This is 100% a fucking 2000's game magazine ad for Balatro - ThreadSky

redicnomad.bsky.social • 56 days ago

This is 100% a fucking 2000's game magazine ad for Balatro

Reposted from Quest 64 Official

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quest64official.bsky.social•56 days ago

This would be the other side of the fold

nukafox1800.bsky.social•30 days ago

Diddy Rock

thesp00kysp00ky.bsky.social•56 days ago

WHY DRINK AND DRIVE WHEN YOU CAN DEAL AND DRIVE in that like grimey bumpy 90s font

f-uppetsofficial.bsky.social•56 days ago

Then there's Wipeout's magazine ad: Drugs.

redicnomad.bsky.social•56 days ago

Jesus

f-uppetsofficial.bsky.social•56 days ago

I know, they were wild back then! That and I miss the brutal Nintendon't Sega marketing stunts, I wish we could do that brutal spitefulness again to content farms.

f-uppetsofficial.bsky.social•56 days ago

Oh crap, I forgot to label it "graphic"! 😅

dynvsty.bsky.social•46 days ago

To this day, I still can’t understand why game ads in magazines were so unhinged.

We just accepted it as normal.

f-uppetsofficial.bsky.social•46 days ago

Best guess is likely because it was before everything was hell-bent on being "sanitized,"

dynvsty.bsky.social•46 days ago

The magazine ads for Hitman: Blood Money still stick with me to this day.

That, and the shockingly horny ads for the original Nintendo DS…

cassygotrampedup.bsky.social•56 days ago

"once you've been dealt in at this table, you can't leave. Over a hundred jokers at your disposal to crush that score counter like your poor grandmother during black Friday. Balatro. In this game, the house never wins"

mama-roxy.bsky.social•56 days ago

I can totally see this on a full page of EGM.

jps909.bsky.social•56 days ago

only if the next page has some hot babe on it lol

deltaaa.bsky.social•56 days ago

caption: No longer a full house

kiyonescarlet.bsky.social•56 days ago

I remember there being like some fake addiction intervention ads for one of the Civilization games in Ziff Davis publications around that time.

goatuna.bsky.social•56 days ago

Oh my god was it the one with the crying girl whose dad wouldn’t play with her anymore?

kiyonescarlet.bsky.social•56 days ago

Yep!

goatuna.bsky.social•56 days ago

Oh my god I convinced myself the memory of seeing it wasn’t real cause I couldn’t find any evidence of it afterward. What an incredible throwback (also I didn’t find the ad funny back then since my dad, uh, played Civ 2 a lot)

hugothepinkcat.bsky.social•55 days ago

The unhinged vibes are so accurate, it's insane.

ldraptor.bsky.social•56 days ago

This needs the PEGI 18 rating in the corner.

naughtykyuubi69.bsky.social•56 days ago

looks like it'd be right at home in EGM, they had some gnarly ads, some quite borderline and the magazines also had that 'Scent' naughty magazines had.

bunnyburrows.bsky.social•56 days ago

I like “THUNK DRIVING” but it is perhaps too deep a cut for an ad, it would probably say something like “DEAL WITH IT” but in that weird three chevrons font they always used to use

redicnomad.bsky.social•56 days ago

Both of those aare extremely good honestly