"KA-CHING" is right! That's the sound of easy money being made on this cynical cash-in by Bandai. I've heard of truth in advertising, but this is ridiculous. It's as if the commercial is there to point out how painfully obvious it is to everybody that there shouldn't be a Power Rangers Zero pinball game. This from a company that couldn't turn the Power Rangers into a compelling fighting game franchise?

Pinball is what you do after you've failed at everything else. This is Bandai giving up. It's a sad sight, especially given how much potential this license had. Full Tilt Battle Pinball is the type of product you make at the end of your license, as you're trying to move on to bigger and better things. But Bandai missed a step. There's no reason to skip down to a pinball game when you can make a perfectly mediocre kart racer.

From the boring use of the cover art to the silly incorporation of faux-3D, even this advertisement has given up. The unusually long copy seems to know that you're probably too cool to play a game called Saban's Power Rangers Zero Full Tilt Pinball. But don't think that stops Bandai from trying to convince the reader otherwise. Even with "5 eye-popping 3D modeled playfields, awesome SGI rendered cinemas and texture mapped graphics," you're still left with pinball game based on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. And believe me; EVERYBODY is too cool for that nonsense.

FROM: America's Next Great Bad Advertisement