Today's episode of Commercial Break is all about Hellraiser, an unlicensed (and unreleased) NES game from the good people at Color Dreams. Can you tell what the excess is in this advertisement? Is it all of the pins in Pinhead's head? Is it the tagline, which states that "He'll tear your soul apart"? Or maybe it's the fact that it's on the NES, Genesis AND Atari Lynx. I mean seriously, the Atari Lynx?

All of those are wrong, because this advertisement likes to exaggerate how many worlds it has. While trumpeting that Hellraiser is the "largest game yet for Nintendo" and has "over one hundred demons to escape from," Color Dreams goes way overboard and proclaims that Hellraiser has, get this, "over one million worlds!" ONE MILLION?!? Clearly we're talking about a game that randomly generates levels, because even if somebody spent only one second developing those levels that would still be 11 days, 13 hours and 47 minutes of wasted energy.

Though, as silly as the exaggeration is, there's one thing I can't get over. Do you think it's appropriate for Hellraiser (one of the darkest horror films of all time) to be developed by a company called Color Dreams? The same company that released Bible Buffet and Super 3D Noah's Ark? The same company that advertises Happy Camper directly under Clive Barker's grotesque creation? That's like having the Saw movies under the Walt Disney banner. When you have something violent and dark you don't use a name like Color Dreams, instead you have it be from Dead Man Software or Machine Gun Games. No wonder this game never saw the light of day.

FROM: It's Me or the Bad Advertising