Tag: Commercials

I’ve always enjoyed playing Tetris. It’s just one of those games that keeps your mind occupied 100%, and is a great way to kill time sitting on a train or airplane. There have been countless games over the years which expand on the block-stacking game dynamic.

“Christmas is too commercial, man!” You’ve heard that phrase uttered every year, and yes, it’s true. Christmas has been commercialized and taken over by the man. So you know what? If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

You know who the best wife in the world is? One that would get you the Millenium Falcon as an anniversary gift. It does not get any better than that. Although a Landspeeder or an X-Wing would be cool too.

Love or hate Microsoft, the company makes some questionable commercials. I bet you have seen the commercials on TV from Microsoft that show people claiming they came up with ideas for certain features on Windows 7.

While a lot of Apple fans out there are no doubt crying themselves to sleep because they still don’t have an iPad 2, iOS accessory maker Zagg decided to shoot five brand new units of Apple’s latest tablet with a shotgun for an advertisement, and just to rub it in, the ad is in slow-motion. Here’s the massacre, which also counts a ball and a fruit as casualties: What a waste of a good watermelon.

The Super Bowl has come and gone and the entire event was a bit of opposite day for me. I generally avoid commercials like algebra homework when I watch TV. During the Super Bowl, I actually want to see the commercials as much as the game.

Video games have really come a long way, especially when it comes to marketing. For those too young to remember, CollegeHumor made a totally radical fake commercial for Grand Theft Auto on the NES. As ridiculous as the fake GTA was, the commercial freaked me out.

Children are full of questions. If you open one up you’ll see that they’re made of nothing but drool and questions. Questions like: “Why do we have to eat?”, or “So I’m a poop factory?”, or  “What would Bill or Lance do if they were trapped in the world of Tetris?”

Sony touts its new Dash multimedia device with this funny commercial which sells us on the advantages of using the Dash as a high-tech alarm clock. Sony is airing the spot in the Washington D.C. and San Fransisco areas to get some buzz building for the recently released personal internet device.

If you’ve ever wanted to record FM broadcasts to your MP3 player, but didn’t want the commercials or talk in between songs, today is your lucky day. The new PopCatcher MusicDock MD-601 is a portable MP3 player and a standalone FM-radio dock that can capture FM broadcasts to MP3, commercial-free.

From the random video vault, I’ve compiled a bunch of great ancient video game and computer commercials from YouTube. It’s really amazing how far we’ve come. Enjoy the retro goodness… Apple II Computer: