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Just a few attention-grabbing retro game ads that would land studios in hot water today. (more in post body) (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I know they're insensitive and tacky, but I have to admit that a part of me misses when games ads were off the walls like this.

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[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

there was a super Gameboy?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It plugged into the SNES so you could play GB games on the TV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It offered color for GB games before the GameBoy Color existed! 😃

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

oh yea now i remember. cool

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Absolute best way to play Pokemon Red & Blue, IMO.