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Rockstar used to go pretty hard.
This game, appropriately, is where I learned there was such a thing as uppers and downers.
It’s likely they were trying to get the news riled up so they could cause a moral outrage that would attract attention to the game.
All right I’ll ask the dumb question here, what am I looking at? From what I can tell they are tiny empty bags
Those type of bags are usually used to hold illicit substances, and typically only bought by small-time drug dealers.
And board game players!
And electronics hobbyists!
And toenail collectors!
And my sword!
board game baggies usually have a tiny hole in them, to let the air out when you’re packing the game away. not so great if you’re muleing some molly to your weekly game of Wingspan
awww youve never bought street powders thats nice
The Bags that spare buttons come in, or how I used to get all my drugs.
When the marketing agency jumps the shark
I feel like it means: we are not like Nintendo, we make video games for adults (and children who want to play like adults).
Also, our games are as good as drugs.
Sony’s version of the classic Sega “Genesis does what Nintendon’t”
Man, everyone was in on it during this era, even Nintendo
Everything reminds me of her…
Not much can top the 3DFX VooDoo graphics card boxes.
PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.
Ps3 is starting to be referenced as retro now…
That one does hurt
But also, people wondered why our generation loved taking drugs and being weird fucks…
When ‘next gen’ (eg. PS5) becomes the new ‘current gen’, then the old ‘last gen’ becomes retro.
I found my Green game boy Pocket and saw the 1989-1996 copyright.
It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭
It has been for a long time.
I mean, it’s over 24 years old. it’s been allowed to drink beer for 8 years.
Cognitively and logically, I understand.
But emotionally, it’s just another one of those little reminders of the passage of time that hits unexpectedly hard.
I think it’s because my only memories of it are from when I was young. Quake 3 Arena was released almost a year before the PS2, but I’ve never really stopped playing it, and still sometimes get in-person LAN parties together to play it. It feels just as old as I am, and I associate it with good memories from every age.
But I haven’t touched or even thought about a PS2 in decades. So when it suddenly jumps to the front of my mind, only old memories come with it. Then you start to think about the friends you played it with, and everything that’s happened to you all between them and now. Kids, marriages, divorces, houses, bankruptcies, jobs earned and lost, deaths, etc… Some are doing great, some not so great, but most you just don’t know because you’ve lost contact.
So yeah, it seems silly on its face, but sometimes random thing just pull you into the past unexpectedly, putting the present and the path between them both in stark contrast. This just happened to be one for me this time.
Love it.
“Hey, you know what would be a good way to advertise our system? Let’s just give children nightmares for about 40 seconds and then splash our logo on the screen at the end.”
It worked because I still remember it now ;)
I think most ads for consoles in the early 2000s were like that, at least for ps1, ps2 and the original xbox. Not necessarily nightmare fuel, just “weird” stuff unrelated to the console or games.
Watching this gave me Aphex Twin vibes. Then I discovered it was directed by Chris Cunningham. So yeah, that’s why
Oh wow, that explains a lot!
Aww damn, I definitely thought it was real and in some video game magazine
Can someone make a version of this photo, but its acetaminophen and the girl is just up-aged to how old she’d be now?
thyroid medication
90s SEGA was the OG of this, we need 90s SEGA back
Coffee?
Tea?
SEGA!!!
I find this funny, since I used to hide drugs like mushrooms inside consoles. I figured it was the one place literally no one would think to look. Just unscrewed them, put a baggie inside in one of those empty spaces (there’s always a spot), and put the case back together.
“Only Happy When it Rains” automatically begins playing in head
Wait, is that actually Garbage? That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the picture. That Bond music video she did was awesome. World is Not Enough.
There were some bizarre ads from around the late 90s to early 00s.
The Dreamcast Barber comes to mind.
SEGA!!!
I heard this.
On the switch you can get the same rush of the times of yore
“Live in your world. Play in ours.”
I still have my megatokyo sticker, “Live in your world. Die in ours.” Probably couldn’t be that edgy anymore, but I still like it.
My cousin told me that she ODed so hard that they had to put her in an institution where she spends all day thinking she’s at a rave.
Is that institution on a Spanish island?
Ibitha
It’s pronounced “Ibiza”… Batman said so
