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15 Ridiculous Game Magazine Ads That'll Make You Go "What Were They Thinking?"

By Matt |

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Before the advent of the internet, the best way to find out about which video games were coming out soon were magazines! The companies that made these games clearly understood this, because they paid for all sorts of weird ads to show up for their new games. These 15 were some of the absolute weirdest.

Cruisin' USA

Midway

Alien Resurrection

FOX

Dragon Ball GT

Bandai

Ice Hockey

Activision

Super Mario Land

Nintendo

Game Boy Pocket

Nintendo

Mortal Kombat

Midway

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Virtua Fighter

Sega

Final Fantasy VII

Square Enix

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Capcom

Paper Mario

Nintendo

Video Jukebox VJ

ASG

Kirby Super Star

Nintendo

Marvel Super Heroes

Capcom

PlayStation

Sony

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