Somewhere out there, there's a person who won a car for pre-ordering Final Fantasy 8...

Somewhere out there, there's a person who won a car for pre-ordering Final Fantasy 8. Did the winner ever actually get the car? Is there any way to find out who it was?

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Whatever.

I want that

>those retailers
It's amazing how much can happen in such a short time. Half of those companies don't even exist anymore.

So whatever happened to this one

I won it.

This kind of shit should be tracked somehow. It's pretty easy for a company to offer a Lamborghini and then never deliver, and it doesn't seem like anyone follows up on it.

That being said, I won a Vita from a Taco Bell sweepstakes and my brother won a PS4 from another Taco Bell sweepstakes the year after, so I'm confident that Taco Bell is legit with their giveaways.

>Did the winner ever actually get the car?

Yeah, I'm sure the son of the executive working for EB enjoyed his car.

>fine print
>island is an in-game location bearing a sign with your name on it
I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually the case.

Whoever won it was probably too fat to fit into it.

>It's pretty easy for a company to offer a Lamborghini and then never deliver

Pocket change to a publisher/marketing firm though, more likely people just don't care who wins.

>toys'r'us

Sup Forums btfo

>Tried to win golden ps4 and free Overwatch Taco bell sweepstakes after two anons had posted that they won golden ps4's
>eat that shit twice a week when its active and never win

>beige car

lmao xD

Canada got all the same gaming magazines as the US, and it was always so annoying to see a full page ad for a cool contest or promotion just to see "ONLY AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS OF US" at the bottom of the page. Shit sucked.

Pocket change to the firm as a whole but not to individuals or a small group of people. I, myself, would be pretty satisfied with sharing $200,000 between a few executives and forgetting about the sweepstakes. As long as there's no follow up or confirmation, it's really easy for companies to get away with shit like this.

That being said, I do agree that it's far more likely that people just don't care and, I'm sure, everyone is appropriately awarded more often than not. Still, I don't like that that kind of shit isn't kept on top of.

I know how you feel. I ate about $70 worth of Taco Bell to win my Vita. I ate about $40 worth for the next two sweepstakes (black PS4 and gold PS4) but didn't win. Of course it's random but it sucks to eat shit for such a long time for nothing.

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A paint job back then was like 1000$. Easy.

Imagine if he still had that Jacket... that shit would be worth fucking bank.

There was a pretty good letter about this in an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly back in the day. The guy won their "letter of the month" which entitled him the game of the month, which was ok because it was considered a contest and not a sweepstakes. Hopefully, the game wasn't region locked.

Found an old article on ign

m.ign.com/articles/1999/08/17/dont-miss-the-final-fantasy-viii-sweepstakes

Isn't doing a sweepstakes a tax writeoff anyway? You have to give it to someone.

I'm still surprised that there was originally going to be a Mask 2. I wonder how different it was going to be compared to Son of the Mask.

Just think you would have saved enough money not eating literal trash you could have bought them yourself

>actual prize may vary

Never thought of it like that, maybe you're right.

There must be some form of regulation though, at least here in the UK with our strict consumer protection laws I imagine there would be.

You're right, Playstation is lost to me

Not if nobody follows up on it, you don't. So you get to keep the money and/or prize, along with the tax write off. On the other hand, the company is getting in huge fucking trouble if they get caught but, again, if no one bothers to follow up with this shit then it's easy to get away with.

I was ten years old and won "dinner with Lara croft" it was around the time tomb raider 2 came out. My parents helped fill out the entry forum and sent it in. lol and behold I won. I got the letter back in the mail with the time and place "it was at a nearby Pizza Hut" and my mom brought me there. There was a limousine the showed up and Lara got out. She was pretty tall 5'9 and looked true to form. She was even British. I ordered a slice and she just ordered something to drink. The employees were not told of what was going on and they just kept staring over at us. I'm sure it was a pretty strange sight. Anyways. Lara just asked how school was going, what I liked to to do etc. it was probably a half hour, thing. I then got a pic with her and she gave me a signed t shirt.

The amount they'll make from people trying to win a sweepstakes is considerably more than the cost of the car itself, since you have many many people buying many more of a product to try to get one thing. With a video game not the same but it boosts sales, with food it's much better since people will continously buy $5+ meals to get a prize and most will never win. Pretty fucking genius actually.

If you still have the picture, post it.

Sounds like normal protocol. But if you were a older chad, I bet you could have coerced her into a night

>win lara croft contest
>use your charm to win her over as if it's an actual date

If it's jennifer lopez, then yeah, should be an easy lay.

Well, not in my case. The Vita launched for about $250 to $300, right? I spent $70 on lunch for a few months and I got a Vita out of it too. Maybe it wasn't the best food but it was still food and it's priced very cheaply (two tacos, a burrito, and a drink for $5) so it's not that big of a loss.

Now, if you're spending hundreds of dollars in order to win the sweepstakes then that's a different story. Even then though, you're still paying for lunch anyway.

did you get to touch her boobies?

You want a 17 year old four door compact car with no distinct markings.

For what purpose?

I know the guy who won the contest. He could have the island or $50,000, he took the money and is buying a modest house with it.

Shit, that's a tough choice. I mean, what the fuck are you going to do with an island? But still, it's an island free and clear. That's crazy.

why

could sell an island to a property developer for FAR more than 50 grand

one of the programmers probably died at the office so they took his disgusting beige toyota and made that the preorder sweepstake prize

its probably a very small island

In the fine print it said the island would be valued up to $50,000. That's why he wanted the money.

I thought Canadian systems just used the same region as US ones.

smart choice, raw land is very cheap anyways

what if it's some remote ass island far away from any civilization... you'd need proper transportation to get there,

Probably some shitty island in the middle of a dead lake

for you

not really

just because it's an island doesn't mean it's worth shit. It was probably just some tiny dot on the coast of a shithole in the ocean or whatever.

>with no distinct markings

t. /o/ reject who likes ricer shit

are you James?

They wanted something that really captured the spirit of the game.

reddit

Of course we do.

>Son of the Mask.
>"Hey, I know it's been like years but we finally got it! A new mask movie and we got plane tickets ready for you to be in it! No Jim Carrey though"

thats adorable

The hardware is the same in the US and Canada. Only difference is a some systems have some extra stickers on the bottoms to have all the info doubled in French and English.

beta male

I once won a hat from a Tropicana sweepstakes when I was 5, that's the only time I've ever won anything. I think it's still folded up somewhere in storage because I didn't have any friends so I'd pretend it was my friend, and it was very dear to me.

cuck

not that user tho

it was something like island mystery box

you could win some spot of sand in the middle of ocean, but also Ireland or Japan

i got a one handed controller for preordering it

I know someone who won a motorcycle once ten years ago and he still has it today. However, that one had to be legit because keys were handed out to the participants and only one key started the bike.

But Canada and America are part of the same region

cool as fuck desu

>taller than her at 15
>some model they prob hired out of the papers

Everything about this pic

I have a few games with French text on the back that work just fine on my US systems, I'm guessing those are probably French right?

>where's your right hand buddy
>can clearly see he's keeping it behind his own back

I guess if you only had one hand, turn based RPG's would be pretty accessible.

There was a sweepstakes on 4kids' television for Kirby where you could win a transparent pink GBA.

I was one of the runner-ups that got a second copy of Nightmare in Dreamland.

RIP. Kamira
No. I didn't.

>Here's your controller bro

I mean Canadian

>what is the Switch joycons

Just means they're from Canada, where most things have to be bi-lingual by law. The discs are the same NTSC discs, it's just the packaging that's different.

Modern first party Nintendo games in Canada all have the option to play in french as well..

Not too long ago, pretty recently even I won a Pokemon competition which included a package with a New 3DS XL, Pokemon Sun, a strategy guide and a Pikachu plush. I already had a New 3DS small, so I put the XL up on eBay and will use the money towards the Switch.

No Carrey, not caring.

advetisments thread?

Just overflow stock from Canada. I bet you might have even seen a game or two that cam shrink wrapped with a french manual.

It's easy for Nintendo to offer FR options when they hardly ever do voice work with actual dialogue.

I find it funny how tv tuner was such a selling concept back in the day, and nowadays it's taken for granted to the point that the Wii U is actually revolutionary in having that be a thing.

Yeah, anything turn based is fine. If it has buttons on the back (like N64's Z-button) then simple platformers might be ok too. That's pretty much it though.

Thankfully, PS1 had quite a few good turn based RPGs. Still, doing combos in Legend of Dragoon or some of the minigames in Final Fantasy 9 must be torture.

>itt anons won consoles, games and dates with Lara Croft while only vidya-related thing I ever won was AC Syndicate checkers that I didn't even want

I mean it was nice, with leather board and shit and most importantly without huge ASSASSINS CREED TM SYNDICATE (R) logo, so it doesn't look like cheap advertisment but I don't play checkers

chess you can at least give to someone as a nice gift, but who the fuck play checkers

What the fuck happened in Kansas three years ago?

If there's already going to be a bi-lingual version, why not do that for all regions? It seems so odd to me that US games so rarely have additional language options while the other regions of the same game do.

lots of people got too excited

I live in Ohio so I guess it makes sense a few games would trickle down here.

IIRC there actually was fine print, and it was that it was some cheap shit island worth basically nothing and would be near impossible to visit let alone live on.

Not vidya related but when the 4th Harry Potter book came out I entered a contest to win a signed copy that'd be delivered on the day it released world wide and I actually won. Had my picture in the paper and everything. Shit I couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 at the time.

what the hell is IIRC

well I don't know why would anyone expected anything else, it's not like they'd give you Corsica or something

"If I recall correctly"
I don't understand why people can't just type shit out. That didn't take too long to spell at all.

>lol and behold

Oh I did lol user.
Good story. Was she hot?

Not vidya related but when I was much younger (some time in the 90's) I won a Nickelodeon boombox. I remember liking it a lot and I still have it. I tried using it again a couple of years ago but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

Who in their right mind would actually want to own fucking Corsica? The people that live there are batshit insane.

You can purge them with no consequences

As a new dictator of Corsican Empire of user, these people will obey or perish.

Are you this guy

What part of batshit crazy do you not understand? Up until not too long ago they used to regularly bomb french institutions and separatist movements are still fairly strong and well armed.

When Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm came out McDonalds had a series of happy meal toys, I won the Gotham display with all the toys on it. I also won a McDonalds contest for a (fake) gold matchbox car. Unfortunately that stuff is long gone