Conformity bytes, eh? Well, there's nothing more rebellious than listening to your dad's favorite rock band. It's Aerosmith in full force (the only kind of force they know), and unfortunately it's not just in the arcades anymore. As bad as this commercial is, there is no way it could ever be as silly, stupid, and pointless as the Revolution X game. But is this an indictment on Midway's horrible arcade shooter? Well, yeah, it kind of is. But it's also a critique of the commercial, so I'm going to do my best to stay impartial.

This advert sucks! It's not that it's poorly put together, in fact, out of all of the terrible commercials we've looked at so far (34 if you include the two up top) this is probably the best laid out. It's clear that whoever designed this knows a thing or two about working in Photoshop, especially with the nice use of copying and pasting only a couple of soldiers to give off the illusion that it's a full army. But don't get sucked into the look, instead focus on how stupid this all is.

You don't need to look any further than the pictures to see how lame the game is. "Free the captives," one reads ... like that's a new idea in video games. "Where you go from here is up to you," lead singer Steven Tyler says, but since the game is on rails it's really more up to the game programmers. "Choose your weapon ... CD bombs, super guns, skull bombs, and more." CD bombs? What does top selling Aerosmith know about bombing? They've had a long career of making commercially friendly songs, if you want to be the rebel that fights the "new world order" then I suggest you fight 'em with Atari Teenage Riot! Now there's a band that will get you ready to fight ... or at least run away from the stereo. But it's clear that Acclaim has no balls, that's why we're stuck playing as a loser with a really stupid logo shaved into his hair.

FROM: Bad Advertising, She Wrote