Question regarding NES "Turtles II: The Arcade Game"

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

A question has come to my mind about something in the game. What was the deal with the "Pizza Hut" appearance in some of the screens in this game?

Were they promoting something?

It's noticeable in the apartment (1st level) on the walls.

[Powder]

Were they promoting something?

Yes, pizza...

[Cryomancer]

The game came with a coupon for a free personal pan, I beleive. Someone I saw in a youtube comment recentely claimed they opened a copy and the Pizza Hut still honored it. Probably not true, but it amused me.

[Jester]

The game came with a coupon for a free personal pan, I beleive. Someone I saw in a youtube comment recentely claimed they opened a copy and the Pizza Hut still honored it. Probably not true, but it amused me.
I'm sure it's bogus. I mean it has to have a expiration date....right?

[Patraw]

While it is likely that the coupon had an expiration date, the local Pizza Hut franchise holder can certainly choose to honor it anyway (it's possible the employees just didn't look too closely at it too).

Anyway, there are other examples of product placement featured prominently in video games: Biker Mice From Mars comes to mind in particular (in that case, it was a candy bar, Snickers I think, that had its logo plastered all over the game).

[gobo]

About the topic: Pizza Hut was an investor in the game.

About the coupon, I'm pretty sure mine had an expiration date.

[Cryomancer]

Yeah, the guy said it was long expired but they honored it anyway. If I owned a pizza place and someone came in with a decade+ old TMNT coupon, I'd honor it!

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

While it is likely that the coupon had an expiration date, the local Pizza Hut franchise holder can certainly choose to honor it anyway (it's possible the employees just didn't look too closely at it too).

Anyway, there are other examples of product placement featured prominently in video games: Biker Mice From Mars comes to mind in particular (in that case, it was a candy bar, Snickers I think, that had its logo plastered all over the game).

Ghostbusters has a bunch of Doritos ads in the game. It's cool though, because they made the ads the same style that they would have been in the early 90's.

[sdp]

I think it works with stuff like TMNT having Pizza Hut as in game advertisement, it only helps make the universe seem more real instead of generic fake Pizza place emulating the Hut logo which is actually more distracting. Same with other games like Crazy Taxi.

[ToTheNines]

Tell ya what is a bit weird and always confused me ever since I was little, is the fact that Domino's Pizza was promoted in the first movie, Pizza Hut was promoted in this game, and they were both released in 1990.

Hmmm

[I Crave Pizza No More]

Tell ya what is a bit weird and always confused me ever since I was little, is the fact that Domino's Pizza was promoted in the first movie, Pizza Hut was promoted in this game, and they were both released in 1990.

Hmmm

The TMNT brand was ubiquitous in those days, so who knows.

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

Domino's was in the first movie...Keno's pizza place (i think it was called Ray's) was in the 2nd movie & Japan provided a burnt pizza in the 3rd movie.

TMNT didn't mention a pizza place did it?


Just thought I'd ask this in our pizza sponsorship discussion.

[ToTheNines]

TMNT didn't mention a pizza place did it?


Just thought I'd ask this in our pizza sponsorship discussion.

Cheeco's or Cheecho's Pizza. I don't remember which.

[ToTheNines]

Checco's, rather.

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb228/babyneturino/IV00298.jpg

[PizzaPower]

I'm sure it's bogus. I mean it has to have a expiration date....right?
actually chic fil a still takes expired coupons. also in the vhs version of the tmnt film there is a pizza hut commerical you know the one where they are playing baseball.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

I guess Domino's and Pizza Hut didn't mind sharing the attention with their competition, as long as it meant getting their name out there thanks to what was the biggest franchise aimed at kids at the time.