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Gaming commercials that'll make you say WTF!?

We pilfer the archives and dig up some disturbing, surreal and utterly confusing adverts

Words: GamesRadar UK

Magnavox Odyssey
WTF!?
Wait. Geography was a game?





Xbox
WTF!? Nothing sells consoles like a rapidly aging man flying through the stratosphere.


Product: Playstation
WTF!? We definitely would.




The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
WTF!? Choreographed dungeon dancing is big in Germany.




 
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codzprc  - 11 months 20 days ago 
Stacked zombie mother feeding child. Then feeds on child.
jar-head  - 11 months 20 days ago 
haha
scbyfn4evr  - 11 months 20 days ago 
The NES commercial seemed oddly threatening.
NEzraF  - 11 months 20 days ago 
Wow, They don't make them that good anymore. I blame the diminishing popularity of LSD.
adrenaguy  - 11 months 20 days ago 
i loved that online dreamcast advert! that was AWESOME
Nintendophile  - 11 months 20 days ago 
BAM! Right in the FACE! lol.
rabbitsrmine  - 11 months 19 days ago 
Clean is better than dirty, and dirty's meaner than clean!!!!!!
jimmcc  - 11 months 19 days ago 
Simply calling a commercial 'gay' does not a witty feature make. It puts you on level with an 11 year-old Youtube commenter. Now I'm all for embracing immaturity but it's got to actually be funny and not just tired and homophobic. You're better than that, Gamesradar.
Wartooth909  - 11 months 19 days ago 
but dude... That ad was really gay. Did you watch it? If so, how would u describe it?
Black_X_1111  - 11 months 19 days ago 
yes you are. Shame, shame upon you all Games Radar. Loved the article though, too bad a lot of the movies have been removed.
jimmcc  - 11 months 19 days ago 
@Wartooth909
The ad is clearly outrageous and I believe the writer is capable of writing something far more amusing and clever than just calling it 'gay.' The feature can be funny without singling out and insulting a minority group. It's 2008 and when someone calls a thing that's stupid, bad or ridiculous 'gay' they instantly sound like they're in junior high.
Sorry to be pedantic but, you know, don't be a bigot.
Wartooth909  - 11 months 18 days ago 
But being a bigot is so much easer then accepting people for who the really are. People who arnt just like me scare me to death.
GodlikeApe  - 11 months 17 days ago 
If you look in a recent dictionary, you'll actually see that gay is also defined as a negative adjective.
Who knows the writer could be from 1940 and thought the advert was very 'happy'.
jimmcc  - 11 months 16 days ago 
@GodlikeApe: Which dictionary would that be, urbandictionary.com? OED and Webster's don't.
@Wartooth909: Cunning satire, congrats you're a troll.
sharifsta  - 11 months 13 days ago 
okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk that mario thing was realy big wtf resident evil one was good





all i got to say left is wawawewa very nice
lordloss009  - 10 months 26 days ago 
i saw that xbox ad on Stupidvideos.com a while back and i thought it was...well....you know....kinda freakin' weird. And that MS DOS 5 one? Ugh.
lordloss009  - 10 months 26 days ago 
and the The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past one was on (stupidvideos.com) too
crazyhand  - 9 months 21 days ago 
o.o
ELpork  - 9 months 5 days ago 
awww, some of the video's are gone.
jackf-11  - 9 months 5 days ago 
@jimmcc

You call him a troll, look at what you are doing, you are the troll.

And brilliant article GR.
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