That they did! @disestablished super same and this was my fav of the trailers, got me intensely hype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixF4i_q_XE
I worked at Gamestop when SH3 was coming out, and there was a promo VHS with this or a very similar vid playing.
“I Want Love” haunted me, the included soundtrack blew me away on the drive home release day.
one of the last trailers that made me froth for a game is this one:
however, the most froth though… phew, that’s not easy.
Being hyped as fuck for StarCraft is probably what got me addicted to the internet
I had just finished Witcher 2 and was playing a lot of Monster Hunter.
And the Horton arguing with BJ part of the Wolf2 trailer with the heavy bass line.
Still high off of GTA 3. The Rockstar Vice City website (it was made in a flash, remember flash?) had several ten to fifteen second video clips of gameplay (this was all pre-Youtube) that I watched over and over again and now cannot for the life of me find anywhere today.
Same situation with San Andreas, wrt to frothing to trailers and gameplay video clips on the website.
Just for you beautiful maniacs I went ahead and ripped the voicemail to a .mp3. Enjoy listening to Mario talk about a Gamestop pre-order for so long that it starts getting very uncomfortable, circa November 2007.
Mario is not supposed to speak in paragraphs. Really makes the racism come out.
Wow. I’m kinda pumped now. I wish Corey Feldman coulda called me for buying Turtles in Time.
Here is that Code Veronica Claire trailer:
When gamespot tv debuted it, I remember it ending right after she shoots the barrels. badass.
Quake 3
Q3Test was a great demo.
Absolutely intolerable
I definitely stayed up past midnight with my roommate in the dorm at summer camp, multiple nights in a row, just talking about how great FF7 was gonna be.
I didn’t have a playstation when FF7 was coming out and didn’t really know what Final Fantasy is. I got a playstation when they came out with the dualshock version.
I wanted to say there was a promotional VHS for this but guess there is just the one for DIddy kong Racing.
The best trailer is from Silent Hill 4 where Henry totally nails that dog.
Hmmph this one is editted because i distinctly remember you see the follow through.
Whenever mention of Chrono Cross first surfaced on rpgamer, a friend’s bday was around then and most of us at his party were flipping the fuck out reading it.
“Maybe it’ll tie into Schala, what’s this goofy voodoo straw man”
And before long,
Must’ve nodded along to that menu music for like an hour, or few.
In 1999 at age 11 I got into wrestling and was subsequently hyped out of my mind for WWF Attitude, the sequel to War Zone. It was delayed for what seemed at the time like an eternity but was probably only like 6 months. I looked at the screen shots in EGM a lot. It was hype for this game that led me onto the internet where I found my first web discussion forum and to an addiction that persists to this day.
I waited and waited for that game and in the end it arrived on the same day that my sweet ass Lime Green iMac arrived so I wound up waiting to actually play it until the next day. And as it turns out the game totally sucked, even though I didn’t realize it at the time because I was a dumb 11 year old and hadn’t played WCW/nWo Revenge and seen how superior it was to War Zone.
1999 was a good year. It kinda all went to shit after that honestly
In college I said “yo Freelancer is comin out” so many times that my nongamer friends used it as a non sequitur to make fun of me
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project was the first game I remember wanting a lot before ever playing, and then getting. My brother had Nintendo Power sometimes so we must have seen it in there, we never saw any video footage of it. I don’t really remember understanding a new videogame as like this verifiable coming product vs. a debatable playground rumor. I think I thought Nintendo Power got the scoop on this batch but who knows what they missed out there on the beat? Wiki says it came out in Feb. 1992, but I remember getting it for my birthday which would have been in April, I would have been 7. I think its possible at this point my brothers and I had still not seen a Super Nintendo in person, I’m not sure what the timeline was on those Walmart demo stations in suburban Indiana. But we played the shit out of that thing until eventually dad just showed up one day at some point in the future with a SNES box with those full gloss hi tech mareos.
Back when F-Zero Climax was announced I remember downloading the trailer and being unreasonably excited to find out the game would include a level editor – like bouncing off the walls and screaming in excitement like some sort of proto-YouTuber (I was 13 okay). Never before and never since has a trailer elicited such a strong reaction from me.
Naturally, to this day I have never actually played the game.
This made me legit spit-take
I knew a guy who was so excited for GTA3 that he made a scrapbook
I was practically vibrating with froth for Perfect Dark, and when it released I gave my pocket money to my mother and asked her to buy it for me while I was at school. I was so pissed when I got home and found out she put the game on lay-by and used my money for clothes instead