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Final Fantasy VII spent heavily on television ads

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Making a masterpiece is only half the battle; the rest is just shouting at consumers. The publisher spent tens of millions on aggressive television and print marketing in the nineties, allocating vastly more cash to commercials than they did to actually coding the software.

Final Fantasy VII spent heavily on television ads
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