Gravestones Advertising Video Games?

An anonymous reader writes "In an insane bid to drum up publicity The Guardian tells of Acclaim Entertainment who are seeking to enlist the help of the recently bereaved, well the poorer ones anyway, to help promote their latest game." My favorite comment is a spokesman for the Church of England who said they wouldn't allow it saying "There was enough fuss with plastic flowers in churchyards." Anyway, I just found this really surreal.

The advert on my grave...

[schwatoo]

"You too can have a body like mine."

first post!

[pimpinmonk]

I think that they should also put ads on the gravestones of first posters...

I always miss out on these things...

[Champaign]

First I wasn't fast enough to get an advertisement driven PC, then I couldn't get a dot-com to give me a VW Beetle painted with their colours... now I'm too alive to cash in on this...

back to exchanging goods and/or services for money for me

sample tombstone

[y2dt]

John Smith
born 11/12/1980
fragged 5/15/2002

Last rites at these grave yards:

[JoeLinux]

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Frank Jones, who in his life-time, talketh and layeth the smack down like in WWF Smackdown. While troubles seemed to come his way like chairs at the Undertaker, he handled it gracefully, like those fine manager chicks...."

Fun stuff. Liven up any Eulogy...

JoeLinux

Jesus Christmas...

[EricKrout.com]

Jesus Christmas!

Why not just embed a fscking LCD screen into the cement tombstone along with a small camera to identify the age/sex of cemetary visitors? I mean, if you'll go low enough to engrave on the damn things, you might as well go one step further and dynamically change your ads to target specific individuals (i.e. 8-year old girl -- show an ad for the latest Mario game; 15-year old boy -- show an ad for the latest shoot-em-up game; etc...).

m o n o l i n u x :: The Few, The Proud, The Linux Hackers. [monolinux.com]

Re:Sometimes I think Slashdot should be chumpdot.

[Have Blue]

You think Slashdotters actually READ these articles? You're new around here, aren't you?

Re:Of course those ads will never be useful

[Quizme2000]

Thats one of those marketing tricks, where the purpose of the whole excercise is to get denied and get in the papers.

Dear ACCLAIM:
Due to your recent marketing on the site of the dead you have lost market share with the living. I will not purchase another product from your company again.

BTW, I really sent this, it will be interesting if the reply

Re:I always miss out on these things...

[dangermouse]

Fixable.

Seen on a headstone

[Our Man In Redmond]

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Our game is a hit
But our ads are a bust

Grave slashdot

[ksb]

I quite Like the idea of having just a nice simple:

/.

on my headstone ;)

Well

[quantaman]

I didn't think it was possible but I guess you can get lower than spammers!! I think we may have a late entry for the 101 Dumbest Moments In Business [slashdot.org]!

What next, using classic poets?

[InterruptDescriptorT]

Quoth the Raven, "Everquest".

Don't know why that just popped up...

Advertizing on gravestones?

[NeMon'ess]

Over my dead body.

Re:Grave slashdot

[DennyK]

Athiest geek's headstone:

mv John.Smith /dev/null

;-)

DennyK

Re:Why all the fuss?

[alexmogil]

Last I checked the moon had 'CHA' engraved on it, so I guess advertising isn't a stretch.

God, please SOMEBODY get this.

Re:Advertising on private land

[kisrael]

Could politicans use that same loophole to do graveyard advertising? Could I legally replace my great-grandmother's tombstone with one that said, "If I were alive, I'd vote for Nader!"

In Chicago, the tombstone could leave off the first part of that...

Free advertisement

[KDENCE]

I would say that their advertisement goal has been more than met now because of this article. I had never heard of this game and since never frequent cemeteries I would have never seen it. Kinda funny the way the media works sometimes in that we give the people who are wanting to be heard through weirdness even more attention. My mom always said, that if you don't pay attention to these type of people, they'll get discouraged and just go away.