Games: The Reason Why Shrek is Telling Kids to Play Outside?
January 28th, 2009 | Written by Anthony Perez | Topic: Social Commentary
So here I am eating a delicious sandwich on my lunch break and watching Jon Stewart on Hulu, when an ad comes up. This ad. And yes, I sadly can’t embed the video here because the uploader doesn’t understand how the Internet – and more specifically, YouTube – works and has disabled the option to embed the video. So if you go through the trouble of clicking a link to see that video, then you might as well watch it in Spanish.
But my biggest problem with the ad is that it’s trying to speak to children by relating to them, hence the ad featuring Shrek characters. But then they throw this shot in there:
The Game Gear? The f–king Game Gear? If this commercial were shot back when the Game Gear was launched in America, that roughly 10-year-old kid would be 28-years-old! Not exactly the target audience you guys were trying to reach, is it?
And honestly, not even a Game Boy Color? Remember the Game Boy Color? Yeah, I do…barely. Why? Because it came out 10 years ago. That’s 9 years after the Game Gear.
I know nobody wants a fat child – literally, there are people who want them taken away – but I say, play games. Game it up, kid! Hell I’ve played games all my life and I didn’t turn out to be a drunk, drug-abusing, and anti-social werewolf. I actually turned out to be a quite charming, handsome young man who stumbles across hoola hoops tied to trees in the middle of large urban areas. And that picture was reassuring considering I wasn’t sure if I was seeing straight given my high level of intoxication.
So rather than constantly attack gamers, we should be having public service announcements warning kids not to grow up to be heartless, asshole business men like these guys.
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Comment by TheForgotten0ne on the January 28th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Professional models? I guess you have never been the best liar?