Nintendo Promotional VHS part 5 of 10: Star Fox 64 (1997)

[@hughmen]

That "you can buy it at the store" bit at the end is legitimately hilarious.

[@theedwardian]

I like how video game companies portrayed themselves as paramilitary spies and everyone just went along with it.

[@superpan218]

*NOOO!!! NOT THE MARIO DOLL HOOKED UP TO THE BATTERY TABLE TORTURE TEST!!!!* I can't stop laughing at that part! It's messed up, but it's also cheesy at the same time.

[@retroguy9233]

How would Sega and Sony like it if Nintendo did tortured Sonic or Crash?

[@t0biascze644]

@@retroguy9233 jokes on you, in the 90s nintendo had hanged sonic in their officed

[@retroguy9233]

@@t0biascze644 Well what about Crash?

[@gamephreak5]

5:16 "You didn't tell them about...the Rumble Pak, did you?" And a year later the PS1 came out with the Dual Shock 1, lol.

[@animedisneyfan]

Imagine them making a rumble pak for the Nintendo switch can you believe it?

[@MRWINDYMETHANE]

gamephreak5 Actually, it only took Sony 4 months after the release of Star Fox 64 (November of that year) to release the Dualshock analog controller. I remember that year.

[@megamarsonic]

Not to mention they actually left four Rumble Paks AND a copy of the then-unreleased Star Fox 64 for Sony and Sega to study. Nice one, Pete and Bob.

[@Atrus233]

Nintendo: Quit copying me, Yancy! /Futurama

[@JSSMVCJR2.2]

"No, Bob *You* did."

[@SonofMrPeanut]

I wonder if the megaphone was a nod to the Crash Bandicoot advertising.

[@mikepellegrino133]

Watching this never gets old.

[@Ceielo]

4:49 For so many years, I always remembered "Are you uh.. Bob?" and never knew what it was from. It was from this!

[@john-ic9vj]

lol

[@burst_ch.]

Man, I watched this tape every day until the game finally came out. I was SO hyped for the rumble pack lmao

[@kcried1081]

Me too!!! But my mom refused to by me the Nintendo 64. Until ps3 came out

[@sailor95]

Greatest production ever done for a video game. And still hilarious. I still have this VHS laying around somewhere.

[@BigHead2615]

Back in those days, my older brother had a sub to Nintendo Power.... and he DID get this very VHS tape in the mail in 1997! I just remember feeling so confused with the Sega guy and the Sony guy, at the time I was pretty young, and I was aware of the Super NES, the Sega Genesis, and the Nintendo 64. I'd never heard of the Sega Saturn OR the Sony Playstation lol. And to this day, the PS1 remains my favorite old video game console! I do still have and love the Super NES and Nintendo 64, and my Sega Genesis (as well as all of the games I used to have for all four, AND the ones I've since collected over the years). He also had gotten the Diddy Kong Racing VHS promo as well :)

[@Yodaman2]

The things I still wonder about to this day. Where exactly was this filmed, and who were these unaccredited actors?

[@ExiledWolf84]

I remember watching this and laughing my butt off when I was a kid, now here I am almost 25 years later, and I have to admit that it is still honestly pretty damn funny!

[@megamarsonic]

So no one is going to bring up that the Nintendo guys left a copy of Star Fox 64 and four Rumble Paks behind, all of which weren’t even in stores yet? Well at least now I know how Sony got the technology to make the DualShock controller.

[@Wii602006]

I remember watching this when I was little, Starfox64 was one of my most anticipated games out there

[@Lax69]

this was definitely the funniest one yet

[@mbwchampion]

This brings back so many memories. I loved Nintendo Power.

[@jonathanjensen189]

When the pilot guy was mocking them on the megaphone, I could imagine the Sony guy pulling out a gun and blasting him --- he looks like he's got it in him!

[@MikeJones-xz7ki]

I must have watched this a hundred times at least. As exciting as Star Fox was, seeing a few seconds of Goldeneye and Zelda 64 gameplay was even better.

[@ClexYoshi]

This is my personal favorite of any video that I got through Nintendo Power. I do believe between the Diddy Kong Racing one and Hot Newz 64 one that there was a pokemon one that got shipped out, although it was less about the video game and more about introducing the Anime, the TCG, and other such merch.

[@TBTabby]

That one's been on KZbin before, but it got taken down for copyright reasons.

[@xamhehehe7888]

I wish they would have kept promoting games like this. This is the whole reason I bought Star Fox 64. It's this type of shit that never gets old. LOL

[@BitScout]

All these dudes in this video are hilarious. This is by far my favorite, it is truly well written, very funny and entertaining.

[@PaleHorseShabuShabu]

I received this and the Diddy Kong Racing tapes in the mail as well as a VHS tape that was a Final Fantasy VII promo. I still have all three. I never subscribed to Nintendo Power, but I always sent in the registration cards that were in the instruction booklets at the time.

[@Captanuki]

I wish the old FIRST PERSON mode had been kept in the 3D version...

[@pct87]

i miss the 90's, such a messed up decade but one with a bunch of fond memories.

[@MRWINDYMETHANE]

Messed up how?

[@Wesley_C]

I have this at VHS, I got it at the video rental store long time ago.

[@anthonypurnell8181]

i rememer I originally wanted to get Cruisin USA before i saw this video. The Rumble pack totally sold me! Best Decision ever!

[@BlackDukeNukem]

Body: I'm exhausted, better get some sl-- Brain: Bro remember the song from the N64 VHS tapes?

[@Xboxfanuk]

I am sold buying Nintendo Switch Online Expanion Pack to play all those games!

[@Round2GamingChannel]

Hahaha, that was so bad, lol. Great episode man! Love the gamespots at the end too - Yoshi's Island 64. And the half-second clip of Zelda.

[@TheJimFear]

My fav one yet. Great acting! haha

[@ghostbreakergaming]

My brain really wants the guy who talks about SF64 to be Nathan Fillion

[@teejaynumber13]

I always liked how Sega was the big dumb guy, while Sony was the little wise guy.

[@sinskinner]

Listen to the real time dialogue lol

[@Wesley_C]

That Rumble Pak has powerful shaker, that's how it feels the shocking vibration.

[@ChrisHollandGuitar]

8:15 Ha, I never saw any of the early GoldenEye 007 demo footage with the other Bond actors until now. Dr. David Doak mentioned that the dev team were told to remove the other Bonds for multiplayer before release...but he did manage to sneak his own likeness in the game!

[@IsmailofeRegime]

Yeah, GoldenEye apparently wasn't expected to be a gigantic success nor its multiplayer such a big deal, ergo no one had bothered to secure the rights for using the likenesses of the other Bonds. So when the game was nearing the release date, the devs had no choice but to remove them.

[@gedaman]

Those were the days! The only bad thing about the Rumble Pak was the need for AAA batteries.

[@LilSkott]

6:41 "Umm what kinda music should we use? Idk make it that nirvana song but not quite"

[@wesc.addle.9789]

Can’t unhear it now. 😂

[@Alchenaut]

I was so excited for this I brought this VHS to my 4th grade class and our teacher let me make everyone watch it 😂

[@solidkingcobra]

Nintendo owed you for advertising for this game.

[@Pendarr]

@@solidkingcobra 🤣

[@j.thedude]

Hi

[@carltonlong1985]

They better of enjoyed every minute of it

[@Gamerguy8585]

I wish nintendo could make commercials this chessy again. It would be fantastic:)

[@Rountree1985]

What does chess have to do with anything?

[@Gamerguy8585]

@@Rountree1985 cheesy*

[@fruitstar2522]

If that ad was made in the early 2010s, Microsoft would’ve replaced Sega in that ad (due to them becoming a software publisher)

[@monkeyjr58]

Yeah! But, uhhh... I didn't order any pizza...? lmao

[@animedisneyfan]

I'm always watching this video whenever I order Pizza hut! how's that?

[@backup_account_1]

Thank you so much for these videos.

[@RatedRMario21]

What's the Rumble Pak song, "A Scent of Adolescent Soul?"

[@Kevin_Knox]

That line, "are you uh, bob?'' always made me chuckle, still does.

[@starfoxnerd88]

Thats sick i wish i had this for my starfox collection

[@solidkingcobra]

"NOPE! ONLY ON NINTENDO 64!" ... I still remember those words during my years as an impressionable youth this is probably why I was such a Nintendo kid.... thank you for the Nostalgia hit. I just realize that they hired a budget Tom Cruise for the test fighter pilot... it's funny cause I just watched TOP GUN MAVERICK the other day. LEL!

[@irkandcrew]

Still have the VHS 😂 had to show my kids this video and I don't have a VHS player....ohhhh the Nostalgia!

[@b2j135]

Oh god I think I was like 13 or 14 and I found this randomly in the living room of my house looking for something else, but it intrigued me. I THINK it was my brother's but he never had Nintendo Power from what I can remember, so he PROBABLY got it from a friend of his or my dad gave it to him at some point and never told me :/ GOD IT IS SO CHEESY BUT AWESOME!

[@unclepaul1995]

Sony: We Just Can’t Beat You Guys! Luckily, You Just Did.

[@Wesley_C]

He looked like Nathan Fillion.

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

"Do a barrel roll, try a somersault, ANYTHING!" -Daxter, The Lost Frontier

[@gochem3013]

You mean Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory?

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

No.

[@gochem3013]

I remember Star Fox 64 in 1999. But, I'm not here in 1997.

[@CPT85]

The interrogation scenes reminded me of Fox Hunter.

[@johnnyp9727]

OMG, I can't wait for Zelda 64 to come out!

[@KingLeonLionheart]

It was actually the beta version of "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time".

[@jasonmyers8278]

Must be how Sony got the idea to make the Duelshock controller.

[@ClexYoshi]

actually, Pokemon promotional VHS (1998) - Part 1 this is some footage of it if you want to know what it looks like.

[@sspringNG]

The fake Smell of Teen Spirit towards the end is funny

[@TekMoliGy]

this is the best one yet. It's so funny.

[@SoLinkSmash]

This is hilarious, but the reality is that Sony and SEGA would never have teamed up in the late 90s. SEGA was even more screwed by the PlayStation than Nintendo was.

[@animedisneyfan]

oh, please. if you had to convince them about that then they would have used microsoft and sony together. and who knows what microsoft suffered with the popularity of Nintendo in 1997 Sony in 1998 and Sega in 1999.

[@Pendarr]

THIS IS GOOD PIZZA!

[@matthewtwinklewishstarligh3128]

my favorite.!!!!

[@yadigzz]

This tape got me so hyped for Star Fox as a 7 year old.

[@alexanderchristiansen1018]

This cind of commercial would not be okay to day.... Thank good there was a time where it was XD

[@lnu102]

This is why goose bumps exist

[@scottsteele8164]

Wish I had that VHS still this is an absolute classic 👍

[@jbwarner8626]

Sega I could understand, but I don't know why the Sony guy is this desperate - they were eating Nintendo's lunch in 1997. All the Rumble Paks in the world weren't gonna steer us away from Final Fantasy VII 😆

[@ThePSXcollector]

God dam Sony and Sega! those evil bastards! haha

[@exodia9817]

I can only guess this VHS tape came out after E3 1997,right?

[@supa_cold_ninja]

Star fox guy looks like Matt Pat

[@TheDevynator]

What camera do you use, it's crystal clear

[@yauy]

it's a canon vixia hfr400

[@mikekanner2156]

Still using vhs tapes instead of dvd everything I had on vhs I made them dvd

[@Uzumakipavel]

Nintendo must like "And what you have upcoming, guys?"

[@UglyBarnical58]

sega:WE HAVE BAD GAMES COMING OUT

[@FeedEgg]

lol

[@Mythical6255]

(19 years later) Microsoft: WE GOT BAD GAMES COMING OUT

[@berto649]

what a clean rip

[@andrebennett1596]

Is it just me or is the frame rate in Aquis (is that the name of the planet?) better here than the actual game

[@stllbreathnbut_y1844]

Oh great, controversy incoming, 20 years later.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

Seems to be. Certainly makes sense from a marketing perspective to not have frame rate issues when showing off a game. (Also the planet is called Aquas)

[@Rountree1985]

B I T B O I

[@c.slucas7818]

But yeah, probably wen nintendo released these great games, n64 gave the finger, and sega and sony were like, "SCREW U NINTENDO!"

[@BlazikenGod]

love this one xD

[@M_D93]

Do you have promo videos for Ocarina of Time?

[@gochem3013]

WARNING. The following program contains graphic novel. Including: squished head machine of death and electrocuted. Not recommend for ages under 17. Viewer Discretion is advised.

[@megamarsonic]

Peter: “Could you be a little more specific? We’ve got a lot of new games coming out.” Sega: “wE’vE gOt A lOt Of NeW gAmEs CoMiNg OuT!” Okay that part got a laugh out of me. 😂

[@DiddyKongVsLuigi]

My copy of Star Fox 64 came covered in melted Cheddar. Now I know why. 😮

[@BaleshNTP]

SPILL IT!!! ...Bit boy

[@holyballswappfalls1158]

Sony looks like Brandon Dicamillo kidnapping Nintendo in that sweet ass van

[@feschneider1985]

Anyone know what song is playing at 2:40?

[@mariobabjo3playroblox688]

Star fox 64 good 🎮 game

[@jamieoiler5690]

memories of the way we were...fast forward now to this crappy generation smh

[@TinkEdwards]

Is the Sony guy Enrico Colantoni from Veronica Mars?

[@user-dz9tt3qn9p]

This is Fantastic! 7:37

[@Amins88]

Why can't we have Nintendo Directs like this?

[@crimsonbender8682]

When they tested the rumble pack, were they playing Nirvana's Teen Spirit?

[@IsmailofeRegime]

Seems that it's a case where it sounds *like* [insert popular song], but isn't actually [popular song], because that would require paying for the rights.

[@user-dz9tt3qn9p]

90's Nintendo Ads are so Weird 🤣

[@nesmaster14]

6:41 Smells Like N64 Spirit

[@c.slucas7818]

Is that nathan FILLON?

[@Lxldipper]

C.S Lucas no

[@sammerz50]

Do you have Kidsongs on VHS?

[@animedisneyfan]

2:32 START talking!

[@Hudsonrulez]

lol starfox64.com is now linked to a twich account.

[@dannyvails9342]

Who are these guys?

[@radornkeldam]

weef geet ee leet eef geeems ceemeen eet xDDDDDDDDDDD

[@ctt4lfecw]

The Blue Marine sucked lol

[@joshuagoldfinch19]

Wow! This really IIIus cheesy.

[@david_escalante]

what?, starfox64.com takes to some kiddflux on twitch