Video games have been collaborating with other companies for ages now. Fortnite is the new king of cross-promoting different brands. Where will their guest characters come from next? It’s the most unpredictable game ri𓄧ght now and that’s great for the industry. What about actual products from non-video game companies though?
While it may seem weird to see a AAA game like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy XV advertise ramen noodles, it’s become fairly standard now. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy series by the way 𝔉as that series has had some legendary crossovers associated with its brand. What other video games have released products from perfume to clothing to food?
10 Guilty Gear 🌌Strive ▨
This collaboration was announced in 2021 to tie into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guilty Gear Strive. This perfume and cologne company, Fairy Tale Co., partnered up with Arc System Works to make colognes based on the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:two main fighters: Sol Badguy and Ky Kiske. Sol i🐷s supposed to have a somewhat Sꦗmokey flavor while Ky’s is more flowery.
Boཧth scents make sense even if the product doesn&rsq💮uo;t. They were only released in Japan but if one wanted to import them, then they are about $30 a piece.
9 Resid🙈ent Evil Deodorant Spray
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil also had its own line of body spray. In 2016 Capcom 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:released the T-Virus which was a deodorant sprays fa🧜ns could only get in the gift shop of the Japanese Capcom Cafe. This is weird for a lot of reasons but mostly because the T-Virus, in the game, turns people into zombies.
Buying any sort of beauty product from Capcom, whic꧟h is like the stand-in for the evil Umbrella corporation, seems fishy.
8 Shu Uemura X Super M✃ario
Shu Uemura partnered up with Nintendo in 2017 to promote a line of beauty products featuring Mario characters. There were drawing pencils, lipstick, blush, and so much more. Everything had pixelated versions of classic Mario characters 🔜on the products.
If this were 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:centered around Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, and the other girls of the Mushroom Kingdom this would make more sense. There didn’t seem to be an actual theme to these products. There wasn’t an🍷y Toadstool lip gloss or anything fun like that.
7 💙 Final Fantasy XIII’s Louis Vuitton Line
Final Fantasy is, again, legendary for making cross-promoted items in their games and out of them. One of the strangest was in 2015 when Louis Vuitton featured Lightning from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy XIII in a magazine modeling off new clothes.
Not only that but the magazine conducted a faux interview with Lightning on her feelings about the brand and the products. This was two years after Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, her solo🍸 game, which seems a little late if that was the pl𝓀an.
6 Coca-Cola Game Gear ♔
There are a lot of specialty consoles out there featuring brands like Pepsi, Coke, and others food. This is the only one that came bundled with a tie-in game though. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Game Gear game features the Japanes𒈔e mascot for Coke, the Coca-Cola Kid, in a platforming adventure.
This was in 1994 and both the handheld and the game were never released outside of Japan for some obvious reas🍎ons.
5 ꧙ Destiny Cookbook 🦂
Simon and Schuster published a Destiny-themed cookbook. The author, Victoria Rosenthal, has written cookbooks for the publisher based on other video games such as Fallout and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Street Fighter. All three 🐟of these games are very weird to theme a cookbook around.
Destiny is otherworldly, literally, so it seems theไ most out of place. This was announced in 201𓆉9 and it’s still in print if fans were curious about checking out what chicken on the moon tastes like.
4 ♛ King Gamꩵes
Fast Food companies had a fascination with video games in the 90s and early 2000s. One of the strangest was with Burger King who released three games, which were developed by King Games and co-published by to be on Xbox in 2006. There was S🐎neak🤡 King, PocketBike Racer, and Big Bumpin’.
They 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:were Xbox exclusives that gꦓamers could only buy at a Burger King locations. Each had a different objective from stealth to racing to bumper cars. Every game featured their mascot, the King, as the player character in all of his creepy-headed glory.
3 𓃲 🔯 Everquest II Pizza
Sony, the publisher of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:EverQuest II, teamed up with Pizza Hut. They iꦗmplemented a command, /pizza, that allowed users to order food without having to pause the game.
It was the laziest move any gamer could use that created a laundry list of memes and stereotypes. It was something no one needed and no one asked to have but ไit certainly happened and that’s the wild thing.
2 💝 ꧑ Gamer Fuel
Mountain Dew first came out with the Gamer Fuel line of soda to help promote Halo 3. From there they would also partner up with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World of Warcraft, various 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty games, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Rising 3, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Titanfall 2, and more Halo. It wasn’t just to promote the game♏s.
There were codes that unlocked boosters to level up fast like in a Call of Duty online match. It might be the smartest tie-in any company ever did on this level. It’s not that bizarre a✃ concept except that some of the commercials are associated with these brands 🃏out there.
1 King's Bounty II Dragon Burger
King's Bounty II launched in late August 2021 so this example is fairly recent. In the UK the developers partnered up with a burger chain, London's Luxxo Burger, in order to make this Dragon Burger. This burger contains peppers that put it on the million Scoville scale of hotness.
Anyone who eats this thing has a chance to win a copy of the game. That&r🧜squo;s the oddest thing about this promotion. One could burn their mouth and have stomach problems for a week and not get anything out if it.
