The Era of Edgy Gaming Ads

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  • @Huggbees
    @Huggbees  8 місяців тому +277

    Go to buyraycon.com/huggbees for 15% off your order, plus free shipping! Brought to you by Raycon.

  • @ItHappens129
    @ItHappens129 8 місяців тому +2814

    I wish we still had game ads that made me feel like I’m missing out on some cool shit instead of every ad being targeted specifically to brain dead children

  • @__-be1gk
    @__-be1gk 8 місяців тому +881

    The best part about the Duke Nukem ad is that it probably doesn't just say "You're gay" because gay was considered a bad word back then and they didn't want children to see it

    • @dziewiaty
      @dziewiaty 8 місяців тому +58

      Gay also used to mean "jolly". You don't want your message misinterpreted by some f

    • @slipangle3027
      @slipangle3027 8 місяців тому +38

      The duke nukem ad is not real.

    • @adamsfusion
      @adamsfusion 8 місяців тому +43

      The best part about the Duke Nukem ad is that it's fake

    • @WTFisTingispingis
      @WTFisTingispingis 8 місяців тому +17

      As a kid people said stuff was 'gay' all the damn time so that didn't fix anything, clearly.

    • @coldeed
      @coldeed 7 місяців тому +5

      ​@@WTFisTingispingisthey still do

  • @Killysunt
    @Killysunt 8 місяців тому +485

    I love when I used to not notice something was a video game advertisement for a solid 10 seconds because it was just a huge photo of something unrelated with tiny screenshots at the bottom

    • @OrangeDied
      @OrangeDied 8 місяців тому +4

      tinyskull jumpscare

  • @WaitWhat-zw2in
    @WaitWhat-zw2in 8 місяців тому +1862

    This man is the most traditionally masculine but also masculine in a non-traditional way guy I've ever seen

    • @Sip_Dhit
      @Sip_Dhit 8 місяців тому +268

      Healthy masculinity look like

    • @motionsikmerlin2252
      @motionsikmerlin2252 8 місяців тому +127

      as a chick i can confirm this guy is PURE UNBOUND MASCULINITY

    • @Mtv-get-off-thee-air
      @Mtv-get-off-thee-air 8 місяців тому +1

      Fuck sigma males, huggbees males rise up

    • @thaliabirrueta8456
      @thaliabirrueta8456 8 місяців тому +89

      Opposite of toxic masculinity

    • @JaxontheOkay
      @JaxontheOkay 8 місяців тому

      he's like the type of guy to make a joke about fucking your mom but also talk about anime girl feet regularly. it's a weird balance

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 8 місяців тому +1522

    "If you don't play Duke Nukem 3D you like men!"
    As someone who doesn't play Duke Nukem 3D, and likes men, I can verify this information is correct.

    • @WreckedPanzerschreck
      @WreckedPanzerschreck 8 місяців тому +196

      As someone who likes men, and has played Duke Nukem 3D for exactly 4 seconds on the menu screen before it crashed and refused to relaunch the executable.. I can verify you like men either way for some reason

    • @coffincar5507
      @coffincar5507 8 місяців тому +196

      ​@@WreckedPanzerschreck Duke Nukem himself called you megagay and refused to let you play his video game. I firmly believe if I even tried to download the file to Duke Nukem my computer would combust before it was even fully downloaded.

    • @MasterZebulin
      @MasterZebulin 8 місяців тому

      @@coffincar5507 Man, this Duke guy sounds like a real asshole, lol.

    • @LazyBuddyBan
      @LazyBuddyBan 8 місяців тому +11

      Duke Nukem 3D = Men
      simple as'

    • @specs.weedle
      @specs.weedle 8 місяців тому +37

      I’ve never played duke nukem 3d and I’m not attracted to men
      this is false advertising

  • @Nyerguds
    @Nyerguds 8 місяців тому +300

    Most of the "9/11" ads you mentioned _predate_ the actual attack though. In fact, on the subject of Red Alert 2, box art featuring that image was _recalled_ when it happened. The game was released in October 2000, almost a full year before the attacks.

    • @adamsfusion
      @adamsfusion 8 місяців тому +25

      Huggbees can't let a silly fact get in the way of his... humor? I think that's what he was trying to do.

    • @V0IDWARE
      @V0IDWARE 7 місяців тому +1

      WHAT!?

    • @Zoba3301
      @Zoba3301 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@adamsfusionOkay

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 7 місяців тому +5

      Also the Duke Nukem "you like men" ad is fake

    • @kaichainsaws
      @kaichainsaws 6 місяців тому

      Where did you find this? I can't find anything stating it's fake.​@@LordVader1094

  • @helloiamenergyman
    @helloiamenergyman 8 місяців тому +913

    Here's the money you'd've recieved if this was monetized :3

    • @Huggbees
      @Huggbees  8 місяців тому +831

      Thank God I can finally pay my rent

    • @Sceptile29
      @Sceptile29 8 місяців тому +204

      @@Huggbees can you pay mine too? I have the money I would just rather not

    • @MrScorpianwarrior
      @MrScorpianwarrior 8 місяців тому +103

      @@Sceptile29 Oh shit, rent is on Huggbees this month?

    • @carbonrobin
      @carbonrobin 8 місяців тому +35

      @@MrScorpianwarriorcan I get some?

    • @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger
      @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger 8 місяців тому +15

      I'm just a college student blindly throwing my time and money away thinking I'll one day have a future.
      Money please.

  • @emi_is_absent
    @emi_is_absent 8 місяців тому +814

    Gianni Matragrano did a way better job of advertising Duke Nukem 3D than the actual marketing team ever could

    • @vap0rw1se
      @vap0rw1se 7 місяців тому +80

      IF YOU DON'T PLAY ULTRAKILL YOU LIKE MEN!!!!!

    • @pluff624
      @pluff624 7 місяців тому +68

      ​@@vap0rw1seif u do u also like men

    • @WreckedPanzerschreck
      @WreckedPanzerschreck 7 місяців тому +16

      @@pluff624 and yer a pyrate if ye play the pirated version

    • @Somirage143
      @Somirage143 7 місяців тому

      ​@@vap0rw1se IF YOU PLAY ULTRAKILL, YOU A FEMBOY!

    • @NayrAnur
      @NayrAnur 7 місяців тому +49

      My favorite has to be: "If you don't play Duke Nukem 3D... you die."

  • @bowiethebuffoon4873
    @bowiethebuffoon4873 8 місяців тому +576

    I really wish I grew up with ads that picked you up and yelled in your face like a pageant mom after her daughter lost the skimpy swimsuit round.

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому +7

      thats your mom..

    • @Waterpassion
      @Waterpassion 8 місяців тому +1

      All I can think of during this video are the old Hardee's ads where it was nothing but swimsuit models basically having oral with a thickburger... 😂😂😂

    • @iicybrii4883
      @iicybrii4883 8 місяців тому +35

      @@SparrowIZ shut up

    • @MrKingkz
      @MrKingkz 6 місяців тому +2

      I did good times it also makes makes me immune to modern ads i only want it if they scream at me first

  • @LionelRGuy
    @LionelRGuy 8 місяців тому +156

    See, I never saw the Kirby eyes as being "angry"; more like just DETERMINED, ready to fight the evil, save his friends, make things right, and get back to dessert.

    • @sea-fr
      @sea-fr 6 місяців тому +10

      American Kirby is Badass is the trope name for this.

    • @supersquirrels7
      @supersquirrels7 5 місяців тому +4

      Cute Kirby > any other emotion Kirby

    • @NaveeSeal
      @NaveeSeal 2 місяці тому +7

      that kirby represents kirby's disdain for every boss, every deity, every monster that tried to tear his life apart. that kirby, while not seen outside of specific events in the games, can be felt through gameplay. that fighting spirit under the cuteness is what makes kirby such a hero.

    • @thebaseandtriflingcreature174
      @thebaseandtriflingcreature174 2 місяці тому +7

      yeah American Kirby was canonized when, during the final boss of Forgotten Land, he runs over the multidimensional, interplanetary threat with a SEMI-TRUCK, while angrily shouting like a dragon ball character from the intense struggle.
      KIRBY HAD A BEAM STRUGGLE USING A SEMI-TRUCK

  • @Yozo_official
    @Yozo_official 8 місяців тому +1089

    Huggbees is the type of person to not call the cops when seeing something illegal

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому +10

      thats your mom.

    • @12Rosen
      @12Rosen 8 місяців тому +83

      i think that’s most people

    • @BRIANNA_00
      @BRIANNA_00 8 місяців тому +62

      Based Huggbees

    • @gaminganimators7000
      @gaminganimators7000 8 місяців тому +65

      He ain't a snitch

    • @DRcorban
      @DRcorban 8 місяців тому +8

      @@12Rosen Sadly not.

  • @ChakkyCharizard
    @ChakkyCharizard 8 місяців тому +457

    My boyfriend calls things he doesn't like gay all the time. He's bisexual. The end result is me telling him *he's* gay immediately afterwards every time.

    • @Schnort
      @Schnort 8 місяців тому +65

      This is the correct way to do humor

    • @ChakkyCharizard
      @ChakkyCharizard 8 місяців тому +26

      @@Schnort it's become such an expected response that he doesn't even react anymore😂

    • @sandenson
      @sandenson 7 місяців тому +9

      Ah, yes, internalised homophobia

    • @AJayZy
      @AJayZy 7 місяців тому +51

      @@sandensonThat’s kinda gay

    • @beautyandtheoffbeats
      @beautyandtheoffbeats 7 місяців тому +13

      Wow that's gay

  • @SpectralUmbreon197
    @SpectralUmbreon197 8 місяців тому +681

    I distinctly remember around 2011 or 2012 seeing a trailer for a new NASCAR game that featured an increased focus on confrontations and fights rather than the actual racing aspect of most NASCAR games. The game was said to have the option to pursue drivers following or during the races and throw a few left hooks at them, curse out certain drivers, and even had a feature that allowed drivers to flip each other off during the race. Naturally, this game had an M rating as opposed to the E rating that pretty much every other NASCAR game has.
    I'm 99 percent sure this was some fan made trailer, because the game was never made, and I can't find the trailer anywhere on UA-cam. Which is unfortunate, because that premise sounds awesome.

  • @handbanana4899
    @handbanana4899 8 місяців тому +124

    Oh YES Huggbees, PLEASE do the creepy robot baby ad. I've been DYING to see it come back to haunt me after more than a decade.

  • @_hyva_
    @_hyva_ 7 місяців тому +112

    I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Klonoa STD ad, one of the most tone deaf ads out there that stands the test of time as a comedic disasterpiece.

    • @JetWolfEX
      @JetWolfEX 7 місяців тому +20

      There's also the "quite possibly the only thing weirder than your sister" PS1 klonoa ad

    • @PogChimp
      @PogChimp 5 місяців тому +8

      the what???

    • @_hyva_
      @_hyva_ 5 місяців тому +1

      @@PogChimp Look it up, it’s awful

  • @nicksrandomreviews
    @nicksrandomreviews 7 місяців тому +28

    Huggbees, as a representative of the Sega Saturn fanclub, I must warn you that Saturn slander will not be tolerated.
    There are DOZENS of us!
    Dozens!

  • @_its_lunar_
    @_its_lunar_ 8 місяців тому +374

    Even in the 00s it was pretty common to use gay to mean bad and as long as you don’t do it now I don’t see any shame in admitting you did as a child conditioned to believe it was normal. Hell I said it when I was little and now I’m openly dating another woman, everyone said it

    • @twinphalanx4465
      @twinphalanx4465 8 місяців тому

      Yeah. Its still in my vocab as a bisexual man, modern advertising is gay as fuck man, gayer than I.
      Tis just a word the intent is what gives it meaning
      That being said, I never used it as a derogatory phrase towards others purely as an object pejorative

    • @UraniumFever3
      @UraniumFever3 8 місяців тому +16

      Same with me lol I used it so much

    • @3kojimbles895
      @3kojimbles895 8 місяців тому +51

      there's a difference between gay, and GAY. south park has already been over this

    • @CLove511
      @CLove511 8 місяців тому +12

      Same with the other f word -- It had absolutely nothing to do with being gay, and it wouldn't make sense to use it to describe a gay person.... Unless they were being one

    • @irighterotica
      @irighterotica 8 місяців тому +7

      Yep, that certainly was the style at the time.

  • @devastatheseeker9967
    @devastatheseeker9967 8 місяців тому +222

    That Duke Nukem ad will forever make me think of the Gianni video

    • @masonasaro2118
      @masonasaro2118 8 місяців тому +34

      Duke nukem likey men!

    • @ussliberty109
      @ussliberty109 8 місяців тому +37

      If you like men, then you'll like Duke Nukem. I, Duke Nukem, like men.

    • @Cycloon16
      @Cycloon16 8 місяців тому +43

      If you don’t play Duke Nukem 3D, you like men
      If you play Duke Nukem 3D, You like men
      You like men!

    • @jackiswack
      @jackiswack 8 місяців тому +20

      MEN

    • @chazzwozzio
      @chazzwozzio 8 місяців тому

      If you dukey you nukey

  • @HoV326
    @HoV326 8 місяців тому +101

    Okay the Snapcube Eggman fandub announcement caught me so offguard. I've watched that scene so many times, I can almost recite the whole thing verbatim from start to finish

  • @wendibo
    @wendibo 8 місяців тому +264

    Emily did not deserve that tbh

    • @ricolmao6969
      @ricolmao6969 8 місяців тому +34

      She had to be laughing her ass off, cmon he was about to break character the whole time

    • @LB-fc3jd
      @LB-fc3jd 8 місяців тому +5

      Is Emily his wife or smthn?

    • @bK0TT0Nd
      @bK0TT0Nd 8 місяців тому +29

      Does Emily even exist?

    • @Reverend_Taco
      @Reverend_Taco 8 місяців тому +17

      I don’t think Emily exists

    • @ricolmao6969
      @ricolmao6969 8 місяців тому +21

      @@Reverend_Taco doesn’t matter. She’s still our icon

  • @Blueberi
    @Blueberi 8 місяців тому +33

    I can not stand that mobile ads now are literally just: "Here are all the different ways you can collect our fifteen currencies in this game!" It's just Skinner's Boxes with no reward at the end. I need someone telling me Microsoft does what Sony don't.

  • @bruhbbawallace
    @bruhbbawallace 8 місяців тому +374

    huggbees speedrun

  • @milliondollarmistake
    @milliondollarmistake 8 місяців тому +72

    That "beautiful naked woman" ad is still pretty funny

  • @two_squared
    @two_squared 8 місяців тому +226

    Huggbees never fails to make me watch 50 minutes of poop jokes and Florida pride.

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому +1

      thats your mom.

    • @SammytheTongue
      @SammytheTongue 8 місяців тому +21

      ​@@SparrowIZ I would like to take the time to ask you this. What in the world were you thinking when you took time out of your day to type out these words? How in the world is this even an insult? You probably thought of this, snickered to yourself, and thought, "Oh boy, I struck gold with this one." News flash, you haven't struck the air outside your mother's womb with those words.
      That's a mom joke.

    • @Quatro921
      @Quatro921 8 місяців тому +8

      @@SammytheTongueyou know who else took the time to read this? My mom!

    • @two_squared
      @two_squared 8 місяців тому +8

      @@SparrowIZi edge to skibidi toilet

    • @SeanStrife
      @SeanStrife 8 місяців тому

      @@SammytheTongue What's even sadder is this loser commented that on MULTIPLE comments.

  • @anthonyslaptheknee9344
    @anthonyslaptheknee9344 8 місяців тому +22

    I was really hoping you would cover the "kill your friends guilt free" ad for the original guilty gear. It's notable to me cause i love guilty gear, and a former president of the United States covered these ads and said them outloud.
    A sequel to this video would be awesome just for the bill clinton clip

  • @plasterboardwall
    @plasterboardwall 8 місяців тому +201

    Finally the lord snowflame blesses us with a huggbees video

  • @recklssabndon
    @recklssabndon 8 місяців тому +187

    If you think about it - they didn’t phase out leaded gasoline til 1996 so all the children whose brains developed in a biome of lead fumes where the only refuge was to go within the lead-painted walls of their home to snack on some wall chips… I mean. The culmination of those generations would’ve been the ‘90’s teenager. In that light, many of these ads seem much less insane.

    • @LevinQGame
      @LevinQGame 8 місяців тому

      Ah yes Thomas Midgley Jr. As an individual he most likely caused the most harm to humankind to date. Standard Oil(New Jersey) is a cancer on the human race.

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 8 місяців тому +6

      this comment makes me feel old.

    • @Themetalwookie666
      @Themetalwookie666 8 місяців тому +11

      Sho yoo meen that me brane damag was not me falt...

    • @yoursonisold8743
      @yoursonisold8743 8 місяців тому

      Grandpa was poisoned by asbestos, dad was poisoned by lead and you are poisoned by microplastics. I wonder what the next generation will be poisoned with?

    • @calcutt4
      @calcutt4 6 місяців тому +4

      And electrical equipment, especially computer monitors, were also finned with lead

  • @aurafox1
    @aurafox1 8 місяців тому +31

    I get that the idea of putting a hot model on a video game ad is to draw your attention to the advertisement... but I was a teenager once and I can guarantee 0% of people these ads were targeting could tell you what the ads were about.

  • @GGPlex_
    @GGPlex_ 7 місяців тому +33

    My headcanon is that you’re Mikey from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stuck in my phone giving me neat facts on random shit. Keep at it tiny man.

  • @DrErikNefarious
    @DrErikNefarious 8 місяців тому +31

    Hey kids, as an elder millenial, I can confirm these all existed. The 90's were weird

  • @DLCguy
    @DLCguy 7 місяців тому +20

    20:12 From the height Rayman is standing at, he would be pissing on the floor.

  • @antoniopatru8123
    @antoniopatru8123 8 місяців тому +23

    The costumed women beside arcade machines ads were pretty good, but I’d like to see an ad for Donkey kong featuring the Super mario super show actor that plays mario wearing just overalls and his hat, laying suggestively in front of the machine with a latina dressed like pauline beside him. Appeal to both gay men, bi men AND straight men, yk?

    • @wumpus976
      @wumpus976 6 місяців тому +2

      You do know that Mario was played by Captain Lou, right?
      If you wanna see shirtless Super Show Mario, just go watch some old WWF clips. You’re welcome.

  • @ForeveraBoss117
    @ForeveraBoss117 8 місяців тому +39

    A post nut Gameboy Sesh sounds like a family guy cutaway

  • @engima2913
    @engima2913 8 місяців тому +25

    I got really worried when your how’s it made videos started getting striked, but damn you’re an awesome comedian and these videos are even better

  • @MarphitimusBlackimus
    @MarphitimusBlackimus 8 місяців тому +18

    The Duke 3D ad at 37:50 is very obviously not a real ad which is blatantly evident by simple cursory examination of it. This (egregiously so) fabrication was created within the last few years and inexplicably attempted to be passed off as real, which it seems to have been a rousing success on the easily gullible.

    • @specs.weedle
      @specs.weedle 8 місяців тому +8

      I remembered it more for that video where someone voice acted a lot of edits of it
      “IF YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D YOU LIKE MEN”
      “IF YOU LIKE MEN YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D”
      “YOU PLAY DUKE NUKEM 3D”
      “YOU LIKE MEN”
      and other shit along those lines

    • @Dasyati
      @Dasyati 8 місяців тому +4

      Funcoland didn't even sell PC games

    • @thecaptain6520
      @thecaptain6520 8 місяців тому +5

      "You really think people would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"

  • @skuffy4930
    @skuffy4930 8 місяців тому +187

    If advertisements these days were even close to resembling the ones of old, I genuinely believe that we would all be more accepting of them, and might even become actually interested in their products.
    Side note: writing this comment was incredibly difficult, as I had to break up a fight, fend off a gang, master the art of jujutsu, and defeat Graglu the Consumer.
    And that's just so I could begin writing it.

    • @ladyjuno2456
      @ladyjuno2456 8 місяців тому +15

      Honestly I've always wanted us to still make ads like this, like if I ever make a game and run ads I 100% plan on doing some wild bs akin to older ads
      Side note: writing this reply was almost very hard as I had to fend off Jiren and Beerus, while saving a puppy from a tree, while mastering the art of HEMA fencing, all whilst destroying the shadows from the forces of the curse placed on me from the wizard of eternal night, who cursed me after I gave free will back to her minions. (Who I also have a date with next weekend, turns out me and the wizard of eternal night have a lot in common) though as I defeated the curse from the wizard of eternal night I have angered sharuk, lord of universes end, who put the puppy in the tree and taught the wizard of eternal night everything she knows, as I disgraced the honor of his star pupil he challenged me to a duel in the land of sha'kar, birthplace of the primordial darkness, where his magic will be the strongest. Which will be a bit of a hassle as sharuk is known for his magic but it must be done.
      And that was just so I could read the first comment.

    • @froobleton
      @froobleton 8 місяців тому +13

      Damn, that’s awful that you had to fend off all those things
      Side note: Writing this was very hard, because a clone army of John wicks attempted to slaughter me and my fellow Russian gangsters for what my boss’s son did to his dog, and I somehow survived.

    • @spugintrntl
      @spugintrntl 8 місяців тому +9

      *slowly backs out of the room and closes the door*

    • @concerningindividual629
      @concerningindividual629 8 місяців тому +7

      I'm very confused what's going on.
      Side note: Writing my grasp on the reply section was very hard, as I had to beat every pope resurrected in a boxing match all at once, while also giving a speech on thermodynamics to a group of 3rd graders, to the point where they all had a grasp on it, and attempting to survive the wrath of Qurbapix the Resentful beams of annihilation after I had laid xis wife, while also acting as a third party in their divorce proceedings (it was very awkward) and that was just to go into the comments section

    • @thesharpninja
      @thesharpninja 8 місяців тому +1

      Don't worry, you don't need to know.

  • @oswaldfriedman7116
    @oswaldfriedman7116 7 місяців тому +9

    Technically the Duke Nukem ad is really pro-gay if you look at it from the perspective of lesbians

  • @libRteedude
    @libRteedude 8 місяців тому +43

    Those Command & Conquer ads would get you banned from certain websites today. That whole era of edgy advertising was both terrible and amazing at the same time.

  • @zihark8444
    @zihark8444 8 місяців тому +43

    I have that Paper Mario advertisement hanging in my room! I love it, glad to see the recognition!
    I was born in 1990, so this whole video was a trip down memory lane.. truly, thank you Hugbees for doing what you do!

  • @rickardjames1319
    @rickardjames1319 8 місяців тому +45

    Your stuff strikes the perfect balance between glorious shitpost and beautifully scripted essay AND I'M HERE FOR IT!

  • @borbie2409
    @borbie2409 8 місяців тому +26

    My jaw actually dropped at the Command and Conquer High Scores ad. Truly a different era.

  • @Drago0900
    @Drago0900 8 місяців тому +17

    UA-cam is getting out of hand, I just had to watch 51 minutes and 9 seconds of ads. And I loved every second of it

  • @hoodedman6579
    @hoodedman6579 8 місяців тому +29

    The "hot woman next to arcade machines" reminds me of a similar thing where they had the actor for Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat playing a different fighting game called Blood Storm, and he looked really excited about it. I have no idea if it was effective at all but it did look really funny.

  • @Roel.Engels
    @Roel.Engels 8 місяців тому +24

    The old PlayStation 2 ads would've fit in here perfectly, edgy graphics that sort of in a way kinda have something to do with the product

  • @doc_sav
    @doc_sav 7 місяців тому +11

    I got to meet Romero once. He was so freaking nice, and so genuinely into the art of making games, that you can really see what an impact that ad must've had to harm his rep for as long as it did (in conjunction with Ion Storm, which wasn't entirely his fault.)

  • @brevin630
    @brevin630 8 місяців тому +27

    I work at an arcade, and we still use tokens because our owner refuses to switch to cards because it'd be "too expensive" even though we spend thousands of dollars to get more boxes of tickets

    • @IMINSIDEYOURMUM
      @IMINSIDEYOURMUM 8 місяців тому +6

      You should pedal the cards to people more… but leave tokens as sort of a traditional option.

    • @carsonhunt4642
      @carsonhunt4642 8 місяців тому +8

      Tokens are more fun tbh. Cards make me not wanna spend money

  • @andreworders7305
    @andreworders7305 8 місяців тому +58

    38:43 back in the 90s? That was still the most popular insult in 2010s middle schools, that hasn’t changed.

    • @trixsomethingsomething2095
      @trixsomethingsomething2095 8 місяців тому +9

      I love how these days people can't take anyone seriously when used it as an insult now. LMAO

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 8 місяців тому

      at least its not the f word

    • @masonasaro2118
      @masonasaro2118 8 місяців тому +10

      @@belstar1128f *slur*
      f *word* is just fuck

    • @stackflow343
      @stackflow343 8 місяців тому +5

      There are also many videos that need to be called out as fake and gay. It's a public service.

    • @yoursonisold8743
      @yoursonisold8743 8 місяців тому

      Children will be children. Because only a child's underdeveloped brain thinks that's funny after all.

  • @ivanbluecool
    @ivanbluecool 8 місяців тому +83

    Reminds me of a fire emblem ad where dorcas eats rotten meat and goes down.
    Them it becomes canon in fire emblem heroes. Hilarious.

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому +1

      thats your mom

    • @ghostmarshmello5893
      @ghostmarshmello5893 8 місяців тому +2

      Bot

    • @velnard8540
      @velnard8540 8 місяців тому +7

      -What happened to dorcas?
      -I poisoned his mutton

    • @knightofarnor2552
      @knightofarnor2552 8 місяців тому +14

      "BUILD AN ARMY, TRUST NO-ONE!"
      >series involves doing things like sending your Cleric with glass bones to talk to the myrmidon who's being paid to kill her

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 8 місяців тому

      @@knightofarnor2552Radiant Dawn?

  • @xuanqili184
    @xuanqili184 8 місяців тому +8

    Rule of thumb for mobile games. The more ads you see of them, the more trash they are.

  • @tront6897
    @tront6897 8 місяців тому +2

    gen alpha? huggbees be serious i think your audience is all gen z and millennial, gen alpha watches ai generated youtube search engine optimized slop

  • @How2lulululu
    @How2lulululu 8 місяців тому +15

    I don't know if the emily bit was supposed to be funny but the lack of breaking character or having an actual punchline other than "rude to woman"
    just made me super uncomfortable and not laugh at all

    • @GamingGardevoir
      @GamingGardevoir 4 місяці тому +3

      That joke only works properly if the video plays on a TV in a public setting where someone named Emily is trying to show TikToks to the people around her.
      It’s basically the same joke as a UA-camr trying to guess your name when saying “I’m talking to you”

  • @hunterking6033
    @hunterking6033 8 місяців тому +26

    The 8-Bit Nintendo-esque Boulevard of Broken Dreams insert while talking about Masters of Doom is a chef's kiss.

  • @ivanbluecool
    @ivanbluecool 8 місяців тому +45

    Next are ads that absolutely don't make any sense on making you want to buy the product
    I saw a car crash commercial that acts like this new car is better than the last one you just got in a crash in
    Dove telling you that you are beautiful.......then telling you to buy their beauty products
    An ad that wants to stop people from getting anorexia but it scares people instead which only causes more stress
    And so on

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому +1

      thats your mom

  • @BerserkBa
    @BerserkBa 7 місяців тому +12

    0:44 we have a arcade in Western Australia called Leisure Island. they still do tokens to play and give physical tickets from games. The sad news is we only have 1 left...

  • @GUNUFofficial
    @GUNUFofficial 8 місяців тому +109

    The saturn may suck but the dreamcast was underrated as hell.

    • @gabby3036
      @gabby3036 8 місяців тому +1

      About as underrated as this comment.

    • @MrZer093
      @MrZer093 8 місяців тому +4

      Cannot agree more. The Dreamcast would have thrived if the Saturn didn’t exist. It being such an objectively terrible console required the Dreamcast to sell absurdly well just to make up for all the losses Sega had to endure under the Saturn. And it just didn’t happen simply because no amount of marketing could convince people to trust Sega after how bad the Saturn was. God I wish people realized how amazing that console was then so more companies would have done stuff like make the memory cards their own little simple handheld console because good god was the Dreamcast amazing for that alone

    • @dragonmaster3030
      @dragonmaster3030 8 місяців тому +7

      The Saturn was fine, hell one of if not the most powerful console at the time. Sega just couldn't get their shit together and told consumers the day it released before retailers even knew to stock it or for games to be made beforehand. To this very fucking day I still do not understand the logic they were using here

    • @XDevonBueno
      @XDevonBueno 8 місяців тому +3

      The Saturn was a good system, Sega kinda screwed themselves by making people by the 32x first tho, who's gonna buy a 32 bit system twice?

    • @YadonTheCat
      @YadonTheCat 8 місяців тому

      I think you got those backwards

  • @XzMondayNightzX
    @XzMondayNightzX 8 місяців тому +14

    Man that Duke Nukem ad is straight up Dick Kickem energy. It's also funny how Ion Fury got shit for having bottles of "O'Gay" being an in universe thing many years later. Props to the devs because that would be on point.
    Also yes, I did play Daikatana and on the N64 even with that "controller" thing. I think it made me the man I am today because Jesus... that experience would kill a spineless crybaby. Meanwhile Doom is going hard still and Johns a cool dude and still very active in the community. Never did answer the question though... what are those holes on the cacos backside?
    Crazy how I remember some of these ads especially the scratch and sniff earth bound shit sticker. I thought my cat relived himself on it.

    • @masonasaro2118
      @masonasaro2118 8 місяців тому +5

      cacloaca

    • @SpaghettyLuvsU
      @SpaghettyLuvsU 8 місяців тому

      @@masonasaro2118 Jokes like this are why science education is so important

  • @MrSkerpentine
    @MrSkerpentine 8 місяців тому +9

    31:34 As someone that was for some reason hyper-fixated on PANIC! as a kid on early 2010’s UA-cam that was fascinated with weird retro games (still am), considering that PANIC! is literally just “press buttons and watch absurdist wacky shit that Data East Japan found funny for a few minutes and nothing else”, I think that ad fits it perfectly, maybe even undersells it
    One of the gags in the game is a small child drinking a potion that causes massive uncensored breasts to grow all over his body, have a good time spending hours’ worth of UA-cam searching for that shit

  • @DoubleKaiser
    @DoubleKaiser 8 місяців тому +13

    I actually had to do a written report on an ad that I thought was particularly great, and I did mine on that Paper Mario ad. It absolutely crushes. Top-tier ad.

  • @TMWaspyDude8285
    @TMWaspyDude8285 8 місяців тому +11

    You could call the soda Snow Cola and have a bad drawing of yourself as Snowflame on it

  • @conall9415
    @conall9415 8 місяців тому +21

    32:17; This is funny to me because you can easily imagine a non-racist version of this ad and it would be hilariously dark. Something like;
    "Mr. Takahiron is personally accountable for programming fun code. If you and your friends aren't completely freaked out with fun, and as a result the projects he works on don't produce an acceptable margin of profits, then he will be fired. We hired Mr. Takahiron because he cannot find work anywhere else, so he cannot negotiate his pay or working conditions. If he is fired, he will not be able to provide for his wife and three children, and will resort to taking his own life for an insurance fraud scheme so his family can collect the benefits."

  • @NovemberOrWhatever
    @NovemberOrWhatever 7 місяців тому +7

    The Duke Nukem Ad is hilarious. It's the people who *don't* play a game advertised by a muscly guy wearing a tanktop that are gay, not the ones who go "this guy looks hot, I'll buy whatever he's selling". The latter group are the ones who don't like men, naturally.

  • @kashsmith6181
    @kashsmith6181 Місяць тому +3

    I'm really surprised that you didn't cover Acclaim. They committed actual crimes to advertise their games in an edgy way. Just one example: Sneaking into a graveyard and defacing the tombstones by etching ads for their next game into them.

  • @Sweetestsadist
    @Sweetestsadist 8 місяців тому +9

    I still have a lot of gaming magazines and I can tell you that 30 years later, you can still smell the "hot pepper dog" on those Earthbound ads. I check once a year.

  • @caittails
    @caittails 8 місяців тому +22

    I want to live in the Huggbees universe, where “gay” isn’t still a fairly common insult. 😕

  • @PhillipLarsen
    @PhillipLarsen 8 місяців тому +7

    You forgot the part where if you don't like Duke Nuke'm 3D, you like men. You like men. But if you Duki, you Nuki.

  • @-alovelygaycat-
    @-alovelygaycat- 7 місяців тому +35

    Here’s a Huggbees video idea: go through the entire Wikipedia article “List of musical works in unusual time signatures” and talk about them/rate them/rank them.

    • @Sakkeru96
      @Sakkeru96 7 місяців тому +3

      Haven't read that page yet but if it doesn't include "The Least Wanted Song" then I must insist he reacts to it as a bonus because I need to see that

  • @joenappi8459
    @joenappi8459 8 місяців тому +24

    As a pumpkin farmer I live every day in fear that Hugbees will show up and destroy the entirety of my crop with his mind in under 45 minutes

  • @TRDRHDB
    @TRDRHDB 8 місяців тому +11

    The paper mario ad is actually really cute lmao i like that one a lot

  • @baneblade__
    @baneblade__ 8 місяців тому +67

    Dude please make this a series, there's so much weird advertising around gaming from this time period and the 2000s

  • @fedoratheexplorar2143
    @fedoratheexplorar2143 8 місяців тому +8

    I'd love to watch a bad video game box art video, its a popular video idea but Id love your top notch commentary

  • @massecurr
    @massecurr 8 місяців тому +11

    I feel like this is missing a category of edgy marketing, threats of violence, including my personal favorite, the Doom 64 bodybag ad

  • @pixelsilzavon77
    @pixelsilzavon77 8 місяців тому +5

    it doesn't say you don't like men if you do play DK3D :3

  • @AnnoyingSquib
    @AnnoyingSquib 5 місяців тому +2

    As a girl gamer growing up in the 90's I find it extremely comical just how brain dead US advertisers were towards games. Most of the sexism I faced wasnt from guys. Me and my buddies liked playing together before the hormones hit and things got awkward. It was grown women that were telling me video games are boy toys and that I wasn't being ladylike among questioning my sexuality. Yet thats how old men in the corporate offices were trying to push their products. Until they woke up one decade, pulled their heads out of their asses and realized that not only do players with tiddies exist, but we could be marketed to. And you can also blame them for why some Japanese game companies were reluctant to release overseas titles because I mean Christ. I dont blame them for having doubts that their games would have appealed to western audiences.

  • @VidelxSpopovich
    @VidelxSpopovich 7 місяців тому +6

    I was thirteen when UA-cam came out. I remember a time before the internet was accessible to everyone.

  • @hollyumbreon
    @hollyumbreon 7 місяців тому +3

    16:27 No because my brother pre-trans thought he was gay, then thought he was straight but then finally realized well he IS gay but for guys actually and he can definitely admit WOMEN.

  • @samclayton628
    @samclayton628 8 місяців тому +11

    To the guy responding to every comment with "that's your mom": you're gonna have a younger sibling soon. I'm sorry I didn't use protection

    • @CycIic
      @CycIic 8 місяців тому

      sparrowIZ or whatever his name is somehow has 2 thousand subscribers for commenting "thats your mom.."

  • @improvisestudios
    @improvisestudios 8 місяців тому +31

    what's the difference between snowmen and snow women?
    Snowballs.

  • @sparkywilson1405
    @sparkywilson1405 8 місяців тому +2

    if you don't play duke nukem 3d you like men!
    if you do play duke nukem 3d you like men!
    you like men! :)

  • @cephaleaorion4888
    @cephaleaorion4888 8 місяців тому +4

    i have a copy of daikatana that i got for 97 cents, you REALLY gotta meet the game halfway, but it's pretty fun

  • @FutilityFS
    @FutilityFS 8 місяців тому +2

    ironicly as a gay dude Nuke Dukem awaken my love for guys with big daddy milkers pecs

  • @Plad_B
    @Plad_B 8 місяців тому +6

    in conclusion- game Ads and the people behind them had fun making them

  • @Beesiess
    @Beesiess 8 місяців тому +3

    thank you very much huggbees for the 4th reminder today that my name sucks ass and i hate it

  • @Wnick1996
    @Wnick1996 8 місяців тому +53

    They don't make game adverts like they used to. Probably due to the fact that almost every game just some big coverage and the fact that print adverts are pretty much dead at this point. God, this makes me feel old

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому +2

      thats your mom..

    • @alexthewrecker4666
      @alexthewrecker4666 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@SparrowIZthis one doesn't even make sense given the original comment 😨

  • @broderick4262
    @broderick4262 8 місяців тому +2

    Is a 8bit cover of Boulevard of broken dreams playing in the background at 46:46 or am I just tweaking?

  • @GotTheBestLigma
    @GotTheBestLigma 8 місяців тому +3

    All this hate for the Sega Saturn 🪐 I'm taking a guess you didn't own one. Good system but too small library of games.

  • @Hawkatana
    @Hawkatana 8 місяців тому +11

    I can no longer look at Duke Nukem without hearing Gianni Matragrano.

    • @AbsolXGuardian
      @AbsolXGuardian 8 місяців тому +3

      I was honestly surprised hugbees didn't use Gianni's reading of the ad

  • @MelonBomb-hf2md
    @MelonBomb-hf2md 8 місяців тому +59

    At this point, huggbees is just American Caddicarus

    • @ulqinaku8471
      @ulqinaku8471 8 місяців тому +3

      But funny and not a annoying britbong

    • @MonkeyKingsformerroomate
      @MonkeyKingsformerroomate 8 місяців тому +5

      With fouler language

    • @sludgesketch8697
      @sludgesketch8697 8 місяців тому +11

      Now imagine if we put them in the same room imagine the chaos that can unfold

    • @Sonic_the_hedgedog
      @Sonic_the_hedgedog 8 місяців тому

      ​@@sludgesketch8697gay sex ❤

    • @jvts8916
      @jvts8916 8 місяців тому +4

      Was honestly expecting the "will thou save the girl or play like one" ad also featured in Caddy's video

  • @bes03c
    @bes03c 7 місяців тому +3

    I was the weird kid that bought Earthbound after seeing all the weird ads.

  • @ulischmidt03
    @ulischmidt03 8 місяців тому +3

    28:55 funny thing is, I'm pretty sure both of those ads were made PRIOR to 9/11

  • @demilung
    @demilung 8 місяців тому +1

    Listen, if you like men and then play Duke3D, you won't start liking women, more likely your taste in men would change a bit, like "what about a macho himbo?"

  • @Rainok
    @Rainok 8 місяців тому +5

    The next DOOM ad should go the Daikatana route, I would buy it on release if they did that, not just because it's DOOM, but because that ad would kick ass

  • @crazizzle85
    @crazizzle85 8 місяців тому +2

    HOW DARE YOU, the Saturn is amazing. #cancelhuggbees

  • @professorhaystacks6606
    @professorhaystacks6606 8 місяців тому +28

    12:00 about: In fairness the woman chained to the bed COULD have an 'ignoring' kink. It's a thing.

  • @kilotango6726
    @kilotango6726 8 місяців тому +2

    Calling things bad for being gay? That's kinda gay

  • @AlexTrevell
    @AlexTrevell 8 місяців тому +4

    30 minutes in and Huggbees learns how Schlatt feels from the 9/11 jokes

  • @someonesomewhere144
    @someonesomewhere144 8 місяців тому +9

    I hope you do a video on Spider Man’s Paul one day. That needs a huge roast.

    • @SparrowIZ
      @SparrowIZ 8 місяців тому

      thats your mom.

  • @The_Arcadian
    @The_Arcadian 8 місяців тому +1

    Ya’know some of us are lesbian gamers. I love girls but Duke is not my idea of a fun protagonist. But ya’know y’all enjoy yourselves.

  • @tonypalma9376
    @tonypalma9376 8 місяців тому +3

    no wonder i like men! i never played duke nukem 3d!

  • @cidlunius1076
    @cidlunius1076 8 місяців тому +2

    39:06 That's pretty gay.