Premiere Archive: Nintendo Händlervideo IFA '95

This is an upload of our Watch Party Premiere from April 2024, featuring Nintendo Handlervideo IFA 95, a European internal marketing tape that didn't exist anywhere online before we found it! As best we can tell, it was put together for the 1995 Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA Berlin) Electronics Exhibition. Some highlights include German TV ads for Nintendo games and hardware, as well as early Ultra 64 demo footage like the SGI shark demo.
Digitizing this VHS tape is part of our mission to preserve video game related VHS tapes before they degrade away. We'll also be adding it to our browsable archive in the near future.
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[@Zyyk0]

As a german watching this was super fun! If you'd need a translation we could work something out together:)

[@MugiwaraRuffy]

13:25 Calling Gaming print publications "Freak Magazines". Yeah, thats kinda weird to imagine what their PR thought of you. When this kind of magazines basically where the closest to their target audiences. But yeah, those "freaks" also probably not buying Nintendo stuff exclusively.

[@MugiwaraRuffy]

So for every non-German speaker wondering. This is basically some kind of marketing tape, Nintendo gave out to vendors (likely mostly toy vendors and re-sellers) and purchasing managers. What made Nintendo so successfull in the past, sales numbers, brands and characters. Basically a lot of marketing self-congratulation about why retailers should focus selling Nintendo products (and not the new "32-bit competitor console; mainly of course talking about the PlayStation. And Sega Sturn to an lesser extend). In 1995 and beyond