Author Topic: Video Game Commercials (Read 7623 times)

Toad · « **on:** March 19, 2006, 01:04:49 AM »

What is your favorite commercial for a video game (does not have to be Mario related)?

A couple of mine are:

The Super Smash Bros 64 commercial where Mario, Yoshi, DK, and Pikachu were frolicking through the flowers.

.. and then (this one is an old one) there was the commercial a really long time ago that I think was a Walmart/Mario game commercial.. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember that the commercial was set up like a side scrolling Mario game set in a grocery store, but when Mario got 'fire power', he ended up dressed kind of like an elf. He would carry a sack around, and when he shot a 'fireball', it would be thrown at people that had shopping carts, and suddenly they would get the system/game that was being advertised in the commercial.

I'm pretty sure that second one is pre-Super Mario World, but I am just not sure, really. ^_^

Post your favorites! :D

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #1 on:** March 19, 2006, 02:39:47 AM »

I particularly like the costumed character ones
1. SSB "Happy Together"
2. MKSC
3. Mario Party 4
4. Mario Party 5

I also thought the SMA4 Japanese schoolchildren was well done as well as the MKDS desert one.
The recent Tetris DS one is pretty good too.

The banned Xbox 360 mall commercial was pretty cool too.

The Japanese LTTP commercial wins the hilarity award.

There are probably others, but that's what I can think of off of the top of my head.

HolyAarom · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2006, 07:16:50 AM »

I liked the Double Dash!! one that promoted that a GC would come with DD free.

Mario threw a bannana at Santa!

Jman · « **Reply #3 on:** March 19, 2006, 10:01:37 AM »

Why was the Xbox commercial banned?

I always like the commercial for the first Super Smash Brothers. "So Happy together..."

Kojinka · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2006, 10:34:39 AM »

I guess I'm not alone. The commercial for SSB(N64) is one of my personal favories. "So Happy Together"

Pokemon Crystal one where the archaeologists were pushing at a door with Unown markings on it...
Kid 1: (in foreign language) Should we tell them it says "pull"?
Kid 2: (in foreign language) No way bro.
...is a riot!

I think there was an old one for one of the early Zelda games in which these kids were rapping.

Khold · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2006, 11:19:10 AM »

I loved the first Mario Party commercial. If I remember it right, Mario was being busted by two cops for a neighborhood disturbance. I lol'ed so hard at that one... XD

I also liked the "got milk?" commercial that had a kick off of Mario. These two boys were playing Mario 64. It went something like: "Come on Mario, jump!" (Mario jumps into wall & falls) "Come on, Mario!" (Mario hits wall again) "Ugh, I give up!" (kids leave room)(Mario jumps out of television and gets a bottle of milk)(Mario goes back into the television and jumps the obstacle) ^_______^

Pt_Peach · « **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2006, 11:27:52 AM »

THe Super Princess Peach commercial is pretty good, too! It's cute, how all the girls are going through training, milatary-style!

Bigluigifan1.0 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2006, 12:20:17 PM »

But like the end, pretty bad, I mean they're not even in a bad mood and they can set a barrier on fire with their minds.

Pt_Peach · « **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2006, 02:00:09 PM »

Now the baseball one was BAD! All of the mario sports video game commercials these days are people in HUGE costumes! I mean geeze!

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #9 on:** March 19, 2006, 02:52:03 PM »

I agree with pt_peach. I'm sick of all these costume commercials.

Sunbun · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2006, 03:01:34 PM »

My favorite's the Japanese SMA3: SMW2 Yoshi's Island one with the hand-drawn Yoshies in the storybook. The one for Mario Party 4 with the Yoshi flying into the highway overpass cracked me up as well. That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

Mr. Wiggles · « **Reply #11 on:** March 19, 2006, 04:32:59 PM »

Quote from: Toad on March 19, 2006, 01:04:49 AM

.. and then (this one is an old one) there was the commercial a really long time ago that I think was a Walmart/Mario game commercial.. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember that the commercial was set up like a side scrolling Mario game set in a grocery store, but when Mario got 'fire power', he ended up dressed kind of like an elf. He would carry a sack around, and when he shot a 'fireball', it would be thrown at people that had shopping carts, and suddenly they would get the system/game that was being advertised in the commercial.

That wasn't a Wal-Mart commercial. It was a Pepsi/Nintendo promotional giveaway for the NES and the original Game Boy. X-Entertainment has an article on it (I think).

As for my favorite VG commercials.

Super Smash Bros. The brawl between Mario, Yoshi, DK and Pikachu while So Happy Together plays in the background = Priceless.
The "Got Milk" Mario commercial.
The Mario Kart Super Circuit commercial.
The Pikmin 2 commercial. It's midgets in Pikmin costumes, what else could be better!
The original Pokemon Red & Blue commercials. By which I mean the one with the vacuum sucking in all the Pokemon and the bus driver trapping them in a bus.
Donkey Kong Country 3 GBA commercial. I don't know why, but I just like it.

Mr. Melee · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2006, 05:58:57 PM »

Here's 3.

1. The SM64 milk one was very funny, and I remember it.

2. The first time Pokemon was released with the kid who opens the pizza box, containing a Snorlax.

3. The MP6 one w/ Bowser using the flamming hot toothpaste.

I think I vaguely remember the SSB one.

G-Dawg · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2006, 06:08:51 PM »

I don't see a lot of Nintendo ones anymore, but I have an idea. I think they should make one like the PSP one. You know the one with the people throwing it around. Well they should do that, and when they toss the PSP, they should have a guy holding a DS and letting the PSP drop, and smash into pieces. And then have the guy continues with his walking and playing at the same time. That would be hilarious!!! XD

Bigluigifan1.0 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 19, 2006, 09:53:54 PM »

But they can't considering they're not given permission to another company's product, especially with the destroying of it, and no I don't think they could just make a cheap fake one because that would be trying to hide the fact that they were stealing the idea from the other company just to make them look bad.

Mr. Wiggles · « **Reply #15 on:** March 20, 2006, 12:23:07 AM »

To add to that, Nintendo's ads rarely ever take cheap shots at thier competition, even when the old Sega commercials would usually do. Nintendo Power is a different story.

Fifth · « **Reply #16 on:** March 20, 2006, 12:32:30 AM »

Gotta be the Japanese Mario Advanced 3 one. You just can't beat animated Yoshi goodness.

MaxVance · « **Reply #17 on:** March 20, 2006, 08:08:03 AM »

I never saw this on TV, but I remember seeing a Kirby Super Star ad once that mentioned "TMK" in it. It stood for "Too Much Kirby". Of course, the ad made me think, "The Mushroom Kingdom? Why would TMK have a TV ad?"
I'm still trying to find a link to it.

EDIT: KRR has the ad. It can be found here. It's the second one down.

Mr. Melee · « **Reply #18 on:** March 20, 2006, 05:40:30 PM »

I also like the Kirby: Canvas Curse ad with the giant finger and Kirby. It was mild on the humor scale, but still amusing.

Kojinka · « **Reply #19 on:** March 20, 2006, 06:54:24 PM »

I found the M&L: PiT commercial quite amusing. These dads are putting helmets on these toy babies, then the lady goes, "Let's practice some cannon shooting."

GiftedGirl · « **Reply #20 on:** March 21, 2006, 11:34:20 AM »

I never saw that commercial.

This isn't really a commercial, but on America's Funniest Home Videos, these kids were playing with Pokemon cards and this one kid gets a card and he's all like "BLASTOOOOOOIIIIISE!!! BLASTOOOOOOIIIIISE!!! I GOT BLASTOISE!!!"

BP · « **Reply #21 on:** March 21, 2006, 12:24:47 PM »

I NEVER see commercials for video games anymore. Then again, I don't really watch TV as much as I used to. I'm usually playing video games or being here. This is where I find out about new upcoming games, and whatever else...

MaxVance · « **Reply #22 on:** March 21, 2006, 01:51:37 PM »

I don't really think video games are advertised much anymore. Except on the Internet.

BP · « **Reply #23 on:** March 21, 2006, 02:15:11 PM »

Almost no one who plays video game isn't online somewhere nowadays. Seems that way...

Big_C · « **Reply #24 on:** March 21, 2006, 02:58:22 PM »

I remember the Super Mario Sunshine Advertisement, It was so cheesy and I couldn't get the song that was played out of my head for months.

Glorb · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2006, 03:28:32 PM »

O ho ho...I hated that ad.

I'd say my favorite would be this totally surreal ad for what looked like some RPG. It was around the 90's. I forget the specifics. but it included a shotgun and a mouse. Possibly a mouse with a shotgun.

Toad · « **Reply #26 on:** April 01, 2006, 10:24:14 PM »

I found the commercial I was talking about.. it turns out it's not for Walmart, but Pepsi!

Here's a link (hope it works..)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3421289438370231153&q=nes&pl=true

I know the quality of the video is kind of low, but you'll get the idea.. :)

-FoxMcCloud- · « **Reply #27 on:** April 05, 2006, 01:49:33 PM »

I liked the PSP commercial that has the guy with the PSP and he changes into different things like a basketball player and some clown-faced military-looking guy. I have it downloaded onto my computer; you can get it by searching dogpile.com for PSP launch commercial.

-FoxMcCloud- · « **Reply #28 on:** April 05, 2006, 01:54:34 PM »

By the way, here is a link to the SSB commercial.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3707190851054834554&pl=true

BP · « **Reply #29 on:** April 09, 2006, 12:30:10 AM »

The PSP commercial where the guy throws it off the top of the hill and other people catch it and throw it until it comes back to him was SUCH AN EASY TARGET for Nintendo. They could have the guy on the hill throw it off and cut to a guy playing a DS. The guy playing a DS is too busy to notice the flying PSP, so it hits the ground and breaks. The DS player looks at the shattered remains for a second and goes back to his game. Or how about when the PSP comes back to the original owner, he drops it off in a trash can, and the words "No one wants to play it" fade in. I know that Nintendo would never do it, and I'm on the neutral side of the DS vs. PSP "war," but Sony made some pretty terrible commercials for the PSP. Why did that guy get the impulse to throw his PSP off a hill anyway? If I had a PSP I'd never do that.

-FoxMcCloud- · « **Reply #30 on:** April 10, 2006, 03:57:02 PM »

Yeah, they're that expensive(especially compared to the DS).

Luigison · « **Reply #31 on:** April 11, 2006, 09:49:16 AM »

School's Out is still one of my all time favs: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2075823541106332347

The Revolution controller trailer is a new fav: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2641390252221542590