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Well, not Imgur. I'm not sure how those examples prove your point anyway, as many of them are very similar to mine.
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I’m not sure how you can’t see the colors in those images? Granted they don’t cover the entire spectrum as modern advertisements do, but they’re still very colorful; much moreso than the examples you picked out.
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But they are completely different. The plain, often classy text and use of either real people or realistic illustrations do not at all fit with what you see in Oddworld.
In fact, I did another Google search on "90s snack advertising", and here is some of what I got:
Too many examples to choose from. Similar colour use, similar goofy typography, and similar use of a simplistic looking mascot in order to present the food. Unsurprisingly for a game released in 1997, Abe's Oddysee parodied the snack marketing of the 90's, not the 50's.
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Yeah now that you show me this I can definitely see that there was a focus on 90s advertising in OWI’s design team.
I maintain that there’s a very 50s slant in the Magog Cartel as a whole – the pinstriped suits and godawful dress shoes, leather paneled offices, the cheesy marketing slogans accompanied by simpering product copywriting and outrageous lies about the product’s supposed benefits, and even the general aesthetic of Cartel operations like Feeco Depot. I could see them calling back to this in newer designs, like for the New ‘n’ Tasty logo.