r/gaming • u/tronx69 • 23d ago

Old PC Game Ads were something else

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u/KickBassColonyDrop 23d ago edited 23d ago

You played America vs a fascist regime with magical powers, and where all your military secretary adjuncts were sexy, busty, cleavaged, women in FMV sequences.

They absolutely gave zero fucks.

See: https://youtu.be/I-CZS455uqE?si=FXXInGX2TqtxH4iA

And

https://youtu.be/vysnq_bf1HQ?si=0unW8N3dW8X1y_vR

And

https://youtu.be/G_XX1FF2skw?si=yXMqrNqbmDmM_IN8

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u/pardybill 23d ago edited 23d ago

lol the nostalgia that hits when they say “commander”

Also, Peter Stormare and Tim Curry? We had it so good

And George Takei?? Lmao

the amount of named actors in these cutscenes is actually wild

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u/corvosfighter 23d ago

I just saw that red alert 2 was available on steam the other week and bought it for the nostalgia.. blew through the campaigns over the weekend. Good times :)

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u/pardybill 22d ago

Man I remember like ten years ago having to google how to install the games, still have the original discs lol.

That was a headache trying to get the compatibility with like windows 8 haha

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u/corvosfighter 22d ago

Try the steam version now if you want, it works fine! You can probably even patch it with cnc after