Gallery: Twenty Years Ago in Advertisements

By Frank Cifaldi

The videogame industry as it stood twenty years ago may appear strangely foreign at a glance, but a closer look reveals that things aren’t so different now than they were back then.

Nintendo was, as it is now, the industry leader in both home and portable game console sales. Motion-controlled gaming — by way of accessories like the U-Force and the Power Glove — made a major presence at the trade shows of the time and, while not yet embraced, echoed what was to come later.