Believe it or not, Valis was a fairly successful franchise that found its way on quite a number of game systems. The woman you see in front of you (and in the TV screen) is Yuko, the scantly-clad heroine of the Valis franchise. This would be the type of set up where an advertising firm might hire a hot model and dress her up in appropriate attire to attract your core audience. But that's not what Telnet did, they decided to get any old girl they could find and dress her up in the worst costume they could muster up. This advertisement is neither sexy nor compelling.

This commercial was a stern warning for the ills of cos-play, something that is struggling to gain acceptance in this country. But you and I both know that it's never the super model-types dressing up like Yuna, it's always somebody that looks more like this girl in the commercial. If this doesn't show you the evils of dressing up like mediocre game characters then nothing will.

But just as you're starting to find faux-Yuko you notice that either she's really, really short - or that's the largest television you've ever seen. I know the game is packing 8-meg of power (that's 1 megabyte, gang), but do you really need a TV that large to appreciate the power this game is going to deliver? And really, do you think those 8-bit graphics are going to look that good when the screen is 5 feet tall? This advert gives off the feeling that they just didn't have a lot of time left to bother with an ad campaign. Perhaps that's why you don't remember the series.

FROM: The One With the Bad Advertising