VINTAGE AD, VINTAGE NOTION, VINTAGE VIOLENCE

Unreality’s list of 20 vintage videogame ads is a decently selected list of classic franchises and fun comic art (see Atari’s Mario Bros. ad), but most striking is this ad for Wizard’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a 180 turn from most modern marketing (bar, perhaps, Postal or Manhunt), brazenly using its violence as both a selling point and a healthy anger-management pursuit.

Even better, the above video of its actual gameplay.

20 Awesome Vintage Video Game Ads [Unreality, thanks Tom!]