Gaming Ads: Backfilling #17

Last video games ads post was September 2022  so it has been a while but I do have more and will hopefully continue getting them from time-to-time. One is fitting for the holidays as it's a Christmas-themed Game Boy ad from Nintendo. Two of them are retail ads from Target (Game Boy) and Walmart (Konami handhelds), and the last is a PC controller from Microsoft.

Gaming Ads: Backfilling #16

This is just a quick post to add a bit more to Batman Day. I uploaded two new handheld electronics ads, both from Tiger Electronics. One is for Batman Returns and the other is a general company ad with a bunch of games, including Batman.

Handheld Electronics: Facebook - Google Photos

Gaming Ads: Backfilling #15

I'm kicking off the new year by filling in some more game ads. I've not posted any new ones since last March as I've not been able to go through too many more magazines (don't have many remaining at this point) or comic books. I'm also giving American Game Cartridges (AGC) its own album now which it originally had with one ad on Flickr but then I opted to only give albums to companies with more than one ad which it now has. The Chiller ad says ShareData but AGC was a subsidiary of ShareData and the publisher of that game. For the backfilling there is a good mix, including California Dreams, Irem America, Konami of America, Nintendo of America, Sega of America, Taxan USA, and U.S. Gold. Happy New Year!

Gaming Ads: Video System USA and Backfilling #13

Video System was a Japanese developer and publisher founded in the mid-'80s and closed in the early 2000s. I've not found too much detailed information on this company though I did write on Mc O'River previously which was the first name it published games under in North America. It switched to Video System USA in 1997 but it never released very many games in the U.S.

I've only got two ads for Video System so I'm going to do a little backfilling and this will be the last time I combine backfilling with a publisher. Therefore, I'll upload what I currently have which covers Acclaim, LucasArts, Midway, Philips, and SNK. Only four more publishers remain alphabetically for this project that I began about five years ago, though I may need to work backwards to add a few more publishers.

Video System USA albums: Facebook - Google Photos

Gaming Ads: Titus and Backfilling #12

Titus was founded in 1985 and based in Paris, France. A big publisher and developer in Europe for both computers and consoles, the company also had offices around the world. In 1999 it made two major moves, one is it became a majority investor in Interplay and through that, as well as another investment, it acquired Virgin Interactive. It continued to raise its stake in Interplay over the next few years, eventually owning more than 72% of it. Unfortunately, Titus mismanaged Interplay and made other financial mistakes which led to filing for bankruptcy in 2004 and being liquidated in 2005.

I'm also posting three more ads to Sony this week.

Titus albums: Facebook - Google Photos

Gaming Ads: Three-Sixty Pacific and Backfilling #11

This is a short ads post and possibly the second to last backfilling for publishers already posted as the end is not far off. I've only got two ads for Three-Sixty Pacific so both are posted below along with more ads for Electronic Arts, Konami of America, and Interplay. The Konami ads are very slight variations on two I already had.

Three-Sixty Pacific was a developer and publisher that specialized in war games and simulations. It is best known for the naval sim series Harpoon and WWII strategy V for Victory games. The company was active from 1987-1994, at which time it ran into financial difficulties and was acquired by Intracorp which ultimately went bankrupt itself two years later.

Three-Sixty Pacific albums: Facebook - Google Photos

Gaming Ads: Synergy Interactive, T&E Soft of America, and Backfilling #10

Synergy was a Japanese developer and publisher with a U.S. publishing branch based in Los Angeles known as Synergy Interactive. I cannot locate any other details about this one; from what I can gather it released less than 10 games, all during the '90s and all for either home computers or the 3DO console.

The T&E in T&E Soft are the first initials of the two brothers that started the company: Toshirou and Eiji Yokoyama. Founded in 1982, it released many games in Japan on a variety of platforms and continued to develop games up to 2002 when it was renamed D Wonderland. I'm not entirely sure what D Wonderland does but it is not involved in games. T&E Soft of America published two golf games in North American during the early '90s and nothing else.

Between Synergy and T&E I've only got five ads so I'm doing some backfilling for Nintendo of America this week as well. When I posted about Nintendo I mentioned it didn't seem to advertise heavily in early game magazines and when researching Game Boy more recently found that it did put most of its marketing budget into television and Nintendo Power. These five new ads I've got came from ESPN the Magazine and are Game Boy-centric.

Synergy Interactive albums: Facebook - Google Photos

T&E Soft of America albums: Facebook - Google Photos

Gaming Ads: SouthPeak Interactive and Backfilling #9

Founded in 1996 and originally based in North Carolina, SouthPeak Interactive was a subsidiary of SAS Institute. Also known as SouthPeak Games, the company was sold to Phillips sales in 2000, and acquired both Global Services Partners Acquisition Corp. (and merged with it) and game publisher Gamecock Media Group in 2008. SouthPeak created a digital distribution subsidiary known as 7Sixty in 2011 which was also the last year it published any games. While SouthPeak published more than 50 games, there aren't many standout titles. It did make use of quite a few licenses that included Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Men in Black, The Flintstones, The Dukes of Hazzard, Wild Wild West, and a few others. Aside from the licensed products, the most recognizable games are likely Two Worlds and Section 8, plus the PC retail version of Trine.

I only have two ads from SouthPeak and want to give Spectrum Holobyte its own week so I'm filling in a few ads for publishers I've already posted about.

SouthPeak Interactive albums: Facebook - Google Photos