or adverts in-game. not necessarily talking about product-themed games like cool spot but those are fine too. does any game have more of this than crazy taxi?
Yo Noid and Monkeu Ball are product placement kino.Also the Smash Bros games, people forhet the original intention was always advertisement, it's no coincidence that Earthbound fans exploded after 1999
>>12899487>the original intention was always advertisementWhat product would Dragon King advertise?
>>12899496Kek, you think you're the smartest in the room but you're not. That was always a tech demo of the engine, that was never what the final product was invisioned to look like. Sakurai always had the product placement crossover in mind.
>>12899496thats why they changed it to a crossover game
>>12899484At least the turtles talked about pizza in the cartoon and movie I guess. I don't think Snickers was ever mentioned in the Biker Mice cartoon
>>12899502No I genuinely thought the original King Dragon game was maybe going to be a tie-in with some product based on what you saidI dunno if crossovers are what OP is really talking about
>>12899527That's a very fun game though
>>12899534crossovers are inherently advertisement-based, retard ESL
>>12899527and it's everywhere through the game too>>12899536it is
>>12899484I forget which games specifically, but I recall seeing Sprint all over.
>>12899538Based angry EOP
>>12899487Also Melee was always meant to be a trojan horse advertisement pitch for Fire Emblem in the west, and obviously it worked. Marth and Roy were never going to be JP-exclusives, it was a very calculated move by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems
Monster Rancher has a surprising amount.
>>12899582never played it but reminds me of Pikmin 2's satire product placement
>>12899540>>12899527now this is what im talking about. thats so odd and completely out of place for the ip
>>12899583The English version of 1, 4, and 5 tweaked some monsters from the original release and plastered logos onto them for various video game magazines. It was very subtle, hardly noticeable.
>>128996314 in all regions also had Ape Escape monkeys as monsters you could raise.
Stuff like California Games tended to have it I think, like look at that Ocean Pacific logo there
Shenmue had loads of vending machines. In the original Japanese version they're Coca Cola branded but the US localisation team warned the Japanese dev team that they'd get sued if they did that here. The US team asked why they thought that was okay and the Japan team just said "it's okay because Japan is not litigious". All subsequent versions had generic cola.
Thoughts on Upper Deck?
Super Off-Road on SNES had Toyota branding (note the faint logo on the blue truck). Follins turned the advertising jingle "I love what you do for me, Toyota" into an in-game tune:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXgiDpJwGHQ
>>12900007> toyota logosome games were paid to incorporate logos, some graphics designers just added them and didn't think anything of it. since it was rare for anyone to declare product tie-ins back then, it's difficult to say what game is a commercial product tie-in and what is just artistic license.> into an in-game tunemusic in this game is not great. very rushed.
M.C. Kids is probably the all time best product-based game
>>12900027one of yea. zool would be another that was highly successful despite being a series of enormous adverts for Chupa Chups. superfrog was nothing more than a massive ad for Lucozade and also very successful
>>12899583that shit was so cozy
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City is not shy about its advertising: Wheaties and Gatorade are power ups, and the between round score screen proudly shows off the brand names.Perhaps ironically while there is a high tops shoe power up (that grants you invincibility), there's no Nike license and thus they aren't actually Air Jordans.
>>12900026Very clear Toyota branding is on the box and the cartridge too, and the game's SNES sequel appears to have had an official connection with Toyota. But yeah this one in itself is iffy. I mean it's certainly an advertisement for Toyota, but it may or may not have been intended as one BY Toyota.
The amiga version of puzzle game Pushover had quavers stuff added in.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BvnUVvqq6khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CS3K_djUE
>Resident Evil 2 has a fake brand of soda plastered everywhere in the game that is very reminiscent of Coca Cola, especially in low-res where you can't tell it actually doesn't say Coca Cola>Coca Cola is like, waaaaaaaa, you can't just do free advertisement for us, you owe use money now. Resident Evil 2 forced to get rid of its Coca-Cola knock-off in re-releases and ports of the game (except a couple of backgrounds in one version because oops, they forgot)>RE2 devs leave for Squaresoft to make Parasite Eve 2>But that Coca Cola is still down their throat!>so they make a deal so now they get paid to have Coca Cola in the gameSomeone really wanted his Coca Cola.It's like the Calico M950 that was left unfinished and unused in the files of RE2 but then Parasite Eve 2 put it in its final game. You just can't leave unfinished business unresolved like that. Very based autistic devs.
>>12899484Works on my machine. Do Americans really love junk food so much they have to put it in their games?
>>12900158To be fair Square's Coca Cola deal wasn't just PE2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnaClmuna78The music they used in the Coca Cola commercials are even on the Final Fantasy IX official OST.
>>12900290Right but that was after PE2, one thing may have led to the other
>>12899891This is awesome.>>12900001Upper deck?
Got Burger King all over NFS underground 2.
Burnout 3 has a bunch of billboards for axe deodorant and other EA games like Battlefield.
>>12899538No need to be a rude faggot shithead. There are plenty of other reasons to harass and ridicule minorities, this isn't one of them.
>>12900163Japan should have had KFC instead. But that is funny that there is a difference.
>>12899527It was a product placement exclusive to Europe anyway, the American one had nothing.
>>12899852I don't think knockoffs count as product placement.
>>12900321sports card company that was huge in the mid 90s, makes sense for the game
>>12900376kek, hit too close to home?
>>12900026Why are you trying so hard to argue that the game isn't a cross-promotion with Toyota when it literally is. Fucking retard.
>>12900420Oh duh. I didn’t even look at the back ground I was focused on the dudes on fire and was wondering what game that was. I am familiar w upper deck tho (90s kid). I think I still have some worthless cards in a binder somewhere for baseball.Is the game in the pic Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey 98? I hope it is because I just picked up a copy on the strength of that pic. Didn’t realize it was an nba jam style game.
whats odd is Yo Noid's complete lack of product placement. dominoes is only mentioned in the fine print on the title screen
>>12902258Sounds like someone forgot to ask the devs to put their logo in the gameWhoopsie
>>12902346I wonder, did Dominoes pay a game company to make a Noid game as a marketing stunt?Or did the game company have this game they wanted sell in the west and needed to swap in recognizable character so they paid Dominoes for the rights to use the Noid?the later looks more plausable.
>>12902258>>12903324It's always been especially odd to me since the entire marketing gimmick of the Noid was that he wanted to ruin pizzas. And the NES game just said he's a good guy who loves to chow down.
>>12899484It's funny OP mentions Crazy Taxi. Because that was just the start for Sega. They hit the pennicle of in game ads with the Yakuza series. Want to restore health? Drink Suntori beverages. Want to complete a mission buy a bunch of things from Don Quixote. The entire series is just buying quality name brand products™ in a store simulator with some fights in between .
