John Oliver remembers snack firms’ bizarre ’90s video video games

Final Week Tonight could also be on break proper now, however John Oliver nonetheless discovered time to pre-record a phase about one thing apparently near his coronary heart: video video games made by snack firms within the ’90s.

“What occurred, snack manufacturers?” requested Oliver. “Round 25 years in the past, you cracked the code of turning commercials, the factor everybody hates, into video video games, the factor everybody loves. I do not wish to see Quiznos tweeting ‘when the sandwich is not toasty’ or regardless of the fuck. I would like them to place me within the pilot seat of a 16-bit spaceship formed like a hoagie that fires beef lasers at alien vegans.”

Wistfully recalling branded titles equivalent to 7Up’s Cool Spot and Pepsi’s Pepsiman, Oliver lamented snack firms’ fashionable tweet-focused advertising and marketing strategies. Nevertheless, he additionally acknowledged that the creation of not less than one snack sport apparently concerned little one labour.