@nocdaes I know where you're coming from and don't disagree, but I think it's probably because of how incredibly famous Yuzo Koshiro is in retrogaming circles. Considering they were close collaborators on many games, it does seems a bit unbalanced.
I had one of these. Genuinely the most disappointed I have ever been in a toy, lol. I was eight years old and thought it would be like the one in the anime where it could talk and the light on top flashed and stuff.
That's on me (although I was eight!), but of course the reality was that it was very, very basic. It allowed you to navigate the same Pokédex that appeared in the Gameboy games, except very slowly with a much lower quality screen. The unique sprites mentioned by the guy preserving it would have been created, I would think, to accommodate how poor and low resolution the screen on it was.
It was honestly a really half arsed product. Yes I'm still cross about it 😂
I remember this ad very well. It was much written about in gaming mags at the time, and it was very memorable when it showed up on TV.
Sony did some absolutely brilliant advertising in this era. The girl with the alien-shaped head for the PS1 was another very memorable campaign.
When you look at the gap between what Sony commissioned in terms of console advertising and what had come prior in the early 90s, there is such a huge gap. Sony really broke new ground for how videogames could be marketed.
It's notable that they used TBWA for their agency, who were responsible for similarly iconoclastic ads for Apple like '1984'. But it was their hiring of David Lynch that was the really inspired choice. Definitely one of the best videogame ads ever.
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Re: Streets Of Rage Composer Is "Disappointed" More People Aren't Aware Of His Work
@nocdaes I know where you're coming from and don't disagree, but I think it's probably because of how incredibly famous Yuzo Koshiro is in retrogaming circles. Considering they were close collaborators on many games, it does seems a bit unbalanced.
Re: Hacker Appeals For Help To Preserve This 1998 Pokémon Pokédex
I had one of these. Genuinely the most disappointed I have ever been in a toy, lol. I was eight years old and thought it would be like the one in the anime where it could talk and the light on top flashed and stuff.
That's on me (although I was eight!), but of course the reality was that it was very, very basic. It allowed you to navigate the same Pokédex that appeared in the Gameboy games, except very slowly with a much lower quality screen. The unique sprites mentioned by the guy preserving it would have been created, I would think, to accommodate how poor and low resolution the screen on it was.
It was honestly a really half arsed product. Yes I'm still cross about it 😂
Re: Flashback: Remembering David Lynch's Memorable Early 2000s PS2 Ad
I remember this ad very well. It was much written about in gaming mags at the time, and it was very memorable when it showed up on TV.
Sony did some absolutely brilliant advertising in this era. The girl with the alien-shaped head for the PS1 was another very memorable campaign.
When you look at the gap between what Sony commissioned in terms of console advertising and what had come prior in the early 90s, there is such a huge gap. Sony really broke new ground for how videogames could be marketed.
It's notable that they used TBWA for their agency, who were responsible for similarly iconoclastic ads for Apple like '1984'. But it was their hiring of David Lynch that was the really inspired choice. Definitely one of the best videogame ads ever.