X-Men Advertisements

Continuing the X-Men coverage with a post of all ads. Seeing as how the blog began as a game ads project, I decided to put every ad featuring the X-Men I have in one place. Along with video game ads, I've got other product ads, some that also appear on the Vault 1541 Facebook page where I upload various things like food, apparel, and trading card ads. Even if they aren't specifically X-Men ads, I'll include scans of ads with X-Men characters, like Wolverine, too.

Non-Game Products

Video Games

Gaming Ads: Flying Edge

Flying Edge was a publishing division for Acclaim Entertainment from 1991-1994. It was a brand that was only used for Sega's platforms, such as the Genesis and Game Gear. There isn't much else to say about Flying Edge that hasn't already been covered under the Acclaim ads post and the multi-branded Acclaim ads that feature a combination of two of more Acclaim labels, including Acclaim itself, Arena Entertainment, Flying Edge, and LJN. I realized a few of the ads I had in my Flying Edge ads folder are multi-branded, plus I've since scanned a few more of those so I'm going to use this week to also update that Flickr album.

Flying Edge albums: Facebook - Google Photos

Gaming Ads: Acclaim (Multiple Brands), Balistic Software, and Ballistic

Before I put a cap on the "A" publishers I'm revisiting Acclaim. Acclaim had a few subsidiaries and brands, and some ads feature two or more of them. While I could have copied them to every publisher in each ad, I decided to place them in one grouped album. The publishers involved are Acclaim, Arena Entertainment, Flying Edge, and LJN. Arena was another we've already taken a look at and we'll see the other two in their own albums later.

Next are two very similarly named companies, one being a brand of another big publisher we've already seen. First is Balistic Software, a publisher I know nothing about beyond the single ad I've got that's of a role-playing game for the Commodore 64.

The other Ballistic was a publishing brand used by Accolade from 1991-1994 primarily to get around the licensing contract it had with Nintendo. Nintendo blocked most publishers that wanted to release games for the Nintendo Entertainment System from releasing games on competing platforms so some publishers simply created another publishing brand to do so (like the aforementioned Acclaim and Flying Edge). None of the Sega Genesis games from Ballistic carried Sega's official seal of approval which led to a legal battle between the two. Ballistic was dissolved shortly after that was resolved with future releases carrying only the Accolade name.

Acclaim brands albums: Facebook - Google Photos

Ballistic albums: Facebook - Google Photos

    

After leaving Flickr I opted to group publishers with a single ad in the same album so Balistic Software no longer has its own album but its one ad does appear on this page.