Here is a list of the best video game commercials to exist:

MTV Sports: Pure Ride (Sony Playstation)

If you ever needed an instructional video on how to chuck a geriatric from the passenger’s seat of your parents’ car, this is it. Is it offensive? Yes. Is it hilarious? No. Throwing old people out of a car is serious business, as is highlighted by the disclaimer: “Please don’t throw people from moving vehicles.” The ad earns a place on the list, regardless, if only for breaking new ground in terms of injuring the elderly.

NFL Fever 2003 (XBOX)

XBOX’s “NFL Fever 2003” was a pretty atrocious sports title in its own right. In this commercial, Peyton Manning plays a game about another game which features the real-life Peyton Manning. Here, we are led to believe that he is illiterate beyond repair, as even the simplest of common phrases give him worlds of trouble. For one of the more mouthy quarterbacks in the league, his struggles with the English language are as misleading as they are amusing.

Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 (Sony Playstation)

“It’s so reeeal!” I anticipate the day my reality is substituted with choppy 32-bit graphics and baseball players pulling cellular phones from their pockets. This MLB sim was designed to counter the wildly popular EA Sports series, “Triple Play Baseball,” which was notorious for its hokey animations and cheesy sound effects. “High Heat,” however, brought the heat in terms of realism and seriously contrived television commercials.

WWF SmackDown! (Sony Playstation)

Wrestling games have a bad habit when it comes to sucking. This title, the first in the long-winded “SmackDown!” series, is no exception to that rule. Fortunately, its 30-second TV spot showed promise, which earned it a spot on the list. Wherever The Rock goes, chaos follows, as appears to be the standard for wrestlers. Kane is setting fire to the kitchen, Edge is spearing a waiter into the pool and my favorite, D-Lo Brown, is slamming a hotel guest onto the roof of his car. Truly an ad for “the people.”

NBA Live 2007 (Multi-platform)

EA Sports’ knack for tagging no-name athletes to their big-name franchises knows no bounds. Former Gonzaga great and current Charlotte castaway Adam Morrison stars in this ad about – what else – his anthropomorphic mustache. While a tight shot on the guy’s fuzzy lip fur goes a long way in disproving his masculinity, it does not make me want to purchase a game about basketball.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (Multi-platform)

Allusions to Jesus always sell, as is the case in this commercial promoting neither the sanctity of golf, nor organized religion. What EA is selling is Tiger Woods. Golfing barefooted and clever camera tricks designed to make the YouTube universe ponder, “Is that real?” No, it is not real, but it is kind of cool. But I still don’t think people will find a golf game outside the bar room “Golden Tee” to be all that Earth-shattering.