Since we got a shorter version of it in Germany, I can still hear the rap in German. "Taucht ein in diese Zauberwelt und kämpft wie Link, der Superheld. Rettet die Prinzessin aus teuflischen Klauen, dazu müsst ihr dem Drachen die Rübe abhauen!" All of you, enter this magical realm and fight like Link, the superhero! Save the princess from diabolic claws, but first you'll have to decapitate (literally: knock the turnip off) the dragon!
To this day I'm still wondering how Xbox did as well as it did with that promo featuring the baby rapidly aging as he freefell into his grave lol The 2000's era for video game advertising was crazy
10:40 More or less. It sounds minor, but you need to look at it this way. *If Nintendo hadn't brought out ROB, they might never have gotten the foothold needed to revitalize the entire video game industry.* Department stores didn't want to carry video game consoles because the VG market crash in '83 meant they were left with a shitload of old consoles. So Nintendo's idea was to market their video game console as a "Nintendo Entertainment System" and package it with a toy as the Trojan Horse, as a way to convince retailers to sell them.
One of my favorite video game commercials was for the first ‘Ty the Tasmanian Tiger’ where it shows Spyro, Crash and Sonic all in hospital beds with Boomerangs lodged into some part of their body. Then Ty shows up, says “Boo” and they all flatline in fear.
@@Ability-King-KK Actually Ty recently had two successful Kickstarters to port the first two remastered games to Switch, Xbox and Playstation with a 3rd kickstarter planned soon. With the sales and support for these HD Remasters Krome also hopes to make a new Ty game. I mean if freakin' Bubsy can make a comeback then why not Ty? I mean they made Ty action figures for gosh sakes.
Was..... was that little Ripley walking around pointing and stuff?! Is time seriously going by that fucking quick?! I could have sworn you guys just had her. OMG
Max's sponsor, "Get this great mobile Dragon Quest game from Square Enix!" Max in the vid, "I tried playing Dragon Quest 1, it was ROUGH." Lmao! Just know that every mainline Dragon Quest from 3 onwards are solid, great or even fantastic.
Eh, DQ1 is still great. Granted, I played it on my phone during dead periods, so maybe I'm a little biased. Its not terribly hard or long... I could have worded that better.
@@javiercortez718 Not to peddle my own shit, because I'm sure Max doesn't appreciate people promoting their own stuff (by the way, Max, if you see this, you are a HUGE inspiration to me), but I reviewed the first DQ. Check it out if you want to know what the game is like.
Man, as goofy as they were, I love old game ads. There's just something so hype and/or in-your-face about them. And like the Doods said, the games sold you on their difficulty and content. As well as "Are you bad enough to win?" Love the Fantasy and SFII ones. The people they got actually looked like the characters too, bodies included.
Yea old game ads were so insane and whacko. Not afraid to go off the deep end and be over the top. I miss old game ads and I kinda wish they do something similar to them these days. The ads from the late 90's and early 2000's with how angst they were are freaking hilarious.
23:30 Ah man I so remember this commercial! Like in the early 2000's I used to splice together game trailer DVDs for my buddy that managed an EB Games, and I would throw in easter eggs on the DVD, and i totally put this on there for him cuz he's such a huge Zelda nerd!!
Yeah, it's a real shame that there were practically no commercials to advertise the Classic Mega Man games here in America, and the only forms of advertisements that we got for the games were found in comic books and magazines.
I'm shocked you didn't show some of the commercials for the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Those did better jobs at portraying the imminent doom of the world ending compared to modern Hollywood movies.
He has a photographic memory. You should have seen the stream he did where he recited by heart every single task you need to do to enter one of the most annoying dungeons in Majora's Mask. xD
Probably one of my favorite commercials from Nintendo Is the ocarina of time 3ds trailer with Robin Williams from 2011. That one was just so wholesome.
The funny thing about "Mendel Palace" is that it happens to be one of the first games to be developed by Game Freak before they would go on to making the Pokemon series. ;)
It's crazy to think that in a span of 40 years, we went from pixels on a screen that can move 1 of 2 ways, to strapping mini tv's to our heads while running around new places. What a world we live in today
Pong is 50 this year, but if you want to get older, the first computer games were incredibly basic and used lights, or a sonar like display on a Cathode Ray tube, with incredibly old room computers, and was made almost 70 years ago.
@@thegreatbritishgamer751 that's exactly what I mean bro! I'm only 23 and the industry has changed so much. Just imagining what's gonna happen in the next 40 to 50 years, or even the things we won't see
lol I'm surprised Max stopped and watched these. My friend and I love watching old commercials. Aside from a bunch of n64 stuff one of my favorite commercials ever is the fucking Sonic pasta with the "Sean!!! Lunch!!" then "Food. Gooood." What a gamer.
18:28 Look, Mike Tyson's job was getting punched in the head for twenty years. I wouldn't trust any of his memories of the '80s. I certainly wouldn't have fared any better.
We can all agree that as wacky as commercials were back then, they had so much life and dedication for them that fit the Era. If anything it made more memories with its u forgettable early cgi and special effects.. I'm lowkey jealous lol
22:45 YESSSS!!! Unfortunately I had to call it early that night but I was hoping they would get to this one as I saw it ONE TIME on TV and then it disappeared, I can't understand why that would be :)
23:22 Scha Dara Parr (mostly remembered as the Japanese Beastie Boys) scores the Zelda ad. The song taken from one of their own, titled Game Boy. You're welcome
If the NES commercials were wild, just wait until the PlayStation 1 & 2 era. Remember those weird artsy commercials? Remember the weird alien Scottish girl commercial?
Not to sound like an old man, but man I miss fun TV commercials. It feels like commercials now are so boring and corporate. Like there's just not much personality anymore
4:50 This is clearly just Max when he was younger. He was sitting in a big colourful room with random junk all over the walls talking about video games to a disembodied audience back then, and he still is today.
No Gameboy advance falling out of my mouth after eating a Gogurt is one of the biggest disappointments of my youth. That Nintendo commercial LIED TO ME!
In an era of weird video game commercials, the Sega Saturn ones took the cake. My favorite is the "Theater of the Eye" one. "Urgent synapse on line 2. It's the sphincter." "WHAT IS GOING ON UP THERE?!"
Dragon warrior my favorite game of all and that game that got me into RPGs. I have every Dragon warrior/quest games. Looking forward to the 36th anniversary remake of Dragon quest 3.
Yes Max James Avery aka Uncle Phil was a voice actor too, considering he was the voice of Killerwatt on The Real Ghostbusters (1986-'89), Shredder on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-'93), and War Machine on Iron Man (1994-'95).
@@seatspud Yup Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling in '85. While Aron Kincaid who voiced Sky Lynx on the original Transformers was the voice of The Iron Sheik.
The guy in the Zelda Link to the past commercial his name is John Kassir. He is also the voice actor for the Crypt Keeper from the" Tales from the crypt" show
Really wish awesome live action commercials really came back that looked like they where a part of the story. The Metroid commercials where good. The Super Metroid one they went to the effort of getting American actors for a Japanese commercial.
13:58 That wasn't Simmons, that was Damiani getting into his head with it. I know, I can practically smell the trolling and the Raisin' Canes from here.
One video game commercial that always stuck with me even though I only ever saw it twice was the one for Chrono Trigger on the SNES, where the voiceover is entirely Japanese but for the subtitles English that did not match up, ending with "Word." or "Cool."
I think the ones that stuck with me the most were _Crash Bandicoot,_ _Mischief Makers,_ _Legend of Dragoon,_ _Bushido Blade,_ and _Golden Sun: The Lost Age._ _"Not everyone can be a samurai warrior! Not everyone can live by the power of the sword! And not everyone… can die with honor…_ _…I, for example, make kazoos!"_
Awesome seeing all these old commercials again! I think I remember just about every single one of those NES ads--except for MegaMan 3, which is weird considering that's something I'd have been the most hyped for back then!!
I remember getting Game Genie for PS1 for Christmas and being SO upset 😂. I asked for a Pro Action Replay...for...reasons lol and I told her ahead of time, THIS IS NOT AN ITEM YOU CAN GET AT TOYS R US OR FUNCOLAND WAY ACROSS TOWN you can only get it at one of the local game shops LITERALLY down the street and it's HALF THE PRICE. So I got the game genie 😥😂
I remember seeing a Japanese PlayStation 4 commercial where you have a lady get angry at a guy who use snake's arm cannon from MGS:The Phantom pain and he use it to tell her be quiet then it they sing that "we can do anything" also the boy and bird creature from the last Guardian appeared then they all say we can do anything in the end but my favorite part is the guy with the rocket hand punch a dinosaur bro that was awesome.
The Link to the Past commercial is too damn iconic. While I wasn't even alive when LttP was released, I watched it a lot on TH-cam when I was a kid.
You could totally reshoot it and release it today and people would love it.
Since we got a shorter version of it in Germany, I can still hear the rap in German.
"Taucht ein in diese Zauberwelt
und kämpft wie Link, der Superheld.
Rettet die Prinzessin aus teuflischen Klauen,
dazu müsst ihr dem Drachen die Rübe abhauen!"
All of you, enter this magical realm
and fight like Link, the superhero!
Save the princess from diabolic claws,
but first you'll have to decapitate (literally: knock the turnip off) the dragon!
I used to watch a lot of these on Nostalgia Critic.
It's incredible. Nostalgia Critic is Nostalgic.
27:54 Losing my mind over the contrast between the golf commercial and the Dragon Quest sponsor seconds later
I really hope that they react to more 90s & 2000s commercials next time
same
Smash original comercial is still one of the best ever
They did on stream, dont know if they will upload it here.
@@Jose-se9pu wanna see
Same
>"The most insensitve and disgusting comercial ever!!"
*Not even half a second later.*
>"Thank you SE for sponsoring the video!"
To this day I'm still wondering how Xbox did as well as it did with that promo featuring the baby rapidly aging as he freefell into his grave lol
The 2000's era for video game advertising was crazy
The PS3 baby as well was terrifying
@@Theiupsilon seriously! I was like 7 years old when I saw that. Gave me nightmares.
And THAT Juiced commercial.
@@Theiupsilon If you think THAT’S surreal, just go watch what they did for the PS2’s “THE THIRD PLACE” ad campaign
Well, it only did well in the US
10:40 More or less. It sounds minor, but you need to look at it this way. *If Nintendo hadn't brought out ROB, they might never have gotten the foothold needed to revitalize the entire video game industry.*
Department stores didn't want to carry video game consoles because the VG market crash in '83 meant they were left with a shitload of old consoles. So Nintendo's idea was to market their video game console as a "Nintendo Entertainment System" and package it with a toy as the Trojan Horse, as a way to convince retailers to sell them.
Ripley going "OOOOOO" with the balloon is definitely the most adorable thing and the greatest part of this video
One of my favorite video game commercials was for the first ‘Ty the Tasmanian Tiger’ where it shows Spyro, Crash and Sonic all in hospital beds with Boomerangs lodged into some part of their body. Then Ty shows up, says “Boo” and they all flatline in fear.
Ironic considering Spyro, Crash, and Sonic are still talked about and loved to this day, while Ty is nothing but a footnote in gaming history.
I know you're not lying but like no frickin way
@@Ability-King-KK Actually Ty recently had two successful Kickstarters to port the first two remastered games to Switch, Xbox and Playstation with a 3rd kickstarter planned soon. With the sales and support for these HD Remasters Krome also hopes to make a new Ty game.
I mean if freakin' Bubsy can make a comeback then why not Ty? I mean they made Ty action figures for gosh sakes.
@@marrubium8559 Yes way. It's so amazing. I do enjoy the Ty games but that commercial will always stick with me. I miss the 2000s man.
@@Ability-King-KK True, but the games recently got some great remasters. The games are also fondly remembered by Aussie gamers that grew up with them.
Was..... was that little Ripley walking around pointing and stuff?!
Is time seriously going by that fucking quick?! I could have sworn you guys just had her. OMG
Max's sponsor, "Get this great mobile Dragon Quest game from Square Enix!"
Max in the vid, "I tried playing Dragon Quest 1, it was ROUGH."
Lmao! Just know that every mainline Dragon Quest from 3 onwards are solid, great or even fantastic.
Eh, DQ1 is still great. Granted, I played it on my phone during dead periods, so maybe I'm a little biased. Its not terribly hard or long...
I could have worded that better.
@@nicksrandomreviews yeah you could’ve worded that better. I was considering playing DQ but I like my RPG’s hard and long
@@javiercortez718 Not to peddle my own shit, because I'm sure Max doesn't appreciate people promoting their own stuff (by the way, Max, if you see this, you are a HUGE inspiration to me), but I reviewed the first DQ.
Check it out if you want to know what the game is like.
The Zelda dancing is just THE best one. Just do that shit again for BOTW2 and I'm sure everyone will buy it haha
Link and Zelda synchronized dancing with a disembodied hand and a demonic corpse, Zelda falls into a bottomless pit, dancing continues.
Best gaming commercial: anything with Segata Sanshiro
Man, as goofy as they were, I love old game ads. There's just something so hype and/or in-your-face about them.
And like the Doods said, the games sold you on their difficulty and content. As well as "Are you bad enough to win?"
Love the Fantasy and SFII ones. The people they got actually looked like the characters too, bodies included.
Yea old game ads were so insane and whacko. Not afraid to go off the deep end and be over the top. I miss old game ads and I kinda wish they do something similar to them these days. The ads from the late 90's and early 2000's with how angst they were are freaking hilarious.
Videogames companies now: "dont fight over videogames, guys"
Also videogames companies in the '90s:
When 90% of your audience wasn't even alive when these commercials aired
Guess I'm in the 10% then.
10 percent group here.
@@lipstickzombie4981 Me too.
@@nicodalusong149 Right in there myself
well then how do you do fellow 10%
23:30 Ah man I so remember this commercial!
Like in the early 2000's I used to splice together game trailer DVDs for my buddy that managed an EB Games, and I would throw in easter eggs on the DVD, and i totally put this on there for him cuz he's such a huge Zelda nerd!!
Wow, I've never seen that Mega Man 3 commercial before! I miss the time when the name "Mega Man" commanded so much respect and awe. "IT'S OUT!"
Same. That time will rise again soon.
Yeah, it's a real shame that there were practically no commercials to advertise the Classic Mega Man games here in America, and the only forms of advertisements that we got for the games were found in comic books and magazines.
Seriously, Capcom would be smart marketing-wise to advertise SF6 in that form. That'll be the call telling Sony that 'we're not your bitches anymore!'
I'm shocked you didn't show some of the commercials for the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Those did better jobs at portraying the imminent doom of the world ending compared to modern Hollywood movies.
YES! Some of the most terrifying marketing ever!
That Zelda commercial from Japan with the dancing was godlike!!! So much Nostalgia.
Tekken 3: it keeps marriages going for years to come.
Proof that it's one of the greatest fighting games of all time. 🤣
22:45 That commercial with the guy exploding was inspired by a sketch in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: "Mr. Creosote."
13:55 the best part of the video LMAO, why does Simmons remember this whole commercial 😂
He has a photographic memory. You should have seen the stream he did where he recited by heart every single task you need to do to enter one of the most annoying dungeons in Majora's Mask. xD
Probably one of my favorite commercials from Nintendo Is the ocarina of time 3ds trailer with Robin Williams from 2011. That one was just so wholesome.
The funny thing about "Mendel Palace" is that it happens to be one of the first games to be developed by Game Freak before they would go on to making the Pokemon series. ;)
It's crazy to think that in a span of 40 years, we went from pixels on a screen that can move 1 of 2 ways, to strapping mini tv's to our heads while running around new places.
What a world we live in today
Pong is 50 this year, but if you want to get older, the first computer games were incredibly basic and used lights, or a sonar like display on a Cathode Ray tube, with incredibly old room computers, and was made almost 70 years ago.
@@thegreatbritishgamer751 that's exactly what I mean bro! I'm only 23 and the industry has changed so much.
Just imagining what's gonna happen in the next 40 to 50 years, or even the things we won't see
lol I'm surprised Max stopped and watched these. My friend and I love watching old commercials. Aside from a bunch of n64 stuff one of my favorite commercials ever is the fucking Sonic pasta with the "Sean!!! Lunch!!" then "Food. Gooood." What a gamer.
This was awesome!!! Please Please PLEASE upload you guys watching the Segata Sanshiro commercials too!!!
18:28 Look, Mike Tyson's job was getting punched in the head for twenty years. I wouldn't trust any of his memories of the '80s. I certainly wouldn't have fared any better.
We can all agree that as wacky as commercials were back then, they had so much life and dedication for them that fit the Era. If anything it made more memories with its u forgettable early cgi and special effects.. I'm lowkey jealous lol
22:45 YESSSS!!! Unfortunately I had to call it early that night but I was hoping they would get to this one as I saw it ONE TIME on TV and then it disappeared, I can't understand why that would be :)
Just to know that Segata Sanshiro Was Badass in the 90s for Video Game Commercials
I never even knew they made a commercial for Caveman Games. Or, as I knew it on the old C64, Caveman Ugh-lympics.
The end was the best . Do more of these this was great
I love whenever Max just commands his friends to shut up, and they listen.
Max is such a pal to have a good gaming chair for all his bros
23:17 this had to be a take on janet jacksons rhythm of the nation era
Lmfao!!!
That reaction to the golf commercial. I wish I was live for that
Finally, the content I subscribed for
Edit: Simmons, wtf was that last commercial!?
Im an OG from these days and it feels weird to see these ads again. How the hell must it feel for young kids now? Such a trip
Where's Segata Samshiro?!? He literally died to save us all!
They watched it in the same stream as these. Should be up on YT soon with any luck.
That Zelda commercial was AMAZING and he s right the german was almost as good.
23:22 Scha Dara Parr (mostly remembered as the Japanese Beastie Boys) scores the Zelda ad. The song taken from one of their own, titled Game Boy.
You're welcome
You guys should do more of this
If the NES commercials were wild, just wait until the PlayStation 1 & 2 era. Remember those weird artsy commercials? Remember the weird alien Scottish girl commercial?
Seeing little Ripley walk around them is so adorable!
Not to sound like an old man, but man I miss fun TV commercials. It feels like commercials now are so boring and corporate. Like there's just not much personality anymore
We need more videos like this. I laughed to the point of near asphyxiation
I've never seen these Japanese Street Fighter 2 ads. They're honestly amazing. This reminds me of the Japanese TV ads for Fatal Fury Special.
Fun fact: Mendel Palace was actually the first game ever developed by Game Freak (AKA the guys who make Pokémon!)
Max coming strong w great 2022 content 🔥‼️
4:50 This is clearly just Max when he was younger. He was sitting in a big colourful room with random junk all over the walls talking about video games to a disembodied audience back then, and he still is today.
lol, sponsored by Dragon Quest Tact, then in the video Max sees DQ1 and says "I tried playing that game, it was ROUGH." So funny!
you could tell me that bayou billy commercial was an outtake from California Big Hunks and i'd believe you
lmao i love a good RLM reference when i find one in the blue
17:28 Now replace those with head with beloved series and you have the perfect image of modern day Konami
Holy shiiit. That was awesome! I want more reactions on the commercial))))) this gonna be great)))
If ads were like this now I'd start watching TV again just for this.
Fax!
Holy crap Ripley's walkin'...
It’s so strange that you have to censor an ad on TH-cam, that was aired on national television.
Great Stuff!
23:17 Best Zelda commercial ever.
I absolutely love this!! Those ninja turtles commercials and Bad Dudes for Nintendo brought me back in those Nickelodeon days man
Crystalis is one of the greatest rpgs ever made. It is criminally underrated.
Max asked if Uncle Phil was a voice artist? Does he know he did Shredder in the original TMNT cartoon?
I guess Max was suffering from the Megdela effect.
No Gameboy advance falling out of my mouth after eating a Gogurt is one of the biggest disappointments of my youth. That Nintendo commercial LIED TO ME!
In an era of weird video game commercials, the Sega Saturn ones took the cake. My favorite is the "Theater of the Eye" one.
"Urgent synapse on line 2. It's the sphincter."
"WHAT IS GOING ON UP THERE?!"
25:40 And this is for your mother
Dragon warrior my favorite game of all and that game that got me into RPGs. I have every Dragon warrior/quest games. Looking forward to the 36th anniversary remake of Dragon quest 3.
would be cool if max reacted to some of the neo geo commercials with live action cosplay like the ones from fatal fury and art of fighting.
Yo Jitsu Squad just got a release date, March 8th! Hype Beam LET’S GO!!!!
Ahh I see we're getting a head start on the 2022 Twitch moments compilation.
I love these commercials. So many of these. I remember that witch doctor commercial 😆
The reaction to that last commercial was amazing, holy shit🤣🤣🤣
Yes Max James Avery aka Uncle Phil was a voice actor too, considering he was the voice of Killerwatt on The Real Ghostbusters (1986-'89), Shredder on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-'93), and War Machine on Iron Man (1994-'95).
And The Junkyard Dog (R.I.P. JYD!) on the Hulk Hogan cartoon. Yes, that actually happened.
(Hulkster was voiced by Brad Garret as well)
@@seatspud Yup Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling in '85. While Aron Kincaid who voiced Sky Lynx on the original Transformers was the voice of The Iron Sheik.
The guy in the Zelda Link to the past commercial his name is John Kassir. He is also the voice actor for the Crypt Keeper from the" Tales from the crypt" show
Miss these commercials so much, still remember watching the pokemon bus driver commercial and those wwe/wwf games commercials
I forgot how insane old game commercials were. Was sort of hoping to see the You Cannot Beat Us commercial from Nintendo.
Same
Sometimes i stay up night wondering what happened to bayou billy
Passed through that gator, and became swamp fertilizer, obviously.
Really wish awesome live action commercials really came back that looked like they where a part of the story. The Metroid commercials where good. The Super Metroid one they went to the effort of getting American actors for a Japanese commercial.
The Sonic one from S2 along with the Yoshi's island one still sticks in my head the most.
Uncle Phil was the original Shredder too
You guys should react to the old PS1 and N64 commercials too. Hell even the gamecube ones and gameboy advance were GREAT
ah the 80s, when barely dressed oiled up men breaking into the room of some random kid and giving him a cryptic task was normal
The doods point at the screen in awe while Ripley points at a balloon in awe.
The ad for banjo-tooie is one of my all time favourite videogame ads. It's funny. lol
YO!
YOU STILL DONT HAVE A SEGA CD YET?!
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, NINTENDO TO MAKE ONE?!
13:58 That wasn't Simmons, that was Damiani getting into his head with it. I know, I can practically smell the trolling and the Raisin' Canes from here.
One video game commercial that always stuck with me even though I only ever saw it twice was the one for Chrono Trigger on the SNES, where the voiceover is entirely Japanese but for the subtitles English that did not match up, ending with "Word." or "Cool."
I think the ones that stuck with me the most were _Crash Bandicoot,_ _Mischief Makers,_ _Legend of Dragoon,_ _Bushido Blade,_ and _Golden Sun: The Lost Age._
_"Not everyone can be a samurai warrior! Not everyone can live by the power of the sword! And not everyone… can die with honor…_
_…I, for example, make kazoos!"_
11:27 little did Max know that *CAPCOM PRESENTS*
Awesome seeing all these old commercials again! I think I remember just about every single one of those NES ads--except for MegaMan 3, which is weird considering that's something I'd have been the most hyped for back then!!
This is more fun than a live ferret down my trousers!
Please do more reactions of these, it’s amazing
25:15 "I can't believe it! Now my PANTS are chafing me!"
I remember getting Game Genie for PS1 for Christmas and being SO upset 😂. I asked for a Pro Action Replay...for...reasons lol and I told her ahead of time, THIS IS NOT AN ITEM YOU CAN GET AT TOYS R US OR FUNCOLAND WAY ACROSS TOWN you can only get it at one of the local game shops LITERALLY down the street and it's HALF THE PRICE. So I got the game genie 😥😂
Yo, Crazytown's Shifty at 4:48!?
I remember seeing a Japanese PlayStation 4 commercial where you have a lady get angry at a guy who use snake's arm cannon from MGS:The Phantom pain and he use it to tell her be quiet then it they sing that "we can do anything" also the boy and bird creature from the last Guardian appeared then they all say we can do anything in the end but my favorite part is the guy with the rocket hand punch a dinosaur bro that was awesome.
Keep it up Max! You're awesome ❤
That last commercial had me dying 🤣
My favorite commercials are the ones that have nothing to do with the game until the end and then you’re like “What”
Dude the ZELDAAAA commercial guy is the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt lmao