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Stop And Feel The Boobies

Sam Saturday — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:04:41 +0000

Thanks, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2!

Hey, Let’s Check Out The First Prince Of Persia Movie Posters Together

Sam Saturday — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:05:15 +0000

Empire Magazine got the exclusive on these posters. But that’s not gonna stop me from reposting them here! Take a look at the pretty pretties on these here movie adverthingies. It’s unlikely that the movie will be any good, but no one’s gonna give a shit because Jakey-Gyl is fucking RIPPED. Yeah, and there’s some cute girl, too.

Hot damn!

Comic-Con, July 22-26

Sam Saturday — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:24:29 +0000

Hey! I’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con this week. Sean-Z and I will be sharing table space. We’re Small Press table S-4. Look for Load World Comics / Rated-Z Studios.

I’ll be selling the usual Load books (“Why Do You Cry When I’m On Top?” and “Load: The Tiny Book”) and “Pope & Pig” comic books. New for this year is the “Sex Kittens” adult art book and the “Tongue In Cheek” books of sex poetry. I’ll also have the erotic cartoony man-art prints I did for the Tom of Finland show. And on top of all that I’ll be promoting Explogamer with free stickers. Woo!

See you there!

Gamestop Now Encouraging You To Take A Sexy Bath

Sam Saturday — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:14:26 +0000

What the fuck?

Gamestop must want us all naked. Or maybe they think playing Wii Sports gets you so hot and sweaty that you just gotta take a bath afterward. Because for some reason, right now they’re offering a Nintendo Wii bundle that includes a rubber bath duck.

And hey, the duck squirts, just like your mom.

Go check it out. If you end up using the duck to spray down your vagina, please send me photos.

You’re Doing It Wrong: When Sex Doesn’t Sell

Sam Saturday — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:23:53 +0000

Ah, the ill-fated Sega Saturn. It had the unfortunate position of being released after the failure of Sega’s 32x and before the almost-success of the (dearly missed) Dreamcast. From 1995 to 1997-ish the poor machine was a commercial outcast. Kids mocked it. Dogs shunned it. The elderly could not comprehend it. It seemed almost no one loved the Saturn. But not for Sega’s lack of trying. Check out this wonderful (awful) print ad they produced:

"She's naked, yo! Buy our vidjmbox!"

There are a couple clear mistakes with this ad: For starters, it’s an illustration of a woman, not a photograph. If Sega’s marketing department couldn’t even pony up the cash for a real naked lady, why should consumers spend their hard-earned moolah on Sega’s machine? Real tits for real cash, dudes.

Secondly, this ad is based on the supposition that games and sex our mutually exclusive. I could not disagree more. I realize that this ad was produced in the mid-1990′s, and at the time console games were very much targeted at a younger demographic than they are now. But hell, I was a horny teenage boy when the Saturn was released and this ad didn’t even convince me. Why tell a teenager, who thinks of nothing but sex and games, that the games will make him ignore sex?

Insert joke about boning.

Never mind the fact that the Saturn’s problems went beyond their patronizing advertising. If their ads had argued that playing games will get you laid, maybe they would have sold more. And maybe today’s console landscape would be different! Zounds!

So come on, game marketers! You’ve already convinced much of the American public that games are socially acceptable. Now let’s get to work on making people think game-playing is sexy. And no, the Frag Dolls are not the way to do it.