RetroTube: Best game commercial ever?

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re Nintendo and you’ve just wrapped up development on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES.  Now it’s time to sell the game to the public — a game that would go on to be considered by many as the greatest game of all time.  How do you market it?  Do you tout its wonderful graphics?   Its deep gameplay?  Its massive world to explore?  Its majestic atmosphere?

Apparently not.  Apparently,  you use this travesty…

I think I’ll just pretend that Nintendo knew the game was good enough to sell itself and made this commercial as some sort of twisted joke.  It’s better for the psyche.

Posted by: Tim on July 9, 2007
Filed under: RetroTube, SNES

 

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4 Responses to “RetroTube: Best game commercial ever?”

  1. Steve on July 10th, 2007 11:45 am

    wow. LOL. Link ain’t even played by a guy there. Haha. It really reminds me of the “Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!” scene from TMNT II the movie. It came out in the early 90s so maybe it was a source of inspiration.

  2. Kid of 3DO on July 12th, 2007 6:05 pm

    Link was always a bit of a girl ;)

    The “Go Ninja go Ninja go” was Vanilla Ice was it not?

  3. Tim on July 12th, 2007 7:04 pm

    Haha, you’re right, that was Vanilla Ice. I completely forgot.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLGRidfFo4

  4.   Japanese Zelda Dance Advert by Urban Retro Lifestyle on July 19th, 2007 3:55 pm

    […] I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking when they created this commercial for one of the greatest games ever, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES. With so much going for the game they had plenty of ways to show of the game. But we all know that Nintendo like to do things differently and at least we now know how they party in Hyrule. [via The Retro Review Project] […]

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