Super Meat Boy Commercial is Extreme to the Max

Tom Goldman

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Super Meat Boy Commercial is Extreme to the Max

A commercial for Super Meat Boy reminds us how awesome television was in the 80s and 90s.

Remember the days when videogames were extreme? When getting sucked into your television was just a daily event? When dying in a game actually killed you in real life? Super Meat Boy [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a5a/?p=1&of=0&bt=0&sb=2] does. In the not too distant past, many commercials tried to make videogames seem like an incomprehensibly fun activity, as does this commercial for Super Meat Boy.

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For some reason, everybody in the 80s and early 90s played videogames in a dark, smokey warehouse all by themselves. Don't believe me? Check out Kinect [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYBzKFm-rd0] commercial.

Super Meat Boy is an upcoming platformer created by independent studio Team Meat that'll be released through Xbox Live Arcade on October 20, with WiiWare and PC/Mac releases expected in the near future. According to this commercial, it's so fun it'll destroy your face. Now that's extreme!

Maybe I'm on my own here, but I think it should be federal law that all videogame commercials be required to follow this format. Does anybody know where I can get some eye makeup and a smoke machine? If so, meet me at the abandoned warehouse on 5th and Extreme, we've got games to play.


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Charli

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The story will blow your face off? Hellz yeah lets play this damn game. I am now psyched.
*bounce bounce* It was so intense!

Why aren't I that intense when I play games?

Dear god I need electronic rock blasting behind me while I play RIGHT NOW.

And Disco lights.
 

Vampire cat

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Please, PLEASE don't tell me I'm the only one that thinks this looked awful... And I don't agree with cartoons in the 80's being awesome, though some might have been, most are no better than what you get today. Seems to be an equal share of good/bad IMO.

But everyone has their thing I guess.

Oh, Jaranja thinks it looks rubbish too.
 

Kuchinawa212

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Push the buttons!

Super Meat Boy WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
SUPER MEAT BOY! Sports! You'll be good at them!
Super meat boy! It's like adding lighting to an electrical storm!
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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Now I need to put on the Goonies and grab a tin of those cheese puff balls I can't find anywhere anymore... and break out my old school Garbage Pail Kids collection.
 

Disaster Button

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Kuchinawa212 said:
Push the buttons!

Super Meat Boy WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
SUPER MEAT BOY! Sports! You'll be good at them!
Super meat boy! It's like adding lighting to an electrical storm!
DO THE MATH!
 

LawlessSquirrel

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If I wasn't going to get this before, I'm bound to get it now. I feel all nostalgic for something I'm too young to remember...that's just good advertising.
 

SimuLord

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All I could think of was...

Which. Way. To. Go? Tektites!

LEEVERRRRRS!

Zelda? Zelda?! Zelda!

(now you're playing with power!)
 

godofallu

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Now that was a good commercial.

I actually A watched all of it. B watched it a second time. C knew what it was promoting. D considered buying the product only because of the ad. and E linked it so my friends could watch.