"New Hope for Battered Story Gamers." This 1988 print ad for Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken highlights Lucasfilm Games' innovative "no typing, no deaths" adventure game design philosophy. Source: PC Games, Fall 1988. - ThreadSky

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decafjedi.com • 20 days ago

"New Hope for Battered Story Gamers."

This 1988 print ad for Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken highlights Lucasfilm Games' innovative "no typing, no deaths" adventure game design philosophy. Source: PC Games, Fall 1988.

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stephenreese.bsky.social•19 days ago

Zak!

spike-the-clown.bsky.social•18 days ago

This Polish website also has a big collection of old game ads :)

http://www.przygodoskop.pl/scinki.htm

unsecretcrush.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is reminding me vaguely of what I think was an old (60s? 70s?) ad for some pharmaceutical product but I don’t know if I can remember it well enough to find it again. I wonder if it’s meant to be a reference the audience of the time would have clocked

unsecretcrush.bsky.social•20 days ago

There it is! It was an ad for Miltown using the made-up condition “battered parent syndrome”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTLf9FOHsx9NtZ1fymjGfxAFk1nBrAP12Eb-r31f0BgBxonE5hQ2sMITNSgGVO6su1fa42t57ICrUAIWeF4UCxl2a9SkTAN95r4PivHnXEkAUdDel8zAjfXNyNAN1mSF1QsJo/s1600/miltown-1967.gif

decafjedi.com•20 days ago

Oh, wow...nice find!

unsecretcrush.bsky.social•20 days ago

Since the ad’s copy is clearly aimed at doctors and this predates when prescription medications were advertised so broadly, I don’t know if it’s likely the average 80s computer game ad audience would have been familiar with a specific 60s tranquilizer ad. But an 80s ad designer? Possibly!

unsecretcrush.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oops my attempts to look it up are making Google worried for me

decafjedi.com•20 days ago

Interesting!

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