Vinny watches Nintendo Power Promotional VHS Tapes

[@vinesaucefullsauce]

ChatReplay ► chatreplay.stream/watch?v=0duxGm_v5vc

[@jasonredwine5270]

People forget how amazing any gaming related videos were to a kid in the 90s. Pre-internet, when the only things you could watch were network television shows and big studio-made movies, these kind of niche game videos were priceless. My brothers and I had that entire Donkey Kong Country video memorized word for word, we watched it so much.

[@thesexybatman263]

either that, or wait the whole week to catch the videogames show on saturday mornings,.

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

This is why XPlay was such a big deal to me. Even with the questionable reviews, seeing people talk about video games and reviewing them on TV was a game changer.

[@Hyperion4K]

g4

[@Dariaosu]

@@mostverticalproductions4808 "game changer" haha

[@trevorkobe]

That old custodian lady talking about Square Enix broke me lol

[@krunkle5136]

It was pretty cool, and it showed sort of a counterpoint to the non-stop bashing of old people that was common in a lot of early 90s advertising.

[@Divector8]

I was a 6 year old kid who loved my N64 so I watched the "Change the System" VHS a number of times. I remember putting it in the VCR one summer's day and my mom goes "Oh, you're watching that ad again?" in an annoyed way. But from my 6 year old perspective it was a cool video where the people in it loved the thing I loved. Not so different from watching Let's Plays or streams in the modern day.

[@Gillrien]

You look at the Nintendo. You wonder how it would be if you play it loud. You wonder how it would be if you play it raw.

[@zerazerazerazerazerazerazera]

"Give us Yoshi's Island tips and tricks or else we'll torture." "Give us Killer Instinct tips and tricks or else we'll torture." "Give us Donkey Kong Country tips and tricks and we'll pay you HARD GREEN 🤑🤑🤑" What the hell?

[@DonCapiche]

Some men can't be broken, but everyone has a price.

[@NewWave3313]

I remember getting a VHS tape in the mail for the Pokémon anime before it aired here in North America. That was literally the first Pokémon thing I had ever seen in my life. A fun intro into that world.

[@drgrounder]

So a 90s Nintendo Direct, basically. The tonal whiplash is nuts

[@TheRetroRen]

Actually really cool to think about this in that way lol

[@perhapsmoose]

yeah this literally is just the original nintendo direct

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

What's funny is people made fun of Sega for making 90s style videos like this for the Genesis and the Saturn, but Nintendo did it too. It was just the era. lol

[@tiredhippo82]

Nintendo were just worse at it, they felt like adults had discussed what kids thought were cool.

[@KOTEBANAROT]

@@tiredhippo82 it just clashes with the games lol. its a cutey baby mario riding a cute little yoshi and they use the rrradical words to describe it. its no mortal combat or something. also i just keep thinking of that law suit where people complained about violent video games and the sega guy and nintendo guy were arguing with the judge and it was embarassing the way nintendo guy was like "sega is so evil! anyway judge you know how we are so nice and child friendly and for all family right? we're not in trouble, right? only stupid sega"

[@aortaplatinum]

Yeah it is weird how people joke about SEGA America's mid 90s ads but don't ever talk about Nintendo doing the same thing. And it's not like it's bias either, I'm a huge SEGA guy but I've never seen a SEGA KZbinr make fun of the N64 ads the way general gaming KZbinrs make fun of SEGA Saturn ads, and even SEGA channels like Pandamonium do it [no hate for my boy Pandamonium he's cool as hell] So maybe it has to do with SEGA's failure as a hardware manufacturer? Like adding insult to injury, "oh SEGA died but is it any wonder with ad campaigns like this?" that sort of thing. The Saturn's lack of popularity in the west VS the N64's deep-rooted nostalgia creating fuzzy feelings and respect in the minds of those same western gamers probably adds to that.

[@HughAverageHomoMan]

@@aortaplatinum probably because Sega did it first, and nintendo did it back to them.

[@FiggsNeughton]

@@aortaplatinum Brother people did and will always ride Nintendo's dick. When I was a kid I was a Nintendo cultist too, I literally thought that Sega had to be destroyed so that we could enter a golden age of Nintendo splendor. Now as a grown up nerd I look into all this old Sega stuff and it's totally new to me even though I was around when it was first happening. It's crazy how interesting Sega consoles were in general.

[@farmzombie]

I support the VineReact arc.

[@maccamachine]

Me too it’s great

[@bobhill9803]

It also works because he’s not reacting to something overdone and popular, but rather things that have his interest or are from the time he was younger.

[@lewatoaofair2522]

I say that “I don’t watch react videos.”, then I remember that I watch these, and I say “I *usually* don’t watch react videos except for Vinny’s. And these are fine.”

[@lazyyoutubename3468]

@@bobhill9803 Also he's not just a silent head in the corner.

[@decodas]

I don’t like the sentiment that react videos are inherently a bad form of content, Vinny is a perfect example of how they can work so well. His commentary them really fun, and the topics are always fascinating stuff we’re all into. That especially has to do with the content being community submitted. Not only that, but he’s actually passionate about what’s on the screen and gives his own input and expands on it (Which like, when you put it that way it’s honestly just the bare minimum) it’s such a shame that the reaction video genre has been saturated with awful half-assed content that give it this horrible reputation.

[@VinchVolt]

I only knew the Star Fox 64 tape from verbal descriptions and was pleasantly surprised by how accurate my approximated mental image of it was.

[@psoffxifan4904]

56:45 Frank really fell from grace, covering n64 games to splicing in a run down city

[@TBoneTony]

Ken Lobb worked for Nintendo of America but he was also the man who went to the UK to talk to RAREWARE about their games and he also helped in a small role with Killer Instinct getting it approved by Nintendo of America between their strict standards at the time.

[@Forever_Zero]

This made me understand the huge task of marketing agencies back in the day, they had to take cute games like Yoshi's Island or cute characters like the Star Fox crew and make them look "cool" and "radical" for a western audience, basically masking the entire essence of the games

[@KrayZJoy]

Please tell Vinny about these Duckeys. I just found them. kzbin.infoj5ockvAF1sU?si=lkK79XMPTYyRhjBf

[@blueyosh43]

You say that as if the final boss doesn't have a heavy metal track being played over it. They generously show unedited gameplay, show off special effects, highlight and explain gameplay mechanics. Don't see what's being masked about the game here or how it's being misrepresented as something that it isn't just because the host is high energy while he's explaining it and music is playing.

[@AluminumFusion22]

Yeah, a lot of games with an anime art direction had their visual style altered on the box art because anime was still niche until the massive boom in the 2000s. A lot of SNES mascot platformers had to be "Westernized" and EarthBound was so unconventional that Nintendo used gross-out humor to market it in America. Thankfully we're not in that era anymore and people are more open-minded in terms of what games they'll play.

[@pierdeer]

Today I learned that Ken Lobb developed all the games for Nintendo by himself

[@cobalt1089]

12:16 this line is going to live rent free in my head every time I play any game with stats for the rest of my life

[@JMUDoc]

"Ken, you've done such a good job for us over the years that we've named a weapon in _Goldeneye 007_ after you." "Wow - sweet! Which weapon?" "..."

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

Time for me to gather the necessary materials and send Vinny old Gamest VHSes.

to be fair, the mid to late 90s pop culture fused a lot with 60's themes and it was really strange but also kind of neat.

[@gamephreak5]

You could see that in kids cartoons from the time also. Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, and Ren & Stimpy had a sort of 50s/60s aesthetic and vibe to them.

[@yalestormofficial]

Seeing the Rare logo on a VHS tape is a mind blowing thing to see, even today.

[@donnylurch4207]

I watched the Banjo-Kazooie tape with John Lovitz so many times when I was 8-9 years old.

[@baconlabs]

"Donkey Kong Country Exposed" was a formative memory for me as a wee young chimpanzee I was _obsessed_ with those Silicon Graphics, probably stared at those glossy full-res renders in the Player's Guide for hours

[@vinnycochrane5139]

Hi Vinny, it’s British Vinny. I wish you’d stream Mischief Makers. It’s wonderful. These days the bonkers Japanese stuff is very familiar, but back then only goofballs like me “got” it. I lent MM to a schoolfriend in about 2000, and he gave it back to me the next day, saying darkly, “If you ever give me weird Japanese shit again, I’ll kill you.”

[@asrieldreemurrthebestestbo1716]

Was Mischief Makers weird Japanese shit?? How weird was it and was it fun?

[@vinnycochrane5139]

@@asrieldreemurrthebestestbo1716 A pervy old scientist has a fiesty robot maid. Their flying house crashes on a planet in the midst of civil war. She has to try and find him. Every time she saved him from these crazy mecha bosses, be tries to grope her and she smashes him to another contintent. The novel mechanic is “shaking” things. One of the first mecha boses (Cerberus Alpha) is a dog-headed supervillain chasing you with a machine gun on a transformable motorbike, while you are riding a small cat. It is absolutely batshit.

[@vinnycochrane5139]

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[@asrieldreemurrthebestestbo1716]

@@vinnycochrane5139 yeah that sounds about right. Cool.

[@vinnycochrane5139]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4PHnqZ4mMhkotE

[@midderin]

We will never have the 1990s ever again.

[@mask-mimic]

I find it funny that everything was advertised as “cool” and “edgy” even if it was rated E.

[@iownu92]

The two songs after Bush were Toadies if any one was wondering.

[@Skrunkdraws]

Vinny feels like such a cool grandpa/uncle like James Rolfe

[@Condor_]

I still have the Banjo-Kazooie tape! My parents somehow got their hands on it and gave it to me before getting me a Nintendo 64 that upcoming Christmas. I watched that tape almost _daily._ I was obsessed with it. Wow, seeing that again here brought back some old and fond memories.

[@maccamachine]

This type of stuff is great I love when mr. Sauce watches random stuff

[@kabbusses]

Hopefully he'll be seeing Nintendo Power Previews laserdiscs next.

[@Made_In_Heaven88]

This was a great time watching these Vinny!

[@reviathan3524]

Wouldn't it be nice if modern games have promos like this

[@thosecomicsontheinternet5536]

The invasion of nintendo segment used a bunch of different tracks from the album Rubberneck by Toadies

[@emilyhogan4973]

Vinny needs to watch the Pokémon promo tape if he ever does this segment again.

[@cookieface80]

I wasn't expecting a Star Fox ad to reference Martin Scorsese's Casino.

[@tacticaljunk1608]

Adverting Yoshi's Island with the aesthetic for a Nine Inch Nails music video really speaks to how fucking absurd that whole decade is and how strong Nintendo games were for surviving such botched ad campaigns.

[@blueyosh43]

You say that as if the final boss doesn't have a heavy metal track being played over it. They generously show unedited gameplay, show off special effects, highlight and explain gameplay mechanics in a fun and high energy manner. Don't see what's botched about this whatsoever.

[@gamephreak5]

The 90s were the best era for ads and commercials. There was nothing "botched" in that ad campaign.

[@Kartak965]

Better than era we are in where everybody is scared shitless of offending someone.

[@JoebamaForJail]

Cringe

[@HughAverageHomoMan]

@@blueyosh43 imagine getting defensive over marketing from decades ago lmao. are you some chris chan weirdo but for Yoshi instead of sonic?

[@dreamlandnightmare]

11:45 - You're not going to hit any home runs choking up on the bat like that.

[@Hwyadylaw]

It's inspiring to hear about Vinny opened up for and accepted Kojima's hardware.

[@waypastcoolkid]

Weird hearing the safety spiel from the Matterhorn at Disneyland during the Killer Instinct bumper

[@dreamlandnightmare]

12:35 - Yes. It was right after the longest strike in MLB history, which lasted from August 1994 to April 1995.

[@GrampaSheevie]

I remember being a kid in Walmart when rare was really big and the guy in the video game section basically was pushing Banjo-Tooie propaganda on me and my dad.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

I LOVED Shadows of the Empire. Played a ton of it and beat it on every difficulty level. I remember being blown away by the Snowspeeder stage graphics the first time I played the game.

[@sgas]

Yoshis island one is amazing. Kids explaining this old game to each other with that music...

[@WilfredCthulu]

Hell yeah I have the banjo, star fox 64, diddy kong racing, and dkc tapes. The last I'm especially proud of cause I only got it for like a few bucks and it's in GREAT shape. My friend also made a favorite ytp of mine out of it so good. I love how charming and over the top all of this is it's so fun and comfy.

[@MichaelMacaw]

“You can buy it at the store” is a line my friends, brother, and I still CONSTANTLY bring up without even thinking about it.

[@ItsThisGuyAgain]

The Star Fox 64 one was the only one I ever got from Nintendo Power and I wore that thing OUT from watching it so many times. I was obsessed waiting for that game.

[@redcomet_622]

A Part 2 can be done of this as there's Laserdiscs that Nintendo made for stores with alot of promo material on them.

[@DoitForTheLolz1]

How and why did people just randomly get creepy tapes from Nintendo and why didn't I ever get one lol.

[@ZyxthePest]

*plays video games for a living* "Cool...me too."

[@Nagoshichao]

oh hey! I have the Banjo-Tooie/Majora's Mask VHS on my Videogame Display shelf!

[@CyanideSublime]

I'm pretty sure the world is going back in time and is appreciating these evergreen titles rather than the greedy, sleazy casinos that are "games" today.

[@dalehadley3283]

My Gram still has the "Change the System" VHS,I kinda want to add it to my collection

[@TheLazyShell]

Adore these silly things. The only one I actually got in the mail was the Hot Newz 64 one, and it was my favorite thing ever as a kid. (I was super hyped for DK64, and this was my first time seeing actual footage of it.) I later experienced the majesty of the rest of the tapes when they were uploaded to the internet. (Originally, I could only find most of them posted by a particular user on Gamespot, meaning that I had to deal with the PAINFUL loading times of their built-in player. Thank god for the advent of KZbin.) Personal favorites include the Star Fox 64 (still love randomly imitating the exact acting of the Sony guy's "So you're telling me that this Rumble Pak actually lets players FEEL...THE GAME??" for a laugh), DKR, and Invasion of Nintendo tapes. (Since Super Mario RPG is my favorite game ever, you can probably guess my favorite segment from it.) Really enjoyed hearing Vinny's reactions to these. I'd love for him to dig into other similar material for a future stream, like promo videos from other companies (I know Ubisoft did one for Rayman 2 and Tonic Trouble and there's a Sonic & Knuckles one that takes a shot at Donkey Kong Country in a super 90s way) or Nintendo's SNES era CES and E3 videos. (The 1994 and 1996 ones are uploaded and they're really fun time capsules.) Maybe even throw in Nintendo's 90s product demonstration training videos. (The 94 and 95 editions of those feature that same Josh guy from the Donkey Kong Country and Yoshi's Island tapes.) I just love seeing these peeks into gaming's past. Also, fun fact: that Rodney Kageyama guy talking about Ken Griffey in the Invasion of Nintendo video actually has a pretty decent acting resume. (Even has his own Wikipedia page.) I first became aware of this when I noticed him as one of the Banks' neighbors in the first Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Christmas special. I was like, "IS THAT THE GUY FROM THE INVASION OF NINTENDO VIDEO???" 😂

[@Nobutehuhh]

Nirvana bit made me cough up the salmon I was eating

[@xaphon89]

I got the Majora's Mask one in the mail when I was a kid. No idea why, I don't remember being signed up for Nintendo Power. I actually liked it because it focused on explaining how the game is different from Ocarina of Time, and I think one reason Majora's Mask was so divisive was that a lot of people went into it expecting it to be very similar. So I wound up going into the game knowing very generally what to expect, and it ended up being my favorite Zelda game to this day. But also, was that tape really only like 4 minutes long? Looking back, that seems so wasteful. So much plastic... I feel like I need to go rescue a sea turtle now.

[@gmirabelli117]

Just wanna Say Thanks Vinny for Putting Out this great Content!

[@zweistg8124]

I had the Banjo-Kazooie tape and I'm half-convinced it's entirely the reason I loved that game so much. It was such great hype material.

[@kingplatypus3rd]

1:13:50 Could this be YTP'd? Yes it could, and it has, cuz I made one of it 15 years ago lol. It's called "Guitar-Mirliton".

[@pass_]

pretty cool of them to get the hook guy from eight crazy nights for the banjo kazooie promo

[@GameparkGames]

I found the Majora's mask tape at a thrift store and was excited for a brief second thinking I found the game 😅 still bought the tape. I should still have it but I have no idea where

[@thejonizone]

big fan of this segment

[@cobalt1089]

Someone should make up a playlist of the songs credited in that one Nintendo VHS tape

[@27daisuki]

this takes me back! i had the jet force Gemini vhs, never would have played it without that tape and loved it. sad that Vinny didn't like it but it wasn't for everyone and the controls were indeed awkward. wish they could have done it better justice in rare replay

[@crazycat1o18]

I love Josh Wolf appearing in several nintendo power VHS tapes

[@riotpolizei3522]

WILD to know that Nintendo used tracks by The Toadies in that first video! Rubberneck is friggin GOATed.

[@davidtheriault1421]

this is how modern day showcases should be. Write a story around presenting the games. It would be a lot of fun.

[@AlterBridgeJericho]

I love how the Change the System ad makes all of the games incredibly hard to see thanks to the flashing and quick cuts

[@RainingMetal]

I first knew of that Star Fox 64 promo video via a KZbin Poop of all things.

[@Hilipinapixili]

I had one of these VHS. It came around the tail end of the SNES era and was about an agent from a rival company infiltrating Nintendo headquarters and uncovering all their projects, secret agent style. The whole thing ended with the dude uncovering the N64 and getting digitalized and abducted by it. It also had a sequel that came out once the N64 was already current gen, with the guy escaping and giving a report to his boss, and used beta footage of Ocarina of Time as the climax.

[@john1701q]

I was so surprised when I got one of these in the mail, watched it on the family TV and made the fatal mistake of leaving the box on top of the TV. My dad shoved it in my face and was quaking with fury. "YOU DIDN'T BUY THIS DID YOU?" He felt that Nintendo was made in the deepest depths of hell. And was ready to murder me if he thought I was buying VHS tapes on top of the games. Even though I bought all my games from my own lawn mowing money.

[@VolkStrokerMedia]

2:05:29 is that 'Autistic Reporter Michael Falk' from The Onion?

[@Robbie06261995]

That pronunciation of Kamek as K-Mac is something else.

[@MyNamesNotLars1]

Please keep these vintage gaming media segments coming! This is my favorite content from you in a long time, Vinny! The long form nature and uncovering nostalgic memories (and nostalgia for games I never even played) is just great.

[@Cmanorange]

2:00:00 when you think about it, fencing is an irl sport where rounds end in 1 hit

[@MetalSocks]

Something funny about the teenagers going wild about Mario in Mario 64 just walking around, but then realizing that's probably what we were doing after growing up with Mario 3. Play yeah baby those are 3D graphics!!

[@Spewa-em8cm]

1:28:46 Jet Force Gemini actually did get a dual-analogue update as a part of Rare Replay, they fixed the framerate issues too.

[@Endocrom]

I had the Banjo one and the one after (Talk Soup). I watched the Banjo one a lot more. It worked, I bought Banjo and DK64. Preordered even.

[@PretzelsandNutz]

I remember one that had a StarFox 64 bit where they talked about the rumble pack. Haven’t started the video so it might be in here.

[@Seth__Roach]

I remember those. I cherished the Jet Force Gemini one.

[@classiccustoms2010]

"Next time we'll rip every hair off your- *whistles*" . . .

[@dreamlandnightmare]

Where did these promotional videos come from? I had a subscription to Nintendo Power all during the mid 90s, but the only promotional tape I ever got was for Donkey Kong Country.

[@ericlemmon6297]

I used to watch that banjo and majora tape all the time as a kid

[@Twitch380]

Vinny alllllways forgets that Half Life exists lol

[@JG-tr8ph]

He also goes out of his way to slobber on Nintendo's cock, even as a nearly-40 year old man. Very sad.

[@alfo2804]

He mentions and/or references Half-Life all the time.

[@gamephreak5]

"Bob? You didn't tell them about...the RUMBLE PAK, did you??" Then a year later Sony released the Dual Shock 1. COINCIDENCE?!

[@JoshuaSimonson909]

I was sent that DKC VHS back in the 90's just for reasons I can't remember, I think it was for subbing to Nintendo Power for a few months, but it was not for owning DKC, I certainly never owned that game, anyhow, I didn't know wtf the tape even was as a kid, and I ended up recording over it by mistake without ever watching it, still to this day I don't know much about that tape XD

[@johnskibidi]

Good Video.

[@CarlMakesVideos]

It's interesting how you can sort of trace the mutation of these things, from these old tapes, to E3 presentations, to Nintendo Week, to the gradual progression of Nintendo Directs. Obviously they're influenced by pop culture and marketing movements of their day, but they each make for an interesting time capsule of sorts.

[@marcusbullock630]

*YOU GOT THE POWER*

[@TBoneTony]

13:30 Is that Gunpei Yokoi???? I also remember the Nintendo Video Tapes, yet I more remember the NGC tapes from NGC Magazine from the UK. Those were the Nintendo GameCube tape from E3 2001 that featured StarFox Adventures as well as the canceled Donkey Kong Racing and the early Kameo Elements of Power. As you can tell I was massive RAREWARE fan back then.

[@Mikeanglo]

I still own the Banjo Kazooie tape with the Ocarina of Time beta footage on it. I probably watched that 30 times just to watch that. I was very excited for that game.

[@Kain5th]

i remember the starfox 64 one the best lol

[@aidanoswald5034]

I'm sure someone else has said it by now but vinny has streamed shadows of the empire, I forget if it was quit because of technical difficulties or just being to rough in the controller department. Anyway searched vods to see if I was hallucinating or not. "8 years ago" I thought it was more recent than that.

[@Crocogator]

Oh holy shit that IS Fox in Space! Damn.

[@lilye7487]

I definitely owned this when I was super small because my dad had nintendo power since issue 1, but we sold them or threw them away at some point, and I destroyed a lot of the old ones as a baby (or so I was told, idk) Still have issue 1 and almost every issue after 87 or so. Really wish I had finished my collection before things started getting scarce

[@charlescockerham3761]

48:24 this part had me dying 🤣🤣🤣

[@KOTEBANAROT]

in my country, the pc gaming mag had a disk that included an avgn episode lol

[@YTDeepshock]

The 90s is strong in this one.

[@Loop_Kat]

I think the guy from Hot Newz 64 might actually be Reggie Fils-Aimé's long lost evil brother. Like, you'd probably find him locked in suspended animation under Nintendo of America HQ because it was the only way to contain his unrelenting torrent of full eye contact, head-shaking quips

[@RadicalEdward2]

I am drunk after my own birthday party! This is such an amazing gift while I sober up! Thank you funny sauce man 😭

[@CS9_]

I literally thought about and tried to find as many of these as possible, Vinny has stolen my thoughts to use for his own dastardly agenda. How does he do it?