it honestly didn't feel old enough. it just felt like a modern commercial and not because of the picture quality.
it honestly didn't feel old enough. it just felt like a modern commercial and not because of the picture quality.
COMPLETED MY USA SMS SET!!!!
Wasn't it enough though that we were actually making a modern commercial for an old Sega game? This was our love letter to the Sega commercials of old. It pokes fun at those classics as well as holiday jewelery commercials. It was always our intention to make a modern Sega commercial. I just labeled it "lost" as a sort of fun angle.
I'm not expecting everyone to like everything I do, but I've gotten so much positive feedback and I made this with Retrogaming fans in mind. I'm trying to understand better what was wrong for the detractors.
Last edited by ShinobiMan; 12-21-2013 at 07:26 PM.
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I guess I haven't seen a holiday jewelry commercial in a long time.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
As a grown man in his late 20's, I enjoyed this effort very much, but if you were to do another and wanted to capture the late 80's or early 90's Sega commercial feel, you need to keep in mind that those commercials were made targeted squarely at kids, specifically boys aged 8-12. As such, a Phantasy Star commercial where a man gives his wife a game isn't the kind of ad Sega would have made back in the day.
At most, an 80's style Holiday themed commercial with the same idea might have been a young boy giving Phantasy Star to a girl he has a crush on. Sounds silly, but in the absence of finding kids to act in your videos, if you and your wife pretended to act like 10-12 year olds and did the same commercial again but from the boy gives his crush Phantasy Star angle, then I think the original feel of those old commercial would be more fully realized.
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I'm glad you really enjoyed it man. I'm a 27 myself and we probably were exposed to Sega in very similar ways, especially the classic commercials with the Sega scream. All I wanted to do was parody Christmas commercials. This was like a "what if" a Sega commercial was done like a holiday jewelery commercial.Originally Posted by Satoshi_Matrix
I'd like to continue in this parody fashion. My sense of humor lends itself to satire and parody and I just enjoy doing it. In future projects I'll lose the whole "lost" Sega commercial angle. I'll still call them "lost" but I won't play them up as if they're real.
I really enjoyed this as well and ended up showing it to a few friends (who also loved it). Mostly we were jealous of a girl with such fine taste in video games
Not that it ruined it for me or anything, but I think it would be best without the "Lost commerical" angle--IMO it works best as a Christmas jewelry commercial that morphs into a 90s toy commercial, and to leave the gag at that. (Only the title seems to give away the "lost commercial" angle, but then again, maybe that gets some people to watch who otherwise wouldn't?)
Last edited by Bazoo; 12-24-2013 at 03:18 PM.
Yeah. Your video was awesome and left a warm place in my heart, but it doesn't work as a 'lost' Sega commercial because again, those commericals were aimed at boys aged 8-12, not grown men 20-40. I share your sense of humor, which is why I thought it would have been especially hilarious if you and your wife pretended to be about 12 years old during the video to be both a parody of everything you mentioned but also those aimed-at-boys Sega ads of yore.
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Ahh, GOT IT!
That is how you fake a retro video. You have to throw away not just the technology, but all of the advances in graphic and video design that have come to feel like common sense over the passage of decades.
(Of course, the CuteMouse driver only became popular long after Windows 3.x was extinct, but let's not get too picky.)
Last edited by Jorpho; 12-27-2013 at 03:11 PM.
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WHERE DID THEIR HAIR GO?
Those people must be time travelers. They have 2010's looks in 1988.
Hey guys! Happy New Year! Wanted to share our latest video with you. It's the 2nd in a series we started way back when we first launched the site. In the SMS Hunt, we check out local retrogaming shops and look for Sega Master System titles. This time around we went to FX Game Exchange in the Dallas / Fort Worth area and found Monopoly... or Mono Poly?
As always, would love feedback. I actually shot this entirely as a one man crew and we were having restrictions on time with the employees. I still hope it's enjoyable.
See you in 2014!
In my opinion, the best 80s style video game commercial is this:
Enough said.
Seems so. But anyway it's a cool video
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Love your site and enjoy the videos. SMS needs all the representin' it can get. You're doing God's work here.
Thank you so much! Glad to have you on board.
Here's the latest! I did this one as a tribute to the late Greg Martin who was the legendary artist behind much of the Sonic box art as well as a slew of other classic video game box art of the early 90's. RIP Greg. Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
ah, hadn't seen the new one yet! and yeah, RIP to Greg, this was pretty classy of you man.
Thanks buddy! We wanted to pay tribute somehow!
Above is our latest video, the 2nd entry into our series "The Master System Index". This is the Screw Attack-esque series of videos we do on SegaMasterSystem.com
This time we're looking at Penguin Land! Hope you enjoy, and feedback is always appreciated. Thanks guys!
great game, and as you said, one of my first with actual backup! take that, excitebike
The other day I thought, "What if Alex Kidd were to "photo bomb" another video game series?" This is what happens when I think these things.
Let me know what YOU think of what I thought! My head hurts.
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