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    90s advertisements for teens weren’t that suggestive. and 90s advertisements were more creative than a bikini model holding a product.

    this is someone’s idea of what the 90s were like based on baywatch and redditisms.

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    I don’t have Twitter so I can’t confirm, but it looks like the mob had determined this was an AI fake. The one time I was considering using xcancel, it’s already gone lol

    https://x.com/i/trending/2051174215206805601

    As a Japanese guy, I can attest that the Japanese is unnatural and a quick search does show that the pricing is wrong. Also Saikachi would be an incredibly rare last name (all different ways of writing the kanji ads up to about 1’000 individuals in all of Japan), so it shouldn’t be difficult to find her in a quick online search but you can’t find anything about her.

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        Right? Why do they even make fake ones like these? It messes with history. I mean, this particular example might not be a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but if there were thousands of these made and a history in the future wanted to make a documentation about 90s gaming advertisements, they’d have to sift through a bunch of fakes.

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          back in the day forging some historical material used to be a research exercise for history students. we had that kind of thing for the press and we had to study how things are written (that was the whole point) and then replicate it using these insights - barely anyone ever got a good grade for these things because it is way harder to do than it seems like - even something from 10 years ago linguistically is another world and something form 1920s or 1930s (or earlier) is straight up parallel universe.

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        It’s really well made, but I can point out a few weird things.

        • Weird black thing under 圧倒的, not a Japanese character
        • Weird black thing between S and E of the big SEGA
        • There’s a belt buckle but not really a belt on her pants
        • The words Power, and Access on the console are illegible but clearly don’t have the proper number of letters
        • The Japanese copy is weird: why underline “controlpad” “in-game world” “control as you”; ます ending out of nowhere; lots of commas; miswrote Nights and Evangelion
        • Awkwardly separates Sega and Saturn in the logo just to show… her belt buckle?
        • Price is wrong
        • Japan didn’t require adding “+ tax” or “excl tax” until 2004.
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          Maybe my memory is a bit shit. But the main give away for me is that the image quality of the model seems way too high for Sega Saturn era, i.e. Early to mid 90s

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            Professional photography was potentially done on film negatives larger than paper on which consumers printed their photos. So I’m not sure in what way “image quality is too high”.

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            Sry, I pressed shift + enter by accident and commented too early. There are some signs I saw above!

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    Idk who Momoko Saikachi is but I’d like to be her friend. Maybe I can help her with an Arch install, I bet she loves Linux too

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    Wait, wait, is the model actually holding the product in her real hands?

    That’s so random. They should have just photoshopped it in there, like now

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    90s were wild for gaming ads. I remember Battlecruiser 3000 AD and Daikatana ads the most.

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      Daikatana was gloriously stupid but in retrospect - gotta respect our man Romero - fan patch Daikatana goes hard as fuck.

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        The Game Boy Color game is actually pretty rad fresh out of the box (or from Romero’s website).

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        As a teenager I loved that game. I’d absolutely hate it now. Great vision with a wet fart of an execution. I should give the fan patch version a chance.

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          it was a haphazard mess on release but fan patch made it playable and quite enjoyable (if you’re into oldschool fps). they fucking fixed AI! and the bugs are gone! and it doesn’t crash every 10 minutes! it’s still filled with stupid shit to the brim but i kinda respect its maximalist game design even if it is quite overwhelming at times.

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            Thank you! I was at high school when it came out, and somehow it fascinated me, I played the shit out of it despite its shortcomings as a game, it captivated me in some way.

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            Daikatana is a bit outside my wheelhouse, but is it worth playing if I like Postal 2 or is more along the lines of Duke Nukem which I find uninteresting?

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              Daikatana is an oldschool FPS that also tries some rudimentary RPG mechanics and is technically four games mashed with its own sets of weapons and enemies. It is as rough as it gets but Romero had the right ideas and much of what he envisioned in Daikatana ended up being the future of FPS

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              It has interesting ideas for its time, like NPC companions with voice lines, a leveling up system, and some creative weapons. Out of the 2 you mentioned, I guess it’s still closer to Duke Nukem, but you can watch some gameplay videos or give it a try for $1 and see if you like it.

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          depends on your expectations. overall very fun experience if you’re into oldschool fps stuff.

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    She’s got that look that says “I’m only doing this for the money so I can actually afford to buy some clothes”.

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    Apparently the symbols on the left are translated to

    “absolutely stunning”

    Yes you didn’t need to point her features out even more Sega

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      My Japanese isn’t very good, but doesn’t it translate better to “overwhelming: the (shock?) of 32-bit CG”? But in that case I’m not sure its talking about the model at all but the features on the Sega Saturn

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        overwhelming: the (shock?) of 32-bit CG

        圧倒的。ビット32CG衝撃。

        Yeah this is it. “Overwhelming” and then it could also be something like “the 32-bit CG impact” or maybe “32-bit CG is a shocker”, so definitely talking about the console. Although writing “bit 32CG” would be an odd way to phrase it these days, but I guess there are a lot of tech phrases from 30 years ago in English too that sound pretty strange now.

        The main tagline is on the top right that’s basically “Games are changing. The future is changing.”

        ゲームが変わる。未来が変わる。

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    I only remember 2 games for the Saturn:

    Myst, which I later got on PC after renting the Saturn version (the Saturn was also rented), and Dragoon something… It was basically a SHMUP but you rode the back of a dragon and was 3D.

    I know I played more than those two, but I don’t remember any of 'em.

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      Man, so many great games.

      Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter, Sega Rally, Daytona USA, Nights, Shining Force 3, Fighting Vipers, Last Bronx, House of the dead, Enemy Zero, Virtual On, Panzer Dragoon Saga…

      Fuck I had a good childhood

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          You take that back… there was at least 12 polygons for Akiras hair… that might have been most of the polygonal budget but still

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      There was one which stands above them all and I think would still hold up well today…Guardian Heroes. It was a fantastic multiplayer side-scroller beat-em-up with fighting game style moves, magic, choose your path, and even an arena mode. I loved that game and always hoped it would be ported to something more modern (besides Gameboy).

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        Iv been waiting for a steam sale. I cant bring myself to pay 35 for such a old game, even if its worth it. But man i havent played it since the pc release back when, me and my dad both had a save file. Good times.

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        Yeah okay that’s the grey model with blue buttons. Wasn’t paying attention to those… for some reason. It looks darker here due to photography, printing, and/or scanning.