/vr/ - Retro Games

Spanishfag here.

During the 90's, Sega used an interesting (and edgy) publicity stunt called "Sega's Pirate Channel" where they faked some "secret, and illegal" transmitions made by some cool guys who talked about Sega's games, announced the new ones and discussed about Sega's next projects, trying their best to sound as cooler and edgier they could while also insulted Nintendo.
The "Pirate channel" were actually some short VHS tapes, where every month a new tape was made available, containing a new "pirate transmission", all under the slogan of "The Law Of The Strongest"

This was very popular among kids of that era, and the tapes were considered badass tokens among classmates- if you were a Sega fanboy, you simply COULD NOT have the entire collection, not having all of the pirate transmissions automatically made you a lame faggot.

Buuuut since Karma is a bitch, the high cost of this publicitary stunt (VHS tapes were costly, you know.) this came to bite Sega of Spain in the ass and as a result, a HUGE chunk of it's staff was fired in order to compensate for the huge costs of producing, translating and releasing this pirate channel. (Lol)

The tapes are considered as collector's items by now, and old men on their late 30's to mid 40's use to pay high sums of money for tapes on good condition, especially if you offer them the entire collection.