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This is one of my favorites. A song about Bomberman in the tune of the Spider-Man theme.
Phantom Console
This commercial for some bootleg system is all kinds of WTF.
SNES ad from South Korea
The only time you'll ever see Yoshi, Goku, and Buster Bunny singing in chorus.
Holy, fucking shit. I'm buying that game tomorrow.
Do it. It's an awesome game.
Oh hells yes. That one brings back some memories.
It's awesome though.
Gotta love that with all the shit going on, Freddy Kruger and a Nazi stormtrooper with a really disturbing expression on his face, the kids don't scream until they see the fucking ninja.
This is very, very arguable, but I recommend playing Ace Combat 5 first.
But yes, I watch the other version of that trailer like every day (the one straight out of the game.)
"FIRE AWAY, COWARD!"
"COME OOOOOOOON!"
Agreed.
Ace Combat 4 > Ace Combat 5 > Ace Combat Zero
That said, AC4 is kind of short, so I've found more replay value in AC5.
Anyway.
The Gears one's not bad.
The ONLY PS3 ad I've liked so far, remotely, is the one where the backside of that room gets blasted out and they take you onto the battlefield.
But really, the older, the better.
I dig it.
I prefer the "bang" one.
I'm so glad that they brought those back for the PSP.
Hot Mario Bros. are awesome.
And still better than Sony's viral efforts.
I like the driver's ed one, myself.
That was awesome.
One ad I liked back when wrestling was big was a WWF/Majora's Mask contest, which had the Hardy Boyz in the ad, giving the "he's got 72 hours to save the world" bit as everyone in the arena was watching the game on the big TitanTron screen.
I loved the animated Mario Kart commercials; I seem to remember some animation in a tie-in contest with Domino's Pizza, and a friend of mine thinking they were making a Mario Kart-oon (if only the other Mario toons had animation that good).
Super Mario World had some good ads for the time... and the first use of "next generation?"
I don't think our Metroid II commercial was as good as Japan's, which had a bitchin' blend of comic book-style art and stop-motion stuff.
And while I dig their Super Metroid ad, I think ours better served what Nintendo needed to fight back at SEGA at the time. (funny that all the actors look American)
I see this, and simultaneously admire the animation and curse Yuji Naka's bullheaded insistence that Sonic run on foot if he's to be in Mario Kart Double Dash.
Part of what made Super Mario Land 2's so great was that my parents wouldn't let me have a Game Boy as a child.
Wario's characterization was good, too.
Who DIDN'T get excited by Donkey Kong Country's ads when Nintendo turned up their butt-kicking on SEGA?
Not so much because I wanted SEGA getting clobbered, but because Nintendo was finally fighting back.
Oh Dreamcast, we hardly knew ye.
And to close, the best Mega Man commercial ever.
Mind, that's specifically referring to Mega Man, not Rockman.
As awesome as that trailer is, AC4 and 5 are better games, and quite a bit longer. ACZero is literally 2 to 2 and a half hours long. 4 can be had for less than $10 US and is much better, and much more intense.
Still, I would recommend all of them if you can get them cheap enough.
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/2928/
Oh my god that was terrible. And that voice, jesus. Wow, haha. Castle of Cagliostro deserves better.
And that's without even touching the game itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56cgG05wYWg
...Why the hell did they rename him Cliff?
Best one, "Dude they got your mom" indeed.
I loved that commercial.
Mother
This thing gives me goosebumps.
You can only recycle the Conan soundtrack so many times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u64cXrv_h7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UgKOf7CvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Fl-tWuiSI
I am so damn glad this is on the first page, though it still should have been sooner than the sixth post.
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
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Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pPfJhUgliSs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=B6S7VOeTpLo
Ace Combat 2
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=1471
Ace Combat 3
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=968
Ace Combat 04
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=492
Ace Combat 5
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=1792
I personally rank Zero and 5 over 04, but I think we can all agree that the Ace Combat series is awesome.
Basicly a couple of guys (or just one guy) use all of Snake's tricks to avoid the boss and sneak out of work.
And what the hell? This is NOT on youtube?
Sorry, best I could do was a download off GameTrailers.com
It's at the bottom of the page, and it's the US version.
EDIT: You know what? Screw this... Gimme a sec and I'll put it up myself.
EDIT2: So IIRC the japanese commerical was the guy trying to leave work, while the american version he's trying to deliever a late report.
linky
Wish I coulda found the original...
I agree, Mad World ups the awesome meter on any commercial by a thousand percent. It's haxing peoples minds. Mind you, that does make it a good ad. Just not a very arty one. Don't have to be arty to be good. I think that's what the op is saying.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yc6T8CEP7ZI
it just awesome.
My favorite of all time though is the Ocarina of Time commercial, I knew nothing about Zelda before, but that commercial made me buy the game (well, I first rented it and then inmediatly bought it).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PCJ1lWMaSA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC2GzK7Aw4c
Watching these made me think of the Legend of Dragoon commercial that starts off exactly the same way - epic RPG! Flying dragon fighting scenes! FMVs! And then the 'actor' gets his head cut off and starts bitching about it to the director.
God, if only the actual *game* had bothered to satirize the whole FFVII mega-RPG thing like that instead of simply trying to emulate every last element of it. It probably would have been a much better game.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LMzPV-UdF7Y
Also, very late, but I can't believe I've never seen that PS3 baby ad before. That was just a massive '...what?' Is the baby crying because all it sees on the PS3 are war sims, and war is bad?
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I had never seen that before...it was kind of terrible. The not in-game stuff looked like a low budget action movie.
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Nintendo usually has the best commercials.
The Super Mario Bros. 2 commercial still gets me a little excited to this day.
Like a lifetime ago. What was the last Crash title worth playing, anyway?
I also liked the "this is what I do" type commercial as well.
I should really play that game sometime. Damn non-GameCube releases...
Nice. So, why was it banned?
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Personally, I find the japanese commercial for MGS3 is funnier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQUPE8SVv-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdzja8VLtx0
Do me a favour...
Plug me into a Sega!
Sega commercial archive.