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iPod Touch Gaming Ad Shakes Things Up
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It cool the first time you visit but if you play games multiple times a day seeing that will get annoying...
I think apple is focusing less on the ipod part and more of the games for the touch.
I think apple is focusing less on the ipod part and more of the games for the touch.
Finally something that flash is very, very good at. These adverts (the ipod touch and wii) are very cleverly done. Dont really know why you are moaning and bitching since it only takes up about 10 seconds of your life to watch it (the ipod one that is). you could just enjoy it and not be negative about it. but hey, everyone has their own opinion...
After years of ads that cover up content and block me from where I want to be, this is a huge step in the right direction.
You can instantly move to any link and it doesn't block you from doing so. No problem at all.
cool. i still haven't seen this ad, but hopefully i will soon. glad to see that apple is pushing the ipod touch as a gaming platform, and i hope more developers start making games for it
I'm amused by the fact that I'd never visit that SITE except to see the AD. Usually it's the other way around, isn't it?
Very cool ad. I thinks it's pretty cool how the Yahoo banner transitions from functional HTML to a look-alike Flash app and then back again, all seemlessly. Very clever. I see this type of ad taking off (I saw above that Nintendo actually bear them too it), and in even more creative ways. It definitely grabs your attention and holds it.
Great for gamers, but you know what? what about the rest of us that actualy work?
Where is my iSlate-tablet with mobile OS X/ilife/iwork and cut/copy and paste. all you need to do is make the ipod touch 9-inches, add a couple of USB's and a Mini-display port.
And yes, why do all these games look so 1997-ish and resemble the graphics of Donky Kong or Super Mario Brothers.
Edit - ok, you know what combine that with the 3-D and the holographic images we had in the prior threads. At a touch of Cirtual reality Now that would be cool. Imagine yourself in a holographic room, ducking at the wavy text and stuff coming out at you.
Second thought - if you suffer from sea sickness, maybe not (I don't so I would hop in).
Agg, whatever. These ads are at least pleasant to look at. What are you the "GET $10,000 in a month, flashing red, blue and green" kind of ad person? Yeah....
Flash?... Oh the irony
Funny you cant actually watch the ad on an iPod touch...
Very good observation. It is ridiculous, to say the least, that Apple finds that using Flash in their Ads is so advantageous that they prohibit the very device they are using in the Ad from using Flash. and..... the iPhone.
Are there any Nintendo emulators out there for iPhone? Or something that would make your iPhone/iPod Touch the controller & the game on your Mac? That would be cool.
Am I right if I say that you can't view the ad outside the USA? I only get an ad with a link to "Learn More" no option to play the ad.
Am I right if I say that you can't view the ad outside the USA? I only get an ad with a link to "Learn More" no option to play the ad.
Maybe it's your browser. I get the static ad when I visit games.yahoo.com with opera and the flash ad when I visit with safari (I don't live in the US). Really nice ad but I didn't find any play button. It started playing as soon as the page loaded.