View Full Version : Your picks for BEST VIDEO GAME PRODUCT PLACEMENT!
sliop24
06-20-2005, 04:58 PM
my 3 are
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the arcade game(nes): Pizza Hut was all over this game.
2.YO!NOID (nes): For those of you who are too young to remember, The Noid was this annoying claymation creature from the 80's that ate your Dominoes Pizza. They gave him his own game, go figure. AVOID THE NOID, nuff said.
3.Spot(nes) That loveable 7up character from the 80's has his own game. How cute
kirin jensen
06-20-2005, 05:12 PM
I though you meant best placement of a videogame product in a movie/tv show.
In which case: the vectrex in Android.
drummy
06-20-2005, 05:20 PM
How about that Chester Cheetah game? He had his own game. Didn't Pepsi Man or whatever have his own game as well?
BrokenFlight
06-20-2005, 05:22 PM
Biker Mice From Mars had Snickers all through it.
Zool has Chuppa Chupps every now and then
§ Gideon §
06-20-2005, 05:36 PM
If you changed "best" to "least shitty," I'd say Pizza Hut in TMNT and Dole in Super Monkey Ball.
Cauterize
06-20-2005, 05:53 PM
Penguin Bars and James Pond 2!
Heh i must have been around 4 when i got hypnotised into eating them!
rbudrick
06-20-2005, 05:55 PM
How about Mario 3 in The Wizard (and Nintendo in general)?
I know that's a little different, but I guess it still fits.
-Rob
pacmanhat
06-20-2005, 05:56 PM
Two words:
Darkened Skye.
bazariah
06-20-2005, 05:59 PM
Penguin Bars and James Pond 2!
Heh i must have been around 4 when i got hypnotised into eating them!
damn man, i remember playin pond 2 when i was about twelve, and it was odd because i ended up eating more penguin bars during my tenure of playing that game than i ever had in my life up to that point
what about wipeout 2097, redbull anyone?
kirin jensen
06-20-2005, 06:24 PM
[quote="drummy"]How about that Chester Cheetah game? He had his own game. Didn't Pepsi Man or whatever have his own game as well?[/quote
Kool-Aid Man. For Intv and 2600.
rayearthknight
06-20-2005, 06:25 PM
The use of "Red Bull" in WipeOut XL...which I thought was just another "company" billboard thought up by The Designer's Republic...nice marketing ploy to use on the US
TheRedEye
06-20-2005, 06:35 PM
Dole in Super Monkey Ball. I declare this thread over!
bazariah
06-20-2005, 06:36 PM
The use of "Red Bull" in WipeOut XL...which I thought was just another "company" billboard thought up by The Designer's Republic...nice marketing ploy to use on the US
thats what i said dude, wipeout 2097 is the english version of XL... the drink was cross promoted with the game over here
Jive3D
06-20-2005, 06:38 PM
The use of "Red Bull" in WipeOut XL...which I thought was just another "company" billboard thought up by The Designer's Republic...nice marketing ploy to use on the US
thats what i said dude, wipeout 2097 is the english version of XL... the drink was cross promoted with the game over here
My thoughts EXACTLY. No one in the US had any idea what Red Bull was at that point (1995/1996) I remember learning that it was a drink and mail ordering some. Years later it becomes insanely popular, long after Wipeout fans are already onto the next thing (as usual) 8-)
BrokenFlight
06-20-2005, 06:40 PM
Just remembered Nokia on some billboards in Driv3r. Not sure what the connection is there, but then there never usually seems to be one.
crazyjackcsa
06-20-2005, 06:43 PM
Driving to product placements in Crazy Taxi
sliop24
06-20-2005, 06:56 PM
Driving to product placements in Crazy Taxi
OOOO good one. Lots of ads there.
Dimitri
06-20-2005, 09:00 PM
Driving to product placements in Crazy Taxi
OOOO good one. Lots of ads there.
Take me to KFC! I need to get to the Levi's Store! To Tower Records, on the double!
Why would someone want to go to KFC, anyways?
Haoie
06-20-2005, 09:16 PM
MGS's Psycho Mantis reading your mind [as in mem card] for other Konami saves. I wish they expanded on that a lot more. All I can say is that whole dialogue with him was hilarious.
neuropolitique
06-20-2005, 10:06 PM
I too thought this meant video games in movies. The best placement int hat respect is the MicroVision in Friday the 13th III.
As for ads in video games, I guess it's the ad I notice least.
rayearthknight
06-20-2005, 10:45 PM
thats what i said dude, wipeout 2097 is the english version of XL... the drink was cross promoted with the game over here
Sorry, I just glossed over your post and didn't see the bottom portion of it.
I remember an article that said the programmers at Psygnosis were living off of Red Bull while programming WO2097/XL.
Let's see...
Crazy Taxi has a Tower Records, KFC and a Calvin Klein store in it....not to mention the heavy use of "The Offsrping"
pragmatic insanester
06-21-2005, 05:10 AM
parasite eve 2's use of coca cola was pretty tasteful. there was a bottlecap magnet and a soda (obviously) with the logo on it. nothing to distract you.
i love bitching about the soundtracks of the most recent GTA. i'd take generic wannabe-90s bands over the overloaded crap that slapped onto the actual soundtrack. it could have been worse though, and played modern shit that rides the current radio day and night.
youruglyclone
06-21-2005, 08:04 AM
Biker Mice From Mars had Snickers all through it.
the american version didn't have the snickers ads
Pepsiman did have a game
UFO Kamen Yakisoban for the SFC was pretty much placement for a ramen company
but the funniest product placement I've seen was Need for Speed Underground 2 in Burnout 3...why would in god's green earth would you promote another racing game in yours (Granted I'm pretty sure it was the big wigs of EA who demanded it but still...why)
Cauterize
06-21-2005, 08:08 AM
Driving to product placements in Crazy Taxi
OOOO good one. Lots of ads there.
Take me to KFC! I need to get to the Levi's Store! To Tower Records, on the double!
Why would someone want to go to KFC, anyways?
HAHAHAHAHA this is totally off topic but i thought id share...
i actually went to KFC once and the guy behind the counter actually said
"Sorry we have run out of Chicken!"
WanganRunner
06-21-2005, 08:11 AM
I liked the Saturn in Shenmue.
Of course, it was a Sega game, but I'd still count that as product placement.
Of course, thus, my second choice is the SNES in Pokemon blue/red :D
§ Gideon §
06-21-2005, 08:20 AM
Uh, I wouldn't count that as product placement. You have to pay for product placement.
sliop24
06-21-2005, 11:19 AM
Driving to product placements in Crazy Taxi
OOOO good one. Lots of ads there.
Take me to KFC! I need to get to the Levi's Store! To Tower Records, on the double!
Why would someone want to go to KFC, anyways?
HAHAHAHAHA this is totally off topic but i thought id share...
i actually went to KFC once and the guy behind the counter actually said
"Sorry we have run out of Chicken!"
I dont want this to go too off topic but... I was once in Athens,Ga and i went into the International House of Pancakes and they told me they were out of Pancakes. LOL
CreamSoda
06-21-2005, 03:17 PM
You can get Coke and Sprite and I think a couple other name brand Soda's in the Japanese version of Shenmue! :)
I just wish they were in the US version... :(