Advertisement Video Games - The Lost Era

From the NES to today on the PS5 and Switch, Ads in video games remain steady. Also bad.
Advertisement Video Games are a very specific brand of suck. They're 9/10 times made for one thing only... uh, advertising. CAN WE FIND A GOOD ONE? LET'S FIND OUT!

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00:00 - Intro (70s and First Advergames)
03:14 - Games Based on Stuff You Can Eat
08:14 - Getting Destroyed by McDonalds
12:20 - More Fast Food
15:19 - EXTREME SPORTS (For Kids)
19:15 - AdverCars
22:42 - Nerf Video Games
26:11 - Why Is This a Video Game?
33:51 - Chex Quest

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[austineruption]

I am more than likely gonna make a follow up to this way sooner than later, so PLEASE let me know some AdverGames I might have missed! I know there's a whole M&Ms thing but I was surprised to find like, you know, 4 ADDITIONAL Taco Bell games. I need the weird stuff and and I need it STAT.

[stephenhumes]

Huge shout-out to Tommy Tallarico for composing all these games' soundtracks! His mother is very proud!

[muigokublack]

The game that springs to my mind is Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure. You got it for free inside the cereal box and it was kinda like those pet raising games. You had a Crunchling and you trained it up with various minigames until you got strong enough to take on the final boss.

[shawnheatherly]

Chex Quest inevitably introducing kids to Doom is so funny to think about.

[larrylaffer]

Shame you kinda just glanced over Tapper as it's development history is wild. Essentially it's 1st Arcade Game made specifically with bars in mind; The 1st Barcade Game if you will. As such the original cabinets were designed with slots to fit your beers into and brass railings to rest your feet on "Bar Owners were meant to mount a barstool in front of it like it were well a bar". The Joysticks were even actual Budweiser Tap Handles. The reason Root Beer Tapper would later made was to get a version they could put into normal arcades. Also most home computer and early console ports had MTN Dew branding.

[SupremeMarioGamer]

Bruh, combining Tito Ortiz with SpongeBob was genius. Also gotta mention Darkened Skye for being an actual video game that tries something unique.

[tbcbros.]

This is exactly what I needed. I'm sick, curled up on the couch ready for a new episode.

[godspeedyoublacknerd]

Cool Spot was the first advergame I remember. I have no idea how it holds up, but as a kid I was amazed by the animation

[thuongn]

Remember that time FF15 advertised for cup noodle and one of your bros were describing the taste like it was the best sex ever and you even had a quest dedicated to cup noodle.

[Magiron.]

Hearing the words "Tech Deck" together just awakened some lost memories holy hell.

[grfadams]

8:25 So glad Tommy Tallarico finally getting the recognition he deserves, I hear is mother is very proud

[benjaminmapperson]

Doritos crash course was the only ad game I ever played growing up on XBLA, but it was actually a solid multiplayer game. A bit short but replayable with a few mates. I actually reinstalled it on my Xbox X a year ago to play with my brother.

[BugsyFoga]

A product you buy that makes you want buy another product is definitely a funny thing to witness.

[SwiftyStardust]

Dorito's Crash Course was probably one of my favourites haha. Ridiculously fun for what it was. I also remember an untitled XBLA game that was like an endless runner where you play as your avatar, jump over obstacles and hit footballs with your head, all while Let's Go by Calvin Harris played endlessly in the background. Turned out it was a tie-in for a Pepsi Max advert.

[Xris_Kinder]

Dropping a like and comment in honor of your 5 years without smoking. That's a mega accomplishment. Great job, and I wish you all the best in your continued journey.

[xanderac]

I still think the craziest thing about the BK games is that the discs contain both a original Xbox and 360 game on one disc, which would load each version based on the console. Tekken 6 wasn't an advergame but it did have product placement from Church's chicken, and either ufc/tapout from what I recall

[giovannieich]

Your mention of ChexQuest HD reminds me that a video about licensed game remakes might be interesting; since licensed games are usually seen by both rightsholders and consumers more as merchandise than legitimate pieces of media, a company going back to remake them really shows that the original must've been something special.
Games in this category that come to mind would be DuckTales Remastered, Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (2013) or Asterix & Obelix XXL Romastered.

[RobertoFerrer]

Pepsi-Man was huge in my country! So much so that it's one of my generation's most remembered PS1 games.

[SlaughtersPromenade]

I loved Moorhuhn as a child SO Much. It's a german advertisement game from the shoot em up genre. It's for Johnny Walker Whiskey (yes u read that right) xDDDD which i never knew as a child. But it has several sequels and god, my whole family actually played it and competed with one another. It's called Chicken Crazy in english..

[themanwithsauce]

was my JAM as a kid. It had multiple arenas, themed around the teams, and the coolest was one where you had to jump between meteors in space. There were multiple game modes in each arena, the best one being a points/collection based mode. There were multiple colored balls you'd collect and have to shoot into a goal to get points. You needed to be the first to have scored all 7 or 8, but you got bonus points for shooting multiple colors into a goal at once. I think you still had to get the highest point score? But it was so much fun to be jumping around like quake, firing the cool nerf guns (which your parents only got you one of....) and trying to keep as many colored balls as you could before firing them all in for one big streak. Really, a highly underrated game.