Die Cut N°4. 1994. US.
Ten testosterone-filled, sword-wielding, fist-flying, karate-kickin’, armour-melting, laser-firing, ear-boxing, shark-attacking video game adverts from big boys Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Activision, Capcom, Acclaim, Konami and Taito.
Hawk & Dove N°11. 1990. US.
Die CutN°4. 1994. US.
Die Cut N°4. 1994. US.
Hawk & Dove N°11. 1990. US.
Die Cut N°4. 1994. US.
Hawk & Dove N°11. 1990. US.
Detective Comics N°651. 1992. US.
Die Cut N°4. 1994. US.
Hawk & Dove N°11. 1990. US.
The Vintage Toy Advertiser 
I used to love beating the shit out of my friend as Abobo in the 2P VS mode of Double Dragon. I loved the trick to max out the health in level two where you make the enemy disappear and keep swinging your bat at the invisible character. Still didn’t make it that much easier to get to the end, though. PS: Eternal Champions was toilet!
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These look fun Game adverts, especially Alien V Predator! That game Mechwarriors rings a bell. Never had the videogame, but sure I had a board game of that one. The board was like a ruined battle field / and the robots were little cardboard stand up figures or something.
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Agree the Alien vs Predator looks cool. I’m pretty certain Mechwarriors is part of the same franchise as BattleTech which has table top robot battle games going back 30 years or so.
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Yes, I think it was Battle Tech! The game was quite complex if I remember. The board looked good though, and the robots and the info about them was very detailed if I remember rightly.
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Jeez! I remember some of these ads… or at least a variation. The game here I was hooked on was Double Dragon. Hours lost on that. Days. Weeks?
That Lethal Enforcers gun package ad is kinda funny. Well played!
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Cheers J. You’re right – hours, days, weeks… its scary the time lost trying to beat these games over the years. I do love the late 80s/90s gaming ads – very inventive, imaginative and often right in your face. The LE gun is just crackers.
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Ooh many hours of mis-spent youth here! I played Double Dragon. George Foreman and Shark Attack (I like flight sims) But I was a “Virtua Cop” fan on the Sega Saturn console. Funny story though, there was a coin-op machine of Virtua Cop in a bar and I had had a few drinks but decided to play the machine anyway. Having played it so much at home I maxxed out the high score and afterwards all the other revellers were trying to beat my score not knowing it was impossible!
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Good story. We had the Sega Mega Drive at home and lost many hours playing that. Was good taking the skills you’d learn at home and then trying them out on the coin-ops at places you went to.
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Maybe it’s just me but I thought the Sega platforms were better than the Nintendo and other consoles. I loved Virtua Cop and Wipeout (the original version), then I also had the Sega Game Gear hand-held. It had a colour screen, could play MegaDrive games with an adaptor and had the TV Tuner accessory. Best bit of all that it had a Star Wars game too! I did have to migrate to the Playstation eventually but I still have the Saturn boxed up ready just in case.
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The only Nintendo I had were some of the Game and Watch handhelds. They were great. Loved my Sega MD and my next move after that, like you, was the Playstation – ah the PS one and two… now there’s another long story isn’t it 🙂 Cool you sill have a boxed Saturn!
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