24 Hours is all you can do?? Well Sega, while I would like to believe you, I have a few different opinions about how much you can do, and rest assured, you can do better than 24 hours!

This is one of those mid-1990s commercials that didn't need to show any fancy graphics, it just needed to have an arrogant quote to sell it to the brain-dead masses. Sega claims here that 24 hours is the best that they can do ... and perhaps that's true, because it was all downhill from here.

What else could Sega do? Perhaps spend less time in the 16-bit era working on add-on devices for the Genesis. Oh, and the Nomad ... probably not the best use of your money. Having a "surprise" launch for the Saturn six months early (and only at four national game sellers) was also a pretty terrible idea, as was pricing that thing at $400 when everybody knew the price would go down in only a matter of weeks. What else can you do? How about not dropping out of the console race before most of the other consoles even arrived ... how about that Sega?

And it's not like they're any better today than they were then, these days most of their games have a strange "half-finished" feel to them, and they can't even release a good collection of their classic games. This is a company I want to love. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Sega and their games ... but dammit, it's time you took your advice: Stop just watching TV and get back to programming those games you want us to buy. Quit half-assing it, you're not going to win any support that way. And the next time you ask a question, you better be prepared for somebody to answer it ten years later!

FROM: Bad Advertising: The Next Generation