9th March 2011, 5:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 9th March 2011, 5:20 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Incidentally here is the Japanese commercial for Yoshi's Island. Unfortunately they disabled embedding on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCDkfjVE5E
So yeah, notice something? Notice how it actually advertises the GAME instead of a fat man exploding? Notice that instead of it being completely insane and gross, it actually fits the tone of a game that, at heart, is like a children's storybook? Sometimes I get the impression that at NOA, the advertisers at the time actually RESENTED that Nintendo wasn't trying to make gross out games. That commercial really shows off the "child's drawing" art style of the game very well. Granted, it has one other thing that's annoying, baby Mario's crying, but at least it's at a minimum.
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eRUdX-V5Ah8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The GBA version's commercial was a lot better. It went for that "cute ain't cool, he's gotta be shown as some sort of super powered psychopath" angle that Nintendo of America went with for Kirby for years on end, but it's funny, and it doesn't have some fat man exploding.
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vvGFnChcDmA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Meanwhile in Japan, this one again does a great job. It's the same basic concept, but this time with some new hand drawn animation for it. Now that's some effort.
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iWTLpvqd9Bo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Wow, now that was kinda... intense. Donkey Kong's head, a million times as cannonballs, and screaming the name of the game (which in Japan was apparently "Super Donkey Kong 2", so does that mean DKCR was "Super Donkey Kong Returns" over there?). Yeah, they can't all be winners...
One thing's for sure, I really have no idea why BOTH American and Japan were convinced "rapping in an abandoned factory" was the way to go to promote Zelda games for so long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCDkfjVE5E
So yeah, notice something? Notice how it actually advertises the GAME instead of a fat man exploding? Notice that instead of it being completely insane and gross, it actually fits the tone of a game that, at heart, is like a children's storybook? Sometimes I get the impression that at NOA, the advertisers at the time actually RESENTED that Nintendo wasn't trying to make gross out games. That commercial really shows off the "child's drawing" art style of the game very well. Granted, it has one other thing that's annoying, baby Mario's crying, but at least it's at a minimum.
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eRUdX-V5Ah8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The GBA version's commercial was a lot better. It went for that "cute ain't cool, he's gotta be shown as some sort of super powered psychopath" angle that Nintendo of America went with for Kirby for years on end, but it's funny, and it doesn't have some fat man exploding.
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vvGFnChcDmA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Meanwhile in Japan, this one again does a great job. It's the same basic concept, but this time with some new hand drawn animation for it. Now that's some effort.
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iWTLpvqd9Bo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Wow, now that was kinda... intense. Donkey Kong's head, a million times as cannonballs, and screaming the name of the game (which in Japan was apparently "Super Donkey Kong 2", so does that mean DKCR was "Super Donkey Kong Returns" over there?). Yeah, they can't all be winners...
One thing's for sure, I really have no idea why BOTH American and Japan were convinced "rapping in an abandoned factory" was the way to go to promote Zelda games for so long.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)