[VIDEO] Hugh Hefner and Playmates sell you Guitar Hero 5
From the archive: published Aug 28, 2009, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Firstly, I’d like to apologize for posting twice in one day about the same game.
Right, with my hollow apology out of the way, here’s one of the first TV adverts for Guitar Hero 5, starring a whole line-up of Playboy Playmates alongside a leering Hugh Hefner. Activision has dead guys in the game, and a nearly-dead guy shilling it.
I’m sure some of you will recall that the last Guitar Hero release, Guitar Hero World Tour, had an extremely similar commercial to this, only with Heidi Klum dancing solo in her underwear and socks. Considering last year’s video caught a lot of flak from Master of Logic Bill O’Reilly, I’m wondering what he’ll have to say about this:
Finally, as I’m on the subject of commercials for music videogames, and just because I can, I thought I’d post this link to my all-time favorite.
[ YouTube, via Go Nintendo]