Comments on: 7 Advertisements Just Barely Disguised as Video Games

By: xanderjones

xanderjones — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:12:03 +0000

Love the cool spot love on the posts.

Cool spot was definitely a great great game on genesis. I think i agree with a previous poster it was one of the best side scrollers out there at the time. I don’t think Cool Spot belongs on this list, because it was a great game, not just merely “barely” disguised as a game.

Erin how could you yawn at Echo?!?! Echo kicks ass man he’s the bravest dolphin that’s ever lived. Plus the soundtrack for Echo was INSANE!!!!!

I always got a little teary eyed when “we” (as echo) talked to the orca and big blue. Those were like…WHOA moments in my life.

By: Top Online Degrees

Top Online Degrees — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:28:33 +0000

Neither game was well received; the game play was considered complicated and boring, and the instruction manuals contained bad rhymes that were very poorly translated.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:27 +0000

Did anybody else have Cool Spot for SNES? We borrowed it from my cousins all the time. So fun!

By: Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:11:26 +0000

Yeah, Darkened Skye. Man, that game had the cruddiest game controls. It would have been a really good game if it had been designed better.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:04:04 +0000

My brother and I LOVED that Cool Spot game! We played the crap out of it!

By: TheFontBandit

TheFontBandit — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:05:28 +0000

Like Modesty, I remember playing Global Gladiators… a strange McDonald’s tie-in game for the Sega Genesis. It was actually a pretty fun platform adventure game, though a bit odd.

The Wikipedia page on the game is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gladiators

I also actually really enjoyed the Cool Spot game as a child. Genesis had some strange games..

By: frostedflake

frostedflake — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:21:00 +0000

regarding cool spot:
when i was married, we had a game system and some games for our two children. when my husband and i split, he and our son got “custody” of the games, (one of which was cool spot), and my daughter and i got the apartment and the stereo system. about three months ago i found a used version of spot for PS1, and bought it for her, but she said something was wrong with the disc. ten years later, and she still hasn’t forgiven me for letting that game go!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:40:00 +0000

Darkened Skye was a horrible video game about skittles. It didn’t say anywhere on the package it was about skittles, but the cut scenes were definitely old “Taste the Rainbow” commercials. Good thing the game came out before that singing rabbit commercial.

By: brentx31

brentx31 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Did anyone else play the life savers gummies game? you were a gummy and you had to bounce over obstacles

By: Awe Yeah...

Awe Yeah... — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:27:00 +0000

Chex Quest was the highest quality game for the price, even if you count the price of the cereal; it was cool enough for a kid just tryin’ to get some cereal.

But by far the most fun game is the brilliant Budweiser Ad, Tapper. Sure, no one could get past the 3rd level but who cares… once you beat the first level and get to play the slight of hand game- tracking which beer the villain Didn’t shake… AWE YEAH!

“This Bud’s for you” indeed.
Totally worth the quarters