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'''Bored with the Same Old Horror?''' was an advertising slogan used for ''[[MediEvil 2]]''. It was featured on | '''Bored with the Same Old Horror?''' was an advertising slogan used for ''[[MediEvil 2]]''. It was featured on postcards, print advertisements and a TV advertisement. | ||
==Postcards and print adverts== | ==Postcards and print adverts== | ||
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The postcards were distributed by Boomerang Media within cinemas in the UK, as indicated on the back of the postcards. According to Boomerang Media's website, their cinema cards were displayed in 300 postcard racks in 260 cinema foyers nation-wide and had a reach of 88% of UK cinemagoers - over 9.6 million each month.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/0if_/http://www.boomerangmedia.co.uk/fa_cin.html|site=Boomerang Media|title=Cinema|retrieved=May 30, 2021}}</ref> | The postcards were distributed by Boomerang Media within cinemas in the UK, as indicated on the back of the postcards. According to Boomerang Media's website, their cinema cards were displayed in 300 postcard racks in 260 cinema foyers nation-wide and had a reach of 88% of UK cinemagoers - over 9.6 million each month.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/0if_/http://www.boomerangmedia.co.uk/fa_cin.html|site=Boomerang Media|title=Cinema|retrieved=May 30, 2021}}</ref> | ||
Due to being featured in cinema | Due to being featured in cinema foyers, copies of the postcard have become a part of two collections in the [[wikipedia:Bill Douglas Cinema Museum|Bill Douglas Cinema Museum]], specifically the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/explore/item/40435/|site=The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum|title=Postcard: 'Bored with the same old horror?'|retrieved=May 30, 2021}}</ref> and the Roy Fowler Collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/explore/item/11110/|site=The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum|title=Bored with the same old horror? Medieval 2 Playstation|retrieved=May 30, 2021}}</ref> | ||
==TV advert== | ==TV advert== | ||
{{Infobox advertisement | {{Infobox advertisement | ||
|title = Sony PlayStation: "Bored with the Same Old Horror?" | |title = Sony PlayStation: "Bored with the Same Old Horror?" | ||
| | |video = {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6FTWR7iYek|autoresize="true"}} | ||
|runtime = 0:30 | |runtime = 0:30 | ||
}} | }} | ||
The '''TV advert''' was used to promote ''MediEvil 2'' in Europe and Australia. | The '''TV advert''' was used to promote ''MediEvil 2'' in Europe and Australia. | ||
===Summary=== | ===Summary=== | ||
The advert shows a woman going about her day; she showers, gets dressed and gets in her car while menacing music plays in the background. She is interrupted | The advert shows a woman going about her day; she showers, gets dressed and gets in her car while menacing music plays in the background. She is interrupted throughout by two madmen wielding various weapons, but instead of being afraid of them, she seems mildly annoyed with them. "Bored with the same old horror?" asks the narrator. "Try MediEvil 2," he suggests. | ||
Interestingly, unlike other ''MediEvil'' adverts, this one features no actual gameplay footage from the game. | |||
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