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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)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Twitter would explode

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Whatever would be said on Xitter would probably be drowned out by neonazi propaganda bots, as is usual nowadays.