The 32x had some interesting ads:

French ad for the 32x:

I wonder how much of that came from being a time when the 'parental advisory' type content was starting to become more common, but people's content was also still pretty compartmentalized.

Shows for kids where on at certain times on certain days, and these weird paper things called magazines where something you had to buy or subscribe to to view.

Now, barring some kind of active efforts, people see what they want when they want all on the same Internet so advertisers kind of have to pull back to avoid getting attacked for putting the wrong messages out.

And 80s. The first 8 bit computers and consoles had lots of suggestive ads. They knew their market.

Seriously though, the SP was a life changing device for me.

I still have mine in it's protective case that I play at least once a year. I'm nearly 40.

Lady, maybe it's best that Patrick Bateman over there is busy with his NeoGeo. You have no idea!

Pray tell, what are 4 dimensional graphics?

I remember this ad in one the computer magazines I had as a teenager. Don't ask me why I remember it so vividly.

Which was a completely arbitrary unforced error from a marketing perspective, setting back acceptance of video gaming as a ubiquitous thing everyone does by decades, pigeonholing them into a thing that only maladjusted angry young men do. You have the asinine marketing choices of the 90s to partially thank for the toxic exclusionary culture that still exists in many games today. They could have had every kid, girl or boy, cool or nerd, playing video games in 1995 but patriarchy said no.

Ironically, it was counter-counter-counter culture, reacting to the vestiges of Reaganite pearl-clutching that still wafted through life and politics of the time. Same influence that inspired "badly behaved" cartoons like The Simpsons and South Park. Video game advertising just leaned into that last counter too hard and landed in misogyny.

That hasn’t been true in a while. In fact I would go as far as say as the main demographic for video game ads today is middle-aged moms who played Candy Crush.

Pretty much since the Wii casual gamers have been the bigger market.

Nah, this ad clearly says that girls can play Nintendo DS too! See look at the picture, it says good girls AND bad girls and both of them are holding a Nintendo DS!

Lol, there were seriously no rules.

As an Italian, it's even funnier cause "sega" means handjob

Ss.. Step-gamer?

That 80s Bill Gates laying with the computers still gets me.

/s