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As people move further and further away from television, commercials for video games seem to me to have gotten a bit less important, especially since YouTube trailers and sizzle reels do the same job a lot better. But let's not forget! Let's never forget the commercials that made us buy games that were nowhere near as good as the commercial! Witness: A Black Angels song about Vietnam and the existential horror of psychedelics for a game about neither of those things Not a TV commercial, but still possibly the most unintentionally funny trailer ever But it's not just bad poo poo all the way down! There are also some very good commercials out there! LCD Soundsystem provided not one but two songs for this game, one of which is actually IN THE GAME!
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Apr 17, 2018 03:35
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The new SNES Classic retro commercial was pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN8ZnDghWAY
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Apr 17, 2018 04:40
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Behold! Zelda? Zeldaaaaa! Goddamn Nintendo ads used to be weird and bad. I actually remember both of these from when they aired, Im kinda old.
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Apr 17, 2018 05:04
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lmao I remember those Zelda ads too, they were loving bizarre even to a little kid. Especially to a little kid. Made me want the game though!
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Apr 17, 2018 05:13
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Had to cleanse myself after that 2nd Zelda ad with the best Zelda ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpHzLYHkwA
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Apr 17, 2018 05:18
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I saw the game in person before I ever saw the ads, the fact you could save your progress was mind boggling at the time.
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Apr 17, 2018 05:24
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I remember a time where CGI was the only gameplay seen in commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkI4zobPvOw
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Apr 17, 2018 05:40
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Don't forget the Fire Emblem commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-s5C0dnZs
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Apr 17, 2018 05:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K783SDTBKmg
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Apr 17, 2018 06:30
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Nintendo really was up and down on it's commercials, but they are almost always pretty memorable. I remember this one being super weird but great, and it definitely made me want to try the game just based on how much it made me laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7tB7pzw6sw
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Apr 17, 2018 06:42
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Bomberman, Bomberman. Mass destruction across the land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XTLG4_Om7c
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Apr 17, 2018 06:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboc6sBwWAM
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Apr 17, 2018 19:54
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Being born in late '82 my first video game was Super Mario on the NES, but even though this was before my time everything about it makes it my favorite game commercial. I just love the presentation and...well, everything that happens. Wonder what TV viewers back in the day thought of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhRIneQFmHA
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Apr 18, 2018 23:12
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from the glorious era before inclusion ruined gaming forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ObHp-MJOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coOOb7XXyVo i don't remember seeing the second one as a kid, and holy yikes is it PROBLEMATIC (seriously, not jokingly)
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Jun 6, 2018 05:43
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You know, I'm curious, isn't the guy in this commercial supposed to be a comedian or performer of some sort who was relatively famous at the time? I kind of thought so but I could never place him. This one's ~Japanese~ but it's reasonably notable for two reasons: one, it's from a time that Square would collab with truly huge multinationals and use their absurd library of CG assets to create whole commercials for cross-promotion, and two, this commercial for FF9 was a bit infamous as being the official reveal of Garnet/Dagger, yes, in a Coke ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWUoy7d8Qc It's so gloriously weird (especially since it's stupidly high-effort for the time) and I'm sad that all we get these days are Louis Vutton on Lightning (years after her game came out) and Cup Noodle memes.
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