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Gadgets of days gone by: 10 Gaming Commercials from Days of Yore

John Biggs

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Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

Friday, May 7th, 2010
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10. Master Rob the Video Robot

This week at CrunchGear, we’re looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys… those devices that still stand out in our memories despite their obsolescence. Feel free to contribute some of your own nostalgia.

In no particular order except I present to you some of the greatest examples of game advertising in existence.

9. The Outrageous New Game… Tetris!

8.The Promo for the Sega Saturn

7. Warning: ColecoVision Graphics do not look like this

6. They tell you the score and the time!

5. Genesis Does! You can’t do this on Nintendo!

4. Yeah, that’s Paul Rudd

3. Do you know how excited we all were about this game? Do you?

2. Chick-flick/Bazooka

1. WTF?

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