Avoid the Noid - ADG Episode 325
245NOTE: I will be deleting any comments which get the details wrong of how the Noid campaign came to an end because the internet just constantly repeats the same wrong points from the media narratives of the time. :/
Today on Ancient DOS Games, Gemini's taking a look back at Avoid the Noid, an arcade-style adver-game based on the antagonistic Domino's Pizza mascot known as "The Noid", with the game itself being developed by the short-lived company California Merchandising Concepts and published through ShareData in 1989 as a budget title.
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Additional Information and Corrections:
* There's a MASSIVE amount of misinformation regarding why the original Noid ad campaign came to an end so let's clear this up before people start repeating any of it in the comments: Yes, there was a mentally unstable man by the name of Kenneth Lamar Noid who thought the ads were about him, who then went into a Domino's early in 1989 and held everyone hostage, and yes, that man took his own life in 1995. That is not the misinformation. The misinformation is that these events are what ended the ad campaign, which is not even remotely correct and was just a narrative pushed by the media outlets of the time which has gone on to become the factoid which always gets repeated. I've listened to a radio show which interviewed some of the people involved and they didn't end the ad campaign back in 1989 because the reasoning was that this was far too isolated an incident to be predictable or preventable and that any rational person would see it as such, thus the ad campaign CONTINUED until around the end of 1991 and the start of 1992... years before what followed in 1995. You can listen for yourself at the following link, with the information about how the campaign ended being a little over ten minutes in: https://theworld.org/programs/studio-360/void-noid
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Chapters:
00:00 Title and Intro
03:33 Game Stats
06:27 Gameplay
12:31 Overall
13:03 DOSBox Configuration
13:59 Credits
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