THE DS PUBLICITY MACHINE HAS GONE TOO FAR
It’s all very well that TV commercials have thus far featured women playing Tetris and Animal Crossing and Nintendogs and stuff like that. However, the suggestion (proffered in the New Super Mario Brothers TV commercial) that birds play proper games where you have to not fall off stuff is TOO MUCH.
“Oh my god! There’s a little man in there! How does he breathe? Oh wait, that must be what the holes are for.”
This is the bit where she’s actually shaking the DS up and down and shouting “JUMP! JUMP!” at it. If we’d made this up as a parody, people would have called US sexist.
Silver and gold medals go to A) The face she makes when she sees Mario eat a mushroom and grow big, and B) The face (shown above) she makes when Mario dies respectively, with the latter setting a new world record. “Wow! When I ran into that turtle it played a pretty tune! I wonder if I could get it to do it again?”
filed in Uncategorized on Jun.09, 2006
June 9th, 2006 on 3:06 pm
Fuck me! A mildly funny Ensign Teela update!
June 9th, 2006 on 3:46 pm
You UK sexist
June 9th, 2006 on 4:00 pm
Ensign Teela deserves a promotion.
June 9th, 2006 on 4:43 pm
about the 3rd pic, i’d have added :
C) this girl just had an oopsie
June 9th, 2006 on 4:59 pm
Bonus points for referring to women as “birds”.
June 9th, 2006 on 7:17 pm
you leave nanako the hell alone you gits!
if it wasn’t for her i wouldn’t even have thought of buying a ds lite…
June 9th, 2006 on 9:24 pm
These ads are more than unrealistic, they’re almost cruel. They nurture false hope that there’s some cute model out there dying to play with your… DS.
June 9th, 2006 on 10:37 pm
no, she’s playing HER OWN ds.
or at least, she’s playing her own nintendo-supplied ds.
point is it’s not yours, and that’s what matters
June 10th, 2006 on 12:06 am
:(
June 10th, 2006 on 8:43 am
On a different note, do you all remember the Play.com chocolate orange incident? Well, they’ve done it again! It’s the Pro Evolution 6 telephone box!
http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation2/STCS7/3-/904396/Pro_Evolution_Soccer_6/Product.html
June 10th, 2006 on 4:58 pm
this update was actually pretty funny
June 10th, 2006 on 8:24 pm
sorry trekker didn’t mean to get you all depressed :(
i guess there’s always girls of CS…
June 11th, 2006 on 11:10 am
Talking of not particuarly funny updates, what the FUCK is that “US:Resistance” site!?
I hope that’s not endorsed in anyway by these ‘boys’? Reading posts on there is the equivalent to having an incredibly painful shit.
June 11th, 2006 on 12:54 pm
You’d think that site would at least bother creating a new identity for itself, instead of being a lame ripoff. You know it’s bad when you think you have to specify that you’re NOT what you’re ripping off in the site title.
June 11th, 2006 on 1:07 pm
It’s true! US:Resistance ACTUALLY EXISTS!!!! And it’s as bad as one would expect. Oh, the irony.
Zorg – we demand you do a post about US:Resistance!
June 11th, 2006 on 4:14 pm
Did a whois search on US Resistance, the owner of the site is called Benji…Benji ffs.
http://www.whois.us/whois.cgi?TLD=us&dn=usresistance&TYPE=DOMAIN
June 11th, 2006 on 5:18 pm
Jesus that site sucks. You guys really do need to write an update on them.
June 11th, 2006 on 6:51 pm
Im glad you agree. The person writing that site is actually wasting there life..
Registered to a Benjamin.. how strange the first person to reply to my rant about US:Resistance was a guy called Benjamin from the US..
Anyway, there isnt any particuarly new updates on there so hopefully they’ve given up.
June 11th, 2006 on 7:50 pm
Hey now! I take offense to being associated with that. Didn’t know WHOISing sites to make sure you don’t share a common first name was a prerequisite for posting. :p
June 11th, 2006 on 8:26 pm
where can i watch this advert??
June 12th, 2006 on 5:55 am
Search Youtube.
Not shown: The spotty American kid that got to play it a week before her.
June 12th, 2006 on 9:59 am
Sorry Benji, i mean no harm.
June 12th, 2006 on 3:59 pm
us resistance, I have been aware of it for a while.
what never ceases to amaze me is the extent they have gone to copy this site, same link headings everything.
it almost makes you question whether the yanks really did :-
discover North America
fight agaist the english, whilst painted in wode
shag a posh english bird on a sinking ship
capture the enigma machine
fly to the moon etc
or did the just copy someoneelse’s idea?
June 16th, 2006 on 4:55 pm
Actually, her expression in that last pic looks like it’s all about to go a bit Bukkake.
July 17th, 2006 on 3:38 am
FACT! I learned that this commercial is true! I was in a Japanese train station yesterday and witnessed a 20-something year old Japanese woman pull out a DS lite and play New Super Mario Bros. ok.. she wasn’t as cute… and she was, in no way, expressive. But, in the wild, “they” actually play the game.