DS Daily: Favorite gaming ad?
by David Hinkle 
{ Aug 20th 2008 at 9:00AM }
The Mega64 ad from yesterday got cogs in our mind turning. There have been a lot of good ones over the years, some of which have been featured here on DS Fanboy through Promotional Consideration. Like, this one. And this one. And this one we made ourselves. And ... well, you get the idea.
So what have been some of your favorite gaming advertisements? A random billboard? Some commercial you saw on TV? An ad you flipped past in a magazine? Out with it!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
coffeebucket @ Aug 20th 2008 10:00AM
The Wizzard
scotttopic @ Aug 20th 2008 10:07AM
believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKG1nvV1Wnc
Alexander @ Aug 20th 2008 10:26AM
I'm not sure which Mega 64 videos are parodies and which are commercials, but the Assassin's Creed, Resident Evil 4, and Alien Hominid HD (That one is a definatley a commercial) are all good.
Taedirk @ Aug 20th 2008 10:28AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKxpmnAFRw
Super Mario Advance 4. I love the song (Kojima Mayumi - Hatsukoi) and the execution. Broke my heart when they only aired the full version once or twice on TV and then switched over to the 15-30 second clip.
Jarlino @ Aug 20th 2008 10:48AM
Hey, a new comment system...sweet!
@Taedirk: waw..that one was..weird..and incredibely artistic at the same time!
My favorite game trailer has to be...the TGS trailer of the first Phoenix wright port for DS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jns2Dlv9S9w
It has some better jokes then some of the game cases, and incredible voice acting.
offday @ Aug 20th 2008 10:59AM
I always liked this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqxuR1kQu2w
Plus Zero Mission is one of my favorite games. The 3D metroids just don't compare.
Thunderbird @ Aug 20th 2008 11:16AM
The Spyro the dragon TV commercial.
SephFinale @ Aug 20th 2008 11:14AM
Probably the Mario Kart Super Circuit commercials. I saw some TV show (The World's Most Outrageous Commercials, I think) where they showed a few of the MKSC commercials, and there's 4 old people playing GBAs with Link Cables (Who remembers those? :D). And one of them would usually physically knock another out of the match, either by pushing their wheelchair off a hill, or tying an anchor's rope to their leg...
But I like the Super Smash Bros. commercial, too. :c The N64 slogan has to have been the coolest Nintendo one...
Hamster @ Aug 20th 2008 12:13PM
I would actually say the Cowboy Jed ones for Mario Kart Wii. It was such a breath of fresh air from their current insipid casual efforts. I was expecting yet another horribly bland and dull 'Wii Would Like To Play' one with barely any game footage and just actors jumping about, disturbing smiling and demented waggling, making every game look like a tiresome party game. So it was so refreshing to see this type of ad again. It was really cool and genuinely fun rather than the soulless fun of the 'Wii Would Like To Play' ones. It was proper Nintendo. Sure there were still cringingly fake ultra-smiley actors pretending to be non-gamers, but they weren't the main focus of the ad.
I know "Wii Would Like To Play" is an effective way to show the shallow party games, but their use to advertise the deeper 'core' games is completely inappropriate. The sheer depth, beauty and 'wow factor' of games like Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda: Twilight Princess, etc. really does not come across in 'Wii Would Like To Play' style ads and yet all those games were burdened with one.
SephFinale @ Aug 20th 2008 12:17PM
Cowboy Jed's a great one.
Actually, I recall Nintendo's GBA SP commercials...the "Who are you?" ones. Those were great. Also, the Golden Sun: The Lost Age commercial made me lol.
TheFreak @ Aug 20th 2008 12:50PM
Final Fantasy 3/6j "Next!":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeYu8CvKW-g
Crazylink @ Aug 20th 2008 1:27PM
Easily the Radio Zelda ones for Majora's Mask.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03hTVBBLBZ4
Crass @ Aug 20th 2008 3:28PM
The commercials for Battle Tanx 1 and 2 for N64 were awesome, parodies of the snuggles the bear laundry detergent commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7brl9mzmgPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLdn8QfxxCo
Also the kid beating Saddam Hussein at Starcraft 64 was awesome too. The N64 had some good commercials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW8vBkKursE
Crass @ Aug 20th 2008 3:31PM
And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXN6vtljTg
Although its not for any game in particular and is actually a fruit snack advert. Still awesome though
Mohsin @ Aug 20th 2008 3:32PM
Best commercial for a video game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntHVUp7m4E to this day I get chills from watching it.
Tonamel @ Aug 20th 2008 4:17PM
I've always loved the "jump in" commericals for xBox 360. They cut right to the heart of it: Playing games is fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjacKfoiH6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1koDmMSfi0M
Abscissa @ Aug 20th 2008 4:21PM
The Game Gear commercial where a kid is sitting outside playing a Game Boy, picks up a big tree branch, smacks himself on the head with it, goes back to the Game Boy and says "Whoa...color!"
The NES "Zelda Rap" commercial is pretty cool too, as is "Don't Copy That Floppy" (if it counts), and the Japanese "Sega Saturn-Shiro!" commercials.
BTW, DS Fanboy, Your new comment fields are broken:
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mahmud @ Aug 20th 2008 4:24PM
nothing beats the one embedded in the post. nothing.
Taedirk @ Aug 20th 2008 6:05PM
Most depressing ad: FFF: Chocobo's Dungeon commercials in Japanese. Awesome voice acting that we never get to hear in the US version. Japanese version had great voice actors and we somehow got the English version covered in crap. Worst part: It's forced subtitles whenever you hear the voice acting anyway, so there was no need to even translate it.
Mr Khan @ Aug 20th 2008 6:21PM
Metroid Prime 2's "who are you?"
Monodi @ Aug 20th 2008 11:56PM
The "Who are You?" campaign was absolutely brilliant, that and the older Nintendo ads were amazing.
shaoron @ Aug 21st 2008 12:20AM
SNES Zelda Japanese Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kle0vau26xQ
kataric @ Sep 5th 2008 9:36PM
The old original GBA commercials.
Some kid walking in or at a really gothic church during a snowstorm with his GBA. Pro-wrestlers in the choir. Snowboarders flying through the air doing rodeo flips, and all accompanied by some of the oddest music you've heard in a game ad.