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A visual guide to forbidden advertising from the modern age.

It’s time for another vintage VHS (and Betamax) video catalogue from the early days of home video, this time from mega-conglomerate CIC.

Lurid, lecherous and ludicrous – the game marketing pitched at teenage boys in the 1980s and 1990s.

Another made-up ‘National Day’ arrives as a thinly-disguised publicity stunt by big businesses looking to profit from manipulation.

The splendidly irreverent and tasteless video game system advertising of the 1990s.

Britain’s ever-prudish advertising censors get worked up about the idea of couples showing fully-clothed affection for each other.

The most unlikely crossovers, novelty characters and misconceived ideas in an entertainment world that is already several steps removed from reality.

The story of a novelty record cashing in on a passing TV commercial fad.

Gunpowder, treason and plot from days gone by.

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