WASHINGTON (AP) - Too busy playing video games to watch presidential ads on television? Barack Obama has found you, too, by becoming the first presidential candidate to buy ad space inside a game.
Nine video games from Electronic Arts Inc., ranging from the extremely popular “Madden 09” football game to the street racing “Burnout: Paradise,” feature in-game ads from the Obama campaign. The ads—they appear on billboards and other signage—remind players that early voting has begun and plug a campaign Web site.
Lame…
Leela: “Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?”
Fry: “Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on tv and radio…and in magazines…and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree.”
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/1ACV06/03.mp3
I really hope at some point there is a backlash to some of this or it won’t be long and they’ll be beaming ads into our dreams at night just like in Futurama.
That would make my life as an american so much easier though…:banghead:
lol. thats sweet.
really?
its brilliant.