Funny Legendary Axe commercial from 1989

[gamevet]

During the period when that commercial ran, Sega's advertising was not much better. Hell, even into late 1991 they had abysmal advertising:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bla6XYW9AT8

Sega really only got good advertising when the Sega scream emerged, the "Genesis Does" commercial being the big exception.

The music sounds like they hired the same music studio Atari used in the 80's. Man that music was cheesy.

[Black_Tiger]

It's not that sad. Kung Fu is actually a port of an arcade game called Kung Fu Master, and China Warrior is actually a port of a game called The Kung Fu, which is Hudson's unabashed clone of Irem's Kung Fu Master. It's sort of like comparing Zelda to Golden Axe Warrior.

China Warrior is actually a Kung Fu themed take on the arcade game Gladiator.

Vigilante is Irem's 16-bit update on Kung Fu/Kung Fu Master. Comparing Vigilante and Kung Fu would have been like comparing Zelda to Golden Axe Warrior. But they weren't try to compare, they wanted to contrast the sprite sizes to show something that couldn't be done on 8-bit consoles.

[Thunderblaze16]

Out of commercial, topic but this one I enjoy due to how much BS they tried to hide in gameplay, lol.

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

Egad! I actually remember watching some of those old commercials from back in the day! Those corny commercials make me feel so old!