SEGA Commercial Archive

**bbobb** · 20 Oct 2003, 07:06 PM

I've got all the US ones downloaded now... I can zip them all up into one big file if someone wants to host it.

I justed noticed... they're missing the really creepy US Seaman ad.

Oh and Segata San Ruled

**Regus** · 20 Oct 2003, 07:54 PM

Final analysis:

- Good lord, those 80's master system ads were atrocious, they're like the futuristic parody commercials out of Back to the Future or something, especially that sega scope ad.

- The early Genesis ads were stomach churning, that geeks one was horriffic, and did anyone else find it odd that sega games were sold at "Canadian Tire"?

- The Sonic 2 Informercial ad was really inspired stuff.

- The real early "It's thinking" DC ads sucked, but the ads in which the game characters are really around inside the DC are wonderful, the Crazy Taxi ad is simply brilliant. It's a lot of fun trying to figure out who the characters are, I was surprized to to see Slave Zero in the background of one of the ads.

- The Contra Hard Corps ad couldn't be more appropriate.

- That JGR ad really is fantastic.

- "Hard Stuff" what an awful slogan.

- As for the international ads, that euro megacd ad was beyond cheesy, and lol "6 billion players" online, come one now. I haven't touched the Japanese ones yet.

- And you really do have to love all the shit talking that goes on in these ads, especially that blast processing one.

- They were missing some ads, like the aforementioned Seaman ad, I know there was a second shenmue ad with some idiot in an insane asylum, that awful Sonic R ad with the two guys flying around, some current stuff like shinobi, the streets of rage ad where the nerd flips out after getting his ear flicked, the saturn "Theatre of the Mind" ad, and an ad for Ground Zero Texas (I was shocked to see that Tomcat Alley ad though). All in all it was awesome to see some of these ads again.

**Jeremy** · 20 Oct 2003, 08:16 PM

Is the GameGear ad with the guy slamming his head with a squirrel while playing a GB-ish portable on the site?

**NoFace** · 20 Oct 2003, 08:20 PM

Where's "Shinobi's Back!" at? I love that ad

**Grave** · 20 Oct 2003, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Is the GameGear ad with the guy slamming his head with a squirrel while playing a GB-ish portable on the site?

You know it. This stuff is great. As a kid I had no clue how horrible these ads were, hah, watching them now is amazing. I don't remember the bulk of them too distinctly, but as a kid I spent more time actually playing the games than seeing the commercials on TV. The Japanese stuff is awesome, too. Finally rebuilding my collection of Segata Sanshiro ads.

**Den** · 20 Oct 2003, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by NoFace

Yeah seriously.

I love all the shit talking in these commercials, watch them drop a PS1 off a building in the NiGHTS commercial... because the PS1 isn't strong enough to handle the game

I will give someone a dollar no i won't if they can tell me the name of the song that plays during the Panzer Dragoon Orta commercial (U.S. if there's any question). Always liked that one.

Bones Domingo is responsible for the music used in the Panzer Dragoon Orta ad. I believe the name of the song is Violet. He has a CD avaialble which contains the music from PDO's TV spot and other cool sound works that he has done. You can order it at, http://www.res-freq.com/res-freq.html for 6.95. The CD also contains a remix of Violet.

**Jeremy** · 20 Oct 2003, 08:37 PM

I can't wait to view the Segata Sanshiro ads, thankfully, the JPN ads are nice and small most of the time. I'll download the bigger ones, like the GameGear one, during Raw.