30 Retro Game Ads in 30 Days: Sega CD
Continuing with today's theme of bad game footage (and the sub-theme of ripping Sega), here's an early-1990s ad for the Sega CD, a piece of kit produced when Sega's strategy was "Let's stack some more crap around the Genesis and see what happens." The ad begins in earnest after the belligerent television hijacker screams, "Show him!" The hapless moron with the speech disorder is then "treated" to a barrage of game clips, including some barely discernible football action and a few of the grainy, 1/4-screen videos that were the hallmark of Sega CD shovelware.
Here's a good rule of thumb: If a commercial only shows you split-second clips of the games, and they still look terrible, stay far away.



