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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @RocketSloth
    @RocketSloth  Год назад +26

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  • @Nefnoj
    @Nefnoj Год назад +77

    You forgot the most important one, one so big that when this video game was brought to the Nintendo Switch, fans were disappointed the licenses weren't renewed.
    34 brands featured all in one game, impossible to beat without collecting at least one, including:
    - soda,
    - sardines,
    - honey,
    - lip balm,
    - baking powder,
    - yogurt,
    - batteries,
    - mustard,
    - more soda,
    - gummies,
    - shoe polish,
    - I gave up because I don't think people would read this if I continued.
    Pikmin 2. The purpose of Pikmin is to explore this strange planet, and in the second game you collect lost relics from this planet to pay off the debt. Not all of them are products, but the inclusion of brands helps instill the world-building of this place and that there was a civilization long ago that left these bottle caps and batteries behind, while showing the scale of your character as a small speck in the grand scheme of things.

  • @MasterBattle2000
    @MasterBattle2000 Год назад +83

    Need for Speed: Underground 2 had some pretty intense product placement. It had Best Buy, Burger King, McDonalds and T-Mobile amongst others.

    • @1ketfan
      @1ketfan Год назад +5

      product placement in car games have pretty much been a given since like the beginning

    • @foxo444
      @foxo444 Год назад +5

      It was Cingular not T-Mobile ;)

    • @Chromeno
      @Chromeno 11 месяцев назад +1

      It's Carbon that had T-Mobile

    • @inny74
      @inny74 7 месяцев назад

      NFS Underground 1 and 2 both had come crazy product placement. Aftermarket parts, McDonalds, Burger King, and Cingular Wireless.

    • @Ch4osWe4veR
      @Ch4osWe4veR 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@foxo444Man, that’s a name I haven’t seen in ages! My first cell phone when I was like 13 or 14 was a Samsung flip phone on Cingular lmao it eventually got folded into AT&T or something

  • @DrNoobisthebestyoutuberever
    @DrNoobisthebestyoutuberever Год назад +255

    It should be a requirement that every game needs a forced product placement because I find this stuff comedy gold

    • @tobykief2400
      @tobykief2400 Год назад +1

      No

    • @Toastedcowsb
      @Toastedcowsb Год назад +9

      It's only the right feeling in skateboarding games as far as skateboarding brands like Zero, dgk, Baker, Element, and such

    • @xaviergl
      @xaviergl Год назад +7

      Only if it's a fake in-game product. Im not paying 60-70$ for a game just to have corny advertising shoved in my face. Then where does it stop?

    • @assassin8636
      @assassin8636 Год назад +4

      ​@xaviergl6397 you're just complaining

    • @hydra_drizz2164
      @hydra_drizz2164 Год назад +2

      ​@@assassin8636 I mean he's not wrong

  • @bigman94755
    @bigman94755 Год назад +13

    Skate's placement was perfect. It was never in your face and was a perfect product to fit the game and era.

  • @WayRad
    @WayRad Год назад +7

    Alan Wake also had a deal with Lincoln, the car manufacturer. The car Alan and his wife drive to Cauldron Lake and on the ferry was a Lincoln SUV. They also changed that with the remaster release.

  • @castjet9898
    @castjet9898 Год назад +4

    This Chanel is the perfect fit for me, cause is a lot of random stuff involving games and is normally on a long form video. Just what I like.

  • @inductivegrunt94
    @inductivegrunt94 Год назад +12

    Tey put da Maphter Chief in der Soder!
    The Halo Mountain Dew commercials were my favorite!

  • @its_neck
    @its_neck Год назад +11

    my favorite in game advertisements i've seen are the alcohol brand placements in the Yakuza series, it just makes so much sense

  • @BrettHarvey007
    @BrettHarvey007 Год назад +12

    So, to add a bit of context (or whatever) to the racing game discussion, certain brands have actually signed exclusive deals to specific publishers. The biggest example of that has to be Porsche. In the early 2000s, Porsche and EA signed an exclusive licensing deal, so literally no other racing game could use officially branded Porsches until like 2016 or so (if I'm remembering correctly, I think it was a bit of a big deal when Forza finally was able to release the Porsche car packs for Motorsport 6 and Horizon 3). However, thankfully for non-EA racing games, there was a workaround to get 911s in games thanks to the German manufacturer RUF, who took stock Porsches, modified them, and legally resold them under their own branding, which made them eligible to include in other publishers' racing games.
    And to add to your discussion of Toyota, there was a bit of time in the mid 2010s when Toyota refused to let their cars (apart from one of their Baja/Trophy race trucks) be featured in games that had street racing, so, ironically enough, there WAS in fact a Forza game (Horizon 3, I believe) without Toyotas (again, until they got re-added as a limited "Forzathon" reward).
    Finally, I think that one big aspect of the car licensing thing comes down to the background/location of a game's developers. Building off the example of Gran Turismo, they feature quite a few Japanese manufacturers that only license to Sony (the one that comes to mind is Daihatsu). Playground Games (the developers of the Forza Horizon games) is mainly based out of the UK, which has given them access to fairly niche British manufacturers like Bowler and Noble.
    So, tl;dr, there have been exclusive licenses for car manufacturers in the racing game scene, there has in fact been a Forza game without Toyotas, and, to some extent, car licensing probably has something to do with the location of a game's devs.

  • @Xxbte96xX
    @Xxbte96xX Год назад +15

    I work at Domino's and the reason your coupon didn't work, I THINK, is because they were having an issue with people being able to use the coupon over and over again using new accounts. I wasn't there on the day but apparently my manager said we were getting killed with these pizzas and they eventually had to stop taking them entirely, so my bet is they eventually turned it off to stop that.

    • @mo0se3
      @mo0se3 3 месяца назад +1

      That's exactly what happened. I also don't see how someone guessing your password and breaking into your account is Domino's fault

    • @raymondsecrest3773
      @raymondsecrest3773 2 месяца назад

      I also work at dominos and I knew abt the noid before this video but it’s funny how our stores still have him around like on our software we use and such

    • @jeffsorrows
      @jeffsorrows 3 дня назад

      Not too long ago maybe 6 months or so Tmobile had a free soda at Circle Ks, I looked at 3 different phones codes, and they were all the same! I was traveling so ended up with a bunch of Pepsi and mountain dew lol one stop did say 1 soda per person, which made sense but I had the other 2 people just walk in with their phones lol

  • @TheItalianoAssassino
    @TheItalianoAssassino Год назад +9

    That CoD pizza box is legit art. 😂

  • @ValerieTheBat
    @ValerieTheBat Год назад +17

    I like these new (and more broad) video game topic videos, Rocket Sloth.

  • @derkaderkamohamadallaackbarnut
    @derkaderkamohamadallaackbarnut Год назад +5

    KFC was in PUBG last month. All the gas stations turned into the locations and gave you bundles to heal. Also promote heart disease

  • @ninjapistol14
    @ninjapistol14 Год назад +13

    I think In game product placement is really charming as well as in the game manuals. Yakuza has to be my favorite example.

  • @djradish4
    @djradish4 Год назад +28

    Nathan Drake and Subway is the funniest one

    • @kazmiller96
      @kazmiller96 Год назад +5

      It must have been a Sony thing at the time. Subways are dispersed throughout Infamous 2.

    • @PaddyIsPlaying
      @PaddyIsPlaying Год назад +3

      I loved Nathan Drake 3

  • @Xw3dn3sd4yX
    @Xw3dn3sd4yX 3 месяца назад

    I dig the format! I even got a little productive with this in the background lol it's nice being able to sort-of be a fly on the wall for these topics.

  • @somethinsimple1234
    @somethinsimple1234 Год назад +2

    If you think of metal gear as serious military stories you think of metal gear wrong.

  • @adamhachey8461
    @adamhachey8461 Год назад +2

    Mafia 2 playboy magazines one of the most iconic collectables in gaming

    • @Hazzard91
      @Hazzard91 10 месяцев назад +1

      Possibly the best imo.

  • @GGFTV
    @GGFTV Год назад +3

    In the game SSX3, the vehicle Element was sponsored in the game and it was wild. You see billboards of it, they have a few on the side of the courses, and in one level, you literally grind through one with the doors open

    • @Ch4osWe4veR
      @Ch4osWe4veR 7 месяцев назад

      I was just thinking that! Also the 7-up variant “dnL” on billboards lol. It really dates that game to a particular point in 2003 because I don’t think dnL was around very long

  • @bugchingy
    @bugchingy Год назад +1

    Skate 3 had an entire trick called the Miracle Whip, I’m suprised that wasn’t brought up..

  • @jsb1944
    @jsb1944 Год назад +4

    Bawls energy drink was in a few games. Grab your Bawls.
    Red bull was in wipeout before i ever saw it irl. That was surreal.

  • @dottyduke
    @dottyduke Год назад +1

    The Subway advertising is most known for Uncharted 3 (because of the tv ad) but Subway literally appeared in Infamous 2 and PlayStation Move Heroes.

  • @SplitScreamOFFICIAL
    @SplitScreamOFFICIAL Год назад +2

    The Guitar Hero Music Licensing caused a shitstorm between Axel Rose and Slash

  • @thedoomslayer108_YT
    @thedoomslayer108_YT Год назад +6

    The cover of Uncharted 3 on the video's thumbnail shows the incorrect ESRB due to being Rated M rather than the actual T Rating.
    Naughty Dog didn't make their first M-rated game until The Last of Us in 2013.

  • @skateorpie
    @skateorpie Год назад +1

    Skate and the sidekick just felt natural together in the timeframe that it wasn’t even out of place at all imo

  • @rayyan_63
    @rayyan_63 Год назад

    just came home from university and jumped on my computer and saw yall had a new video and instantly jumped to it keep up the good work guys

  • @rvrinc
    @rvrinc Год назад +2

    You also had a sidekick in Midnight Club LA. Amazing game regardless 3:01

  • @Adrian-qj4tl
    @Adrian-qj4tl Год назад +1

    Rocket Sloth how could you forget about one of the 1st gaming advertisments ever. JET MOTO PS1 theychad racers and signs with full brandings from Mountain Dew and Butterfinger i vividly remember this.

  • @jebross6120
    @jebross6120 Год назад +3

    Honestly, I love this style and format of video!

  • @pelago_
    @pelago_ Год назад +2

    I always thought the energizer battery sponsorship in Alan Wake was kind of a negative bc the batteries die so quickly…

  • @Ash21
    @Ash21 Год назад +2

    Honestly surprised you didn't mention the Call of Duty Ghost's Halloween thing with Michael Myers. Though I guess it wasn't really a marketing crossover, just a crossover.

  • @PepsiManX360
    @PepsiManX360 Год назад +1

    Pepsi owns most of those companies including Doritos and Mountain-Dew, but his weird that they prefer to promote Mountain-Dew instead of Pepsi… Weird.
    I couldn’t find the new Halo cans anywhere!

    • @SlabbyMess
      @SlabbyMess 8 месяцев назад

      Mountain Dew is for “gamers”

  • @LSGSUZFE
    @LSGSUZFE Год назад

    This past weekend ive actually been playing Rush 2 explaining to my nephew about the Mtn Dew cans and the Mtn Dew track car. I grew up playing Rush 2 with a N64 wheel and the memories still live on.

  • @ericjamesraackf
    @ericjamesraackf Год назад

    The ending discussion that is very podcast like casual is a really nice touch I don't typically see

  • @SuperRKO92
    @SuperRKO92 5 месяцев назад

    The world will be talking about the legendary halo 4 interview where they just had mountain dew and bags of doritos in the background

  • @justinfernandez2658
    @justinfernandez2658 Год назад +6

    Rocket Sloth just doesn't miss! Another banger of a video

  • @brycevo
    @brycevo Год назад +1

    The Halo 4 Mountain Dew ad was perfect

  • @ADukesJustice
    @ADukesJustice Год назад +1

    Sneak King was just too wild of an idea to pass up, I still have my copy

  • @kylebrandon4556
    @kylebrandon4556 Год назад +1

    This was a relaxing video. Y'all should do that more often

  • @5TR1M0R
    @5TR1M0R 11 месяцев назад

    I just wanna say about the little caeser's promo for MW3 that you didn't have to order a pizza at all it was just two separate orders with a requirement of $3 which was basically the stuffed crazy bread that was promoted for it at the time, for MW2 the year before it was a full pizza combo tho lol (I've been an employee for almost 2 years and was able to keep a poster promo of the operator idk why I just had the urge to comment this) 20:20

  • @cathybannister1311
    @cathybannister1311 Год назад

    Pretty sure there was Modern Warfare 3 had a jeep you could buy, too.
    The Halo 3 Pontiac has me dying right now lmao.

  • @thedangerwich5476
    @thedangerwich5476 Год назад

    This is the type of video game content I come to RUclips for.

  • @LoneCourier2281
    @LoneCourier2281 Год назад +1

    Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel replaced Nuka Cola with the real world Bawls energy drink
    That was wild.

  • @pnklysmooth9888
    @pnklysmooth9888 Год назад

    I swear my MW3 little ceasers pizza box showed up during this video so I was weirdly surprised to see it again moments later.
    Great video!

  • @Chad_Wick
    @Chad_Wick Год назад

    it will never not be funny that alan wake's crappy flashlight batteries are energizers lmao

  • @tehspy1337
    @tehspy1337 Год назад +1

    Why was there blackberries on the pizza at 19:02

  • @onyxcideYT
    @onyxcideYT Год назад +7

    Do more casual chats like this

  • @Tempi907
    @Tempi907 4 месяца назад +1

    0:39 better dead than red.

  • @tytyger626
    @tytyger626 Год назад +1

    Just realized I unironically ordered Little Caesars for the code while clicking on this video. Almost thought you werent gonna mention it since you moved on from talking about the CoD crossovers for a bit. Still need to order them one more time so I can play as Little Caesars on the good side and play as Mtn. Dew on the villians team.

  • @CrystalTikal
    @CrystalTikal 9 месяцев назад

    I did what you did with Dominos to Pizza Hutt after they charged my gift card for a purchase that failed and was never made due to a server error, and when I tried to get help their Support ghosted me twice.
    Also, according to The Cutting Room Floor, Code Vein, a post-apocalyptic anime vampire Dark Souls, has unused voicelines for a Domino's promotion.

  • @PabloStiglitz
    @PabloStiglitz Год назад +1

    PUBG does a lot of weird promotions. They also have a Torino’s pizza roll skin and right now they’re doing a promotion with Trolli gummy worms XD

    • @joebhoyy
      @joebhoyy Год назад

      don’t forget KFC 🐔

  • @ajflink
    @ajflink 11 месяцев назад

    There is a very subtle one in Final Fantasy XV where the camping chairs and tents are Coleman brand. I like it because you could play through the whole game without noticing.
    Death Stranding has the most in your face one with Monster Energy with the drink being a usable item, being plastered on trucks and sticking out completely from everything else in the game like someone modded it into the game.

  • @coreylineberry8557
    @coreylineberry8557 Год назад

    6:12
    They also have a good amount of giveaways between Mountain Dew, Doritos, and Rockstar Energy, where with enough points you could get an Xbox Series S or any number of cool prizes. It's how I got Starfield, and am going to get a headset.

  • @JoshValdez1996
    @JoshValdez1996 Год назад +1

    Pikmin 2 had a ton of product placement, the most recognizable was the Duracell batteries lol

  • @koiofokinawa
    @koiofokinawa Год назад

    Small correction, Burger King didn't do the other two games because of Sneak king, all three games were green lit and being developed at the same time. Its why all three ended up out pretty close together.
    Also fun fact, Sneak kings disk works on both 360 and Xbox. It's a dual disk.

  • @medea27
    @medea27 11 месяцев назад

    With games based on real sports like F1 and World Rally Championship, back in the 90's & 00's there were sponsors who gave permission for their brands to appear in games to lend authenticity rather than as marketing (since race cars & tracks are traditionally plastered with sponsor's names like tyre or engine oil brands, which aren't of much interest to gamers!).
    I've always enjoyed picking out the faux products & branding designed to hint strongly about a specific product, but where the devs either didn't bother or weren't successful in getting permission or a marketing deal... like red drink cans with white writing saying 'Cola'... or a burger joint with a W brand that looks strangely familiar, kinda like an upside-down M.... LOL
    And the pupper was a delightfully cute distraction in the background during your discussion at the end.... the combination of scripted segments & informal chat is a winner. 👍

  • @dani_p2200
    @dani_p2200 Год назад +1

    Bro, I just got a Ballantine x Borderlands add in this video, what the hell, 💀

  • @EggplatnmWatch
    @EggplatnmWatch 5 месяцев назад

    Perfect background noise is right. You are great for playing at work.

  • @MARSHALL_SLAYER
    @MARSHALL_SLAYER 10 месяцев назад

    37:58 I remember hearing on Donut that Toyota works with Gran Turismo as to not promote illegal street racing 💀

  • @gandalfthepotato9844
    @gandalfthepotato9844 25 дней назад

    Monster Assault is still available all over England in most corner shops

  • @ualwayswin74
    @ualwayswin74 Год назад +1

    They put the master chief in tha soder

  • @djclem9599
    @djclem9599 Год назад

    There is a call of duty black ops jeep that lives in my town. I always give him a double tap honk when I see him. My guy even has the call of duty elite tire cover on the spare. RIP such a different time❤

  • @doctorhino8736
    @doctorhino8736 Год назад

    1080 snowboarding had a big tommy hilfiger tie in. That brand was so popular by that point in the 90s.

  • @TheKillertoma11
    @TheKillertoma11 Год назад +1

    Big bumpin was a surprisingly good multiplayer mini game.
    My sister and i spent a lot of time playing that one.
    Especially considering it cost us like... $5? CAD

  • @imisstheoldyoutube11
    @imisstheoldyoutube11 Год назад +1

    tony hawks series had many brand deals including napster, nokia, jeep

  • @D.S.handle
    @D.S.handle Год назад

    The most memorable product placement for me are the Nokia phone billboards in Ultimate Spider-Man.

  • @gamingdevilyoutube
    @gamingdevilyoutube Год назад

    I used to play a lot of phantasy star and it actually goes pretty hard for a lesser known saga ip

  • @djspyd2000
    @djspyd2000 26 дней назад

    Doritos crash course is the ultimate advertisement game

  • @coast2coastKC
    @coast2coastKC Год назад

    FFXIV had a few I remember I bought 5 butterfingers to get an in game mount. And I think I had to order pizza through DoorDash to get an “eat pizza” emote 😂

  • @widensworld2874
    @widensworld2874 Год назад +2

    Ive been a fan since early 2019 i like these new videos a lot, but i miss the old halo videos, and more 10 minute videos would be nice. But these new videos are great background noise. Both are great and ill always support all your future creative endeavors!

  • @HaloGuy467
    @HaloGuy467 Год назад

    Pocket Bike Racing is a Burger King game that still feels unreal but I love it

  • @YaBoyHam
    @YaBoyHam 2 месяца назад

    Run Like Hell on PS2 used BAWLS energy as a health potion LMAO

  • @yoboijordan5012
    @yoboijordan5012 Год назад

    Yo Dawgs I lived this style of video. Plz do more!

  • @jazzturkey2108
    @jazzturkey2108 День назад

    old video that im just now watching. funny enough the T Mobile Sidekick(2008) is my favorite phone ive ever owned, and the Skate games are my favorite franchise lol. Even now ive been a constant playtester of the newest installment over the last 3 years.
    My sidekick still works 17 years later too.

  • @invokedbyred
    @invokedbyred Год назад +1

    You didn’t mention Doritos Crash Course! I suppose it’s not a cross over as such but you mentioned the Cheetos game at the end which made me think of it because it’s basically the same type of game…!

  • @10thanonymous
    @10thanonymous Год назад

    3:28 so that's where the doritoes/mtn Dew MLG thing comes from, huh

  • @GmNdWtchr96
    @GmNdWtchr96 Год назад +2

    This video. Is a video. That I endorse. On my hat

  • @200cfu
    @200cfu Год назад

    i read somewhere that toyota is not in need for speed because they don’t want to be associated with illegal racing. i imagine some car manufacturers have specific requirements like that

  • @theofficialtaylorroachyout6269

    Monster Hunter's Events tend to center around a partnership like Shonen Jump magazine or Universal Studios Japan

  • @birdfish86
    @birdfish86 11 месяцев назад

    My favorite is the Sobe Green Tea machine in Oddworld Munch's Oddysee. 😂

  • @ShirakoriMio
    @ShirakoriMio Год назад

    When you consider the astronomically higher capital car companies have VS game studios, it seems pretty obvious they're the ones paying to get cross promotion in games. Mario Kart probably got a massive payout secured because Mercedes, a company that just casually built a stadium that one time in GA, has the ability to be the one big exception. Its no different for other racing games; it's just that they have nore willingness to collaborate.

  • @ComfyCherry
    @ComfyCherry Год назад

    for the grimace game there are flash carts you just slot an sd or micro sd in with roms so it wouldn't be hard

  • @sehmohambekia6005
    @sehmohambekia6005 Год назад

    Try doing games competing with games from the same studio/publisher like battlefield and Meddle of Honner or Resestance and Killzone

  • @zombiegamercat777
    @zombiegamercat777 Месяц назад

    16:45 Red Bull has a game on the DS

  • @machine-shopbilly6584
    @machine-shopbilly6584 Год назад

    Ordering pizza through Everquest 2 is fucking awesome and sounds kind of cozy and nostalgic

  • @BlueBirdRR
    @BlueBirdRR Год назад

    Not to mention that in Australia cod mw3 is sponsored by hungry jacks(Burger King)

  • @XxDemon23xX
    @XxDemon23xX 7 месяцев назад

    6:53 wait is this real? The best their editor could come do was have the mech hold a png of mountain dew?

  • @thatscrawford
    @thatscrawford Год назад

    I pray for ya'lls channel 🙏 ya'll are a big encouragement!

  • @fallencrown6069
    @fallencrown6069 Год назад

    I just drove 50 miles to Fresno to just get Mountain Dew Citrus Cherry lol . Couldn't find it anywhere around my town.

  • @dmdudes2
    @dmdudes2 Год назад +1

    i must say the retro items are the only way i want real sponsors its cool and can fit immersion without feeling like in ur face advertising

  • @PixelsNcreatureS
    @PixelsNcreatureS Год назад

    They get money from sponsors and sells them to us at full price

  • @mrlionman5466
    @mrlionman5466 Год назад

    I actually tried Mtn Dew because of Halo 4! I was in high school and I was getting ready for the Halo 4 midnight launch, got some little caesars pizza and because it had Halo plastered all over it and I was curious, I picked up a 12 pack of Mtn Dew! Been hooked ever since

  • @cooperfreiberg8575
    @cooperfreiberg8575 Год назад

    The halo ad was before halo ce was finished right? Like isn't that the old halo? Am I wrong?

  • @dani_p2200
    @dani_p2200 Год назад

    Monster Assault is very popular in Europe, is in all stores

  • @ShirakoriMio
    @ShirakoriMio Год назад

    Itd be so much funnier if in ff15 during the cup quest, everyone stared DEEPLY into the camera.

  • @HelpfulDog-us6rl
    @HelpfulDog-us6rl Год назад

    ford and black ops had a crossover, they made a truck and we've been driving it since 2012.

  • @joronharris4380
    @joronharris4380 Год назад

    Yassss.. I had a T-Mobile Tony Hawk Sidekick! I so miss that PHONE!

  • @tasty8186
    @tasty8186 6 дней назад

    You can still get grind shoes! Trust the Aussies to keep a niche fun thing alive

  • @SS501Fan101
    @SS501Fan101 Год назад

    You forgot the cup noodle hat in FFXV lol