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Old 11-01-03, 11:17 AM
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Nintendo’s “Who Are You?” Campaign Getting Scary

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Not scary, more like stupid. A few years ago I thought I would like seeing video games on huge billboards and mainstream magazines, but now that its happening, I relaly regret that desire. These ads are further making people think video games are just for kids or a stupid and "immature". Lots of video games are becoming art in a sense [most RPG's, the Medal of Honor series, etc] and lots of games are becoming impressive reproductions of real life activities [Gran Turismo, Virtua Fighter, most sports games] and yet these ads are just saying "Hey, video games are still silly and empty diversions about Italian plumbers, monkeys, and cute and cuddly dinosaurs". That, and everything these stupid heads are being pasted on aren't really that funny, come on..works of art, great sporting events, wonderful cities, famous bands? They just defile it..so much.

And this isn't fanboyism, I'd say the same thing if it were giant Sonic heads and giant Sony logos being used..it's just sick.
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Man, you'd think that pasting Mario's head on a huge statue holding it's schxxxx would have struck someone as a bad idea.
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lol
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"Is that a warp whistle in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"




Ok, enough of that.
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Looks kinda like a Photoshop job to me.
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This picture has been posted in a lot of other gaming forums, its awesome

OMFG Mario iz teh mature!!11!!
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I don't know it this is real or fake, it seems too ludicrous to be real. Anyway, I think the "Who Are You?" campaign is horrible... dammit!
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I'd have to agree with Nitro... looks like a Photo-chop to me. Like the mothers of America would let this slip out... get real.
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SA did a photoshop phriday last week based on this. funny stuff.
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It's legit.

Nintendo pulled it off thier website and replaced it though.

AS for the campaign, at first I thought it was cool but now it just plain sucks.
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Originally posted by sniper308
Man, you'd think that pasting Mario's head on a huge statue holding it's schxxxx would have struck someone as a bad idea.
Been done - Ron Jeremy...
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Just wondering, in the actual statue that is a torch he's holding, right? Right?

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