Commercials used to be so awesome. (And a PS3 vs. NES video for the luls) Note the Donkey Kong and SSB commercials in particular: the former clearly took place in the days where Sega and Nintendo competed for dominance of the video game market, and the other is straight up awesome. But most importantly, watch the Earthbound commercial. NoA invested insane amounts of money into Earthbound’s marketing campaign, but Earthbound only sell ‘well’ instead of insanely well as planned.

  Personally, I choose to blame the slogan “This game stinks!” The game came with scratch and sniff stickers, and they just had to make a pun. The thing is, the intended audience was children who wouldn’t get the sarcasm. (Note that Mother/Earthbound has very mature undertones at parts, and has what is considered some of the best humour in video games and amazing writing.)

  I miss the days of awesome slogans like “NOW YOU’RE PLAYING WITH POWER!!!” and “YOU CANNOT BEAT US.” :[