Over at SomethingAwful.com there’s a selection of photoshops depicting what happens when you let product placement get out of hand. My personal favourites are:
Very subtle (and you know everybody was thinking it)
Head on over and check out the rest, it is Friday after all.
(via Something Awful)
Is this the very first instance of an advergame? This specially commissioned game, of which only 125 copies were made, was released in 1983 and only given to Coca-Cola employees. The classic invaders were replaced with letters that spelled P E P S I and the command ship was transformed into a Pepsi logo.
Due to it’s rarity, this particular cartridge fetches good money on eBay with one selling recently for $1,825.
(via Retro Thing)
In our modern, time critical existence we rarely think about those whose lives are shattered by the relentless march of computer technology.
(via Dark Roasted Blend)
“The Beatles’ album covers act as a kind of scrapbook for their mythmaking career: a serious With the Beatles, a hippie-esque Rubber Soul, a stripped down The White Album, and a funeral procession on Abbey Road. Each is a testament to the band’s creativity and insight into their culture. Yet no single album cover defines its era and its artists more than 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
Head on over to Mental Floss Magazine to read the full article.
