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I recently started building a website and I have found that I love using old gaming magazine pages or other gaming marketing material to decorate it.

Some notable ads I have seen is the “death has never been faster” Time splitters 2 magazine advertisement and the “bling bling king” Wario world poster.

Would love to see what other ads people have a fondness for. They are very nostalgic and feel like a part of gaming that has been lost as print media has become less popular.
 
I can now post the images I mentioned above.

I think I’ll keep updating this thread with other cool marketing posters/magazines I find B-)


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Anything from the 90's is nostalgic for me. They were all over the top, eye catching, and extremely unsettling. If I had to choose one batch, it'd be those Zelda 64 ads with the ye old English routine.

Dost Thou Playeth the Gameth?
 
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BingusMcgee said:
I recently started building a website and I have found that I love using old gaming magazine pages or other gaming marketing material to decorate it.







Some notable ads I have seen is the “death has never been faster” Time splitters 2 magazine advertisement and the “bling bling king” Wario world poster.

Would love to see what other ads people have a fondness for. They are very nostalgic and feel like a part of gaming that has been lost as print media has become less popular.

And also I am doing all of this with white page generator to create pages for my affiliate marketing strategy that I have and I am not into this web creating things and I just got service to help me and It felt really good!
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My favourite is definetely this one
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Would love to see what other ads people have a fondness for.
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I love the game Blur, so I am biased. Some found this ad inappropriate, poking fun at Mario Kart while not really showing much about the game. I just found it funny.


The character's name is Brock Lee, too. Funny stuff.
 
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wamble said:
I love the game Blur, so I am biased. Some found this ad inappropriate, poking fun at Mario Kart while not really showing much about the game. I just found it funny.


The character's name is Brock Lee, too. Funny stuff.
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Yess! "Shut up, Pinkie!"

Funny story about this one. The main character is obviously Toad, but even though I'm a Bubble Bobble fan, I had to have it pointed out to me that Pinkie was a dragon that breathed bubbles.

I agree, it doesn't directly show gameplay, but the ad wants the viewer to associate Mario Kart with it. In that sense, it does its job.

Really, Blur is a genuinely fun racing game, and I wish Bizarre Creations hadn't shut down. I recommend it. We even got to see some prototype footage of Blur 2, which showed that the sequel would have had more verticality.
 
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Those Timesplitters and Wario ads fit the vibe perfectly, and mixing in more weird, punchy magazine spreads from the PS2 and GameCube days would make your site feel even more alive. I’ve built a few themed pages myself, and having help from a fintech PR consultancy on another project taught me how much a strong visual hook matters, so leaning into those bold, slightly unhinged ads can really pull the whole aesthetic together.
 
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