best buy NES GBA ad...fathers day gift

[bcorgan19]

Just made me feel old. Maybe older.




"Bring back dad's gaming memories with this Game Boy Advance SP Retro Edition"

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5374/NES-GBAjpg.JPG

[MarioAllStar2600]

That ad would be good if it was Atari 2600 themed. :o Jesus Best Buy get your video game timeframes down! :P

[Spartikcus]

Hahaha.
I saw that this morning and felt the same way. LOL

[ddockery]

The thing is, they DO have their timeframes down. A lot of people that had NES when it was big are in the 30's with kids... sorry guys and gals but we are getting old!

[Vroomfunkel]

No, the timeframe is not quite right. Although I know several people around my age who are married and have kids, none of those kids are near old enough to be able to buy daddy a $99 console for a pressie. Maybe the ad is more geared toward working wives who will buy the thing as a cute present 'from' 5 year old Bobby to his daddy.

I dunno.

It's almost cool. But I have a Nomad, so I can flaunt my commitment to retro in a far more overt and quirky manner. Perhaps that's why I'm not married yet .....

Vroomfunkel

[-hellvin-]

Hmm...I dunno. I'd have to agree that the 2600 era would be more suitable, but there are probably many in the dad stage of their life who remember and played the NES a bit. It's a little off but, whatever, it's just an attempt to sell it.

[charitycasegreg]

My dad bought an nes and Im 16. So I guess the time frame is decent but he also had an atari so whatever.

[Dave Reinquest]

I saw that one about 4 days ago. Very nice layout, the products are nice. But putting that GBA there was a real bonehead move.

(Thank God I work for a newspaper. I get to see all the ads almost a week in advance, when they are printed.)

[Algol]

Now I feel over the hill. Thanks a lot, Best Buy. :o

[The Manimal]

I would take that as accurate however are those kids old enough to get jobs and work to pay for a fathers day gift like this? LOL

What are they to do, put it on their Best Buy card?

I am in mid-20s and if I had a kid when I was in High School, he/she'd be like 7 or something. LOL

[Ed Oscuro]

Indeed, a lot of us late-adopter NES players (though I never had a system until 1997...) are in our twenties now. That's old enough to be a father (unfortunately, most of the time http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smiles/Llol.gif), but not old enough for your kid to be seven years old...

...but if you were twelve when the NES went mainstream in 1987, you'd be roughly 29 years old now. Give or take a few years, you're looking at the age bracket the NES was geared towards.

Now how the seven (or ten, twelve at TOPS if your parents had you when they were 18) year old is supposed to buy daddy this system is beyond me.

I guess these ads are really just targeted at the dads, just sideways ;)

[ManekiNeko]

Ow.
(I still want it, though)

JR

[davidleeroth]

This might have been issued to a smaller market, maybe they meant to print teenage dad's? x_x :)