Aww damn, I definitely thought it was real and in some video game magazine
I find this funny, since I used to hide drugs like mushrooms inside consoles. I figured it was the one place literally no one would think to look. Just unscrewed them, put a baggie inside in one of those empty spaces (there’s always a spot), and put the case back together.
These were made for the UK market to promote the PSP.
If ads were interesting and creative, I might have turned off my adblockers to watch them.
PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.
I found my Green game boy Pocket and saw the 1989-1996 copyright.
It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭
Ps3 is starting to be referenced as retro now…
When ‘next gen’ (eg. PS5) becomes the new ‘current gen’, then the old ‘last gen’ becomes retro.
That one does hurt
But also, people wondered why our generation loved taking drugs and being weird fucks…
I don’t think an ad with this kind of imagery would fly today
Rockstar used to go pretty hard.
All right I’ll ask the dumb question here, what am I looking at? From what I can tell they are tiny empty bags
awww youve never bought street powders thats nice
Those type of bags are usually used to hold illicit substances, and typically only bought by small-time drug dealers.
And board game players!
board game baggies usually have a tiny hole in them, to let the air out when you’re packing the game away. not so great if you’re muleing some molly to your weekly game of Wingspan
And electronics hobbyists!
And toenail collectors!
And my sword!
The Bags that spare buttons come in, or how I used to get all my drugs.
It’s likely they were trying to get the news riled up so they could cause a moral outrage that would attract attention to the game.
This game, appropriately, is where I learned there was such a thing as uppers and downers.
That’s a lot of ecstasy.
It’s gonna be a fun night followed by a hard, sleepy day
She gonna need some water
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe ecstacy is actually dehydrating. Dancing at a rave for hours on end without drinking anything is though.
Just like SSRI’s, Ecstasy does interfere with your hypothalamus and temperature regulation. So, small energy expenditures creat oversized responses.
You would still sweat heavily doing more than lying down with a fan blowing on you.
Yeah, another part of the problem is that you cannot tell that you are hyperthermic and or dehydrated.
Thats how you get the people that dance all night and then just die, or go comatose or pass out.
Your body stops telling you wow, i am way too hot and wow, i really need water.
Sort of like that rare condition where you literally cannot feel pain, and children with it will break their fingers because it feels weird.
Looks more like a few hours of cramping body and soul followed by 3 days of emotional hangover
Ehhhhh so this was in 2000. Your standard ecstasy pill (we’re assuming they’re not pipers; these don’t look shiny and they’re not shaped or outpressed) have between 70mg MDMA and 120mg (if they’re absolute fire.)
This would be about 400mg of MDMA total. While that is quite a lot, you’re not going to have a horrible time—I just wouldn’t do it in public because you WILL be a chattering mess. It’ll still feel amazing, though.
Source: oldhead, last time I rolled it was a total of about 450mg but spread out over hours and I was absolutely not in public, just writing naked with my partner)
I was gonna add “these days” but didn’t
Oh GOD I fully agree in that case. Rolls nowadays have up to 300-400mg in a single pill (sounds like you already know that, but I’m just saying this for context in case another reader doesn’t)
That’d be like eating a gram or more of Molly at once, and THAT is for sure not safe and not a good time.
Eh, not double stacked so it’s ok.
AKSHULLY that wasn’t a thing in the 2000s, just marketing hype. Rolls back then had between 70 and 120mg of MDMA, and 120 is a basal amount you want to take if you fully want to get rolling.
Now it’s TOTALLY a thing, tons of rolls have 300-400mg in a single pill now. It’s insanity.
Worse than that, that one website dance something that would test pills found that a huge percentage of the “ecstasy” people took didn’t contain MDMA. A surprising amount didn’t even contain illegal drugs. Just over the counter speed.
Curious. When I last looked (quite a while ago) most of the tested pills were MDMA, with many containing caffeine as well. I guess it varies a lot over time.
Dancesafe.org was it! I’m going back over 20 years to the late 90’s early 2000’s. I can’t comment on the state of ecstasy today, I haven’t rolled in over 20 years.
Everything reminds me of her…
I feel like it means: we are not like Nintendo, we make video games for adults (and children who want to play like adults).
Man, everyone was in on it during this era, even Nintendo
Also, our games are as good as drugs.
Can someone make a version of this photo, but its acetaminophen and the girl is just up-aged to how old she’d be now?
thyroid medication
SEGA!!!
90s SEGA was the OG of this, we need 90s SEGA back
Welcome to the Third Place (David Lynch)
I like the PS2 ad that pretended to be a PS9 ad
What dpes that voice say in the end?
Playstation two, the …
“…third place.”
Love it.
“Hey, you know what would be a good way to advertise our system? Let’s just give children nightmares for about 40 seconds and then splash our logo on the screen at the end.”
My cousin told me that she ODed so hard that they had to put her in an institution where she spends all day thinking she’s at a rave.
Is that institution on a Spanish island?
Ibitha
It’s pronounced “Ibiza”… Batman said so