrowIZactivate nuke
Ads are based on browsing history :/
"I already have this game. Oh this is the sequel?"
Most of the "9/11" ads you mentioned _predate_ the actual attack though. In fact, on the subject of Red Alert 2, box art featuring that image was _recalled_ when it happened. The game was released in October 2000, almost a full year before the attacks.
Huggbees can't let a silly fact get in the way of his... humor? I think that's what he was trying to do.
WHAT!?
@@adamsfusionOkay
Also the Duke Nukem "you like men" ad is fake
Where did you find this? I can't find anything stating it's fake.@@LordVader1094
See, I never saw the Kirby eyes as being "angry"; more like just DETERMINED, ready to fight the evil, save his friends, make things right, and get back to dessert.
American Kirby is Badass is the trope name for this.
Cute Kirby > any other emotion Kirby
that kirby represents kirby's disdain for every boss, every deity, every monster that tried to tear his life apart. that kirby, while not seen outside of specific events in the games, can be felt through gameplay. that fighting spirit under the cuteness is what makes kirby such a hero.
yeah American Kirby was canonized when, during the final boss of Forgotten Land, he runs over the multidimensional, interplanetary threat with a SEMI-TRUCK, while angrily shouting like a dragon ball character from the intense struggle.
KIRBY HAD A BEAM STRUGGLE USING A SEMI-TRUCK
Gianni Matragrano did a way better job of advertising Duke Nukem 3D than the actual marketing team ever could
IF YOU DON'T PLAY ULTRAKILL YOU LIKE MEN!!!!!
@@vap0rw1seif u do u also like men
@@pluff624 and yer a pyrate if ye play the pirated version
@@vap0rw1se IF YOU PLAY ULTRAKILL, YOU A FEMBOY!
My favorite has to be: "If you don't play Duke Nukem 3D... you die."
I really wish I grew up with ads that picked you up and yelled in your face like a pageant mom after her daughter lost the skimpy swimsuit round.
thats your mom..
All I can think of during this video are the old Hardee's ads where it was nothing but swimsuit models basically having oral with a thickburger... 😂😂😂
@@SparrowIZ shut up
I did good times it also makes makes me immune to modern ads i only want it if they scream at me first
I distinctly remember around 2011 or 2012 seeing a trailer for a new NASCAR game that featured an increased focus on confrontations and fights rather than the actual racing aspect of most NASCAR games. The game was said to have the option to pursue drivers following or during the races and throw a few left hooks at them, curse out certain drivers, and even had a feature that allowed drivers to flip each other off during the race. Naturally, this game had an M rating as opposed to the E rating that pretty much every other NASCAR game has.
I'm 99 percent sure this was some fan made trailer, because the game was never made, and I can't find the trailer anywhere on TH-cam. Which is unfortunate, because that premise sounds awesome.
thats your mom....
nascar 2005: chase for the concussion
Nascar 06: Total TKO
Isn't that just F-Zero
@@SpectralUmbreon197 nascar the pain 2011
Okay the Snapcube Eggman fandub announcement caught me so offguard. I've watched that scene so many times, I can almost recite the whole thing verbatim from start to finish
This man is the most traditionally masculine but also masculine in a non-traditional way guy I've ever seen
Healthy masculinity look like
as a chick i can confirm this guy is PURE UNBOUND MASCULINITY
Fuck sigma males, huggbees males rise up
Opposite of toxic masculinity
he's like the type of guy to make a joke about fucking your mom but also talk about anime girl feet regularly. it's a weird balance
0:44 we have a arcade in Western Australia called Leisure Island. they still do tokens to play and give physical tickets from games. The sad news is we only have 1 left...
"If you don't play Duke Nukem 3D you like men!"
As someone who doesn't play Duke Nukem 3D, and likes men, I can verify this information is correct.
As someone who likes men, and has played Duke Nukem 3D for exactly 4 seconds on the menu screen before it crashed and refused to relaunch the executable.. I can verify you like men either way for some reason
@@WreckedPanzerschreck Duke Nukem himself called you megagay and refused to let you play his video game. I firmly believe if I even tried to download the file to Duke Nukem my computer would combust before it was even fully downloaded.
@@coffincar5507 Man, this Duke guy sounds like a real asshole, lol.
Duke Nukem 3D = Men
simple as'
I’ve never played duke nukem 3d and I’m not attracted to men
this is false advertising
My headcanon is that you’re Mikey from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stuck in my phone giving me neat facts on random shit. Keep at it tiny man.
Is he coming in clear?
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Klonoa STD ad, one of the most tone deaf ads out there that stands the test of time as a comedic disasterpiece.
There's also the "quite possibly the only thing weirder than your sister" PS1 klonoa ad
the what???
@@PogChimp Look it up, it’s awful
20:12 From the height Rayman is standing at, he would be pissing on the floor.
His dong is long enough to not is what's implied.
Huggbees is the type of person to not call the cops when seeing something illegal
thats your mom.
i think that’s most people
Based Huggbees
He ain't a snitch
@@12Rosen Sadly not.
That "beautiful naked woman" ad is still pretty funny
Here's the money you'd've recieved if this was monetized :3
Thank God I can finally pay my rent
@@Huggbees can you pay mine too? I have the money I would just rather not
@@Sceptile29 Oh shit, rent is on Huggbees this month?
@@MrScorpianwarriorcan I get some?
I'm just a college student blindly throwing my time and money away thinking I'll one day have a future.
Money please.
TH-cam is getting out of hand, I just had to watch 51 minutes and 9 seconds of ads. And I loved every second of it
The "hot woman next to arcade machines" reminds me of a similar thing where they had the actor for Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat playing a different fighting game called Blood Storm, and he looked really excited about it. I have no idea if it was effective at all but it did look really funny.
The costumed women beside arcade machines ads were pretty good, but I’d like to see an ad for Donkey kong featuring the Super mario super show actor that plays mario wearing just overalls and his hat, laying suggestively in front of the machine with a latina dressed like pauline beside him. Appeal to both gay men, bi men AND straight men, yk?
You do know that Mario was played by Captain Lou, right?
If you wanna see shirtless Super Show Mario, just go watch some old WWF clips. You’re welcome.
I got to meet Romero once. He was so freaking nice, and so genuinely into the art of making games, that you can really see what an impact that ad must've had to harm his rep for as long as it did (in conjunction with Ion Storm, which wasn't entirely his fault.)
That Duke Nukem ad will forever make me think of the Gianni video
Duke nukem likey men!
If you like men, then you'll like Duke Nukem. I, Duke Nukem, like men.
If you don’t play Duke Nukem 3D, you like men
If you play Duke Nukem 3D, You like men
You like men!
MEN
If you dukey you nukey
I get that the idea of putting a hot model on a video game ad is to draw your attention to the advertisement... but I was a teenager once and I can guarantee 0% of people these ads were targeting could tell you what the ads were about.
Huggbees, as a representative of the Sega Saturn fanclub, I must warn you that Saturn slander will not be tolerated.
There are DOZENS of us!
Dozens!
Oh YES Huggbees, PLEASE do the creepy robot baby ad. I've been DYING to see it come back to haunt me after more than a decade.
I have that Paper Mario advertisement hanging in my room! I love it, glad to see the recognition!
I was born in 1990, so this whole video was a trip down memory lane.. truly, thank you Hugbees for doing what you do!
I was really hoping you would cover the "kill your friends guilt free" ad for the original guilty gear. It's notable to me cause i love guilty gear, and a former president of the United States covered these ads and said them outloud.
A sequel to this video would be awesome just for the bill clinton clip
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I got really worried when your how’s it made videos started getting striked, but damn you’re an awesome comedian and these videos are even better
I still have a lot of gaming magazines and I can tell you that 30 years later, you can still smell the "hot pepper dog" on those Earthbound ads. I check once a year.
I can not stand that mobile ads now are literally just: "Here are all the different ways you can collect our fifteen currencies in this game!" It's just Skinner's Boxes with no reward at the end. I need someone telling me Microsoft does what Sony don't.
I actually had to do a written report on an ad that I thought was particularly great, and I did mine on that Paper Mario ad. It absolutely crushes. Top-tier ad.
My jaw actually dropped at the Command and Conquer High Scores ad. Truly a different era.
It needs to come back
My boyfriend calls things he doesn't like gay all the time. He's bisexual. The end result is me telling him *he's* gay immediately afterwards every time.
This is the correct way to do humor
@@Schnort it's become such an expected response that he doesn't even react anymore😂
Ah, yes, internalised homophobia
@@sandensonThat’s kinda gay
Wow that's gay
The 8-Bit Nintendo-esque Boulevard of Broken Dreams insert while talking about Masters of Doom is a chef's kiss.
that's actually a doom midi.
I'd love to watch a bad video game box art video, its a popular video idea but Id love your top notch commentary
Even in the 00s it was pretty common to use gay to mean bad and as long as you don’t do it now I don’t see any shame in admitting you did as a child conditioned to believe it was normal. Hell I said it when I was little and now I’m openly dating another woman, everyone said it
Yeah. Its still in my vocab as a bisexual man, modern advertising is gay as fuck man, gayer than I.
Tis just a word the intent is what gives it meaning
That being said, I never used it as a derogatory phrase towards others purely as an object pejorative
Same with me lol I used it so much
there's a difference between gay, and GAY. south park has already been over this
Same with the other f word -- It had absolutely nothing to do with being gay, and it wouldn't make sense to use it to describe a gay person.... Unless they were being one
Yep, that certainly was the style at the time.
The paper mario ad is actually really cute lmao i like that one a lot
Finally the lord snowflame blesses us with a huggbees video
thats your mom.
@@SparrowIZI wish Snowflame was my parent
@@SparrowIZ imma touch you lil bro
@@iicybrii4883not if we touch you first
John
If you think about it - they didn’t phase out leaded gasoline til 1996 so all the children whose brains developed in a biome of lead fumes where the only refuge was to go within the lead-painted walls of their home to snack on some wall chips… I mean. The culmination of those generations would’ve been the ‘90’s teenager. In that light, many of these ads seem much less insane.
Ah yes Thomas Midgley Jr. As an individual he most likely caused the most harm to humankind to date. Standard Oil(New Jersey) is a cancer on the human race.
this comment makes me feel old.
Sho yoo meen that me brane damag was not me falt...
Grandpa was poisoned by asbestos, dad was poisoned by lead and you are poisoned by microplastics. I wonder what the next generation will be poisoned with?
And electrical equipment, especially computer monitors, were also finned with lead
31:34 As someone that was for some reason hyper-fixated on PANIC! as a kid on early 2010’s TH-cam that was fascinated with weird retro games (still am), considering that PANIC! is literally just “press buttons and watch absurdist wacky shit that Data East Japan found funny for a few minutes and nothing else”, I think that ad fits it perfectly, maybe even undersells it
One of the gags in the game is a small child drinking a potion that causes massive uncensored breasts to grow all over his body, have a good time spending hours’ worth of TH-cam searching for that shit
Emily did not deserve that tbh
She had to be laughing her ass off, cmon he was about to break character the whole time
Is Emily his wife or smthn?
Does Emily even exist?
I don’t think Emily exists
@@Reverend_Taco doesn’t matter. She’s still our icon
Dude please make this a series, there's so much weird advertising around gaming from this time period and the 2000s
Your stuff strikes the perfect balance between glorious shitpost and beautifully scripted essay AND I'M HERE FOR IT!
Hey kids, as an elder millenial, I can confirm these all existed. The 90's were weird
There was a game ad for a game I can't remember in a magazine I can't remember. It had scratch and sniff stuff that purposefully stank REALLY bad, and after inhaling it, I farted that smell for days after.
Earthbound
Next are ads that absolutely don't make any sense on making you want to buy the product
I saw a car crash commercial that acts like this new car is better than the last one you just got in a crash in
Dove telling you that you are beautiful.......then telling you to buy their beauty products
An ad that wants to stop people from getting anorexia but it scares people instead which only causes more stress
And so on
thats your mom
A post nut Gameboy Sesh sounds like a family guy cutaway
Huggbees never fails to make me watch 50 minutes of poop jokes and Florida pride.
thats your mom.
@@SparrowIZ I would like to take the time to ask you this. What in the world were you thinking when you took time out of your day to type out these words? How in the world is this even an insult? You probably thought of this, snickered to yourself, and thought, "Oh boy, I struck gold with this one." News flash, you haven't struck the air outside your mother's womb with those words.
That's a mom joke.
@@SammytheTongueyou know who else took the time to read this? My mom!
@@SparrowIZi edge to skibidi toilet
@@SammytheTongue What's even sadder is this loser commented that on MULTIPLE comments.
You could call the soda Snow Cola and have a bad drawing of yourself as Snowflame on it
The old PlayStation 2 ads would've fit in here perfectly, edgy graphics that sort of in a way kinda have something to do with the product
I work at an arcade, and we still use tokens because our owner refuses to switch to cards because it'd be "too expensive" even though we spend thousands of dollars to get more boxes of tickets
You should pedal the cards to people more… but leave tokens as sort of a traditional option.
Tokens are more fun tbh. Cards make me not wanna spend money
huggbees speedrun
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thats your mom
Yep.
Any% or glitchless ?
@@adriumproductions sunglasses% (already done in the first frame of the video, it's a very short run)
in conclusion- game Ads and the people behind them had fun making them
38:43 back in the 90s? That was still the most popular insult in 2010s middle schools, that hasn’t changed.
I love how these days people can't take anyone seriously when used it as an insult now. LMAO
at least its not the f word
@@belstar1128f *slur*
f *word* is just fuck
There are also many videos that need to be called out as fake and gay. It's a public service.
Children will be children. Because only a child's underdeveloped brain thinks that's funny after all.
The Duke Nukem Ad is hilarious. It's the people who *don't* play a game advertised by a muscly guy wearing a tanktop that are gay, not the ones who go "this guy looks hot, I'll buy whatever he's selling". The latter group are the ones who don't like men, naturally.
Technically the Duke Nukem ad is really pro-gay if you look at it from the perspective of lesbians
As a pumpkin farmer I live every day in fear that Hugbees will show up and destroy the entirety of my crop with his mind in under 45 minutes
You forgot the part where if you don't like Duke Nuke'm 3D, you like men. You like men. But if you Duki, you Nuki.
Those Command & Conquer ads would get you banned from certain websites today. That whole era of edgy advertising was both terrible and amazing at the same time.
I was thirteen when TH-cam came out. I remember a time before the internet was accessible to everyone.
I was 10 ;_;
I feel like there should be a video dedicated entirely to Tomb Raider’s marketing campaigns over the years. The amount of sexualization, misogyny, and bizarre commercial appearances are a fascinating rabbit hole that really just makes you go “This is how they treated the first lady of gaming?”
The Duke 3D ad at 37:50 is very obviously not a real ad which is blatantly evident by simple cursory examination of it. This (egregiously so) fabrication was created within the last few years and inexplicably attempted to be passed off as real, which it seems to have been a rousing success on the easily gullible.
I remembered it more for that video where someone voice acted a lot of edits of it
“IF YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D YOU LIKE MEN”
“IF YOU LIKE MEN YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D”
“YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D”
“YOU LIKE MEN”
and other shit along those lines
Funcoland didn't even sell PC games
"You really think people would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"
When Marph comments on your video correcting you on something regarding an old FPS, you know you messed up
unironically i want a video on Bodacious '90s Fashion. well it KINDA bleeds into the 80s and 2000s just a little but god, that Ace Ventura look fills my heart with warmth
If advertisements these days were even close to resembling the ones of old, I genuinely believe that we would all be more accepting of them, and might even become actually interested in their products.
Side note: writing this comment was incredibly difficult, as I had to break up a fight, fend off a gang, master the art of jujutsu, and defeat Graglu the Consumer.
And that's just so I could begin writing it.
Honestly I've always wanted us to still make ads like this, like if I ever make a game and run ads I 100% plan on doing some wild bs akin to older ads
Side note: writing this reply was almost very hard as I had to fend off Jiren and Beerus, while saving a puppy from a tree, while mastering the art of HEMA fencing, all whilst destroying the shadows from the forces of the curse placed on me from the wizard of eternal night, who cursed me after I gave free will back to her minions. (Who I also have a date with next weekend, turns out me and the wizard of eternal night have a lot in common) though as I defeated the curse from the wizard of eternal night I have angered sharuk, lord of universes end, who put the puppy in the tree and taught the wizard of eternal night everything she knows, as I disgraced the honor of his star pupil he challenged me to a duel in the land of sha'kar, birthplace of the primordial darkness, where his magic will be the strongest. Which will be a bit of a hassle as sharuk is known for his magic but it must be done.
And that was just so I could read the first comment.
Damn, that’s awful that you had to fend off all those things
Side note: Writing this was very hard, because a clone army of John wicks attempted to slaughter me and my fellow Russian gangsters for what my boss’s son did to his dog, and I somehow survived.
*slowly backs out of the room and closes the door*
I'm very confused what's going on.
Side note: Writing my grasp on the reply section was very hard, as I had to beat every pope resurrected in a boxing match all at once, while also giving a speech on thermodynamics to a group of 3rd graders, to the point where they all had a grasp on it, and attempting to survive the wrath of Qurbapix the Resentful beams of annihilation after I had laid xis wife, while also acting as a third party in their divorce proceedings (it was very awkward) and that was just to go into the comments section
Don't worry, you don't need to know.
As a professional plumber, anytime I repipe someone's home I always move the washing machine box to the kitchen. Just to save the wife some time in her daily commute. Call me a trailblazer, most do, I'm just doing what I was called to do.
Reminds me of a fire emblem ad where dorcas eats rotten meat and goes down.
Them it becomes canon in fire emblem heroes. Hilarious.
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-What happened to dorcas?
-I poisoned his mutton
"BUILD AN ARMY, TRUST NO-ONE!"
>series involves doing things like sending your Cleric with glass bones to talk to the myrmidon who's being paid to kill her
@@knightofarnor2552Radiant Dawn?
The funny thing about Daikatana is that (as showcased by a certain time traveling federal prisoner of possible Eldritch origins) there was a solid game hidden behind the bad friendly AI and atrocious first few levels.
CV11.
The Algorithm.
Requires.
Engagement.
I feel like this is missing a category of edgy marketing, threats of violence, including my personal favorite, the Doom 64 bodybag ad
4:23 “I showed you my categories please respond”
Rule of thumb for mobile games. The more ads you see of them, the more trash they are.
16:27 No because my brother pre-trans thought he was gay, then thought he was straight but then finally realized well he IS gay but for guys actually and he can definitely admit WOMEN.
30 minutes in and Huggbees learns how Schlatt feels from the 9/11 jokes
12:03 I’d rather live in a fictional dystopian setting that’s main goal is to be depressing because it’s gotta be less depressing than the world these ads are set in
Ngl I legit cackled at the flight simulator ad. Not because terrorism is funny, but several people saw that image and thought "marketing."
9:20 I remember reading Archie comics with these ads. This yellow-haired bespectacled dude has been burned into my subconscious since I was like 6 LOL
Man that Duke Nukem ad is straight up Dick Kickem energy. It's also funny how Ion Fury got shit for having bottles of "O'Gay" being an in universe thing many years later. Props to the devs because that would be on point.
Also yes, I did play Daikatana and on the N64 even with that "controller" thing. I think it made me the man I am today because Jesus... that experience would kill a spineless crybaby. Meanwhile Doom is going hard still and Johns a cool dude and still very active in the community. Never did answer the question though... what are those holes on the cacos backside?
Crazy how I remember some of these ads especially the scratch and sniff earth bound shit sticker. I thought my cat relived himself on it.
cacloaca
@@masonasaro2118 Jokes like this are why science education is so important
This Era should have stayed I miss just existing without everything around me being toned down
The saturn may suck but the dreamcast was underrated as hell.
About as underrated as this comment.
Cannot agree more. The Dreamcast would have thrived if the Saturn didn’t exist. It being such an objectively terrible console required the Dreamcast to sell absurdly well just to make up for all the losses Sega had to endure under the Saturn. And it just didn’t happen simply because no amount of marketing could convince people to trust Sega after how bad the Saturn was. God I wish people realized how amazing that console was then so more companies would have done stuff like make the memory cards their own little simple handheld console because good god was the Dreamcast amazing for that alone
The Saturn was fine, hell one of if not the most powerful console at the time. Sega just couldn't get their shit together and told consumers the day it released before retailers even knew to stock it or for games to be made beforehand. To this very fucking day I still do not understand the logic they were using here
The Saturn was a good system, Sega kinda screwed themselves by making people by the 32x first tho, who's gonna buy a 32 bit system twice?
I think you got those backwards
Damn bro when you said ‘Best video game ad of all time’ I thought ‘well it won’t be better than the Paper Mario free demo one’ and then I did this in real life: 🤯
i have a copy of daikatana that i got for 97 cents, you REALLY gotta meet the game halfway, but it's pretty fun
The next DOOM ad should go the Daikatana route, I would buy it on release if they did that, not just because it's DOOM, but because that ad would kick ass
There are some great barcades in the Seattle area. Places like Add-A-Ball and Another Castle do in fact require quarters to feed their machines, and these machines range from Foo Fighters pinball to Street Fighter 2 Turbo to Ms Pac-Man to Death Ball. It's a fantastic time and a great place to take a date.
Taking your princess to Another Castle, you could say.
Death ball always goes hard
As someone that's childhood was Command and Conquer...yep it was kinda like that...laughs in a Red Alert 2 (Only Allied CD now works) copy that came out before 9/11...(the 3rd level originally was centered around the WTC...crazy how things just kinda happen like that...)
Also, hell yes...the Paper Mario ad...I had a field day with that ad for weeks til I rented the actual game (not to mention the ESRB "Comic Mischief" adding to it, mockingly)
"The godawful Sega Saturn?" My favorite childhood game system. Me saaaad.
I was the weird kid that bought Earthbound after seeing all the weird ads.
51:01 Hugbees = Yoko Taro CONFIRMED?!!! Guy keeps wearing masks and sunglasses because he wants to keep his hustles seperate, what a man!
That tongue ad is even better when you consider they probably just hired somebody who can do a Gene Simmons and painted his tongue 6 times because it cost like $20,000 for a computer that can do photoshop type stuff back in those days. Like the 75 Silicon Graphics Workstation that they used for Jurassic Park. That thing cost $40,000 for the base model. And you need more than that to get it to do anything useful. So, more likely $60,000.
3:16 ok hold up why did you describe me so well?
The only thing I don't identify with concerning that is the pot smoking. I don't do drugs.
@@fishactivation5087 same
Seeing a snapcube clip in a huggbees videos really fills that hole inside me
MY MPOW-059 HEADPHONES HAVE 24 HOUR BATTERY LIFE. YOU HAVE NOTHING ON ME RAYCON
"In over a thousand years."
THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. HUGGBEES HAS BLESSED US.
I'm really surprised that you didn't cover Acclaim. They committed actual crimes to advertise their games in an edgy way. Just one example: Sneaking into a graveyard and defacing the tombstones by etching ads for their next game into them.
I LOVED Earthbound! God that takes me back to being home sick from school and renting video games. Earthworm Jim too. Best days ever.
the reason the arcades don’t use coins anymore is because people used cardboard as counterfeit for the machines
Arcades around here still use coins because the machines are still the classic ones, like King of Fighters 98 and Metal Slug X.
I hope you do a video on Spider Man’s Paul one day. That needs a huge roast.
thats your mom.
“Because I’m halarious and amazingly insightful” unironically made me cackle just a bit
32:17; This is funny to me because you can easily imagine a non-racist version of this ad and it would be hilariously dark. Something like;
"Mr. Takahiron is personally accountable for programming fun code. If you and your friends aren't completely freaked out with fun, and as a result the projects he works on don't produce an acceptable margin of profits, then he will be fired. We hired Mr. Takahiron because he cannot find work anywhere else, so he cannot negotiate his pay or working conditions. If he is fired, he will not be able to provide for his wife and three children, and will resort to taking his own life for an insurance fraud scheme so his family can collect the benefits."