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Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yep, those were different times.

Battlecruiser 3000AD. This advert was later revised and they drew black knickers on the model.

Psycho Pigs UXB. Another British classic?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well-placed censorship of pictures was the best purpose of a Battlefield 3000AD box. That was one of those games where the drama around it was far better than the game itself.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this the game that had to run full page adverts claiming a new, updated version was available and "the bugs have been squashed!" Obviously this was pre-internet, so updates like this were quite uncommon.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

Might have been. That game was so bugged that the installer crashed for a lot of people. Once it got patched enough that you could actually play it--which took years--it was supposedly pretty good, but nobody cared by then.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Now i want to see the reviews for Psycho Pigs UXB because it cant have been very memorable.