4. Stand Off
Someone has been watching Spaced. Another banned Xbox advert. Microsoft are knocking it out of the park with it comes to not getting their promotions on your television screen. This time around is an advert called
Stand Off, where a train station full of people have a huge finger gun battle. Funny, yes. Memorable, definitely. Controversial, apparently so. As I have taught you over these past 990ish words, controversy creates cash - also breasts - but mainly controversy. Thanks to the ad getting pulled from TV, its has been view millions of times online and, as a result, got the Xbox tinted words of
Jump In embedded into brains everywhere. Some could go as far as to say that Microsoft, and similar companies, just create content in the moral grey area, just to get it banned and create instant buzz. Hmmmm, controversial.
3. Nintendo All-Star Battle Royale
To quote the advert itself, "
something has gone wrong the in the happy-go-lucky world of Nintendo". Something is right. There is so much to this advert that makes it stick in your mind. Maybe its the footage of Pikachu, Mario, Yoshi and Donkey Kong bounding through fields of daisies. Maybe its the song, Happy Together by The Turtles. What it probably is the fact that its men in cuddly mascot suits beating each other up. People hadn't seen a console mascot game like this before. Holy crap, Mario is kicking Link in the head. Gee willikers, Kirby just sucked in Pikachu. Ahhh yeah, Peach and Zelda are getting it on. The first time you see that advert, the WWE-esque heel turn from Mario shocks you. The kick that started a franchise.