World Series Baseball 98 for the Sega Saturn
I’ve written about gratuitous and graphic video game advertising of the 1990s more than a few times over the years, but I never get tired of revisiting this wildly bombastic era in consumer marketing.
Here we see a nice ad for World Series Baseball 98 for the Sega Saturn, complete with front-and-center forearm scrape. I don’t know about you, but this makes me want to play baseball. Injury sells.
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[ From GamePro, October 1997, rear cover ]
Discussion Topic of the Week: Would a graphic ad like this make you more or less likely to play a certain video game?