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More Video Game Advertisements for your viewing pleasure…

RetroGameDepot has been scan happy to bring you part 2 of the Comic Book Ads scan post. Enjoy!

Sonic 3D (Game Gear) & Vectorman 2 (Sega Megadrive / Genesis) and Various Spider-man games Video Game Advertisements

Game Genie (Sega Megadrive / Genesis), True Lies (Various) and T2 Judgement Day (Various) Video Game Advertisements

The Lost Vikings (Sega Megadrive / Genesis) , Super Advantage Joystick (Super Nintendo) and Burgertime (Various) Video Game Advertisements

Demon Sword (Nintendo NES), Snakes Revenge & Super C (Nintendo NES) and Stargate (Various) Video Game Advertisements

Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge (Various), Kid Chameleon (Sega Megadrive / Genesis) and WWF Super Wrestlemania (Various) Video Game Advertisements

Firepower 2000 aka Super SWIV (Super Nintendo), Tiny Toon Adventures (Gameboy) and Super Advantage Joystick (Super Nintendo) Video Game Advertisements

Game Genie (Nintendo NES), Bump ‘n’ Jump (Intellivision) and Mario Bros Arcade (Atari 2600) Video Game Advertisements

Joust (Atari 2600) and Robotron X (Sony Playstation) Video Game Advertisements

End of part 2…

Print is dead…

…at least that’s what a large percentage of the iGeneration will tell you.

As we speak there are thousands of old Video Game advertisements slowly disappearing into the crispy musty yellow pages of American comics. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, advertising video games in comic was a very popular method used by the games companies. After scanning quite a few adverts, it was becoming clear that Acclaim were the main company using this advertising tactic, which is hardly surprising considering the amount of Marvel and DC licensed games they (unsuccessfully) churned out.

Some of the artwork used within these adverts is quite a step away from your regular video game adverts. As the target audience was obviously comic readers, a large majority of the adverts opt into using hand drawn artwork instead of screenshots.

Its about time some of these classic adverts were preserved for future generations to enjoy, so here begins part 1 of the Comic Scanning feature on RetroGameDepot.

If you wish to view these scans in Hi-Resolution, please head over to our Flickr Page here

Arch Rivals, Bionic Commando and Bubble Bobble Video Game Advertisements

Flashback, Camerica Freedom Stick and Nintendo Game and Watch Video Game Advertisements

Gun.Smoke, Incredible Hulk and MagMax & Seicross Video Game Advertisements

Metal Gear, Mortal Kombat II and Nights Into Dreams Video Game Advertisements

QuickShot Joysticks, Saturday Night Slammasters and Sears Nintendo Catalog Video Game Advertisements

End of part 1…

More scans are coming soon! Check back soon.