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“The new Game Boy Pocket. Seriously distracting.”
Nintendo’s advertising agency Leo Burnett ran this mature-targeted Game Boy Pocket ad in Loaded, FHM, and Viz, reasoning that it fit those UK magazines’ audiences.
Several readers complained, however, and said the girl looked terrified and held against her will — Nintendo wanted to convey her frustration over her partner ignoring their bedroom bondage activities to play Tetris.
The Advertising Standards Authority asked Nintendo to remove the ads from future issues, and described the company as irresponsible for implying the restrained woman was “subjugated and humiliated”. Isn’t that what sadomasochism is about?
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Super Game Boy Commander controller for Super Famicom. This may be one of the least necessary controllers I’ve seen, useful mostly for people who weren’t able to adjust to playing Game Boy games with two buttons that didn’t have a speaker vent under them.
Maybe we didn’t need it over here because our SNES controller buttons were already a shade of purple, so it was less jarring of a transition from Game Boy to SNES. Okay, to be serious, when in Super Game Boy mode, the unused SFC buttons are remapped to other functions like slowdown.
It may not be necessary, but it’s kind of awesome. It’s NCSX’s sale item of the week, for $19.90.
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