The MMORPG Anarchy Online contains billboard advertisements for both real and fictional companies. The images below and in the Billboard Forest were taken from screenshots inside this virtual world. Paid subscribers to Anarchy have the option of blanking out the real advertisements, but the ones I have seen all fit well with the Anarchy culture. Examples of fictional advertisements are these two billboards for the Dreadloch company, which provides virtual armor and weapons at stores inside Anarchy Online:
Another fictional business is the fast food chain, Bronto Burger. Arguably, this is a real business, because your avatar can buy snacks at numerous Bronto Burger locations all across Rubi-Ka, but the company does not exist outside Anarchy. Brontos are common beasts on Rubi-Ka, and the picture seems to depict the head of one stabbed by many eating forks.
The advertisement below is transitional between fictional and real, because it refers to a pair of high quality maps of the planet Rubi-Ka made by a fan of Anarchy Online, that were originally distributed over the web and then incorporated in the official AO interface. The picture shows my avatar, Nanobic, and his trusty android, Tobor, inside an abandoned subway station in Newland, looking at the advertisement. See Dovve's AO Enhancements.
The first "real" advertisement I saw in Anarchy Online is shown below. It sells 6 Hour Power, a power food supplement containing B vitamins and caffeine that might appeal to game players who want to become more aggressive. The text at the bottom, illegible in the original, can be read on the product's website: "This statement has not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease."
The second real advertisement I saw was part of Microsoft's campaign to counter Apple's effective anti-PC advertisements.
More recently, advertisements recruiting to the US Navy appeared. "Accelerate your life" is indeed a slogan used for some time in Navy recruiting. "Working every day to unman the front lines" is the pitch line from a Navy video about small battlefield robots.
