LOLads: a day late and a good idea short Oh good, a LOLcats-themed ad campaign. Just what the world needed. Yet somehow it’s a perfect way to shill a game that sounds more boring than President Forever 2008—Sierra’s Geometry Wars: Galaxies. Yeah, way to not revive the Space Quest franchise in favor of a Euclidian space odyssey, guys. They deserve these crappy ads, which WiiFanboy’s JC Fletcher describes as either “a clever nod from some kids at an advertising firm to Internet culture, or the precise moment that LOLcats stopped being cool or funny.” AdFreak would vote the latter if LOLcats was ever cool or funny, so we’ll supply another option: Is it a desperate attempt to court nerds by hopping onto a lame Internet fad before it gets dragged from the watering hole and left to die? Hopefully, that day is not far off. —Posted by David Kiefaber

September 26, 2007 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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In their defense, Geometry Wars is actually quite great.

Not in their defense, they've pretty well illustrated this point:
http://threekindsofcool.net/memeng/2007/09/25/memetic-engineering-how-to-kill-a-meme/

Posted by: DavidGriner | Sep 26, 2007 9:02:05 AM

I feel like my grandparents just told me something was "rad".

Posted by: Pace | Sep 26, 2007 10:28:16 AM

I think the major fail here is that the lolcat images shown, are not funny in the least. It may be well on it's way out, but it was funny once.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/446/catmacrocmonpoopiezlc6.jpg

Posted by: JamesP | Sep 26, 2007 11:57:52 AM

dude galaxies wars is an awesome game. don't knock it. xoxo

Posted by: raina | Sep 26, 2007 12:54:26 PM

Don't fret none - we're doing our darnedest to provide the final nail in the LOLad coffin right here... http://www.adtothebone.com/blogtothebone/

Posted by: Clayton Hove | Sep 26, 2007 4:07:42 PM

I like the trailer video using TMBG's "particle man." Goes well with the game. and if they're courting nerds, they've got this one hooked!

And there's no denying that cats like wii controllers, a number of lolcats on the meme already are shown with wii controllers. I think that's where it's fitting in. See, this version of the game is only available on Wii and Nintendo DNS. so it's differentiating it from Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved which is only out for xbox and windows vista. I don't think it's necessary tho. the trailer takes care of it.

Posted by: I am the target market | Sep 28, 2007 5:02:42 PM

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