Thanks to product placement, virtual worlds have been invaded by real life problems. But a few retro titles go far beyond product placement, and in this installment of Retro Gaming Freak Show, we look at Pepsiman, Darkened Skye, and other games that were nothing more than playable commercials. | Cracked.com

Retro Rewind TV: Ridiculous Things From The 80s...part one⁠ ⁠ It’s funny to think back to some of the crazy stuff we all believed in as kids growing up in the 70s-90s...and how the same urban myths/tall tales covered most of the US. I know that I heard a lot of the same ones in Hawaii that my friends in New York did. The stories were passed along and, without the internet, we had no way to figure out what was true and what wasn’t.⁠ ⁠ What’s even funnier is that a lot of the same kind of thing go