I’m a simple man: I see an ad for an old PC sound card that says you can hear a robot “empty his bladder,” and I have to share it.
This particular ad claims that other sound cards will let you “hear the [protagonist] empty his weapon,” but theirs (the Monster Sound MX400) will let you hear him “empty his bladder.” I really want to be a fly on the wall for some of these 90s/2000s ad exec meetings, if only to hear some person in a suit deadass sell higher-ups on the idea that gamers will love a mech suit who can piss.
So the game is 1999’sSlave Zero: an action shooterthatactually still exists on Steamnow. With over 22 years of technology behind you, I bet your sound card is advanced enough to hear him empty his bladder.
This ad from a 2000 issue of Game Developer magazine in the VGHF Library uses imagery from Accolade’s Slave Zero to make an, uhh, dubious claim around PC sound card quality.pic.twitter.com/9YFYAiZ4hM
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