17 Best Old Nintendo 8-Bits Commercials

[@stormykeep9213]

"The Nintendo Entertainment System. Your parents help you hook it up." 30 years later, it's the kids having to help the parents "hooking up" anything tech.

[@Baneslayer]

no it isn't. kids these days have no clue how tech works... they all have iphones and touch screens. no coding or technical skills anymore. no real data management skills etc. i digress.

[@zokilauda]

@@Baneslayer That differs Digital often. But technically not. In terms of knowledge of the youth. And as then and now it also differs per person. (In some cases)

[@thebalder9634]

Zylo You are right on the money. Knowing how to open an app isn't technical skills.

[@skrubbed]

Zylo if anything it's the opposite. I heard that even first graders are now working with simple coding languages and it's part of the curriculum.

[@CainNuke]

its been always like that. Its me who hooked up all my consoles. My parents had no clue.

[@BangBang-hk4rg]

I’m 44 years old and can’t remember half the stuff that happened last week, but I’ll have the Konami code permanently etched into my memory till the day I die.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

What's the code?

[@gamerdan2310]

Couldn't agree more! Well said!!

[@Adam.2712]

@@MASTEROFEVIL ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️ba start

[@megatronvideos2700]

Contra

[@Real_Scott_Pilgrim]

@dicc sukker Please shut your god damn mouth

[@burtlanders6526]

Kids with their auto saves nowadays...back in my day when we died we had to play the whole game over again!

[@michaelscholfield7588]

Lol, you are on the money with that. Ninja Gaiden and Ghosts N Goblins were some tough games back then...no saves...maybe a password like Mega Man if your lucky.

[@Xenovious.0]

LOL, they have it so hard

[@TFD500Official]

ok boomer

[@Name_cannot_be_blank]

Real booooooming boomer

[@glaciiz]

@@reddimental5906 until the save battery ran out.

[@southweststrangla420]

i remember most of these. the late 80's and early 90's was an awesome time to be a kid.

[@alphaones8295]

+southweststrangla420 yeah now they get killed at school

[@alphaones8295]

+southweststrangla420 yeah now they get killed at school

[@dennismolina9033]

I hear u! Born on Oct 7 '80 🎮 👍

[@Warrior-ky3ym]

unless you were black...

[@thomascouch4864]

I remember some. For some reason, I remember far fewer game commercials or them not being common except maybe Dr. Mario. I remember that one being on frequently.

[@AlastorNightheart]

The commercials always show people being EXTREMELY excited playing the game even if its a tetris game...

[@RaposaCadela]

tetris was not famous that time

[@wootmypants3]

+Alastor Nightheart Tetris is sick, A game that attracted all ages. so i don't see your point.

[@BenJabituya]

Tetris is a classic. Dr. Mario is basically a variation of Tetris.

[@foxmcfog7809]

Shut the fuck up Morgana

[@Trigaming727]

HOLY SHOOT HE LANDED A LINE RADDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@djsjetsteve1]

When my grandma bought me my first NES back in 87 it was still prob most excited feeling ever , even over getting first car etc. It was cooler back then because everybody pretty much had the same games so when you would get with friends it was always high competition. There was always a token guy who nobody could beat.

[@interstellartravel]

+Invisible_Mango we followed the same path in life sir!

[@VooDooMaGicMan81]

Actually it was the opposite for me. I owned a Spectrum 48, friend had a Commodore 64.. later owned a Sega Master system, other friend had Megadrive...next had a Playstation, pal owned a 64 etc etc

[@fakename5625]

CommonSense81 you're so cool you didn't have any main stream consoles

[@heytheremclovin]

so true.... I'd take the feeling of opening the first NES in 1989 on Christmas morning over the the way I felt when I got my Camaro Z28 at 17, when you're young and innocent those feelings of excitement will never be replicated throughout life👍😂

[@fakename5625]

heytheremclovin we are two totally different people

[@ShyRage1]

So much excitement in the commercials then as compared to them today. Nintendo needs this kind of advertising skills again

[@The_Bad_Guy.]

they were the top dog back then. almost all other systems at the time were irrelevant because of how huge the nes was.

[@1981bigsol]

They needed that level of hype in commercials because the games themselves were fairly bland by comparison. Just showing gameplay wouldn't make for a good commercial. Now, with games being so cinematic and visually driven, you can just show some gameplay footage and that will suffice.

[@Dr18Registered]

BUY THE NEW NINTENDO SWITCH TODAY (ECHO)! THERE'S 3D MARIO *MADNESS!* EXPLORE THE REALISTIC LAND OF HYRULE IN ZELDA BREATH OF THE WILD! ONLY $249.99! games not included lol

[@J0J0McM0M0]

these commercials were cancerous

[@joeanon2702]

Dreamdasher Older games blow todays out the water

[@Mariothehedgehog321]

WOW, NICE GRAPHICS!

[@mechaman3736]

YEAH ID LIKE TO GET MY HANDS ON THAT GAME

[@victoriacastaneda6679]

Pffft. You ain't seen nothing yet

[@mikienowhoosebad1438]

🤨 Are you being sarcastic?

[@Chris_Eatz]

Had to start somewhere

[@Hankiwano]

@@mikienowhoosebad1438 is what the kid says at 6:41 😒

[@Recordology]

These crack me up. They basically make it look like you’re actually going to do things instead of stare at a screen for your entire youth.

[@karlhans6678]

Anyone else remember doing back flips and shooting lasers out of your controller when playing the NES? Ahh those were the days :)

[@andypetrovich2155]

I remember. I was so jacked up on Golden Crisps! I had no idea what I was putting into my body.

[@itsrelativ3967]

I miss the simplicity of the 80s and early 90s.

[@Harlem55]

The thing is that it really wasn't simplicity at the time. It just appears that way because of the huge stride in advancement over the years.

[@joseheredia2609]

E-Live Da God me too

[@bradfromthevalley3469]

yeah they fun, commador 64, intelvision, atari, colleco, nintendo, to sega to PS1 was still fun, then the computer games got a bit intense.

[@zokilauda]

@@Harlem55 compared to today's standards. much more simpler.

[@Harlem55]

@@zokilauda True- but your 12 year old self would have done literally ANYTHING for an X-box, and most people would have sold ass to the Devil for today's game cube back then.

[@BenJabituya]

So glad I grew up on this! I still have my NES from 1989. I even got the Top-loader, (NES-101) as well as the Japanese Famicom.

[@charliedCharltube]

Woah nice! I want a super Nintendo but I think it'll be expensive considering how old and great it is😢

[@fade2black001]

+charl da Kidd You can get a SNES for like 20 bucks

[@bryannovelo5343]

+fade2black001 or you can download the ROM games and get the pc snes emulator you can set the keys from your keyboard or a controller from the super nintendo

[@fade2black001]

Bryan Novelo I know about emulation. I been using emulators for at least 15 years.

[@bryannovelo5343]

Ok Then.

[@1980sGamer1]

The one where the planet has the face of Mario is epic.

[@AcidGlow]

*Now you're playing with POWER*

[@luigiretroshow2611]

Uiii... SUPER POWER, BABY!!!

[@DoraDora20188]

PORTABLE POWER

[@dbpooper7512]

Kids today just sit motionless when they play video games, but back in the 80s, we used to move around a lot when we'd play.

[@sha370z]

+DB Pooper you had a lot of sleep over because of the NES system all the time .

[@AdamMT1618]

+DB Pooper I agree. I remember knocking over juice all over my friends carpet. His mom wasn't happy, I remember her saying, "you don't have to move the remote!"

[@TheLaughingMagician]

true unless they have a system that uses motion controls hell all of the wii u library is a good example

[@iTzYoMasterXX]

+DB Pooper HAHAHahahaha best comment ever!

[@TheLaughingMagician]

Everyone in the 80's was crack kinda hard to sit still on it lol jk

[@tha3immortals]

if monsters are coming out of your tv, i think you're losing the game.

[@daveidmarx8296]

if monsters are coming out of your tv, you have bigger problems than video games.

[@BCTIGUY3]

I think you're dreaming.

[@austinwiebe3801]

Hahahahaha you’re so funny hahahaha

[@CobaltBomber]

that fucking dr mario commercial still haunts me to this day.

[@salamander337]

+CobaltBomber Catchy phrase tho.

[@cn6519]

Amazing the quality of the ads and the practical special effects used. Sometimes even great stop animation.

[@Wis_Dom]

Thank you for this! I remember ALL of these commercials. That's because I'm 37. This is why sometimes, I really appreciate KZbin.

[@dogfacesoldier1000]

I remember having to blow into those old game cartridges and slap them against the side of the tv a/b 10 times before they would work..ahhh the good days

[@sibbywoo]

dogfacesoldier1000 You should of tried using a q-tip and alcohol lol

[@editorodriguez6554]

I would hand to blow them use alcohol with a q-tip and even Lick the inside to make it work

[@alexfamie5255]

@@editorodriguez6554 I can relate brother. She won't even let me touch her anymore.😂

[@megatronvideos2700]

Shed i would put in a freezer 5 minutes and it would work

[@isaultra3405]

Blowing the cartridge like a flute, aah those memories! :)

[@jsnotlout3312]

This is a time capsule of greatness. These commercials are so odd but so epic lol

[@LordRupertEverton626]

80s best time to be a kid not just the games also the cartoons!!

[@johnnywebb8696]

HAHA! My favorite was Ghost Busters! Oh oh! and Galaxy high!

[@worken360]

Dont for get the great toys, Transformes, g.i joe, voltron, m.a.s.k.

[@LuigiLaker]

@@johnnywebb8696 That Ghostbusters cartoon was a festering pile of dogshit lol..almost as suck ass as the game(s)...and what in the blue FUCK is "Galaxy High"?

[@raptorduck8785]

And the music.

[@rontromedia5803]

It's been so long since I've seen these commercials. Takes me back to a simpler time.

[@H.A.R.D.B.O.I.L.E.D]

2:19 "Are you winning son? good, now get to the choppa!"

[@SgtPnkks]

i had that acclaim wireless controller... as long as you held it at the right angle it worked... usually you would screw the angle up at the worst possible in game moment

[@adzgg1346]

Could they have found a more obnoxious way to advertise Zelda?

[@daveidmarx8296]

Screech

[@ericcenteno342]

Its the dude from Ally Mcbeal!

[@alexfamie5255]

Zelda 2 was B.S.

[@handsomebrick]

It looks like that guy was possessed by Vigo the Carpathian.

[@zebatov]

Ghostbusters II was just on TV haha.

[@danielbiddle1096]

absolutely LOVE the Mike Tysons punch out ad. He was (and still is) such a badass. This ad made him look awsome.

[@barcawi87]

glad to be a 90 s kid

[@valkor73]

+barcawi87 80s myself feel sorry for 2000s

[@FallenUmbra]

Lucky.😒

[@valkor73]

yep

[@FragLikeIts]

2000's kid and my brother hooked me up with the Game Boy, SNES, and the N64, unfortunately i played the NES with an emulator

[@SQGReviewShow]

We don't need your sympathy, haha. We played the Game Boy, SNES, N64 and Genesis as hand-me-downs (although most people played the Game Boy just for Pokemon) and we had DVD players in our consoles. It was a pretty chill time. I feel bad for those 2010's kids, though. They're pretty much being raised by the Politically Correct.

[@TheDrewsbu]

omg I remember the Dr. Mario commercial as a kid. That damn song always got stuck in my head

[@michaelscholfield7588]

Man those were the days!! I remember every last one of this commercials........

[@hamhockbeans]

Me too

[@DaveGrean]

God that Kirby looks monstrous

[@johnpuckett7132]

The commercial at 5:14 was cut off. It was actually the first tv commercial for Super Mario Bros 3. I was 7 years old at the time, i got down on my knees, raised my fists to the heavens, and screamed "YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!"

[@kawsakiTV]

John Puckett I remember

[@tonyt3955555]

gotta love these commercials was born in 89 and the early 90's were some of the best years

[@hamhockbeans]

I was born 75 so I had the whole 80s and 90s.

[@MackenzieMichael]

Hey bro, You forgot the Ninja Gaiden one with the kids who throws the cartridge into the deck like a shuriken. That one was hilarious!

[@DocDrowsy]

The Ironsword ad was badass!

[@RideRedRacer]

im pretty sure ever Nintendo commercial was filmed in the same dungeon. haha. they all look the same

[@zoraxbrooks]

Holy shit, we need commercials like this.

[@itsthizzbaby]

that nintendo power one was the best haha

[@christopherbubb2890]

A lot of these (Yoshi, Tetris, Mario 3, Dr. Mario in particular) bring back some great memories. Thanks for posting!

[@adamsanter9385]

I bet that Dr Mario commercial would be considered too ''offensive'' nowadays. :P

[@darsparx]

A lot of things in the 80s and 90s would be too offensive now a days...people need safe places from anything offensive.... >_>

[@spiderobert]

It was considered offensive then too. There was a professor at a University near me that wrote an article for the newspaper at the time about how offensive it was.

[@DavidLuis198]

I still don't get what that commercial have to do with the game

[@NyanMango]

Witch doctor+Witch doctor song = Doctor Mario, apparently.

[@sitizenkanemusic]

From the beginning of tv advertisements to the late 90s, 95% of the people in commercials were white. I distinctly remember watching tv in the 90s as a kid and wondering why I never saw people other than white- because when I go to school, I would see black, hispanic and asian kids too. I find it fascinating that an 8 year-old kid can recognize that kind of thing. But it is archaic. Especially the fact that if tv adverts did show people other than white, it would be portrayed as comical or stereotypical. They just couldn't have a (for example) black guy acting normal. Don't get me wrong, I hate political correctness but people that were around at the time have to admit that there was bias going on.

[@frankmoolah]

NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER!!! lmao

[@itsmeecjay4769]

How i miss the 80s and 90s! Best of the best!

[@GeminiNES]

WHAT NES HAD A WIRELESS CONTROLLER ? 0.O

[@ekulrotcorp8905]

not hard to do

[@shadow6543]

The Atari 2600 had one

[@alyssalawry2226]

shadow6543 wasent advertised because its a nice thing you can do like how you can plug in a sega genisis controler in to it.

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

they were infrared. I had a wireless quickshot one.

[@chronicler2313]

GeminiNES I didn't know that either. I was barely past first grade when i played nes so i wouldn't have understand any of that. I just mastered all the nes games i had.

[@tonyfamous]

I think my favorite commercial is the Dr. Mario commercial with the Witch Doctor and # 2 is the nerdy white boy Zelda rap.

[@tonyfamous]

***** yeah, can you imagine the advertising guys in their suits and boardrooms pumping out those hard core lyrics! :-D

[@3Rayfire]

tonyfamous That Dr. Mario commercial was my first exposure to the witch doctor song, so it really sticks in my mind. Along with the Beethoven in the Tetris commercial. It's amazing how many commercials I actually remembered.

[@tonyfamous]

3Rayfire I forgot how many there were and how fun and goofy they were.

[@konakyouzona]

tonyfamous I got Famicom console from this Store konelectronics.ocnk.net/product/123

[@sibbywoo]

tonyfamous I remember when Dr. Mario came out, and seeing the Dr. Mario commercial like 4 times an hour

[@classicnut6655]

Born 1980. Man these take me back. I feel so lucky to have been a kid then.

[@Breakbeats92.5]

007-373-5963, that's the code to go directly to Mike Tyson in Punch Out. I entered it so many times it got lodged in my brain permanently.

[@Breakbeats92.5]

Chad B Are you referencingthe 30 Lives for Contra code? That one is up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A, B, A Start.

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

Now You're Playing with Music Power

[@funnylittlecharacter692]

the resolution is to DAMN HIGH!!!

[@danielwillette3895]

Ah those were the days, what I would give to be able to experience those days again, I play my Nintendo almost everyday and i'll tell ya it's like i'm a kid again, and I plan on introducing the Nintendo to my daughter when she's old enough, I cannot wait for my daughter to play the same system that I played when I was a kid!

[@EQOAnostalgia]

So much Nostalgia... in just one place!

[@whynotunbox3662]

Reminded me of how great it was to be a kid...

[@darthmeyers074]

This definitely brings me back. Playing Zelda 1 and 2, Duck Tales and Double Dragon till two in the morning as a kid.

[@blackspiral7708]

I wish i was born in the 80s

[@stevesargent1751]

You missed out, bro.

[@johnpuckett7132]

stop making me feel old

[@SuperSaturn55]

Logan Cracraft damn right it was

[@Senthain]

Have fun without a great deal of the conveniences you enjoy today, then.

[@aut0maticearth]

As someone who was born in 1983..... Things that are better about being a kid in the 2000's/2010's: - The internet (and easy to use computers/smartphones)... In the 80's/90's computers were prohibitively complicated for kids and even if you knew how to use a computer it almost certainly wasn't networked to anything and beyond playing a few games off a floppy disk, there wasn't much you could do with it. If we wanted to talk to our friends outside of school and they didn't live within walking/bike-riding distance we couldn't Facetime, or chat, or text.... we either had to get our parents to drive us, or talk to them on the phone (which was cordless IF your were lucky otherwise your conversation took place in the dining room 10 feet from your mother). Calling them meant causing one or more phones to ring loudly in their house thereby potentially disrupting dinner or sleep so the only times you could call politely would be between 3:30 to 5:30 or 7:00 to 9:30 and you couldn't stay on the phone too long because invariably someone else needed to use it.... and you probably needed to speak to their parents first... *Gruff adult male answers*, "Hello?" ... "Uhhhh.... is [name] there?" "[name] is eating dinner right now." "OK, sorry.... bye" - Portable gaming systems. Yes, we had Gameboy which was amazing and stayed relevant for 20 years (a testament to how awesome it was/is). But the original Gameboys had AWFUL graphics even by late 80's standards, and we all desperately wanted a handheld gaming system in color with 16-bit graphics and when we finally got them they went through 4 AA's in about 20 minutes of playing time. - Japanimation: Pokemon, Anime, etc. Kids today have SOOOO much more to choose from in the way of cartoon superheroes. There's a Pokemon card game, video games, the TV show. We had Marvel, which was/is awesome, but there wasn't anywhere near the variety selection that kids have today. Things that - in my opinion - were better about growing up in the 80's/90's: - It was easier to be kid and be blissfully unaware about world events (no cable news, internet, there was no 9/11 or war on terror and the cold war was over) - We still have the notes we passed in class saved in a shoebox in our closets. Kids today delete their texts and they're gone forever. - Video games were 100% a kid's thing (besides Tetris), and you could rent Nintendo games from the video store for cheap. There weren't as many systems and the systems stayed relevant for longer meaning more and cheaper games (i.e. even if you were dirt poor you probably had an NES by 1989 or 1990 and it worked just fine with your big ugly TV with UHF/VHF knobs on it) - There were less labels to conform to, and we had fun sneakers and the radio played better music. MTV actually played music videos. - Parents were starting to get a little crazy and over-protective but it was still normal to see kids outside playing unsupervised and going trick-or-treating by themselves. - We had less technology so we had better imaginations.

[@upgrader99]

25 years later, we still get the same amount of actual video game footage in commericials - aka... about 5% of the commercial.

[@zcxvasdfqwer1234]

These commercials still got me pumped since '85...I remember that Dr. Mario commercial...so wierd!

[@JSwanson547]

I was born too late.

[@aregmelkumyan1278]

I was late for nearly 15 years

[@RK-gm1ep]

enjoy your youth

[@jayyt2969]

Same, I had to grow up with a Wii U. But I guess the 3ds was cool.

[@Hjex64]

Same ;-;

[@fuzzydreem]

im like only 14 and i hate everything newer than a dsi

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

I had that Akklaim wireless remote as a kid.....good times!👍

[@chuckobscure]

*Acclaim

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

chuckobscure 0:40 No spell check Nazi the spelling iz akkurate.....dumbass.

[@chuckobscure]

John Smith en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclaim_Entertainment

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

chuckobscure 1:13 How it's pronounced and how they advertise is two separate issue's.

[@chuckobscure]

John Smith *issues

[@dennismolina9033]

It's just something about the old retro NES, Genesis, SNES commercials that were unique, they were full of spirit. Those were the best times when there was no DLC, no expansions, annoying system updates, no Wi-Fi, internet needed

[@manoybi.7101]

Am I the only one here who get hyped and crave to play those Games again

[@gavinpickens7354]

no I'm still looking for Metroid for my nes. loved the old games that take me back to a simpler time.

[@brillopad6901]

Gavin Pickens I got Metroid for Christmas 87 and played it for 15 hours straight. One of my all time favorite games. My whole family felt sick that year so they all took naps and went to bed early. I was left to play my Metroid game. To this day I've never played a game that long. Lol It's true, it was such a simpler time. I miss it.

[@WiiVampire17]

i miss saturday morning toons

[@Harkness78]

I saw a lot of those growing up, for some reason the Dr. Mario (witchdoctor) ad is the most seared into my brain. Probably cause it was late into the systems life, but it was also weird as hell. That Zelda commercial with the guy in the turtleneck screeching the stupid enemy names coulda been directed by David Lynch.

[@Ashstrodamus1]

Legend has it, that guy in the Zelda commercial never got laid......ever.

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

Harkness78

[@Trancymind]

My favorite one was the Mario chant. MARIO! MARIO! MARIO! MARIO! MARIO! But then again my real name is Mario. lol... Every time I saw that commercial, it made my day feel a lot better and gave me a little boost of self-confidence even though I never had the NES console. But when a friend of mine gave me and my brother his Super Nintendo console and his 10 SNES games in 1994, I was in disbelief, happy and very excited that we had our first ever game console. I was raised by my mother with 3 kids with no father support and so we were very poor. My mother did buy us 1 game (Donkey Kong Country 3)for the SNES which I am still grateful to this day. I still have the SNES console along with 20 SNES games. I bought 10 more games afterwards. I have some very good and great games, (Super Mario All-Stars, Contra 3, Super Double Dragon, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the past, Super Mario Kart, F-Zero, Street Fighter 2, Donkey Kong Country 1,2&3, Killer Instinct & Pocky and Rocky)

[@dannywapbang]

@@Trancymind Reminds me of someone I saw on an AVGN video whose name was Simon, and he considered Simon's Quest special because of this.

[@Trancymind]

lol... cool. Very nice.

[@RobinHoodFox74]

damn i forgot how epic commercials used to be :D us kids in the 80s went crazy over commercials like these haha... they really sparked your imagination o/ man the NES... still one of the most legendary consoles ever made :')

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

im a huge fan of nintendo and i can't wait to get the nes mini on christmas! :)

[@Sopaguayaba]

that moment when it's $60, it's cheap for 30 games

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

+Brian A yea it's not that bad lol

[@CircaMay85]

I am also wondering if they will put some sort of store like they did with Wii/U, There are a whole lot of other games I enjoyed as a kid that wont be part of the 30.

[@Sopaguayaba]

Rollie Fingerz I was thinking the same thing when I first saw the mini

[@CircaMay85]

Aghasting Sky Well here's to hoping there some sort of add on's.

[@achannel9217]

"Where's the princess?" "Zelda?" And they call Link Zelda

[@dest151]

i remember the first time i saw the mario 3 commercial, i stood up and saluted the tv..lol when being a kid was fun

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

No ppl it sucked growing up watching these commercials and having to muster the cash or beg parents. Now I can play all NES and SNES games free online...nice

[@alicemuguet6947]

James Craig the future is here

[@hackman3]

James Craig DUDE IT COST $200.00 FOR A NINTENDO CONSOLE

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

www.nintendoemulator.com/snes/

[@hackman3]

Back then

[@darrendavenport3334]

James Craig it was called getting a job and buying the game you wanted...

[@ExtraordinaryJosh]

NES.....when kids didn't give a fuck about graphics.

[@SlXkxmx]

Those graphics were good back then...

[@Ukevu123]

MrStonedJosh everyone gave a fuck about graphics

[@ExtraordinaryJosh]

I was too young to care

[@cameronross6911]

Born in '82, I grew up playing Pac man, Asteroid and Space invaders for Atari...so yes when Nintendo came out, those graphics blew us away!! Lets not mention how insane the graphics were when SNES came out...it was like having the arcade in your own house.

[@daveidmarx8296]

MrStonedJosh Ya gotta be kidding. In 1986, those graphics were state of the art for a home system. Before that, we had (going backwards) Colecovision, Intellivision, Atari 2600 and before that -- just dedicated Pong systems. Being born in 1970, I seen it all, and yes today the graphics are primitive, but back then hoo boy, they were just fantastic. It was the first time it really felt like you were playing an arcade game at home.

[@adamcushner7427]

i like how the video for 8-bit games opens up with music from 16-bit game super castlevania IV

[@MysteryManBob]

lol, okay, why did the gyro FART when it dropped at 4:25 ???

[@fredomeireles]

I want a NES.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Same tho but at least I do have the NES classic edition

[@Snarlez]

Happy New Year nothing better to celebrate with than Old Nintendo commercials.

[@baroqueobama6199]

Back when video games were video games!!!...

[@prelynmax]

D3fALtZz Th3 G0d Shuddup, kid.

[@scoutmain1554]

now video games are like call of duty but im not a hater I just never played call of duty so ya but back then video games were more like video games

[@prelynmax]

D3fALtZz Th3 G0d I says shuddup, kid. You need to grow hair on your chest before you compare the 80s and 90s games to today's garbage.

[@yungzodiac5468]

prelynmax are u fucking stupid single player games today are fucking amazing with amazing graphics call of duty isnt what where talking about dumass 1990s where good for its time but compared to today they are pieces of shit i took yesterday :P

[@prelynmax]

Crashy LMAO. Please don't sell me that piece of shit they called Call of Duty as amazing. It makes inexperienced "gamers" such as yourself look even worse. You know, I was in a local video game store, I was checking out the display, and I saw this prepubescent ten-year-old talking to an older gentleman. When asked about video games, he bellowed out, "I'm an expert in video games!" I, without expecting it, made a loud snicker, just at the though of a halfling claiming he's a pro on something he truly don't understand. Now that I'm sitting here reading your dribble, I am reminded of that ten-year-old.

[@chemical_35]

5:38 "You need to touch yourself"

[@Wananoo]

+Chemical touch your shelf lol

[@topherwaters80]

tetanus shot.

[@ferroth]

He actually said you need to test yourself but yeah it did sound like that LOL

[@topherwaters80]

It was tetanus shot. Get a hearing aid. Fuckers

[@ferroth]

O_O Okay chill geez. I doubt it was that but okay whatever you think :/

[@VeritechGirl]

I love these commercials! So rad! 🤘😜

[@xzkxtremezombiekillah386]

Those are REAL Video Games

[@xzkxtremezombiekillah386]

Ok me 5 months ago

[@hmjgrawy1]

+XZK (Xtreme Zombie Killah) lol yup those where the best in that era

[@bangerbangerbro]

Lol 3do reference.

[@BellaBehindAKidBehindACamera]

I came here after the disappointment the new cod trailer

[@Thorium_Th]

OMG... the intro! "Simons Theme" of CastleVania. Thumb up for that!

[@tim_buktu66]

that Metroid commercial was just too short

[@TheProgramGamer]

Who is Power and why do i have to play with him?

[@someasianguy5566]

Santi Plays Games raper?

[@santumChannelYes]

Raper.

[@someasianguy5566]

but theres no such thing as a raper

[@TheProgramGamer]

DolphinWithADeagle then who is power?

[@someasianguy5566]

idk your dad? (insert lenny face here)

[@FernandoMaldonado]

Awesome video. Took me back to '86 when I got my Nintendo. Still a hardcore fan to this day. Speaking of which its time to pick up my Nintendo Vans collection sneakers!

[@andifabien4622]

6:39"has really great graphics"

[@antoniowakardo7280]

7:03 your parents will help you hook it up :-)

[@austinmartin2927]

Yeah because kids are idiots!

[@roastbeef2335]

@Fast Internet that sucks

[@nickwilliams3710]

Thanks for bringing me back!! Love this!

[@medaizeh2401]

dang i miss nintendo power :(

[@Struzzylive]

just listen to the podcast

[@isaultra3405]

@@Struzzylive which podcast ???

[@Struzzylive]

@@isaultra3405 sorry this took a minute to remember what I said lol but it’s Nintendo power. You’ll find it on the Eshop news

[@isaultra3405]

@@Struzzylive thanks ⚘

[@Struzzylive]

@@isaultra3405 no but I wrote that 7 months ago lol

[@mootsym]

a wireless remote? excuse me, the "akklaim remote". Impressive.

[@hackman3]

Matthew Maneri WOW I SAW THAT WIRELESS CONTROLER BRO. BLUE TOOTH HAS BEEN AROUND SIMCE THEN THATS VERY STRANGE MAN

[@chuckobscure]

It's spelled Acclaim, dude.

[@hackman3]

chuckobscure STONER

[@hackman3]

Your a STONNNNNNEEEERRRRR

[@hackman3]

?????

[@BlackShardStudio]

Best Nintendo commercial ever was the quickly banned Yoshi's Island commercial with exploding vomit. Second best is the Japanese Zelda dance commercial, followed by the witch doctor Dr Mario one here. "And then he shrunk my head" stuck in my head to this day.

[@pepperj]

Wizard and Warriors use to piss me off!

[@devalinwells3927]

pepperj that was hard ass game though

[@Bobsheaux]

Oh wow... R.O.B. playing Punch-Out? You'd have a better chance at winning by just turning the game OFF. lol What, no Action 52 commercial? LAME! XP

[@Sigxy]

+Bobsheaux I -DO- wonder what would happen if R.O.B was playing on the Virtual Boy... yikes!

[@cubecast1]

Bobsheaux! I'd never thought to find you here!

[@ryantyson6341]

damn I still play Zelda and Zelda 2

[@majinpvegeta]

So thats why that song stuck in my head after seeing the Dr. Mario commercial lol

[@jerryrichburg8199]

these commercials bring back memories i was in 7th grade and in new orleans in a new school. I was really fat and got bullied alot. I took it upon myself to get at them. I was smart and never got accused of anything, even had a door key for classrooms because of being the captain of the beta club. The preppy bullies who fucked with me liked to trade games and ignorantly left their games in their bookbags because they found it lame to use their locker. I would steal their shit during lunch and play it and just break the cartridge after i beat it. fire and hammers to get rid of the game. I hope you are out there and remember me Jared St.Pierre. Lol. he tried to act rich in public school. His parents made him go to catholic school. He was the bully that cried when he did not get his way. In private he was just some little punk starting over in a new school. Low man on a new totem pole. Just cause he had five or six games stolen and never recovered. He should not have messed with me about my shoes or clothes.He damn should have not pushed me off my bike and made me skin my knee. LOL Use your brain and defeat bullys. Never tell your parents.

[@Black_Aces]

PineKushDude think its too late for this guy...

[@Elchueco]

You seem like a childish evil villain...that's not how you deal with bullies. You beat the crap out of them...

[@Useyno]

***** excellent!

[@gawzrocks]

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

[@gawzrocks]

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!

[@sammylane21]

Games of today look by far better but damn if these commercials look like fun to advertise as opposed to not having fun commercials now a days.

[@FyreStone]

+Sammy Lane Games of today are far better in general, but the classics is what inspired most of the games that are today :P. Hurrah for the classics.

[@sammylane21]

So true.

[@Donatello97]

+Sammy Lane Bah, those were magical times, when nintendo ruled the world and when commercials, TV, cartoons, movies, fashion and so much more were ahead of the game and far better than the crap we have nowadays. Simpler times and for the better. Back when the NES was cutting edge I had a much better time playing it than most of the stuff today. understand that 'that' console gave birth to so many new-born franchises like mega man, super Mario, Zelda, Metroid, kid Icarus, contra, castlevania, the list goes on and ON. Plus it was revolutionary since it also gave birth to the d-pad.Those commercials were sooo much back then, you don't get that magic in this day and age.Games look better these days? I say 'so what' visuals don't determine how much fun I have with a game, besides I'm not a huge fan of realistic visuals, there are so many games on the PS4 for ex that are all starting to look the same :PWii U is pretty underrated, meanwhile I absolutely LOVED the DS(lite) and Wii. great generation IMO

[@FyreStone]

Hiten Mitsurugi Games of today are far better in general. Meaning "Graphics,Story,music,emotional attachment to characters, game length, voice acting, technologically more advanced, better coding, makes you feel more on edge. Games of today DO do things better than in the old days. Also there is a far larger game genre, and audience now as well. BUT I am not saying you are wrong because there are loads of games with no replay value, and sometimes stop playing after the first playthrough. Also the whole payment thing you mention is something you obviously do not understand much about. Yes its a pain in the ass with games like Destiny (not worth the money) but the costs to create games nowadays is a lot more expensive. It also takes 2-3 years for some of the best games to be made. A lot more effot and time put in from actors,programmers, advertisers, store payment. Hiten did you know if a game sells for 60 dollars that the company who actually "MADE" the game only recieve 20-35 dollars from the actual purchase from the consumer. Do some research on stuff like that. And for games that you think are to easy, YES they do exist and YES they make up like 60% of current games. But you can easily play games that are VERY GOD DAMN HARD (Looking at you Ninja Gaiden! Never gonna touch that game again). You just have to look for them. The classics lets be honest. They are not that difficult to play.

[@sha370z]

+Donatello97 you had a lot of sleep over because of the NES system

[@johnathanstevens8436]

Bart vs. the Space Mutants was wicked .. I don't know how many hours I wasted trying to beat that game, and it played the darn theme over and over...grrr...

[@qorbee]

ZEEEEEEEEELLLLLDDDDAAAAA! TEEEEEEKTIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTEEEEESSSSS! PPPPPPEEEAAAAHHHHHAAAAATTTSSSSS! LLEEEEEEEEEVVVVEEERRRRSSSS!

[@bobbydavis800]

It's funny you look back and you think. "Goddamn these commercials are lame" but the same goes for the commercials you see everyday on TV lol. These just seem extra lame because they're extremely outdated, but commercials are always basically the bottom of the barrel of humanity really. They make us look pathetic as a species.

[@Automat1cJack]

It's true, nothing makes me more ashamed to be a human than commercials, and the knowledge that that lame shit actually works on some people... #SMH

[@AndreBarnett]

But the nostalgia is so OP though

[@silentbeast2350]

Bobby Davis the way you look way more pathetic fat garbage bitch

[@editorodriguez6554]

I loved them because it brings me back to my childhood. They may seem lame to us today as adults and even to kids now a days but back then when we were kids we thought these were the best commercials because we lived Nintendo and these commercials made us want to get that game.

[@VideoQuestEx]

Wow: classic Nintendo TV Ads, indeed! I like the animations on the "Double Dragon 2: The Revenge" and "Kirby" ads! Plus, I have never seen the "Zelda 2" commercial before! An awesome compilation!

[@garyseven2308]

ZELLLLLLDDDAAAAAAAA!!!

[@Megatron-xs2qe]

The reasons why games were better back then is because they had more varieties, you had allot more games to chaos from, unlike nowadays when its mostly just shooter games. Not only that games today seems to look to real and realistic and kind of boring if you ask me, as for games from the 80's to the early 2000's they were more cartoony and colorful and have there own worlds. So you can't really blame us old generation for not liking the new games. Kids today will never have the impact on games like we do, I mean really? Do you think that kids are going to remember Call of duty or any other games in the future? I really don't think so. Being a kid back in the 80's and 2000's was more fun, you had better cartoons, toys were cooler and allot cheaper and of course games.

[@nisus8]

***** ...Yep, that's a downvotin'.

[@winterthemuteson]

Miguel Rivera Dude, if you think shooter games are the only ones on the market, you have never played a modern game. Out of my steam library, not even ten percent are fps. The new games also have their own worlds, many are colorful, a few are cartoony, and a great many of them will be remembered for a long time. Don't get me wrong, I was raised on DK country and the like, but the modern games are just as good, they just don't have the same nostalgia.

[@solame10101]

Miguel Rivera Jesus this post is just incredibly nostalgia biased. Are you actually being serious? Every generation thinks this, its fucking stupid. Back in my day music was much better, now theres only crap blah blah. Sheesh, look for good games and you will find them. Unlike back in NES era, you have access to way more games that are actually good too, not only good through nostalgia goggles.

[@jon-erich9752]

solame10101 Call of Duty isn't the only game on the market but it sure as hell seems like it sometimes. If you look at these ads, you'll notice the variety of games that are getting the same amount of marketing attention. I remember a lot of these commercials. They aired on big networks throughout the day. You have everything from an action game, an adventure game, an RPG game, down to a few puzzle games. None of these games meshed together either. They all had their own identity and image. This is because there wasn't an established market yet and publishers were willing to try anything to see what sells. Compare that to today. You'll see Call of Duty, Assassins Creed and the usual yearly bunch get all the marketing and attention while a lot of other games don't get nearly as much attention. Not to mention, a lot of these games share similar styles of graphics, similar protagonists and they're marketed pretty much the same way. That's how competition works today. Companies compete based on similarities rather than their differences. It's almost as if the same marketing people work at all the major AAA companies. Compare this to when Nintendo and Sega used to compete with one another. Mario and Sonic were two completely different characters in two very different games but they both competed with one another because of those differences. That's what's wrong with gaming today. Because there is an established market, publishers feel the need to stick to that market. In fact, when was the last time a puzzle game actual got any major marketing? I think it was Picross 3D back in 2009 or 2010?

[@solame10101]

Jon-Erich Smith I dont watch commercials at all, so i dont really see any of the big games advertised there. I do however find a lot of indie games and other good games through other websites with people reccomending them, and by looking for games i would enjoy. If you dont enjoy the big marketed games then look for something else, theres more to find beyond the advertisements. Indie games are key if you want exciting gameplay, AAA games are generally good for story, graphics and all that nonsense. Nintendo still publishes tons of good games with very varied styles and gameplays. You find what you look for, if all you see is big publisher ads then you will only find those games that appeal to large audiences, but lack depth and feel. I think The Talos Principle got decent marketing and thats a puzzle game, not sure though, but i kept hearing about it everywhere.

[@johnathanstevens8436]

Oooh - Kirby .. a game patterned after a vaccum cleaner .. I like how they try to make him sound tough. But it was a lot of fun having multiple abilities.

[@805edog]

I swear the had to market the hell out of these games. The artwork on the box was usually a 100 times better than the actual game. I would buy an NES game based on how they looked and when I played them I was like what the fuck is this?

[@JsRetroVideoGames]

That's how I felt playing Double Dragon on the NES for the first time. It was no where near the arcade version. I was very disappointed. lol

[@805edog]

Yeah D.D. was pretty sad for NES but I still played the hell out of it.

[@gregharper2332]

the Simpson's game was so fucking hard... metroid also

[@dannyboy8t666ed]

Man these take me back. I miss those days

[@Fifth313ment]

LOL, I forgot about the NES wireless IrDA (infrared aka like your home TV remote) controller! Nintendo really did do most stuff first! Rumble Pack, analog thumbstick, portable games, digital pad (d-pad). With all they have done right it's sad to see them going bankrupt! They won't be a console manufacturer in 5 years if they are even still around. Their main issues were always inferior hardware every cycle! No third party or big system selling games! And no flexibility as they always relied on their first party games to sell and it's no longer working. I think they will have to stop making hardware (other than mobile handhelds) and simply make games on every platform. The Wii U is a horrible failure, Gamecube, N64... need I say more?

[@fuckyougoogleplus8667]

Again t the 12 year olds..Nitnendo did NOT invent the D-pad, nor the thumbstick. Nor feedback controllers.

[@xXNuclearWarXx]

FuckYouGooglePlus Actually the Famicom was the first console to feature a controller with a D-pad and the N64 was the first console to feature a controller with an analog thumbstick and a force-feedback addon.

[@MrSickness6666]

Rick Occulus no actually the sega knights into dreams controller was the first analog thumbstick was created before the release of the n64

[@xXNuclearWarXx]

rob zombie Interesting. I actually own that very controller. I wasn't aware that it actually came out first, but you're probably right.

[@videoluvr4204]

You said that D-pad means "digital pad"!? I thought it stood for Directional Pad