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Circuit City Apologizes for Pulling Mad Magazine, Promises to Get a Sense of Humor [Pr]

2008-08-04 16:19:30 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
 
...Mad Magazine with a Circuit City parody inside destroyed was acting on her own. An "embarrassed corporate PR guy" has apologized to Mad Magazine and tried to make things right. Nice work, Circuit City. The letter of explination/apology in full, after the jump Hi, Ben I spotted the article about Circuit City and MAD Magazine on your site fyi,...
 
Tags: mad magazine, circuit city, mad magazine editor, circuit city stores, circuit city share, stores, humor, company action plans, occasional temporary lapses
 
 
 
 
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Mad Katz to Make Wireless and Wired Rock Band Instruments [Gaming]

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2008-01-04 11:30:04 by HASH0x847324c in Gizmodo
Mad Katz, maker of mediocre third-party gaming peripherals, has just signed a deal with MTV and Harmonix to start pumping out instruments for Rock Band of both the wireless and wired variety. On the one hand, having cheap, wireless Rock Band equipment would be awesome for people who want to get a bass player rocking with them. On the other hand,...
 
Tags: rock band, mad katz, rock band license, instruments, mad catz, casual gamers alike, produce premium instruments, gamers, mtv games represents
 
 
 
 
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Circuit City apologizes to Mad Magazine for parody purging bonfires

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2008-08-05 11:02:51 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Mad Magazine 's "Sucker City" ad parody and will begin selling America's favorite pre-teen humor magazine once again Better yet, they got an embarrassed PR goon gifted with a Mad -style sense of humor to write the apology note! As a gesture of our apology and deep respect for the folks at MAD Magazine, we are creating a cross-departmental...
 
Tags: circuit city, mad magazine, mad magazine editor, circuit city stores, parody, humor magazine, sucker city, humor, company action plans
 
 
 
 
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Mad World Preview

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2008-06-28 16:47:22 by Mr Butterscotch in Forever Geek
...Mad World (developed and published by Sega) will fit just what youre looking for. Well, thats only if youre looking for an ultra-violent, ultra-gory roaming kill-a-thon. You see, Mad World is a bit Manhunt meets Sin City . What I mean by that is it has the comic book looks, but theres also seething violence just waiting to be unleashed If...
 
Tags: mad world, wii, family friendly wii, main character, melee weapons, violence, wii-mote, character, main combat
 
 
 
 
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Mad Catz Rock Band 2 cymbals, portable drums, premium mic, and more: spy shots galore

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2008-07-17 14:56:00 by Joshua Fruhlinger in Engadget
...Mad Catz accessories. First off, the Premium M.I.C. ($50) is said to have "studio quality" sound all the while including control buttons -- something we didn't realize was missing from the original Rock Band mic until we thought about it. Then we spotted the Portable Drums ($60), which is great news for those of you who excel at drums but...
 
Tags: mad catz, rock band, play rock band, mad catz accessories, portable drums, drums, drum kit, drum kit head, hit store shelves
 
 
 
 
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Circuit City Demands All Copies of Mad Magazine with Ad Parody Destroyed [Overreactions]

2008-08-04 09:51:31 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
 
...Mad Magazine, there's an ad parody for Circuit City (Sucker City! Oh, Mad Magazine you rascal!) that takes aim at the electronics retailer. Always across the street from a Best Buy! Expensive TVs! The price always goes up right after you bought it! Wah wahhhh! I wasn't even aware that Circuit City sold Mad Magazine, but apparently they do,...
 
Tags: mad magazine, circuit city, parody, browser, post, image, expensive tvs, wah wahhhh, takes aim
 
 
 
 
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Circuit City mad at Mad magazine

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2008-08-04 16:09:03 by Conner Flynn in SlipperyBrick
...Mad magazine. The fold up joke page. The bad humor. Apparently its still around and going strong, has Circuit city pretty pissed off even. In this months issue of Mad Magazine, theres an ad parody for Circuit City that reads Sucker City!. The parody takes aim at the electronics retailer and maybe says what many people were already thinking...
 
Tags: circuit city, mad magazine, circuit city pretty, remember mad magazine, parody takes aim, parody, buys mad magazines, wii epilepsy bundle, reads sucker city
 
 
 
 
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Circuit City mad at Mad magazine

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2008-08-04 16:09:03 by Conner Flynn in SlipperyBrick
...Mad magazine. The fold up joke page. The bad humor. Apparently its still around and going strong, has Circuit city pretty pissed off even. In this months issue of Mad Magazine, theres an ad parody for Circuit City that reads Sucker City!. The parody takes aim at the electronics retailer and maybe says what many people were already thinking...
 
Tags: circuit city, mad magazine, circuit city pretty, remember mad magazine, parody takes aim, parody, buys mad magazines, wii epilepsy bundle, reads sucker city
 
 
 
 
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Phil Torrone tours Mad Magazine, I wallow in nostalgia

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2008-02-22 18:17:03 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...Mad magazines offices on MAD-ison Avenue When we walked in they still had a Christmas Tree up in July and Nick Meglin called back into the office warning people to put away the bad stuff because a kid was coming through. We met Bill Gaines in his cluttered office he died a few years later and I got a signed piece of artwork which I still...
 
Tags: mad magazines offices, offices, phil torrone, people talk, people, visits mad magazine, bill gaines, bad stuff, booger