Mental Wealth
September 13, 2007 | In Defcon |**Somewhere deep inside Sony HQ, down the hall from the coffee machine**
‘Right then guys we gotta flog more PlayStations’
‘Yeah but how are we gonna do that?’
‘I know hows about we get the guy that made that Come To Daddy video for Aphex Twin’
‘Oh you mean Chris Cunningham’
‘Yeah thats him, lets get him to do a completely insane and totally confusing advert for the console.’
‘Do you think Joe Public would understand?’
‘Aw come on now, everyones a Sony Fanboy now. We can do anything now and people will by a PlayStation.’
‘Yeah we so r0xx0rz!!!!’
Sorry guys I just had to post this when I saw it. What the hell were Sony’s marketing department thinking when they came up with this one. Still I suppose its good to have Chris Cunningham direct an advert for you, and that was classic Chris Cunningham but still…..how in the hell did the PlayStation ever sell??
Cheers
Defcon
Agreed, one of the weirdest PS1 ads, but one that lots of people remember, even people that aren’t into PS1.
If I remember correctly, this was one of the very few ads to be shown on mainstream TV here in the neverlands, and actually made people talk about the PS1. Or, well, the girl actually