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The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!!
#331535 - 09/09/14 07:39 PM


Since we now have FLYER FEVER, a great site dedicated to preserve arcade flyers, I decided to hype it by starting a contest to elect the better "WTF" flyer of all time!

All posts here must include a link to the flyer and a description of why you have chosen that specific flyer, enumerating the reasons to your choice.

I'm going to start with this one I saw today:

M.I.A - Missing in Action:
http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97031784688/m-i-a-missing-in-action

Why a skinny and almost naked chick is doing with a single pistol in the middle of nowhere, without a single scratch, with a well-done hair, opening a cage which apparently has no chain/lock in the first place (those bamboos are so thin they could easily just have broken it with their bare hands), rescuing two guys who apparently have plenty of food and water because they are fat and both seem to have plenty of energy?? And look at the fat guy: he looks like Chuck Norris after a severe diarrhea. And both of them are clearly interested in having sex with her instead of being rescued! They look like freaking sex maniacs!! And I won't comment about that plastic skeleton sitting on the floor, it's just cheap! WTF were they thinking????????????????



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331540 - 09/09/14 11:48 PM


> Since we now have FLYER FEVER, a great site dedicated to preserve arcade flyers, I decided to hype it by starting a contest to elect the better "WTF" flyer of all time!
>
> All posts here must include a link to the flyer and a description of why you have chosen that specific flyer, enumerating the reasons to your choice.

I only looked at the Konami flyers to begin with, and I found this one :

http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97032278843/the-main-event

Because the guys (and even the chick) can't look more ridiculous ...

OT: Is the "search" OK ? I don't seem to find anything when typing a full name ?

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That's Rambo after his sex surgery..... new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331625 - 09/11/14 09:53 PM


Notice how practical he was. No boobies means less ta haul around through the bush. BUSH. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEH.

In other news....no, I am a sex maniac. Oh, wait, this isn't the bin.....I'll continue there.....



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: stephh]
#331631 - 09/11/14 11:57 PM


> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97032278843/the-main-event
>
> Because the guys (and even the chick) can't look more ridiculous ...

Honestly, that is only marginally cheesier than what actual professional wrestling looked like at the time. I'd be willing to bet that all four of those guys were actual wrestlers in some local yokel promotion.



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331648 - 09/12/14 04:47 AM


Not really a WTF on its own, but taken together...

Somebody at Konami in the late '80s really had a thing for playing dress up and taking flyer pictures. And holy crap did they get a lot of mileage out of that gray tank top.

http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97114097828/aliens
http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97114294168/a-jax
http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97054772703/contra
http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97054253698/devastators
http://www.flyerfever.com/post/96947791868/top-gunner



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: DMala]
#331656 - 09/12/14 07:48 AM


> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97114097828/aliens
> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97114294168/a-jax
> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97054772703/contra
> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97054253698/devastators
> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/96947791868/top-gunner

Top Gunner looks a lot like Jackal (which I like a bit). Devastators looks graphically interesting. Have to check those out.



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: Traso]
#331658 - 09/12/14 08:00 AM


> > http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97114097828/aliens
> > http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97114294168/a-jax
> > http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97054772703/contra
> > http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97054253698/devastators
> > http://www.flyerfever.com/post/96947791868/top-gunner
>
> Top Gunner looks a lot like Jackal (which I like a bit). Devastators looks
> graphically interesting. Have to check those out.

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Top Gunner was called Jackal in the US market only. Except for the name and a few cosmetic differences, it was the same game. I loved Jackal on the NES, never got to try to arcade version until years later.

I love the look on the Devastator chick's face, it's the perfect mix of amusement and disbelief. "You guys are shitting me, you're really going to use this in an advertisement?"



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: DMala]
#331666 - 09/12/14 01:15 PM


Ok, here's another one posted today. Why is this chick showing her boobs???? It's a freaking space shooter, not 'boobs from outer space'!! WTF!!!??

http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97271977413/meteor



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Re: LOL - found this Vendetta topic on KLOV - Had to put it here!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331669 - 09/12/14 03:02 PM


Great Vendetta flyer 'reviews'... LOL

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=300999



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331674 - 09/12/14 05:40 PM


These aren't yet on the new site, but are the most crazy arcade game flyers I can think of.

#1. Fruits
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=4630&image=1

When I first saw this I thought it was a health campaign to get kids to eat more fruit. There are no pictures or gameplay descriptions, just talking about fruit being eaten. I also never heard of the company before.

#2. Voyager
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=4066&image=1

Just start reading the description to find the weirdness. It starts with "Sail the seven seas"; I bet you can't find even one sea in that picture either. It looks like someone in marketing got confused by the name and thought of space travel, like the probe "Voyager". The picture is also a rip-off of one in the book "Spacecraft 2000 to 2100AD".



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331680 - 09/12/14 09:28 PM


> Ok, here's another one posted today. Why is this chick showing her boobs???? It's a
> freaking space shooter, not 'boobs from outer space'!! WTF!!!??
>
> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97271977413/meteor


Personally, I think it's what you don't see (but could see) that makes a pic more interesting.

http://totoonthemoon.free.fr/images/covers/megadrive/front/gaiares.jpg

^That's just from a console game, so doesn't really count. For some reason I couldn't help but to think of that game. :-/


Robot Boobs? I never seen this lady anywhere in this game.

http://www.arcade-gear.com/Games/Galaxy_Force/Galaxy_Force_II_FMT_A.jpg

Not really a flyer I guess, but it is for an arcade game.



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331684 - 09/13/14 01:49 AM


Not arcade, but Phalanx is a classic:
http://www.giantbomb.com/images/1300-1130126



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331686 - 09/13/14 02:15 AM


I like the "Destroy Salling Meteors & UFO!".

Make up your minds, are they "sailing" or or they "falling"? Pick a letter and fix it already!

And what the hell is "Emergency escape, our spaceship!!!" all about?



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331765 - 09/14/14 08:59 PM


> Ok, here's another one posted today. Why is this chick showing her boobs???? It's a
> freaking space shooter, not 'boobs from outer space'!! WTF!!!??
>
> http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97271977413/meteor

You don't like boobs?



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: stephh]
#331766 - 09/14/14 09:00 PM


> Because the guys (and even the chick) can't look more ridiculous ...

They are probably retired now and their grand children ask them what job they used to do. I wonder if they will admit to that.



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: ]
#331795 - 09/15/14 03:18 PM


> > Ok, here's another one posted today. Why is this chick showing her boobs???? It's a
> > freaking space shooter, not 'boobs from outer space'!! WTF!!!??
> >
> > http://www.flyerfever.com/post/97271977413/meteor
>
> You don't like boobs?

Of course I do!! I love boobies - ok, now I understand why they are in that flyer! Who needs a reason to see boobs anyway??



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331832 - 09/16/14 04:46 AM


Ehem...

http://crazyarcadeflyers.tumblr.com

(I got bored delving through the flyer archive in the end, but feel free to look through my choice picks)



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: R.Coltrane]
#331853 - 09/16/14 11:19 AM


> Of course I do!! I love boobies - ok, now I understand why they are in that flyer!
> Who needs a reason to see boobs anyway??

Now you're overcompensating.



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Re: The ultimate 'WTF' flyer contest BEGINS!!!! new [Re: ]
#331872 - 09/16/14 09:00 PM


> > Of course I do!! I love boobies - ok, now I understand why they are in that flyer!
> > Who needs a reason to see boobs anyway??
>
> Now you're overcompensating.

Back off!!


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