mobile game ad in 2006: leaflet that was in the case for a game you just bought that says “Wanna keep playing on the go? Text GAMER1 to 69420 and play it on your mobile phone!” and its a very bad isometric demake that added an extra $30 to your phone bill that was not mentioned anywhere in the ad other than the microscopic text at the bottom. you only remember it existing after seeing it in a lost media youtube video where it was reuploaded by a reddit user named BluntBurninBeavis75.
mobile game ad in 2013: ad that plays before a youtube video thats a guy running down a hallway holding his ass that says “Download PoopRunner today!” and everytime you die you have to watch an ad for Facebook Mobile unless you pay 7.99 for the ad free version that also has five free respawns. if you can manage to get a million points you can unlock a gangnam style character and if you get a billion points you unlock a lets player that will get cancelled in about a decade because he was at the jan 6th capitol insurrection.
mobile game ad in 2017: tv ad of a celebrity waltzing through a warzone holding their phone and tapping it and making explosions happen behind them for a game called Toys of War and its the worlds most boring RTS imaginable that somehow has millions of downloads and one of your coworkers and/or relatives are hopelessly addicted to it and have spent more on that game than you do on groceries. turns out this game started off as a browser game in 2009 that had web ads of beautiful women saying “Come Play My Lord!” while you were trying to play Free Rider 2 on some bootleg flash game site the school computer system hasnt blocked yet.
mobile game ad in 2024: unskippable ad on social media featuring a woman with disgusting feet getting licked by her husband frame one and then she shits the bed and gets thrown out into a freezing cold shack as two prompts show up that say Help Her! and Piss on her! and you get to see someone playing a puzzle game badly on purpose. when you download the game its literally just fallout shelter. the puzzle game did not even exist until a week ago where they legally had to add it in and you can only play it once a day after 50 minutes of playtime and it doesnt look nearly as well made as it did in the ad.