Like with products from most other commercial industries, video games and consoles have a long history of having slogans attached to them - from NES’ “Now you’re playing with power” to N64’s “Change the system” (they could have worked on this a little harder) to Xbox 360/One’s “Jump In.” These are meant to stick in your mind and set the tone with what you’re in for, should you buy the products in question.
Which one(s) are your favorite?
Mine are:
Atari Jaguar - “Do the Math” because it promotes mathematics and education
I’m a maniac and have kept all my vintage advertisement/brochures, so have pretty all the Australian ones recorded. I have poor internet right now but here are a couple.
NES: World Number 1
(this one is probably my oldest, from before I even had a Nintendo or Sega as a very little kid I would get the brochures)
Lifetime warranties really mean ‘Engineered well enough we’re pretty confident it will work fine for five years unless abused, and it’s unlikely anybody will ever try and get a repair after that’.
I liked this one as a kid. Sounds almost like get “in” or get out, and the N logo there is appropriate to illustrate the 3D capabilities of the hardware of the time.
“The Fun Machine” - Really sums up the N64 for me. With its focus on action, platformers, multiplayer and other types of games that are less focused on story, the N64 really is the fun machine to me. The Wii has a similar vibe going for it.
I’m just mad since it was something I remember seeing people writing in school before the Playstation with a different pen for the “red E” and asking them out loud “whats with the red e” and immediately regretting it. Like the person who got had by “pass me the buttfor/dickfor”.
