So today I was thinking about how present day commercials for Kirby games are quite dull in comparison to the ones that were on TV in my youth. ...aaaand then I decided to make a topic as an excuse to post them.

So how about it? Show us your favorite (or least favorite) video game related commercials of yesteryear. ... or even present day ones, whatever floats your boat.


Here's some of the good ol' Kirby ones I was talking about; you think "Amercian Angry Eyebrows Kirby" is interesting? Get a load of how badass most of these commercials try to make him:

Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Adventure
Kirby's Dream Land 2
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Avalanche

Also, unrelated but I just want to post this before someone else does, my favorite video game commercial EVAR:


Sorry, these were the best quality versions I could find.

Re-posting some that I posted in the previous incarnation of this thread, as well as posting some new ones. I know a couple of these are quite recent, but what the heck.

A strange Japanese ad for Link's Awakening, with weird-looking puppets.

A commercial I fondly remember from my childhood.

A unique and creative ad for Japan-exclusive PS2 models.

A heartwarming ad for Xbox Live.

A cute Japanese commercial for the Famicom.

Two Japanese commercials for Bayonetta, featuring a hot cosplayer.

A...somewhat disturbing...GBA ad.

An ad that shows just how fun it can be to play online with your friends.

Sonic bein' a DJ in da club.

And some sick rhymes involving WaveRace 64.

How could anyone do a topic like this without bringing up this gem?

Ahh the good old days when really bizarre commercials existed!

(Earthworm Jim) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53HNvK85CTE

(Earthworm Jim 3D) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_M8vjtWem8

(Banjo-Kazooie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxHbFMZhm0

(Banjo-Tooie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6wLNrii9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6LIvsYNHA

hail satan

Paper Mario - Got to love the paper shredder.

Super Mario Advance - Throw your enemies at your enemies.

Mario Kart Super Circuit - Because the best way to advertise your cutesy game is with violence.

Mario Kart 64 - I'm sure everyone is well acquainted with this one.

Majora's Mask - After a commercial like this its odd to hear the claim that the game is rated E.

Donkey Kong 64 - A tad racist, but fun.

Hey You Pikachu - D'aww ... poor little guy.

Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast

Sonic Adventure 2 for Gamecube - A, B, C

Aw man, beaten to the Smash Bros commercial by the first post. It's still the best.

Somebody find the original American Animal crossing commercial!

There are actually three American commercials for the first Animal Crossing, if I'm correct.

No one's posted this one?

Final Fantasy 6 English Commercial
Can never look at Mog the same again.

Uuuuh ... was that a purple penis monster I saw?

(08-18-2014, 08:16 AM)E-Man Wrote:

You mean this one?

Aww, the garbage dump line isn't as funny to me anymore.

God, they make Golden Sun seem so badass in this ad. It's such a letdown when you actually play the game...








...and it turns out to be infinitely more badass. Hah, you thought I was gonna knock Golden Sun, didn't ya?

Sorry for double posting, just wanted to share an ad that I've always been baffled by. Why? It existed, because that's enough for me to be confused by this... thing.

Because I like ranting and it doesn't cost me much time at all, I'll point by point this:

• A pretty good way to get your product ignored is making the advertising obnoxious and annoying. Nothing says "please mute the TV" quite like crop metal and a distorted, robotic voice. I get that 1996 was a very edgy year for America; we just came out of the grungefest and that evolved into some weird thing and media in general was very dark and weird, but that doesn't excuse this commercial's image one bit. If anything, Sega's attempts at marketing the Saturn throughout its existence was the vile, grotesque mildew that spewed from this kind of mid-'90s attitude. If you aren't familiar with the Saturn's various ad campaigns, ohohhhh boy, let me tell you, this isn't the odd one out at all.
  
• Another great way to lose potential customers is by making false claims. Guess when NiGHTS was released? August 31st, 1996. Guess when Descent was released on the Playstation? March 12th, 1996. More than 6 months earlier. What's the significance of this? Descent is precisely what this ad tried describing NiGHTS as: a real-time 3D, full, and fluid flying game. What's the significance of that? The ad quite blatantly mocks the Playstation for not having a game like that at all.
  
• In general, the whole attack-ad vibe Sega were going for really lost steam by this point in time. It may have worked for them in the early '90s when both the aging NES and the not-as-cool-to-preteens SNES were easy targets, but trying to pick on the Playstation? Bullying a dragon, Sega...
  

...soooo yeah, I guess you could say I'm not a fan of this ad!

I wanted it to be good.