It's a striking ad. I like the font for the title and tag line and the way they are not straight but curved a little bit. That and the foreshortened game box make me think of a close up photograph with a wide angle lens and the way it distorts around the edges. I love that kind of thing.
I started my second childhood in the 21 century reading game mags and comics, so I never saw any of these before now.
It had brighter colors than anything in the comic I scanned it from.
I think I played Two-Tank-Ham on Atari but I never played the arcade game. I found out it was one of the games used for competition at Twin Galaxies back in the eighties. You can see it in this famous Life Magazine photo. I guess it was a good game to go for high scores.
Hold the hot dogs, eggs and pickles. No wait... pickles are awesome. Hold those others though.
It's worth it. I got it day-one but only just got around to starting it. I can't seem to get any time on it during the week after work though. Weekends are taken up with 360 games at my friend's place, but I just have to finish it this year! I must!
Yea and spot Sharlto Copley as Agent Kruger. I didn't even reckonize him in this villain's role that is one of best I've seen in a while. He is amazing! He was the lead in District 9 and he played a great Howling Mad Murdock in the A-Team movie (2010). All totally different roles done to perfection!
Otaku's go to new levels of nerdiness.
Not yet.
Speaking of ring worlds. Did you notice that Elysium, in the movie of the same name, is a ring world? Also, I thought the story shared some simularities to the John 117 story in Halo. Replace Max Da Costa (Matt Damon) with John 117 and Kruger with a Brute or Elite and it all starts looking like a variation on a theme. It must still be the back of Neil Blomkamp's mind since the Halo movie fell through and he did District 9 and Elysium instead.
