Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn newspapers ads

Command & Conquer (also known as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn) is a 1995 real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. It has been cited as the title that defined and popularized the real-time strategy genre. It was the first in the Command & Conquer series, which sold 30 million copies by 2009.

However, its advertising in several newspapers lead to controversy for using pictures of various dictators, warlords, war criminals, and leaders (including those who weren't involved in war) from various countries from past to present at that time and labeled under "Previous High Scores".

Why They Sucked

 * 1) Using pictures of various dictators and war criminals such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein (who was still alive at the time) and Mao Zedong to promote the game.
 * 2) The Tiberian series (aka the main Command & Conquer series) didn't have anything related to those people in the first place. Who thought that this ad was a good idea for promoting it?
 * 3) This ad also included a picture of Emperor Hirohito (who had little involvement in World War II since Hideki Tojo (1940-1944) and Kuniaki Koiso (1944-1945) were the Prime Ministers of Japan at that time) and labeled him with other war criminals. This caused outrage amongst the Japanese people.
 * 4) The word "Previous High Scores" is most likely referring to victims killed during reigning of those dictators. This was incredibly disrespectful to those victims and their families.