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.

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?

Oh man, I remember these stick-on tattoos were such a thing here in the early 2000's! Now I'm starting to miss those. Now I'm starting to wonder how many people actually got real tattoos of these back then?

Nintendo ran an ad for the Gameboy Pocket that showed the outline of a Gameboy printing through the back pocket of a pair of jeans with the slogan "KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS."

Sex sells. Video game ads have featured pretty girls since video game ads. You can go back to the late 70's early 80's and find an entire genre of ads that boil down to "pretty girl stands next to arcade cabinet."

But then the entire 90's happened, and there was a huge set of ads that seemed to say "play video games instead of having sex." Which is...weird, right? Almost all products sold to young men are sold on the promise of attracting women. Show man with product, show woman having interest in the man with product, "Product: It Makes You Fuckable.^TM^" Video games postured themselves as something to do instead of your girlfriend or even more interesting than chicks. An ad for a 16-bit console featured a full-page centerfold with a few screenshots of video games scattered around with the slogan "If you look closely, there's a beautiful naked woman on this page."