Nintendo 1993 Holiday Demonstration Program Training VHS

Nintendo 1993 Holiday Demonstration Program Training VHS. I got this tape while I worked as a Sears associate during the 1993 holiday season.
Copyright Nintendo and uploaded for educational purposes.

[@SkeletorForever]

No day one patches, no updates or season passes... just solid gameplay. I miss the 90s

[@Louie_Log]

Facts. I wasn't born back then, but I can tell nowadays is hell for gamers

[@troywright359]

No updates.....just 3 versions of street fighter 2 at retail price....

[@TheAlphaOmegaX3]

@@troywright359 lol Street Fighter 2 was a special case.

[@majamystic256]

day one patches and season passes are lame but the ability to update games is awesome and I'm glad updates are a thing now

[@videotape2959]

@@majamystic256 What do you like about that revisionist garbage?

[@Tor-Erik]

I am 39 years old. Man, I am getting old... I miss the 1990s where everything were simple. Simple but radical! And this program, although it look cheesy but awesome, brings me back with all those nostalgia.

[@cabbusses]

9:20 there's something off about that Fire Flower...

[@Dan-379]

it's an early one

[@metalgrinch]

Back when they used to call systems "game decks" and games as "game paks." But gosh... if someone ever asked me what the 90s were like I'd just show them this video.

[@gotacallfromvishal]

Yup even then Hillary Clinton was bitching and moaning and whining about video game violence

[@yellowblanka6058]

Gotta love the bullshots/footage of CG running on high-end Silicon Graphics workstations at the end - I liked/like the N64 but it was nowhere near powerful enough to do things like that in realtime (hell, I don't think even the PS2 could do that) despite using a Silicon Graphics developed graphics chipset, lol. Also, this guy clearly went to the Keanu Reeves school of acting, lol.

[@Rountree1985]

“We have reduced violence in our games”. 2 minutes later: shows footage of Jurassic Park game, with T-Rex eating someone, followed by showing off the Super Scope gun. Remember kids, violence is okay as long as you don’t show blood!

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

Not making any sense what they did

[@WatchmeplayNintendo]

Don't forget censoring Hitler's mustache in Wolfenstein 3-D. Apparently, that's all it needed.

[@chickenwings6172]

@@WatchmeplayNintendo lol men shave so doing that was pointless.

[@madden8021]

Mortal Kombat 1 anyone?

[@JohnnyUndaunted]

They were low-key bragging about cutting out the blood and fatalities in MK1 to concerned soccer moms. And then they saw the shitty sales numbers of MK1 on Super NES compared to how well the Genesis version was doing and they started having second thoughts.

[@Nodnarb518]

That white box everything came in is probably even worth a lot of money nowadays.

[@Rountree1985]

God I wish I could get my hands on some of the items the Nintendo reps used. The brochures and paperwork would be cool to read. I wonder how many of those binders are out in the wild?

[@Cyxodus]

I don't know but I got a few swag from my rep. A keychain, a pen and Nintendo mug in 1993 and a set of Nintendo character pins several years ago. She was such a cool North Carolina Nintendo rep.

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

Glad to say i'm subscriber #93, which corresponds to the year in the title for this awesome historical video! It's the type of stuff that should be securely saved in a corporate archives, but i'm sure Nintendo has at least several with their global hq campus at Kyoto, Japan. Them planning to build an official Nintendo museum devoted to exhibiting Nintendo memorabilia alongside relics is evidence of that safekeeping. Instant fan of the channel and the KZbinr's content. **Edit** Keep being super based!

[@mattb9664]

9:45- this Control Set may have been the start of only supplying one controller instead of two, then expecting the customer to buy a second one.

[@professors84]

The vest/hat combo the reps wear is real slick

[@philojudaeusofalexandria9556]

Woah... This is sooo 90s.

[@GekkouKitsune]

My parents took me to Sears in the nearby city to get a new system for my 6th birthday (August 1996) since the hand-me-down NES and Genesis were really frustrating to set up and get to work correctly. I had the choice of the boxed SNES with Donkey Kong Country pack-in, or the entire kiosk that played (as far as I can remember would be) Donkey Kong Country 3. I remember the lady sales associate describing DKC3 and "the girl" (Dixie) and likely seeing the levels with water, maybe the first one or one of the waterfall levels with the porcupines. Parents went with the boxed version because there was no way we could get the kiosk home or have a place for it. But I will never forget this and the walls of different games and systems. I think I remember seeing previews on the many TVs for games for it and the PS1. They were likely offloading the kiosk since the N64 was about to release the next month, but as a little kid I had no idea. I would later rent Super Mario All-Stars thinking it was Super Mario 64 lol I've been back to that Sears a few times with the excitement of maybe seeing those sights again, but obviously it was never the same and the last time I managed to go there several years ago their video game selection was practically nil and void. Oh, to have a time machine to go back and just observe and see what things looked like. But all I'll have is these memories.

[@GekkouKitsune]

Another thing is the video game area was like this entire corner of the store. The walls were the locked glass holders, and it was games (or those cards that you had to take to the counter to get the game) upon games for as far as the eye can see. There were a few short aisles too. I can't remember when I got my Game Boy Pocket but it was some time after this. So imagine a kid who had only ever had NES and Genesis up to this point, seeing stuff for SNES, maybe still NES, likely N64 & PS1, Genesis, Saturn, Game Boy, and who knows what else (Game Gear?? NEO GEO??) and I was just some little country kid who only saw what one video rental store had to offer. God I wish I could go back to experience it all. I was inundated with sensory overload so I wasn't really paying much attention to what was going on in front of me with the sales associate and all that.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Huh? The NES/Genesis were no more complicated to set up than the SNES - plug the AC adapter into the wall and the AV/RF cables into your TV, dead simple.

[@chickenwings6172]

Only for a noob lol my nes and genesis in 2023 still work.

[@chickenwings6172]

@@yellowblanka6058 Yup @GekkouKitsune is a noob, my nes and genesis in 2023 still work.

[@teen_laqueefa]

@@chickenwings6172 ok boomer, have you seen a book?

[@richardcrainium9343]

The thing is this guy never changed he's still cool playing his super Nintendo in his mom's basement, party on dude!!

[@mynameisjack0618]

“CD ROM doesn’t offer enough to players” You just wait two years when the PS1 releases.

[@mynameisjack0618]

Also that ad for Project Reality tho… little did Nintendo know, Sony was gonna beat them to the punch.

[@RivalAudioTTV]

2:34 She straight up looking at his package.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

The host will be in his 50’s now think about that one

[@yellowblanka6058]

Yep...humans age.

[@Dr170]

Time cannot wither a true devotee of radical tubular chillness.

[@Paganomation]

"Don't be fake... be real," Ben said, without a hint of self-awareness 🤔

[@Dr170]

NOT!!!

[@justmanny9275]

I would hate setting this shit up

[@andrewmunro4884]

They gave super mario all stars the red carpet treatment in 1993 and I think it more then deserved it I mean four remakes of four nes mario games and one is a remake of a Japanese exclusive.

[@bortward8268]

Radical!

[@akatsukixi4726]

Wayne's World must've just come out. ...NOTTTTT lol

[@Scooby-bf4bp]

Get the net!

[@pavy415]

The irony the game boy color came out even after dissing it lol

[@teen_laqueefa]

Right and the "weight" of the colors being soo heavy

[@Dr170]

@@teen_laqueefa The planetary "heaviness" to which Marty McFly made ceaseless references in 1985 had largely dissipated in the eight years that followed

[@omegacygnus]

This guy is hip and happenin'! Tubular!

[@yellowblanka6058]

That guy who chose "Vegas Stakes" over Zelda and all the other games in that case should be slapped.

[@tolerants231]

I love at around 12:25 he talks about how you don't want a colored portable system, color is bad and the systems weigh twice as much as the Gameboy. Lol. Years later Gameboy color would come out with less weight. 😂

[@stevenmcintosh1540]

Nintendo considered giving the first Game Boy a color screen, but the technology wasn't there yet to make it affordable and efficient for most consumers. They made the right choice at the time.

[@madden8021]

Kind of nice to see them bashing the Game Gear and the lesser popular Turbo Express and Lynx for how heavy and battery hungry they are. Reason as to why they were like that is because the Game Gear, Lynx and Turbo Express were like this is because that Color screens weren't really there just yet and that they had to make it heavy because of the backlight display and more batteries mean that you'll have to spend more money to have batteries. The Gameboy color didn't happen till 1998 and backlight for the GBA SP in 2003 which now debunks this claim.

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

@madden8021 Sega had such a memorable advertising ad campaign in the Game Gear era that endlessly mocked the Game Boy's "Creamed Spinach Color" screen. One commercial had a dog stare at the two handhelds as the announcer said "If you were colorblind and had an IQ of less than twelve, then you wouldn't care which portable you had. Of course, you wouldn't care if you drank from the toilet, either." Another commercial had a young Ethan Suplee (of My Name is Earl fame) hit himself on the head with a rigid, dead squirrel to see color on his Game Boy. This was Nintendo's way of firing back.

[@JacobAndJamal]

OKAY Bill and Ted , LOL 😂

[@wowawesome745]

I don't think a lot of people realize, but this tape was when the N64 was first announced! It's at 23:59 to be specific.

[@ghostrender-]

90s class, when the era of cartridge/cd rom - replaces kenner toys :-(

[@cattysplat]

I had a friend who would throw game cartridges at his little brother and they would dent the walls and crack on the floor. Horrified me, those games were so expensive! But dumb kids gonna be kids.

[@Dr170]

@@cattysplat Kid's lucky to be alive, those things'll break through bone long before they ever receive damage of their own.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

14:32 oh hey it's the NES classic edition

[@sataniachya1840]

but bigger and with longer cords

[@michaelbytner9346]

1:05 If you talk about the history of Nintendo, don't forget to mention Yakuza, it's the essential part of the beginning of Nintendo!

[@Poever]

They don't make demonstration program training videos anymore, do they? Imagine a similar program for the Nintendo Switch's 2023 holiday season or something

[@Nortekman]

This dude is radical. Rock on man!!🤘

[@sataniachya1840]

9:13 rf cable.... great,at least one RCA nomal no?, I mean, it's the expensive pack and it comes with rf?

[@lezamadomy7063]

*BUT* *THAT'S* *NOT* *ALL!*

[@cordovalark5295]

'Radical fun man" We need to bring back the word Radical. Just so... 90's.

[@officegossip]

I hear rad every so often. Just not the whole word.

[@Dr170]

You're more likely to see the word "irradiated" become a household word in the parlance of our times

[@lucattsur]

the good old days when you bought a full game, now you buiy an uncompleted game that has to download a new update pack, new patches, buy to unloack (BEFORE you could unloack things just by good PLAYING)

[@brianhebert6152]

"Portable color systems are too heavy and expensive! Thats why the Game Boy doesn’t have color!" A few years later the Game Boy Color comes out, in color and weighing less.

[@lezamadomy7063]

The History of Nintendo 1889: Over 100 Years Ago, Nintendo Manufactures Playing Cards, Cards Are Still Produced Today 1959: First License Agreement... With Disney, Producing Mickey Mouse® Playing Cards 1981: Donkey Kong® Hits The Arcades 1985: NES® Was Introduced In The U.S. 1987: "Zelda®" Becomes A Legendary Success 1988: Nintendo Power® Mazagine Published 1989: Game Boy® Introduced, Featuring Super Puzzle Game Tetris® 1991: Super NES® 16-Bit System Launched 1992: Mario Paint® & Superscope® Introduced 1993: Super FX Chip® Arrives! Nintendo Once Again Leading The Way Into The Future!

[@CartoonPhreak]

2001: GameCube, the very first CD-ROM based game console, was launched in the United States along with Game Boy Advance. 2002: Nintendo expanded its license agreement with Disney and released Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse for its GameCube CD-ROM based game console. 2005: Millions of teenage girls who have their pink Game Boy Advance SP portable game consoles are camping outside near the Best Buy store on October 9 just to get their hands on everGirl and other games (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Kim Possible 3: Team Possible, That’s So Raven 2: Supernatural Style, etc) while cosplaying as different characters (Princess Zelda, Kim Possible, Cynthia from Pokémon, etc). 2006: Nintendo introduces its Wii game console in the United States. 2017: The newest game console, the Nintendo Switch, was introduced in the United States. 2024: More than 500 million girls are attending PAX Prime while bringing their own Nintendo games and some of their own bottles of Mountain Dew Livewire Soda.

[@gamephreak5]

Hey buddy, ya forgot the Nintendo "Love" Hotels in the 80s.

[@CartoonPhreak]

@@gamephreak5 I know that.

[@didma]

thats radical dude

[@pauliether.c.guy.3349]

I am 46 years old i was only 15 when this came out I vividly remember this and thought it was so cheesy but my was i so wrong. This was there pitch and ohhh boy did it work.

[@professors84]

Also, Nintendo was really on the defensive in this era. Half the video is dedicated to redirecting people who wanted a Genesis. Nintendo also ran lots of "advertorial" style content in magazines around this time where they attempted to debunk "Blast Processing" and whatnot.

[@jaahnnn]

Genesis did the same thing

[@Dr170]

Weird thing for Nintendo to do when you're the objectively better platform.

[@gamephreak5]

"Attempted"? Dude, Blast Processing was never a real thing! It was debunked on day one of Genesis' existence!

[@briananderson344]

Blast processing was one of the earliest examples of false advertising in video game history.

[@AndrewStro]

The world should choose a waif to raise on nothing but these videos and see what magical person they would become.

[@dillonwright13]

Nintendo Direct before Nintendo Direct was even a thing.

[@jumpinlumpix4645]

I don't want a really cool piece of paper

[@supersmallchibiwolf872]

This was fun and interesting. I love the NES, NES, Gameboy and N64. But Sony with the PlayStation cd rom they really got their revenge. Asta Luigi baby. Luigi has always been chilling mama Luigi also comes to mind. 30:35 Super Mario 64 Mario comes in as he looks back at his Super Mario world days. I love these classic vintage videos relating the wonderful things from back then. Cool video. ^_^

[@caydinthacker572]

30:37

[@caydinthacker572]

Mario head

[@1Soniccool]

Mario in Real Time

[@jaahnnn]

Lol Nintendo was making hundreds of millions of dollars at this time and probably paid this dude less than $1000 to do this video

[@secretninja6737]

it hurts me watching him not worrying about the corners of the snes box lol i was the same. we were all the same 😅😪

[@RockfordRoe]

Damn, NOA during the early-mid 90s were fun.

[@3ahub]

Nowadays someone sells Gameboy brochure for 80$. It's kinda weird...

[@OctavioGaitan]

God, I miss the 1990's.

[@terrybogard24]

One word: RADICAL😎

[@kristopherguilbault5428]

Bring me back ! Im totally there

[@omegacygnus]

14:13 They've got all three genres covered (two of which include the word "action")!

[@xphiles2345]

gonna save this in my offline archive

[@CartoonPhreak]

I am getting the Super NES Control Set for Christmas (December 2023)

[@StephenPaulChaseJr-nn1ng]

I love mario paint.....

[@Abdullu]

@ 15:01 : Madox's envy goes through the roof when he realizes SpencerX's pitch-perfect adaption of Namco's 1984 adaption of Pac-Land's main theme adapting Hanna-Barbera's 1982 Pac-Man cartoon intro theme. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6ergXhoZdWDhtE

[@lezamadomy7063]

Certificate of Achievement★ To Acknowledge as an Offical Nintendo Demonstrator November 1993

[@coreforce9872]

WOOO THE AUDIO IS CORRECTED :3

[@papina54]

This is so nearly vaporwave

[@IbelieveinHarris]

It’s so funny, I use to dress like this guy😅

[@orionfirestone]

I want that keychain...

[@SuperGamer-pn4fi]

We need Chad!!

[@gabrielsavarge1301]

I remember this. I had a Nintendo Console with the game StreetFighter back in 1999, 2000.

[@lezamadomy7063]

NINTENDO HAS THE *HOTTEST* NEW TITLES!

[@thaddeuschambers528]

It was pretty cool

[@dogsbark5750]

This so hilariously dated. Well, except for the Waynes World references.

[@LaC64]

@Payton G. Do you have the binder and vhs that this video talks about?

[@omegacygnus]

...NOT!

[@lezamadomy7063]

CHILL CHILL CHILL CHILL CHILL

[@Cogic]

Bro I kinda was jealous of my cousin older than me one day I went to visit my aunt then had to use the bathroom I knew my cousin was not in his room and always had better shit then me I decided to peep my head in his room and was like gooooot damn Derrick what the heck.....It was the first I ever saw a Nintendo superscope I was 5 yrs old still stuck with a damn box bulky Nintendo playing duck hunt

[@BlackBloodCombatClub]

This sounds like the Brawl announcer

[@lezamadomy7063]

What knows the Super NES, The Original Game Boy, and the NES?

[@lezamadomy7063]

HOT TIP

[@lezamadomy7063]

? *VIDEO* *GAMES* *ASK ME!*

[@ianswift3521]

i wonder if that's shadoe stevens the announcer

[@Scooby-bf4bp]

0:35 lizard people confirmed

[@jeovanneramos5066]

God i miss shootings games with remote gun control

[@brianthemagicminion1464]

I hear Brian Cummings

[@teen_laqueefa]

"Nintendo-rama makin sports games" Like making copies lol

[@johndixonkingdom]

I'm sold!!!!! Where do i get one

[@lezamadomy7063]

1. b *u* y 2. h *a* n *ds* o *n* !

[@lezamadomy7063]

- BEN -

[@brettcross9941]

Where was the super scope at in the video!!! Just click bait!

[@lezamadomy7063]

COOL HUH?

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

0:26 which hockey game is it

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

Oh it show around 5:00

[@lezamadomy7063]

FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE!

[@Jaemay53]

10:43-10:49 😂😂😂

[@chickenwings6172]

CD-rom can't doesn't offer enough to players, lol that aged poorly also Sony we will show you. One year later the PS1 launched and went to sell over 103 million console's more then the snes and N64 combined .

[@jaahnnn]

He said "yet"..and bro please go try to plug up your ps1, put a disk in', and try to see if it will even get past all the loading screens just to start the actual game

[@nejatolgunturk3702]

@@jaahnnn HeHEhehEHEhe! Debate isn't over yet!

[@cssplayer91]

All of this to work minimum wage 😂

[@darreinrobinson5681]

II

[@kimi4440]

this is so weird, why would Sears want you to do any of this lol. This video is literally telling you to convince people to not buy GameGear lol. IDGI. Did Sega also send you training material telling you to convince people to not buy GameBoy? lol

[@Dr170]

Sega should've been sued into oblivion for false advertising were it the case

[@arcadboygenerations6132]

Disney's NintendoQuest Coming Soon September 23 2019 At Theatre

[@figment1988]

make that, Universal's NintendoQuest since Universal and Nintendo are working on themed lands both in Japan and Orlando

[@lezamadomy7063]

3. an *swe* r que *st* ions

[@willardfasto4494]

Oh good so freaking cringe

[@guywilliams6569]

Why did they pick a lispy j-w for the SPOKESPERSON!?!?!?!

[@Dr170]

Not radical, dude. Bigotry is, like, so Reagan era, you know? Like, chill.

[@guywilliams6569]

@Dr170 lol... you have NO idea what you're talking about. THEY are THE problem and until we/Goyim address that problem TRUTHFULLY, like big boys and goyls, people like you will continue to say stupid nonsense out of programmed ignorance... you know, "Reagen era BS" lol

[@fredfred976]

I still have the rocket thing or whatever in the box. Lol