10 Video Games With Shameless Product Placement

10. Zool - Chupa Chups

Just because you're a gremlin ninja from the Nth dimension does not mean you're not partial to a lollipop.

Zool was the Amiga's answer to Sonic the Hedgehog, a vibrantly colourful, fast-paced mascot platformer designed to convince kids that a £500 computer was better than a Mega Drive. Spare a thought for the parents of the ones who agreed.

The game's opening level was as sickly-sweet as it was slickly-fleet, thanks to a budget-burgeoning deal with Spanish lollipop doyens Chupa Chups. It was no coincidence that the company's huge logo was plastered everywhere across a candy-cane opener, a virtual billboard for sugar, spice, and all things nice. Our poor eponymous hero was left looking like an ant searching for scraps in the bottom of a sweet jar. Zool was actually a great game - but this deal sucked.