Sega Mail Chum! (Japan) (October 1999)

Sometimes I see an ad and have no idea what I'm looking at, forcing my to do some research so I know where they belong.  As it turns out, this ad is Sega-related, so this is probably already documented in English somewhere, as Western Sega fans tend to enjoy meticulously documenting every bit of Sega-related minutia from "the good ol' days" when Sega was a contender.  But it was news to me, so maybe it will be for you as well.

Apparently, www.dricas.com was the Japanese online service site for the Dreamcast, and Mail Chum was a service on that site that allowed users to send email to fictional characters.  Several themed groups of these characters existed, and the "Jet Girls" in this ad were one of those groups.  The service shut down in June 2001.

I've gotta say, I feel truly sorry for anyone who had nothing better to do than to write emails to fictional characters.  It's not even  like they had adequate A.I. back then that could send a reply so you could even PRETEND you were conversing with a real person.  This is the sort of thing that gives gamers a bad reputation as socially inept losers afraid of human contact.