Mystic Eclectic: From a Kia Cars Commercial: a father rushes home, with the journey ending with him placing a goldfish in an empty bowl a split second before his young daughter enters and greets her pet, with silent commendation from his wife.Who can blame the public for not buying this game when all they had to go on about the game was 'it smells bad'?

To this troper, this ad campaign was part of the reason that EarthBound eventually became Vindicated by History as a classic, since it sold poorly at the time of its release. It seems to have been going for the sort of ' Totally Radical mid-1990s' obsession with gross-out humor, and fails miserably at it. There was very little about how the game was played or what it was about, just that it was an RPG the few screenshots included in the ads tell you very little about the combat, the characters, or the setting. While the idea of an ad with scratch-and-sniff stickers on it was pretty innovative at the time, outright saying that your product stinks isn't the way to sell it. The ads make it seem as if the game smells really bad, even including the phrase 'because this game stinks!' on it. King Lyger: The magazine ads in Nintendo Power for EarthBound (1994), archived here.No ALLCAPS, no bold, and no italics unless it's the title of a work.Deconstructions of tasteless jokes don't really count. Try and make entries actual DMoSs, not just a protracted whinge about how bad an artist has become.

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