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Just a few attention-grabbing retro game ads that would land studios in hot water today. (more in post body) (lemmy.world)
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I know they're insensitive and tacky, but I have to admit that a part of me misses when games ads were off the walls like this.

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not do these today? I think most gamers would laugh, which was the point.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twitter would explode

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