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Promotional Consideration: Humanitarian aid crosses with the DS

Posted Apr 13th 2008 6:30PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Fan stuff, Promotional Consideration

Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.

As we've discussed before, a company's logo or branding can be just as important as the commercials and ads used to promote a product. This week, we'll take a look at a print piece that combines our favorite handheld with one of the most recognizable emblems in the world. Join us past the post break!

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A year of Promotional Consideration

Posted Dec 30th 2007 4:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Promotional Consideration

Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.

The titling of this post is a bit of a misnomer, as we didn't start this column until early July, so it's more of a "half-year of" piece. No, you jerks, the humor in us beginning our Promotional Consideration retrospective on a disappointing note isn't lost on us.

Still, with 26 articles now behind us, one every week since this feature's inception, we've written enough of these to develop a few that are actually worth reading. We've picked out our five favorite Promotional Consideration posts of 2007, carefully hiding them after the post break, that magical realm where anything seems possible.

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Promotional Consideration: Small Waves

Posted Aug 12th 2007 7:20PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Promotional Consideration

Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.

Instantly recognizable to any gamer worth their salt, Konami's bygone logo and its accompanying chime introduced more classic titles than we can count. When the familiar waves, slanted hourglasses, were retired in 2003, we felt their passing like the death of an old friend. We poured out liquor, fired 21 shots into the air from our Zappers, and bumped Master P's "I Miss My Homies" for days.

Though the logo is now gone, it will certainly never be forgotten ...

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Name	Date
Bleach: Dark Souls	Oct 6
Legend of Kage 2	Oct 6
Crash: Mind Over Mutant	Oct 6
Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals	Oct 6
My Japanese Coach	Oct 14
Korg DS-10	Oct 14
Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2	Oct 14
FIFA Soccer 09	Oct 14
Populous	Oct 14
Rock Revolution	Oct 14
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia	Oct 21
Theresia	Oct 21
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows	Oct 21
Away: Shuffle Dungeon	Oct 21
Tornado	Oct 21
Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon	Oct 21
What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver	Oct 21
MySims Kingdom	Oct 28
Ninjatown	Oct 28
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Name

Date

Bleach: Dark Souls

Oct 6

Legend of Kage 2

Oct 6

Crash: Mind Over Mutant

Oct 6

Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals

Oct 6

My Japanese Coach

Oct 14

Korg DS-10

Oct 14

Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2

Oct 14

FIFA Soccer 09

Oct 14

Populous

Oct 14

Rock Revolution

Oct 14

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Oct 21

Theresia

Oct 21

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

Oct 21

Away: Shuffle Dungeon

Oct 21

Tornado

Oct 21

Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon

Oct 21

What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver

Oct 21

MySims Kingdom

Oct 28

Ninjatown

Oct 28

Game Reviews »

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