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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

UK Resistance Finds Vintage Sega Ads, Plus... US Resistance?!

segaviz.jpg The continually entertaining UK Resistance has now dug up some early '90s UK Sega ads [vaguely NSFW] that appeared in Viz magazine, the "popular British adult spoof comic magazine".

We particularly admire the 'To be this good takes AGES / To be this good takes SEVEN PINTS' tagline, but all of the print ads are delightfully bad/good/something - as UKR's Commander Zorg notes wistfully, in between staring at ladies through the window with his binoculars: "Nowadays it's all viral marketing web sites. How we miss proper adverts with prices on."

However, all is not well in UK Resistance land, since a shocking new site named US Resistance has appeared, and seems to be attempting a semi-lame 'American humOr' version of UKR's patented 'what are girls? we like Outrun!' schtick.

As a commenter ably puts it: "I like the way US Resistance has placed UK Resistance in its 'sites we hate so much they don't even deserve a functioning link' section, even though the idea to put that section on the front page at all came from UK Resistance. Americans: this is what people call irony." Unless, of course, this is a tremendously elaborate UKR-originating joke. In which case, we may need to go and lie down.

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It used to be the case that if you bought advertising space in Viz, you agreed that the Viz team would design your advertisement for you. So it's possible Sega UK never even saw these ads till they were in print.

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