[‘o] Sleazy ‘Advertisement’ Mag Covers

What’s the point of paying for an exclusive cover shot if someone else can pay for an ad to be slapped over it? This is not the Tony Hawk’s Project 8 issue of the Official Xbox Magazine to me now, it’s the Saint’s Row issue.

I thought this sneaky tactic was relatively new but here’s an issue of Nintendo Power from January of 2001. Not that you could tell by looking at it as all sides are covered with Spider-Man imagery, even the spine! It’s not even an ad for the game, it’s just Spider-Man hysteria gone wild.