Bold red, yellow and blue lettering shouts Instant Party in this 1993 Hudson Soft ad, which shows off the four-player Super Multitap bundle that ma...

A bright red border frames the Mega Man X game box in this 1993 Capcom ad, which announced the first Mega Man adventure on the Super NES with a hea...

A pair of headphones wraps around the BioMetal game box on a glowing green background in this 1993 Activision ad, tying the Super NES shooter to th...

M. Bison bursts through the page flanked by Sagat, Balrog and Vega in this playful 1993 Capcom ad, bringing the arcade favorite Street Fighter II S...

A giant gothic logo pierced by a glowing sword dominates this deep blue 1993 Taito ad for the Super Nintendo role-playing adventure, a great exampl...

A can of pork and beans sits next to the game box under a Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy headline in this humorous 1993 Konami ad for the Super NES version...

Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Darth Vader gather in classic movie-poster style art in this 1993 JVC ad for Super Star Wars...

A moody photo of a Data East employee lining up a shot while coworkers watch from the shadows gives this 1993 Super Nintendo ad a classic pool hall...

Three painted warlords, Cao Cao, Nobunaga and Genghis Khan, stand side by side in this striking 1993 Koei ad promoting a trio of historical strateg...

A huge carved Young Merlin crest glows against a rocky cave wall with amber crystals in this moody 1993 ad for the Westwood Studios adventure for t...

This 1994 Sega ad for Star Trek: The Next Generation: Echoes from the Past on Genesis floats the game box over a glowing space nebula. 'Take contro...

This 1994 ASG Technologies ad for the Video Jukebox X VJ, a multi-cartridge dock for the Sega Genesis, asks 'Hey Jack! Where do you stick it?' over...

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This 1994 Bullet-Proof Software ad for the Super Link multi-player adapter shows the box surrounded by five Super Nintendo controllers with cords r...

This 1994 Viacom New Media ad for Nickelodeon GUTS on Super Nintendo shows a kid in an orange helmet and pads swinging on a harness toward a basket...

This 1994 Kemco ad for Dragon View on Super Nintendo uses a towering red 'So you think you've seen everything?' headline above a tilted game box sh...

This 1994 Virgin ad for Links: The Challenge of Golf on Sega CD pairs a hot-pink sky with a blurred golf cart and a close-up golf ball on a green f...

This 1994 Spectrum HoloByte ad for Iron Helix on Sega CD shows a glowing, claw-armed starship against a purple starfield beside a wide-eyed man in ...

This 1994 GameTek ad for Yogi Bear on Super NES and Game Boy sets a real bear in a green hat and collar next to cartoon Yogi Bear on a sunny yellow...

This 1994 Sunsoft ad for Bubble and Squeak on Sega Genesis shows a cartoon boy giving a blue alien buddy the boot, sending him flying through a swi...

This 1994 Acclaim ad for WWF Raw is a loud orange-and-black page where action photos of pro wrestlers fill the giant block letters 'Raw is War.' Mu...

This 1994 Mandingo Entertainment and Motown Games ad for Rap Jam Volume One on Super Nintendo shows a basketball player in sunglasses soaring towar...

This 1994 Kemco ad for Top Gear 3000 on Super Nintendo pairs a giant gradient 'It's like totally alien, man' headline with a tilted game box showin...

This 1994 Electro Brain ad for Vortex on Super Nintendo uses the Super FX chip and shows a giant red walker robot flanked by a blue tank and a gree...

This 1994 Tiger Electronics ad for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Barcodzz handheld game shows a plush White Ranger holding up the game and a bar...

This 1994 EA Sports ad for PGA Tour Golf III on Sega Genesis shows ten pro golfers in swing photos, each with three digitized swing frames, on a da...

This 1994 GameTek ad for Jeopardy! Sports Edition features game show host Alex Trebek, shown in a signed portrait beside a chrome-lettered Jeopardy...

This 1994 Kemco ad for Stone Protectors on Super Nintendo says 'Jam with the Stones' in tall rainbow lettering over the game box, which shows five ...

This 1994 Koei ad for Uncharted Waters: New Horizons sets a bright pink 'Charters/Tours' beach shack on a tropical shore, joking that 'this game's ...

This 1994 Fox Interactive ad for The Pagemaster shows a boy in glasses dangling from a dripping blue brick wall while a ghost, a green fist and a b...

This 1994 Core Design ad for Battlecorps on Sega CD shows a wild-eyed, bearded man in pink goggles chewing a match and holding up a game screen. 'B...

This 1994 two-page Interplay ad for C2: Judgment Clay (ClayFighter 2) spreads a clay snowman in a cap and a sunglasses-wearing bunny on a police mo...

This 1996 Blockbuster Video ad compares video games to a well-worn pair of briefs in a funny, text-driven layout: 'You get attached to the good one...

This 1994 Konami ad disguises video games as a jug of household cleaner, with a bright yellow background and a label reading 'Mind Disinfecting Vid...

This 1994 Konami ad for Snatcher on Sega CD splits a smiling woman's face into green and yellow checkerboard panels beneath the warning 'Trust no o...

This 1994 Koei ad for Aerobiz Supersonic jokes that 'everything's better but the food,' showing a plastic airline meal tray with chicken, rice and ...

This 1994 Sega ad for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers shows five helmeted rangers in pink, red, black, blue and yellow suits striking poses under a fi...

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This 1994 Natsume ad for Pocky & Rocky 2 on Super Nintendo shows a shrine maiden, a tanuki and a ninja riding a giant blue dragon through a moo...

This 1994 two-page Interplay ad for Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure is a cartoon 'Anatomy of a Superhero' that breaks down the green, caped, ...

This 1994 two-page Virgin Interactive and Disney ad for The Lion King video game shows a roaring Simba on the left and the villain Scar with three ...

This 1994 two-page Activision ad for Radical Rex sends a skateboarding, fire-breathing dinosaur streaking across a cream page in a rainbow blur. 'G...

This 1994 two-page Konami ad for Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters on Sega Genesis and Sega CD is styled like an Old West wanted poster on mustard-...

This 1994 two-page Electronic Arts ad for Shaq-Fu: Enforcer of Justice stars basketball player Shaquille O'Neal in a moody, pixelated black-and-whi...

This 1994 two-page Squaresoft ad for Breath of Fire on Super Nintendo is drawn in a bold comic-book style, with a blue-haired hero reaching toward ...

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This 1994 two-page Virgin and Disney ad for The Lion King on Sega Genesis features the three grinning hyenas on the left and the same trio looking ...