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Post by Cyno on Jan 9, 2021 1:47:59 GMT -5
I hate to have to tell you this, but Earthbound was pretty popular game during its time. It’s had a following since long before anyone ever thought of Smash Brothers. it really didn't sell very well in America like at all. the really terrible ads that didn't tell you anything about the game is generally pointed to. It became a cult classic well before Smash though. Yeah, the game only sold about 140k copies in the US. If anything, the game bombed especially by Nintendo standards, especially with the amount of money they put into promotion of the thing. Like that gross advertising campaign cost them over $2 million(!). That's why it never got a release on the SNES in Europe. And it likely contributed to why Nintendo never bothered with an official Mother 3 release outside of Japan.
But yeah, it had its cult classic status well before Smash Bros. came out. It's not like Fire Emblem where barely anyone had even heard of the series before Marth and Roy were playable in SSBM.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Jan 9, 2021 11:10:36 GMT -5
A couple of years ago,, every ad break on Crunchyroll would be that banjo-playing guy singing about Cracker Barrel. Not just every break though. 2 or 3 times per break!
I grew to loathe that guy and Cracker Barrel. Haven't been to one in years. Not exactly hankering to go back, either.
Thanks, banjo guy!
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jan 9, 2021 16:01:47 GMT -5
Edge of Tomorrow’s trailer made it look so generic. In reality the film was awesome. Tom Cruise's previous movie Oblivion had a pretty cool trailer and stunk. Then you got this horribly bland trailer and one of the worst film titles in recent years for Edge of Tomorrow and thought "Screw that." And then it was amazing, one of his best movies. Fortunately, it was a huge hit overseas and even in the US, it managed to just claw its way past $100 million after a horrible opening weekend due to word of mouth.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 9, 2021 19:25:26 GMT -5
The ads for Gravity Falls made it look like an obnoxious gross-out cartoon (the scene where the Gnomes puke up rainbows comes to mind). Thankfully I checked out a positive review and gave it a chance.
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Post by zrowsdower on Jan 9, 2021 19:50:54 GMT -5
Extra gum commercials. They promote the bullshit concept known as love in some of their ads.
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Post by ERON on Jan 9, 2021 23:25:55 GMT -5
I refused to check out the Legend of Zelda games for a long time because the ads were so awful. First there was the one with the weird guy running around yelling, "Zelda? Zelda!" and then there was the one with the "It's the Legend of Zelda and it's really rad" rap. I eventually checked the games out and found out they were actually great, but I was late to the party because of the lame ads.
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Post by FHgrad99 on Jan 9, 2021 23:41:29 GMT -5
Quizno's subs were actually pretty decent, when you aren't being told to eat them by weird scratchy voiced goblins. I came here to post that. That has to rank among the most annoying ad campaigns in history. Another one that comes to mind is "Hi, I'm Vince for Slap-Chop"
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Post by Hurbster on Jan 9, 2021 23:58:23 GMT -5
BANG! And the dirt is gone!
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Post by Cela on Jan 10, 2021 2:59:19 GMT -5
Quizno's subs were actually pretty decent, when you aren't being told to eat them by weird scratchy voiced goblins. I came here to post that. That has to rank among the most annoying ad campaigns in history. Another one that comes to mind is "Hi, I'm Vince for Slap-Chop" Most annoying is still "BUCKY LARSON HA HA HA!" But the product sucked, so it's not in here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2021 3:23:39 GMT -5
This beauty is huge in Asia, a refreshing sports drink that is great when you're working out or in the humid summer and is the best hangover cure I've found. Lived here for months before trying it, something about a bottle of clear colored liquid with the legend SWEAT on the label that makes anglophones picky.
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Post by Paul on Jan 10, 2021 5:02:24 GMT -5
Without that SlapChop commercial we wouldn't have gotten this amazing remix!
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 10, 2021 7:35:54 GMT -5
Not bad, advertising. But overused advertising turns me off. I refuse to use UberEats because of the amount of times I've been forced to sit through their ads on youtube. For a case of bad and overused see the use of the trailer for Bucky Larson. That’s like an unholy combination of crap. It was a super annoying trailer and then some channels would play it MULTIPLE times during every commercial break. And it was for f***ing Bucky Larson! What I'll never forget is channels spamming the shit out of that ad, and then after one of the worst opening weekends ever, they just stopped dead. It wasn't even gradual, they just went from playing it 800 times an hour to not at all.
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Jan 10, 2021 10:15:20 GMT -5
As a Dr Pepper fan, there is probably a scenario where I would have tried the shortlived Dr Pepper 10. It was their answer to Coke Zero—essentially the same as the diet version of their drink, but maybe with a slight difference in taste to set it apart.
But then they decided to bill it as Dr Pepper FOR MEN. This is what MEN DRINK instead of PUSSY DIET DRINKS. Drink this with your MALE FRIENDS while driving a JEEP and watching the BIG GAME.
They did all this in like 2010 and it’s still super embarrassing.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 10, 2021 14:35:37 GMT -5
Without that SlapChop commercial we wouldn't have gotten this amazing remix! Ever since learning about the Slap Chop, I haven't had a boring tuna, and in turn haven't had a boring life.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Jan 11, 2021 8:35:47 GMT -5
2 movies I didn't watch at first because of how badly they were advertised but am glad I eventually did. Even though one at least is not considered "good" by most viewers:
2016 Ghostbusters. All the trailers and advertisements I saw for it leading up to and shortly after it hit theaters really shortchanged it. I readily accepted it was horrible, and avoided it, until much later when someone put it on at work during lunch. I only caught the first 50 mins or so, but I enjoyed it enough to finish it at home, and to this day regret not seeing it in the cinema.
2018 Ocean's Eight. Similar to GB'16, everything I saw/read/heard about it made it sound absolutely terrible, and I similarly avoided it. It wasn't until my now 70+ homophobic, racist, and mildly sexist father told me how incredibly funny he found it that I decided to give it a chance. I was incredibly surprised by how much I liked it!
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jan 12, 2021 8:51:09 GMT -5
Kars 4 Kids, not only is that jingle annoying as f***, it just feels like a massive scam.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 12, 2021 8:56:29 GMT -5
Doctor Squatch ads mean that they could offer to sell me a 20 dollar bill for 10 bucks, and I don't know if I'd take the deal.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 12, 2021 15:08:25 GMT -5
Also the film is usually not out for months, how do they see the film and have a review so early? I... ...You know there is a real answer to this, right? Reviewers get review discs, or advance screenings, sent to them by PR companies or the studios themselves. Did you think people were just making their reviews up? As a Dr Pepper fan, there is probably a scenario where I would have tried the shortlived Dr Pepper 10. It was their answer to Coke Zero—essentially the same as the diet version of their drink, but maybe with a slight difference in taste to set it apart. But then they decided to bill it as Dr Pepper FOR MEN. This is what MEN DRINK instead of PUSSY DIET DRINKS. Drink this with your MALE FRIENDS while driving a JEEP and watching the BIG GAME. They did all this in like 2010 and it’s still super embarrassing. Speaking of which, I don't eat Yorkies any more. 'Yorkie: It's not for girls.' Of course they remedied the complaints in response to this by making Yorkies for girls that were exactly the same but with a pink packet, which I think is... basically the worst response they possibly could have come up with short of changing Yorkies to 'Dick Bars' and making their new slogan 'because f*** women, they aren't allowed our chocolate.'
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 12, 2021 15:09:40 GMT -5
The old Lorilard Tobacco Company ads made me want to smoke. Almost.
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Post by government mule on Jan 12, 2021 15:21:00 GMT -5
f*** off Go Compare man, nobody cares about who you really are. I'd much rather use the meercats to search for the cheapest car insurance thankyou very much.
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