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this wacky wii ad will break all of your youtubes

In what can only be a brilliant viral marketing scheme, Wii and YouTube have teamed up to make an advertisement that appears to break YouTube. They employ clever on-screen Flash effects to make it seem like what’s happening in the game is destroying the YouTube website!

The screenshots don’t do it justice. You can’t quite…

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October 4th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

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nintendo guerilla (or is that gorilla) advertising

Nintendo Kong Ad with Post-its

Check out these recently sighted Nintendo ads comprised of thousands of individual sticky notes used to create giant versions of The Big N’s classic gaming icons.

Taking some obvious inspiration from this earlier video game Post-it art, the colored notes were used to create pixelated versions of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and other gaming characters.…

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August 24th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun video games