In December 2006, Front 242 announced from their MySpace page that they were writing music for a video game called Cipher Complex and provided a link to a teaser trailer with a short sample of one of their scores.

In January 2010, MTV released a teaser trailer on its website for Darias 2010 release.

He narrates the initial teaser trailer for the game.

Just months prior to that, at E3 2003, a playable demo was shown and a teaser trailer was released by LucasArts.

While the black and white Yoshis are the only additional playable Yoshis presented in the game, a teaser trailer from an earlier stage of the game would reveal the presence of a brown and a purple Yoshi.

With QuickTime 4, it was given wide exposure for the release of the teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace on March 11, 1999.

* Alice: Madness Returns Official website, including teaser trailer.

This quote was included in the voiceovers of the teaser trailer for the 2009 Star Trek film.

A first teaser trailer was presented during the 2007 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hell on Wheels was showcased at the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo, where a playable demonstration and a teaser trailer were displayed.

A teaser trailer for an upcoming film, television program, video game or similar, is usually released long in advance of the product, so as to " tease " the audience.

An early example of the teaser trailer was the one for the Superman film by Richard Donner.

The Da Vinci Code teaser trailer was released even before a single frame of the movie had been shot.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princes teaser trailer was released surprisingly late, but when it was pushed back from November 21, 2008 to July 17, 2009, the trailer was surprisingly early.

A teaser for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was attached to the films The Siege and A Bug's Life, and it was reported that many people had paid for admission to the film just to watch the trailer, and had walked out after the trailer had been screened.

The teaser trailer for Cloverfield was first publicly shown attached to the film Transformers.

The teaser trailer for another film directed by Abrams, Star Trek, was attached to Cloverfield itself, depicting the starship USS Enterprise being constructed on Earth, and again showing no title.

One of the more notable exceptions to this rule is Spider-Man, whose teaser trailer featured a mini-movie plot of bank robbers escaping in a helicopter, getting caught from behind and propelled backward into what at first appears to be a net, then is shown to be a gigantic spider web spun between the two towers at the World Trade Center.

After the 9 / 11 attacks, the trailer and associated teaser poster ( where the two towers appear as a reflection in Spider-Man's eyepieces ) were pulled from distribution in theaters and have never been released on DVD.

In a teaser trailer for the 1990 film Opportunity Knocks ( available on that film's DVD ), Church Lady interrupts, warning viewers not to see the film and is punched in the face and knocked to the floor by Dana Carvey who introduces himself.

At the very end of the film, there is a teaser trailer for History of the World: Part II, narrated by Brooks, which promises to include Hitler on Ice, a Viking funeral, and Jews in Space.

In a DVD extra providing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, Frank Oz discusses a teaser trailer he directed for the studio, which wanted to begin promoting the film before there was enough actual footage to assemble a trailer.

Several movie websites, including Internet Movie Database, reported that it was the official teaser for the film.

At the conclusion of each episode, Jack Lord narrated a teaser for the next episode, often emphasizing the " guest villain ", especially if the villain is a recurring character, such as that played by actor Hume Cronyn.

The Upper Works described details of the castle above ground, acting as a teaser for the volumes concerning the actual dungeons that would follow.

In July 2008, at the San Diego Comic-Con International, he appeared in a teaser for Tron: Legacy, shot as concept footage for director Joseph Kosinski ; this developed into a full 3D feature release in 2010.

In January 2010, AFI released a teaser for the video of their new single " Beautiful Thieves ".

* At the end of David Eveleigh's All Hallows Eve, there is a teaser image for a forthcoming sequel in which Eve, the book's protagonist, will battle Fantômas.

The theme " Stalking ", for the teaser sequence of From Russia With Love, was covered by colleague Marvin Hamlisch for The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ).

On January 24, 2011, Morgan Mendieta, a man hired by MGA Entertainment to create a teaser for an upcoming Bratz reality series, leaked a rough cut of the teaser on his blog.

A teaser for the film was released on October 5, 2009, on Rainmaker's official site.

A cue from this film ( The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm ) was used in a teaser for the upcoming Superman film, Man of Steel.

At the end of each program, Cooper offered a teaser for the next show.

Prior to a 1994 remaster, each episode included a " teaser " at the top of the show, asking viewers to stay tuned for a clip from " today's four-part story.

A teaser campaign is an advertising campaign which typically consists of a series of small, cryptic, challenging advertisements that anticipate a larger, full-blown campaign for a product launch or otherwise important event.

The teaser for the Batman film starring Michael Keaton was an emergency marketing move that successfully convinced angered comic book fans that the film would respect the source material.

* Put Up or Shut Up – As Herb exits the lobby in the opening teaser, he sings a bit of " Our Day Will Come "; this was replaced, and his line to Bailey was re-dubbed ( but because said line was misheard, the original " Hi, Bailey " was inadvertently changed to " Hi, babe "!

Star Trek: The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to feature a cold open (" teaser ") and started directly with the title sequence ( although some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as that run by the BBC in the U. K. in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the teaser after the credits ).

The next-show teaser, which was introduced in Season Two without music, worked in the same way, and usually used a different take of the music heard during the sketch-of-the-day teaser, except that the voice said " Tune in next time, when ..." and there was no show number shown.

Instead of the next-show teaser, Ken Roberts's voice could be heard, saying, " And now, the last word ," and the trademark light bulb would be shut off by a hand doing whatever the last word was.

Notably, some episodes in Seasons Three through Five had serious technical errors with either their sketch-of-the-day teaser segments or their next-show teaser segments, which was probably because of the failure of the linear analog video-editing equipment.

For Season Six, because the teaser music was changed to a shorter, self-contained composition, these errors do not occur, with the exception of the teaser of 33B shown at the end of 32B ( available on iTunes ), where the teaser was accidentally cut by a fraction of a second.

For example, 60A originally contained the Spider-Man episode " Spidey Meets the Prankster " and used a scene from that sketch as the opening teaser, which was removed completely after the opening credits, leaving only the episode number, and at the start is an episode of " The Six-Dollar and Thirty-Nine Cent Man ," which supposedly aired only during Season 6.

One of the earliest known brain teaser enthusiasts was the Greek mathematician Archimedes.