I'm sure more than a few people have considering the idea of owning a game system that could switch between games without you getting up and manually loading them. Well ASG had that very idea in the early 1990s; they created a unique device that would, in theory, allow you to switch from game to game by just pushing a button. It was a good idea, one that you can see being useful to certain types of people. There was only one problem ... they decided to promote it with what can only be described as one of the most disturbing adverts I have ever seen. It's just horrendous, repulsive.

It would be disturbing enough if it had just featured Mr. Bean, but they gave him a devilish grin and glowing red eyes that make it perfectly clear why that Bean movie did so poorly. But it's not just the creepy sexual harassment face he's sending your way, it's also the fact that he has six Genesis cartridges stuck in his head. And considering that those Genesis cartridges were not very large, then this guy's head must be awfully small! And what's with that forehead? Are you a descendant of Kelsey Grammar?

Even more disturbing is what is being said. The official name of this product is the Video Jukebox VJ ... yet the VJ stands for Video Jukebox, so wouldn't the full name be Video Jukebox Video Jukebox? That seems a bit redundant. And it says it's "on-line all the time," a phrase that means something entirely different these days. Of course, the Video Jukebox never does explain why somebody would want to have the games shoved into their head, since everybody knows that it was a game console that played the games ... not your mind. Oh Video Jukebox VJ, all these years later you still remain puzzling.

FROM: Bad Advertising: The Next Generation