Nintendo, the family friendly company
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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And I clicked on the picture!
Sex sells, especially to teenage boys. The main demographic for video game ads is teenage boys. Hence the prevalence of ads like these.
That hasn’t been true in a while. In fact I would go as far as say as the main demographic for video game ads today is middle-aged moms who played Candy Crush.
Pretty much since the Wii casual gamers have been the bigger market.
since the Wii
I mean the iPhone came out a year later…
The App Store didn’t come out until the summer of 2008. Before that the iPhone could play a primitive version of Bejeweled and that was about it. Also, if I recall correctly, they were well into the iPhone 4 before they even started to come close to Wii sales numbers. The 4 being the first that worked on carriers that weren’t AT&T or that used the same bands in other countries.
90s and 00s era were pretty wild with advertising.
The 32x had some interesting ads:
French ad for the 32x:
SEGA did what Nintendidn't.
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 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.
I will just leave this here. NSFW!
Pray tell, what are 4 dimensional graphics?
Maybe the game freezes now and then?
Neo Geo owners had the biggest games!
Haha, wow, is that Sharon Stone?
Reminds me of the copy "Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn?" from Mad Men S2E6.
Lmao wtf
Ebaumsworld
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time