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There's a GBA game, from Nintendo, called Tomato Adventure.
It was recently released in Japan, and recieved great reviews.
To help promote the game Nintendo ran a contest. And the prize? Tomatoes.
Yep, Nintendo awarded the winner 1kg of 'high-class' tomatoes.
Imagine other games were promoted in such ways. The winner of the Luigi's Mansion contest would have been thrilled to recieve the keys to a 20 bedroomed mansion! If you won a contest promoting Jet Set Radio, you'd find yourself with a brand new radio.
Things might not be quite so good, however, if you entered a contest for Grand Theft Auto 3. You might wake in the morning to find your car stolen. What would happen if you won the Eternal darkess contest? Would you have your electricity supply shut off? Would you be forced to spend the rest of your days in the cupboard under the stairs?
Still, things could be worse, you could win an 'Evil Dead' contest.
The way games are promoted, can be very strange indeed. Does anyone remember the free CD that came with Donkey Kong Country? Had no relevance whatsoever to the game! It was just a bunch of Indie songs from 1994! How that was supposed to attract you to buy the game I don't know.
Then there have been the cross-promotional offers in stores. Getting money off for buying a complementory product (such as cheaper game when you buy a console) is one thing, but free baseball caps and t-shirts? That's odd.
Then again, we do like freebies, and even if it's rubbish, I think we'd all take the freebie with an item we were buying, rather than the item without the freebie, if it was the same price.
Anyway, here's to more cross-promotional freebies in the future, and the less relevant they are to the games, the better, unless we really want those tomatoes!
It was recently released in Japan, and recieved great reviews.
To help promote the game Nintendo ran a contest. And the prize? Tomatoes.
Yep, Nintendo awarded the winner 1kg of 'high-class' tomatoes.
Imagine other games were promoted in such ways. The winner of the Luigi's Mansion contest would have been thrilled to recieve the keys to a 20 bedroomed mansion! If you won a contest promoting Jet Set Radio, you'd find yourself with a brand new radio.
Things might not be quite so good, however, if you entered a contest for Grand Theft Auto 3. You might wake in the morning to find your car stolen. What would happen if you won the Eternal darkess contest? Would you have your electricity supply shut off? Would you be forced to spend the rest of your days in the cupboard under the stairs?
Still, things could be worse, you could win an 'Evil Dead' contest.
The way games are promoted, can be very strange indeed. Does anyone remember the free CD that came with Donkey Kong Country? Had no relevance whatsoever to the game! It was just a bunch of Indie songs from 1994! How that was supposed to attract you to buy the game I don't know.
Then there have been the cross-promotional offers in stores. Getting money off for buying a complementory product (such as cheaper game when you buy a console) is one thing, but free baseball caps and t-shirts? That's odd.
Then again, we do like freebies, and even if it's rubbish, I think we'd all take the freebie with an item we were buying, rather than the item without the freebie, if it was the same price.
Anyway, here's to more cross-promotional freebies in the future, and the less relevant they are to the games, the better, unless we really want those tomatoes!
Crasy Taxi, free Taxi rides for a week.
A pokemon contest, a free electric shock now and again.
Hmmmm... bit like the Pikmin flower really, a flower really exists that Nintendo bought the rights to call the Pikmin flower...
How sad.
A pokemon contest, a free electric shock now and again.
Hmmmm... bit like the Pikmin flower really, a flower really exists that Nintendo bought the rights to call the Pikmin flower...
How sad.
There's a GBA game, from Nintendo, called Tomato Adventure.
It was recently released in Japan, and recieved great reviews.
To help promote the game Nintendo ran a contest. And the prize? Tomatoes.
Yep, Nintendo awarded the winner 1kg of 'high-class' tomatoes.
Imagine other games were promoted in such ways. The winner of the Luigi's Mansion contest would have been thrilled to recieve the keys to a 20 bedroomed mansion! If you won a contest promoting Jet Set Radio, you'd find yourself with a brand new radio.
Things might not be quite so good, however, if you entered a contest for Grand Theft Auto 3. You might wake in the morning to find your car stolen. What would happen if you won the Eternal darkess contest? Would you have your electricity supply shut off? Would you be forced to spend the rest of your days in the cupboard under the stairs?
Still, things could be worse, you could win an 'Evil Dead' contest.
The way games are promoted, can be very strange indeed. Does anyone remember the free CD that came with Donkey Kong Country? Had no relevance whatsoever to the game! It was just a bunch of Indie songs from 1994! How that was supposed to attract you to buy the game I don't know.
Then there have been the cross-promotional offers in stores. Getting money off for buying a complementory product (such as cheaper game when you buy a console) is one thing, but free baseball caps and t-shirts? That's odd.
Then again, we do like freebies, and even if it's rubbish, I think we'd all take the freebie with an item we were buying, rather than the item without the freebie, if it was the same price.
Anyway, here's to more cross-promotional freebies in the future, and the less relevant they are to the games, the better, unless we really want those tomatoes!
It was recently released in Japan, and recieved great reviews.
To help promote the game Nintendo ran a contest. And the prize? Tomatoes.
Yep, Nintendo awarded the winner 1kg of 'high-class' tomatoes.
Imagine other games were promoted in such ways. The winner of the Luigi's Mansion contest would have been thrilled to recieve the keys to a 20 bedroomed mansion! If you won a contest promoting Jet Set Radio, you'd find yourself with a brand new radio.
Things might not be quite so good, however, if you entered a contest for Grand Theft Auto 3. You might wake in the morning to find your car stolen. What would happen if you won the Eternal darkess contest? Would you have your electricity supply shut off? Would you be forced to spend the rest of your days in the cupboard under the stairs?
Still, things could be worse, you could win an 'Evil Dead' contest.
The way games are promoted, can be very strange indeed. Does anyone remember the free CD that came with Donkey Kong Country? Had no relevance whatsoever to the game! It was just a bunch of Indie songs from 1994! How that was supposed to attract you to buy the game I don't know.
Then there have been the cross-promotional offers in stores. Getting money off for buying a complementory product (such as cheaper game when you buy a console) is one thing, but free baseball caps and t-shirts? That's odd.
Then again, we do like freebies, and even if it's rubbish, I think we'd all take the freebie with an item we were buying, rather than the item without the freebie, if it was the same price.
Anyway, here's to more cross-promotional freebies in the future, and the less relevant they are to the games, the better, unless we really want those tomatoes!