Specific video game olds

[melkathi]

The evil twin of Random video game news !

 

Today in video game history (and completely written without AI) :

 

27th of August 1999 

 

27th August 1992

 

[Malcador]

That Tiberian Sun ad is something else  

[melkathi]

I have the post for November with another ad already planned

The UK at the time had good video game ads. I remember watching those when I was in Birmingham at uni.

[Sven_]

Tiberian Sun was the first truly "mass hype" I experienced. If you discount the school yard nerd excitement over Zak McKracken as the "not quite sequel" to Maniac Mansion, but that was contained to that, school yard 1980s Commodore nerds. Tiberian Sun though? Was all over the gaming press, the WWW was also a thing already. Germany's PC Games ran specials months before release. Tiberian Sun turned out a pretty alright game (no Starcraft / Warcraft 3 though). But it's also the first that didn't quite live up to all the hype for me. In the end, it was merely another C&C. Even the pre-release screenshots were faked. Some backlash was naturally inevitable.

 

Still, it's..... ok! As to be expected, that commercial is far more "original" and the bolder take tho.  

 

Edited 39 minutes ago by Sven_