BioShock commercial

Over at Boing Boing Offworld, Brandon blogged a TV commercial for the BioShock PS3 vidgame. The ad reminds me of the nonsensical, arty Mr. Plow commercial on The Simpsons. (Thanks for the reminder, TR0NK!) a Simpsons bit where Homer stars in a nonsensical, arty perfume (?) commercial. Anyone remember that?
BioShock commercial

[#1 posted by tr0nk , December 30, 2008 4:32 PM]

you're thinking of the mr plow commercial he did where he smashes a snow globe

i didnt realize it til i watched this and yeah you hit like ten nails on the head

[#2 posted by subhan , December 30, 2008 4:36 PM]

Call Mr. Plow, that's the name, that name again is Mr. Plow.
Season 9 ep 7 I believe.

[#3 posted by David Pescovitz , December 30, 2008 4:37 PM]

Yes! Thanks, TR0NK! Here's a still from Mr. Plow.

[#4 posted by syncrotic , December 30, 2008 4:49 PM]

You can get Bioshock on Steam right now for $4.99. I guess PS3 users have to pay for the work it took to port the game to whatever nonsense that machine has for a CPU architecture. :)

[#5 posted by ToddBradley , December 30, 2008 8:27 PM]

That was a fun game, but shouldn't the sequel be out by now? I'm pretty sure I finished it well over a year ago. Do PS3 users really buy games that are a year passe?

[#6 posted by zuzu , December 30, 2008 8:38 PM]

I'm really out of the gaming loop, because one year doesn't seem passe to me.

Hell, I'm half-inclined to play Wasteland or Mines of Titan right now.

Or maybe System Shock 2 or Planescape: Torment.

I guess I can wait a year to pay only $5 to play Mirror's Edge then.

[#7 posted by Trent Hawkins , December 30, 2008 10:13 PM]

or pay $5 for Bioshock on steam.

[#8 posted by Stenson , December 31, 2008 5:49 AM]

In regards to #4...

The PS3 is based on the IBM Cell / Power architecture, likewise is the xbox 360 based on an PowerPC architecture.

The problem does not lie in porting the game to a specific CPU as much as in porting the game to the API's provided by the OS that the machine runs on.

The xbox provides a correlation between microsoft's x86 directx API's which does help porting games between the console and wintel machines; but you've still got to take in to account that some code just won't run well on a different cpu architecture and therefor has to be re-written.

The PS3 platform has got a lot of bad PR in regards to the time it has taken to port games to it. I'm not a PS3/xbox developer myself, but I imagine this will be at least partially solved as good commercial development frameworks are made available...

[#9 posted by Anonymous , December 31, 2008 6:34 AM]

It was not the Mr. Plow commercial but rather Barney's Plow King commercial.

[#10 posted by Anonymous , December 31, 2008 8:03 AM]

Bart: Dad, was that your commercial?

Homer: I don't know...