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Commercial Break #8: Pilot Pens "Music You Wanna Have" (1995)

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Channel: Defunct Games · 2013 · Gaming

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While not a video game commercial, I did find it in a 1995 issue of GamePro. It's hard to tell if this Pilot Pen commercial wants to be taken seriously or not. Nothing about this commercial suggests that anybody associated with Pilot thinks that this is a CD you would actually want to have. The proof? In the description they put quote marks around "music you wanna have," a dead giveaway that somebody is being sarcastic.

The track line-up is a who's who of "who's that?!?" You get Bizarre Inc., The Connells, Culture Beat, Rozalla, His Boy Elroy and October Project. Perhaps the biggest name is Kriss Kross, who is a band I most definitely don't wanna have. And don't forget, these songs aren't just randomly assembled for this sampler -- they are "high volume hits." You heard me right, apparently His Boy Elroy had a high volume hit. Who knew?

Perhaps the most baffling part of this commercial comes when you carefully investigate the cover art. I know it's hard to take your eyes off of the unwashed hipster totally stoked about the "awesome, totally cool" Kriss Kross song, but divorce your gaze for just a moment. Instead look at the bottom right of the CD and cassette. There you'll see a red ribbon, presumably there in support of some charitable cause. But what cause? Nowhere in this advert is this mystery solved. I hope the charity goes to that dude in the Columns III commercial, he could use better clothes!

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