Where would we be without the graceful art of vomit humor? You know what this Thunder Spirits commercial is lacking is a good, old fashioned fart joke. Perhaps they were saving that for the TV commercial. All joking aside, this Thunder Spirits advertisement has turned me several different shades of confused. Should I be excited to play a game that promises to make me hurl? Is vomiting really a good selling point for anything? And doesn't that guy look an awful lot like Jason Alexander??

This Thunder Spirits advertisement came out around the same time movies like Wayne's World were leaving their cultural mark, which could go a long way to explain why someone would consider "hurl" to be a buzz word. Nothing about the thought of vomit is appealing, and it ultimately ends up with me wondering what that red-headed freak had to eat moments before letting it fly. Hopefully it was a milkshake or something light, not the McDonalds food those M.C. Kids above are promoting. Apparently somebody thought it would be a good idea if every time you thought of Thunder Spirits the first thing to pop into your head is some guy vomiting up a Big Mac. I don't think you need to see Super Size Me to know how disturbing that can be.

The commercial's greatest sin is not its immature humor, it's the outrageous hyperbole found in the small print. Although the game is a straight forward 2D shooter, it claims to offer "horrific 3-D creatures." To say that this featured 3D enemies is a lot like saying that Night Trap was a cartoon. And the exaggerations don't stop there; it also states that it's an "arcade classic." Unfortunately Thunder Spirits was never an arcade game, nor was it especially worthy of being considered a "classic." Talk about something that makes me want to hurl.

FROM: The Case of the Bad Advertising