Gamevertising

[Darksun]

When Sierra Software was alive, they had some product placement for their other games. I seem to remember a rather famous one involving King's Quest and a cannon.

I bet it wasn't as bad product placement as the ads for PoP in Chaos Theory. Two NPCs:

"Hey, did you hear about the new Prince of Persia"
"Yeah man, we should totally go out and buy that, it's gonna be the best game ever"

ACTUAL game dialogue. Hate.

[estel]

Heh, you beat me to to Loom reference. Nothing will beat that, ever

[xyzyxx]

Anyone who has ever played Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory knows the depths publishers will stoop to when putting advertising in games. It's the I, Robot of the game world - painfully obvious product placement!

As you said, game advertising has a place - anywhere in the real world you'd expect to see advertising (mostly sports games, but something like GTA is ripe for product placement - although I doubt the advertisers want the controversy).

I have played that game (for PS2) and I don't know what you're talking about. There may have been times when you walk past vending machines or a billboard, but none of that detracts from the game experience.

When I think of product placement in video games, the only game that comes to mind is PIKMIN 2. And even then it doesn't detract from the experience.

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EDIT:

I bet it wasn't as bad product placement as the ads for PoP in Chaos Theory. Two NPCs:

"Hey, did you hear about the new Prince of Persia"
"Yeah man, we should totally go out and buy that, it's gonna be the best game ever"

This, I do not recall happening. Guess I missed it

[Hendar23]

I think this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
of Bill Hicks pretty much sums up my opinion of the whole thing. RIP Bill.

*EDIT* He swears a lot. Anyone offended by the 'F' word beware!

[Nutter]

yeah advertisement in games really don't work well, especially when the advertisement is bird porn in a fps game....

[BrianBlessed]

Possibly the oldest and most iconic form of advertising I can remember, followed by Pushover.

[MrBunsy]

ZOOL! I remember that game! I still don't understand why it advertised Chupa Chups though, they sponsored it I presume?

I never could get past the first boss on the first level of Zool 2 though

[Hendar23]

yeah advertisement in games really don't work well, especially when the advertisement is bird porn in a fps game....

rofl

[DueAccident]

Possibly the oldest and most iconic form of advertising I can remember, followed by Pushover.

My god, I loved Zool.. It was super neat, though I remember getting stuck on one of the music world levels.

[ScareyedHawk]

I think this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
of Bill Hicks pretty much sums up my opinion of the whole thing. RIP Bill.

*EDIT* He swears a lot. Anyone offended by the 'F' word, fuck off!

fix'd.

[Darksun]

Anyone else remember this. An early example of an entire game based on advertising! But it was quite fun...

[shinygerbil]

I once had Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators for my Game Gear. Sadly, I enjoyed it quite a lot.

[martin]

Well, if subversion is a city thing, you could add a "coke factory" or something like that, then charge coke for having it in... and so on.

elyea

I would much rather see the Uplink Corporation tower complex and the Darwin Research Associates server farm. Anyway, I don't think that IV would sink to shilling out their games with advertisements.

xander

because it's half term, and I have nothing else to do I made the uplink towers
I'm still working on the darwinian server farms

[martin]

here is the darwinia farm, this was a bit harder, because while the uplink place is just an office block this is a more functional place; the offices of the darwin research associates, the factory where the protologic machines were made and the warehouse where DrS decided it would be fun to power all the unsold consoles and see what happened.

[xander]

Shouldn't the logo look more like icons/darwin_research_associates.bmp from main.dat ?

xander