The Most Insane Video Game Marketing Ever

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[@akmalriyadh1086]

Wooohhhhh

[@corbenriley4757]

i have grown up watching your videos i love them never stop making them

[@sethlombard4411]

Hi diamondbolt

[@Tinepotnod]

When will you block the bots

[@eldeadkilljohnkennedy3946]

I bet the game awards this year we have Kendrick Lamar play not like us and the new song from his GMX album Reina Mishima from tekken Eight shows up.

[@dumbjakeworld]

"legally distinct corpse" would be a FIRE band name

[@sethlombard4411]

Hi jake

[@punchbuggy13]

oh hi jake

[@ThatFizzySoda]

Hi Mr. The Human

[@Shrek_is_life-q1n]

Ayyyyy it's Dumb/Smart Jake. How've you been dude? I hope you've had and continue to have a great day

[@noahgrant-mo4zi]

Love you’re content man

[@AyyKayy-n3u]

We will never get another "my body is ready" moment in gaming history ever again

[@MforMovesets]

The death of E3 was the death of such moments.

[@sharonv3597]

About 3:45, Wipeout actually had ads where the game was compared to doing cocaine, with a picture of girls bleeding from their noses. After it got called out, they changed it to this picture.

[@infiniteraide1642]

I think they made another one that combined all of the news articles criticizing that ad and turned it into another ad.

[@onihaiena6152]

they used the controversy from the original game's ad to promote 2097 lmao

[@makotoplush9776]

I'm so happy to have an official confirmation that Adam has played Shadow Generations

[@Mr.Feather130]

That's one of the most funnest sonic games I have ever played since Frontiers

[@NoNamex1412]

I want him to make another gameplay series like he did with forces

[@FH4Player6397]

I haven't played a sonic game since unleashed lol.

[@ShinoFan653]

Door kun

[@Sillymanthatwearsabanana5]

HEY PLUMBER BOY, MUSTACHE MAN, YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE HAS ARRIVED

[@oussamabekk1108]

BASEEEED

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

A bandicoot

[@Sudoloku64]

Mario getting a tattoo for a gba ad is still crazy to me.

[@BeefTheUncle]

How dare he

[@Sudoloku64]

@BeefTheUncle how dare you question his decisions?

[@BeefTheUncle]

@@Sudoloku64 a marked jive turkey in MY magazine, no bueno

[@NoppyOwO]

it was the 2000's you either got a tribal tatto or used guns back then

[@Sudoloku64]

@NoppyOwO or a God of war styled hack and slash game

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

My favorite game marketing was Concord getting an episode on the Secret Level anthology series and getting shut down two weeks later.

[@hydraliskgaming5895]

Watch them remove the concord episode after everyone skips it

[@RJS2003]

Not only that, the very studio that made the game in the first place is already gone before the episode will drop. Actual Looney Tunes ahh shutdown.

[@Cubeytheawesome]

Fr I feel bad for the devs.

[@Cubeytheawesome]

@@RJS2003😢

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

Wasn't gonna watch that episode anyway. We WILL be watching the MegaMan episode instead

[@castform7]

Sonic and Hooters is such a weird combo, especially when there was no Rouge stuff there. Like that is the only overlap these 2 could have but no, just Sonic's Forces model looking angry as hell.

[@SecretMagician]

I'm still shocked that Sonic and the Sonic restaurant didn't collaborate. It was right there, and they didn't. Do. It.

[@mc.gemstone]

I feel like we need a balance of advertisements and marketing where it doesn't itself too seriously but not to the point of it being tasteless, but still make it fun and memorable.

[@Mr.Feather130]

Yeah I miss the 2000s era where we have creative marketing on big named games

[@Sharkbaby424]

I just want to acknowledge and give my appreciation that you're one of the few KZbinrs who goes out of their way to actually write out your Closed Captioning instead of just letting them be automatically generated. I watch a lot of silent KZbin at work and it really makes a difference and makes me love your awesome videos even more.

[@jorge9142011]

That paper mario AD was golden. Whoever made that. Bet had a great run on them ads back in 2000's. Meta af before meta was even a thing.

[@BugsyFoga]

Even though It isn’t a game, the way they recently advertised Sonic 3 by sending promotional cartridges to KZbinrs that work in their Sega Genesis is pretty wild

[@swr.nezumi]

wait they WHAT what's on the cartridge, is it the sonic 3 game or something else?

[@PacDino11]

It was some voice clips of the characters, posters for the movie, and a minigame where Sonic outruns Shadow. And if you put in a code during the minigame, then it'll reveal to you the release date for the second Sonic 3 trailer.

[@bentim10]

0:33 if you know the context, E3 did him DIRTY

[@bentim10]

long story short: E3 got him to host the need for speed event and then went live without letting him have ANY REHEARSAL or even read the script more than once he just showed up and they were like "Ok 3 2 1 go!" And shoved him onto the stage with cameras pointed at him

[@CrabMushroom]

Oh that is. Really messed up.

[@gibleyman]

Good to hear even multi million dollar companies are living with the "me preparing for the presentation with 9 seconds left" type playstyle.

[@csdarlington86]

He must have terrible managers to let that happen.

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

@@csdarlington86 I don’t think he’s ever had a manager, but I could be wrong

[@Cylver77]

0:47 brought back a lot of suppressed memories thank you diamondbolt

[@MforMovesets]

Yeah right. Also its wild he does an ad break in a video about ads.

[@Mr.Feather130]

That gba ad of Mario with a tattoo doesn’t need to go so hard

[@danielferrieri7434]

Caddicarus did do a video on insane gaming commercials of the past

[@Lanetgm]

And he did a couple of videos with his friends on weird commercials a few years ago

[@fragrantshirt6302]

And he stole my wife a week ago.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

7:02 “Oooh, well can I have King De-De-De?” -Caddy, 2023

[@MforMovesets]

With lots of stolen jokes from PBG, Jontron, and many poop jokes no doubt. Haha. Funny.

[@alysssabear]

⁠@@MforMovesetsI don’t recall him doing “many poop jokes”. Sure he makes one once in a while, but toilet humor isn’t his forte. Also, his general humor is a lot more fast paced and ADHD-centric than any of Jontron’s or PBG’s.

[@Charlie-lp3ns]

2:05 ad ends here

[@Jack20014]

Thanks you 👍 😊

[@FH4Player6397]

I have sponsor block

[@ILOVETRANSFORMERSONE]

You are truly the hero that this site needs but doesn’t deserve. Thank you for all of your integral support

[@DONKFORTRESS6956]

10:48 WHAT DID HE SAY?????

[@wantonrex_4052]

He says “thanks dingha” the name of the guy by the right

[@tarzantabi7845]

I laughed

[@XxTheLegend27xX]

I laughed

[@oussamabekk1108]

I laughed

[@orbboom6119]

Me laughed

[@olleselin]

I really like it when a marketing is being innovative

[@GavionGailsemiMc]

I feel weird not seeing Adam not wearing his nerd glasses in front of the camera

[@GUNUFofficial]

Id like to nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi bill clinton.

[@THEAUSSIESPIDER]

Sega made sonic x shadow was so that when you look up that name you won't see the r34 or so you do either way it's Amazing for that reason (that's not true the idea of it is just hilarious)

[@teddyroo12]

3:02 EARTHWORM JIM MENTIONED, WHAT THE HELL IS A 4TH GAME

[@Mr.Feather130]

Where's that damn Earthworm Jim 4?!

[@DrIncrdblyEvlFshFce]

How dare the algorithm hide this from me for 6 minutes while I was on another app

[@Memelord2020]

E3 has been replaced by Summer Game Fest

[@SleepyLuigi]

3:28 that one was ICONIC.

[@nelisezpasce]

The close-up at 3:07 belongs in a museum

[@You-Tube-n5k]

7:01. oooh, well could I have king DeDeDe? If you know you know lol

[@legotimus8453]

The World of Transformers 2024 please

[@ReepEnTeer]

Let's also not forget the "John Romero is about to make you his bitch" ad for the hit 2001 fps game Daikatana.

[@TheOfficialTyrannozilla]

Baby, wake up new DiamondBolt video just dropped

[@MrReVersed]

Nintendo's Donut ad has forever traumatised me

[@daddad9978]

not me Really

[@daddad9978]

I Hate when People Get traumatised so easily

[@erikbihari3625]

Nobody does this like Sega Sanshiro! Surely, serious spirit spur surplus silly. Still, sucsess?

[@trotlicek6664]

More content from Adam ! Right before math exam , let's gooo!!!

[@SuspiciousCat13]

2:51 but I do like men

[@Retrolover03]

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[@thatoneguy5803]

Congrats on coming out

[@Kneevirus]

Guess u didn't play duke nukem 3d then

[@SuspiciousCat13]

thx

[@jonathansimba6085]

DiamondBolt monday let's go baby

[@elmurodolimov772]

0:06 That smile giving me nightwears

[@thatanimatorteen4290]

Once again Adam Diamondbolt, you're content never fails to make me laugh out loud.

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

4:50 Genuinely, what was with the animal sexualization in these Game Boy ads?

[@Onionbun48903]

I dunno

[@hfalco1093]

I think that specific one was an accident, they wanted to film it, but the rat decided to be a menace that day…

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

@@hfalco1093 Then why would the rat hump the video game console?

[@hfalco1093]

@@SmokeTheHorsehog I'm not really sure, but in the original commercial, they did an experiment whether a rat would choose to go to the cheese of the Gameboy Micro. When this happened, one of the guys even tried to hide it using his clipboard. Though, it could also have been a skit, I'm not really sure.

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

@@hfalco1093 I'm pretty sure the point was that it was a skit. That the Gameboy Micro was so addicting, even rats are more partial to it than cheese.... And by addicting, well, sex can be considered an addiction, and... I guess they didn't know how to represent that better than to have the rat hump the device?

[@peacock3172]

just finished a gooning session and my favorite youtuber just uploaded. Life is good.

[@Captain_Timezone]

4:04 sure I’ll buy it… just for the picture

[@Maxipoo630]

I feel like Adam has grown an addiction to talking about various forms of marketing and movies Should we be concerned?

[@AfianySnow29802-GS]

Maybe?.

[@AhmedMalaki]

6:06 honesty I hate this ad too Realistically all three of them can kill him one by one

[@jacal5179]

I don’t know if it was a real commercial or just a KZbin skit, but the Korean PlayStation ad where the guy tries to convince his wife the ps4 is a new router is by far the funniest game ad of all time.

[@eiriksundby]

damn you left out the most iconic part of the sakuracon ad, who can forget GARUGAMESH

[@xianthefurcorn3855]

I clank and yank myself to Diamondbolt’s videos

[@alysssabear]

real

[@MichealAfton1983]

Idk if it counts but Fortnite literally taking over Times Square for the Fortnite prelude event to advertise remix was really funny imo (even though the actual event in game was pretty bad)

[@lizardlucius]

10:45 This didn't happened right??? I f*cking spitted my drink all over my desk! I can't 😂

[@memedood]

5:20 Caution Semen

[@kirantrivedi5831]

Thank you, diamondbolt, for blessing the world with your videos

[@Hugelag]

I miss E3 dearly, but I'm glad that Devolver Digital is still keeping the spirit alive every year with their insane "presentations."

[@Roadrunner-Ringo]

I knew staying up until 4 in the morning would be worth it. New Diamondbolt video

[@qrowing]

That commercial for Ty The Tasmanian Tiger lives in my head rent free. Played the heck out of that game as a kid. The remaster plays well, too!

[@a_man_with_a_plan]

that ad transition was smooth

[@walterlopez5054]

a discussion about insane vidya game marketing. no mention of the GOAT himself, SEGATA SANSHIRO who will judo throw any man woman or child he finds NOT playing God's gaming system, the Sega Saturn. (all while suspiciously resembling a famous cyborg karate grasshopper man)

[@kokoAmp]

I love when diamondbolt drops

[@hulyan1903]

I JUST WOKE UP

[@TheClayKings]

Me too, and I’m mind is blown how crazy gaming ads were back in 1980s and 90s

[@Toastloard]

Thank you diamondbolt. I’ve been watching you since like 2019 and you have not made a bad video since the things I was scared of as a child one

[@jacksykes4680]

Tell Santa you want Ballz fle Christmas “What while I sit on his lap”

[@emicek1054]

Mr. Bolt got so emotional at the end.. Damn

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

So not only was my art in a Diamondbolt video like 6 years ago, but now my Uncle fumbling a Need For Speed presentation is.

[@jirttthebirtt702]

0:48 is that diamondbolts older brother

[@Thexman97]

I had that same bear that the glasses went on

[@JARG-yt]

HE DROPPED ANOTHER ONE!

[@gardion160]

Gamer wake up, new Diamondbolt video just dropped…

[@imraanakollo-arenz1449]

The marketing campaign for Dante's Inferno feels like it could get its own video. God that shit was a TRIP

[@Captain_Timezone]

3:00 100% 💀

[@espurrthestupididiot2405]

5:19 Pokemon moment (Especially the "I will not mate outside my species" line)

[@brxyle]

babe wake up, Diamondbolt just uploaded

[@project-namka]

Forever bitter that you didn't mention the infamous You Cannot Beat Us commercial from 1987

[@MforMovesets]

Gamers. Once a hobby. Now an insult. EDIT: Oh crap the Girugamesh meme. Probably twice as old as Diamondbolt. 2:21 Oh crap I remember that Gex ad. I'm sure it was even on a cover.

[@georgehiscott700]

5:01 Definitely a horror game

[@dragonslayer5259]

New video letsss gooo

[@dylanlinkowski895]

You are the only KZbinr where I don’t skip The sponsor

[@supermegabenji1026]

5:20 That reminds me that when AVGN was playing Seaman on Dreamcast, He said that the Seaman website is dead and that it was once a Porn site. This Ad explains the website's past.

[@pocketofvegetables866]

A personal favorite of mine is the Sonic Adventure 2 ad with Sonic and Shadow that says “Good Hedgehog.”/“Evil, Sinister, Malcontent Hedgehog.”

[@liangabrielantipalavillegas]

my glorious queen has arrived with an epic banger!!!!

[@worms_ina_grave]

I can see how gooner aspects of game advertising are still really prevalent today (I say as if its not the most obvious thing ever). I just wish advertising was actually good nowadays, we are not primitive in technology, we can do better (Looking at you TFOne)

[@vinicius100470]

6:14 so that first trap in Saw X took it from a Sega Saturn ad?

[@TheFunlandTeam]

I was about to mention that

[@androidmk5987]

The fact sonic did a collab with hooters and not sonic bugs me

[@MrmemecatThesecond]

Lets go he made a video

[@SciFiCode]

I love how the promotion was for, out of all games possible to collab with Hooters, Sonic Forces

[@epicgobbleygourdfan]

0:01 IS THAT THE CAKE GUY?

[@1234JohnstoneStudios]

Please talk about movie and tv show adaptations, because I would love to see them covered with your brand of humour.

[@dante_0962]

I got same gaming related ad when the video ended.

[@infinitefun527]

2:37 finally! I don't care if you put a half naked woman, that's fine I still won't buy your game, put some buff men and BAM I've bought 12 copies of crash bandicoot

[@Retrolover03]

0:03 HE SAID THE THING HE SAID THE THING!!

[@davidaviles1754]

4:24 I literally died laughing at that part 🤣

[@notliked42210]

10:57 based as hell

[@Cubeytheawesome]

You forgot the Rayman promotion that said “No arms, No legs, Huge features”

[@JulioLopez-e2d]

Earthworm Jim had a advertisement bit other advertisement are like paper doodle drawings

[@ChristopherToro]

6:11 The origin of death stranding.

[@AlvinAndTheChipmunks4]

It would be a unhinged marketing for Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: The Roadchip if you made a video about it 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@SirChoccyMilk]

Hey plumber boy, mustache man, your worst nightmare has arrived!

[@Vexil-yt8fb]

Hi! One of my family members saw you in the office going to buy a house and told me about you having a channel :D

[@dylinqu3ncy]

Diamondbolt more like DiamondGreat

[@kyleevison8889]

Alright what unholy nightmare of a video has diamondbolt cooked this time.

[@ThatFizzySoda]

8:11 Thought you meant anything related to Sonic and Inugami Korone

[@Mr.Feather130]

That's only for Frontiers,Superstars,and SXS

[@alexxxxxxrs]

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