0:04 - Tetris 0:35 - The Adventures of Bayou Billy 1:05 - Metroid 1:18 - Rad Racer 1:35 - Iron Sword 2:06 - Mendel Palace 2:36 - Acclaim Remote Controller 3:07 - Dr. Mario 3:37 - Anticipation 4:07 - Jeff's Video Game Review: Battletoads 4:37 - Dragon Warrior 5:08 - Nintendo Power Set featuring Power Pad 5:38 - Solar Jetman 6:09 - Top Gun The Second Mission 6:39 - Total Recall 6:49 - Crystalis 7:19 - Fester's Quest 7:48 - Caveman Games 8:18 - Yoshi's Cookie 8:49 - Tetris 9:19 - Swords & Serpents 9:49 - Nintendo Entertainment System 10:19 - Kirby's Adventure 10:50 - Mega Man 3 11:20 - StarTropics 11:51 - Game Genie 12:22 - Paperboy 12:52 - Ultima Exodus 13:22 - Nintendo Entertainment System featuring The Legend of Zelda 13:53 - Bases Loaded II Second Season 14:24 - California Games 14:54 - Cabal 15:09 - Legacy of the Wizard 15:39 - Nintendo Power magazine 16:09 - Super Mario 1, 2, and 3 16:36 - Star Wars 17:05 - Jacke Chan's Action Kung fu 17:35 - Nintendo Entertainment System 18:06 - Marble Madness 18:36 - Tetris 2 19:06 - Adventure Island II 19:35 - Super C 20:05 - Nintendo Entertainment System Deluxe Set 20:36 - RoboCop and Bad Dudes 21:05 - Iron Sword (repeat) 21:21 - Double Dragon II 21:36 - Ultra Games featuring Metal Gear, Defender of the Crown, and Skate or Die 22:05 - Mike Tyson's Punch-Out 22:31 - Super Mario Bros. 3 23:01 - The Rocketeer 23:31 - Yoshi 23:59 - Hoops featuring Bases Loaded 24:28 - Nintendo Entertainment System featuring Rob the Video Robot and the Zapper 24:59 - Disney's Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers 25:29 - The Battle of Olympus and The Guardian Legend 25:59 - Air Fortress 27:00 - Gauntlet II 27:25 - Tetris 27:55 - Supersonic The Joystick 28:27 - Little Nemo The Dream Master 28:57 - Super Mario Bros. 2 29:27 - Super Mario 1, 2, and 3 (repeat) 29:54 - Xexyz 30:25 - RBI Baseball 30:55 - Konami video games 31:25 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 31:56 - Sky Shark 32:26 - Miracle Keyboard 32:56 - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 33:26 - Ninja Gaiden 33:57 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game 34:27 - Power Glove 34:57 - The Legend of Zelda 35:27 - The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants 35:42 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch 36:13 - WWF WrestleMania 36:27 - Back to the Future II and III 36:43 - Astyanax 37:13 - Batman 37:43 - Back to the Future 38:13 - Simon's Quest 38:44 - NES Max 38:59 - Super Sprint 39:30 - Top Secret Golglo 13 40:00 - Freedom Stick 40:32 - Captain Skyhawk 40:47 - NARC 41:02 - Double Dragon III 41:17 - The Punisher 41:31 - Ice Hockey 41:46 - Acclaim Double Player System
Imagine being one of those children, now being in your late 30’s/early 40’s telling your coworkers that you were once in a Nintendo commercial for some reason
I was in a couple toys commercials back in the 80s I show them to my kids they get a kick out it !!! Some of them I didn't even get paid in cash just the toys we were pushing but....that was good enough for me!!!!
A huge compilation of NES-era TV commercials - I've been collecting clips for this collection for quite a long time now. I hope you all enjoy the nostalgia watching it as much as I did while making it!
j ss Seriously! During cartoons it would show up in just about every commercial break, and that song was so catchy! I remember the opera singing Tetris one playing a ton too.
Man how can I not love this.... I was born in the perfect era, I had Atari 2600 by age 5, searched far and wide in 1986 for a Nintendo Entertainment System before I FINALLY got one (still have it, works fine). Even got the Top Loader in '93. There was NOTHING better than hanging out with friends (sleepovers or just hanging out) playing NES all day (and sometimes night), best times ever.
YeAh for me was the same i wanna back to this days again too it was amazing and so fun me and one nightbour girlfriend everynday wake early and going in my home yo play all day nes games it was si fun now this days everything today is so stupid and super borring i wanna back to this old days on old tv to plat this games all day was the best time i remember how the days was just like this everytime strong sun in hot ds and we was inside playing nes was just more fun then the games today for thst just i wanna back to this old time again
I love how these old commercials hyped up these games like they were the coolest thing ever. That's the best thing about these commercials. You don't find anything like this now days.
yeah true they make them looks like they are the the best thiing but real they are not so good like how tho they say if you play them the more of the games are just tupid and the just make them look like something big and verry amaxzing :D but was fun dd3 was verry good game
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Well at those times the graphics were so basic that you needed some imagination to imagine the worlds a little and the commercials did something similar avoiding showing much of the game itself and instead making clips with actors etc.
Agreed in some cases... Like Crystalis deserved a better commercial. That game was so much better than the ad showed, which DIDNT show any gameplay. That game is definitely one of my NES favorites.
Nes, megadrive and playstation adverts in the 90’s were simply amazing... i could literally sit and watch every single 1 of them back to back for hours and hours
@@austinmorrison6953 I follow the news too. I was listening to the news on NBC4 and WTOP lately and they were talking about how much time kids spend playing video games. Kids don’t have too much time on their hands because they have to focus on school.
That's a really lovely way of putting it. The sad part is, as a kid I kinda just figured that's the way things would be forever. Like, these commercials are so crazy and awesome, things will just keep being this way forever, but get even MORE crazy and awesome in the future. But it kinda just got stuck there in that timeframe. I feel lachrymose.
@@bezoticallyyours83 Im talking about those days, society, being in 2020, sitting around looking at lame ass losers on tik tok all day, karens, covid, ya know being a happy kid chillen playin nintendo instead.
yeah me too it was cool when i was kid i have this game with the purple batman and that game with double dragon 3 it was so good days i play them s o much it was more good then the pc games now and ps4 bc they have verry good and realystic graphics but the old games like double dragon 3 is the best bc they are the first thing what i play and they are the start of the gameing for that this old games are more good then the now games now for ps4 or for pc old days i will remember them forever how much time i try to finish double dragon 3 when iwas kid it was so good
@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate its the primacy effect. plus old games were terrible and caused violence. i remember killing my brother because he deleted my save.
Totally RADICAL!! EXCELLEEENT! MONDO BODACIOUS DUUUUDE!! COWABUNGA!!! You really know how to play with my nostalgia lenses, NintendoComplete! This is great, and I'm always on a TH-cam 90s commercial binge nowadays anyway, so this is *TOTALLY AWESOME!*
This is truly nostalgia overload and I am here for it! What a time to be alive?! I loved these commercials as they hyped up the games. You didn’t know what to expect and I actually liked that. There is something about the memories of anything Nintendo that always makes me long for the days of my youth.
Thanks for posting this! I remember so many of these commercials especially the Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris 2. This is back when I actually enjoyed watching commercials lol.
BAYOU BILLY! Man, that game was brutally hard! Kids these days just don’t know what it was to have a game mercilessly kick your ass and then make you start all over from the very beginning. LOL
That's probably one of the worst games ever made. The difficulty is so ridiculous because of the 20 hits to kill each enemy. Compare that pile of shit to a brilliant beat em up like Final Fight. Just terrible. I remember renting that game from a Video Cube back in probably 1990 and not playing much of it at all over the weekend. Terrible stuff.
@@user-tl4fi6oy8d Me and my cousin rented it from our local video store as kids back when it first came out and it frustrated us for an entire weekend. It was so hard that it wasn’t even any fun. I don’t think either of us ever played it again.
Mega Man and Castlevania are great examples of games that are hard but fun so you'd keep trying to beat them even if you kept losing. The gameplay of Billy is so boring and tedious that it was easy to stop playing and return the game and forget all about it.
@@BangBang-hk4rg I dunno if you have any interest in it anymore, but if you do, you ought to try the Japanese version (called Mad City). It's much fairer and easier, and a lot more fun because of it. It feels like a good classic Konami game. The US version had the difficulty pumped up so far that it all but ruined it. I actually translated the Japanese version if you wanna check it out: th-cam.com/video/HXjIcnuxM7g/w-d-xo.html
woaw... people would look at the nes games and say "this is it, graphics has reach it's limits and". it's just so fun to see how far we've gotten and to see the future games coming
I don't know if anyone caught this, but the Simon's Quest commerical uses gameplay from the FDS version as you can hear the extra sound channel that the NES version doesn't have.
What's interesting to me is seeing how heavily video game advertising relied on actors & props to represent the game's concepts, whereas today's video game commercials are almost exclusively actual game footage.
yeah true dude me too i have double dragon 3 she was amazing and i play her so much when i was kid it was so fun i will remember my old days forever how much times i try to finish this game when i was kid and that game with the purple batman and that game for chip and dale dam it was so good days
I'm now 46 years old and Nintendo was the best thing in my life when it first came out. My brother and I wanted this system so bad but my family was a little poor.....not crazy poor but just middle class and my Pop always provided for us and payed the bills and fed us and worked really hard. So when Nintendo came out we got the hand me downs like the Atari 2600 from family friends that knew we couldn't afford it. We were happy with the Atari. We'd then visit other kids houses and watch them play NES but never could play. Most kids were pretty stingy about not letting my brother and I play. It sucked and hurt but what can you expect from kids. Our next door neighbors got a system and we used to go over and just watch them play Super Mario Bros. and Pro Wrestling and when we asked if we could play they always said later but never. Another friend of the family got a system and he'd let us play a few times but it still hurt because we loved video games. Finally my Pop told my brother and I that if we'd make the A, B honor roll in school in our report card for the next period in combination with keeping up with our chores and keeping our room clean, he promised he'd get us a Nintendo. So we worked very hard and did it. We both got A B honor roll in our report cards and as soon as we came home we were itching so bad for our Pop to come home from work. We saw him drive up and we greeted him and shoved our report cards in his face like animals and he was like...Calm down. He looked at them, then looked at my Mom with a smile and grin and said, "I'm proud of you boys." Then said, let me go to the bathroom first and meet me outside at the truck. He drove us to the Toy's R Us and we walked in that store so excited and he said get your Nintendo. We picked the ticket and he paid for it and walked over to the pick up room and we left with our Nintendo Entertainment System that was finally ours!!! So fucking Awesome. We only had Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt for a few months but that was okay with me as we humbled ourselves to finally play our video games in peace in our own room with my Pop playing with us as well. He loved video games as well. These commercials were so awesome as I was living life in this era and it was so very nostalgic and meant something to me. Fast forward to 2020 I have every single game I have always wanted but never had, every played, rented, etc. and every accessory and multiple systems that I have learned to repair and it feels great. Fuck all the stingy kids that made my brother and I feel like crap. As old as I am that still stings as a bad dumb memory sad to say but I now have the funds to collect everything I want as a kid and now have. Sorry the for long story but I just felt like I needed to share this story in anyone out there felt this way etc. lol. So Fucking ey.....so I now tell my kids that I was in a gang back in the day. I sport my fingers and say with a Mexican accent..."I'm N.E.S. 4 LIFE!!!" lol ...Thanks for posting this wonderful video! A+++
Kids were definitely stingy back then with their Nintendo... We got one in 87 for Christmas though it was my gift I knew it was for me and my brother as he got the 13" color TV that year. Our parents knew we would have to learn how to share because he had the TV and I had the Nintendo lol... Pro wrestling, Contra, Super Contra,Mike Tyson's punch out,Rc Pro Am,man me and my bro had a blast. Luckily for me he grew out of playing games so two or three years later I wind up being the one getting the Super Nintendo all to myself and that's when I really started playing games like Zelda final fantasy and RPG games and I've never looked back
I miss the golden age when everyone totally talked rad, like Bill and Ted, and everyone’s creativity was so fun and loose.. I was just a kid, but it sure seemed awesome then and Still.
Yeah me too it was amazing old time when i play them in that time when i was a kid i know it someday i will wanna back and inwas right i rly wanna back in this old timenagain now it was so fun
bayou billy was one of the toughest games I remember playing! that 2nd racing board seemed it never ended! but once you got that whip...and ironsword after awhile, I just saved enough money to play roll the bones. that might have been the beginning of many gambling habits to come. def influenced me
Remember going to Toys R Us and pulling a ticket from the game isle, pay for that piece of paper and proceed to the acrylic security game room. Then read the instruction manual in the car ride home. All we had was a few game review magazines, commercials and box art. Good times.
“Festers Quest is one tough video game!” Damn they nailed it with that commercial lol. That game is tough as shit, kind of like the Dark Souls of its day...yea i spent way too much time playing that game..
Mendel Palace was Satoshi Tajiri's first video game before Pokemon. Anticipation was hilarious because of all the weapons that were in it, if you've seen James and Mike Mondays on Cinemassacre they showcased that.
I love how they focused on immersion and the barrier between TV and real life. I remember that when I was a kid, and it really excited me. It was exactly what I wanted. They should do that nowadays.
I remember the commercials for Dragon Warrior, Mega Man 3, StarTropics (wish they picked it back up with a sequel like they did with Kid Icarus), NES/Zelda Rap, Mike Tysons punch out, zelda 2, castlevania 2: simons quest & i could have sworn there was one for Gauntlet. Was surprised to see one for Metroid. As cheesy as these look now, these were awesome back in their heyday & bring back memories
The man providing the VO in the commercial for Yoshi's 🍪 is veteran VO 👨🎤 Pat Fraley, notable as the voice of Denver in Denver: The Last Dinosaur, Wildcat in Disney's TaleSpin and Mr. Thompson and Krang in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja 🐢 animated series.
I got a kick out of the Solar Jetman commercial. I received the game for Christmas and could never get far due to the difficulty. "No one said it was going to be easy"? You damn right..
These commercials are actually better then playing most of the games by yourself in your room with the blinds closed during a wonderful Saturday morning.I feel the spark of that nostalgic feeling that’s quickly fleeting during some parts.Probably why some games came with t-shirt and poster keeping you immersed in the fantasy.
христиан кискинов Don’t give up. I finally beat the game this year after pretty much rage quitting at 13 or 14. If it’s taught me anything, you just need to stick with it and learn the game, but it can be beaten if you stick with it.
I loved this game as a kid and beat it often.Then found out as an adult the Internet declared it one of the hardest games ever.Back then every game was hard.
Yes! It's all coming back to me! That scent which welcomes you, when opening the box and pulling out that freshly new cartridge, carefully wrapped in plastic, along with the manual and some registration cards.
Same here & I was a baby in 1988, that year is when I was born now I'm 32 years old & supernintendo will always b my favorite & I play it from time 2 time
The purple batman double dragon 2 and 3. And contra super c i remember them i have them when I was a kid this was amazing games i wanna back to the old days was more good then now
Man, i miss going to my local mom and pop video rental shop, it was magical. Loved browsing the games trying to make a decision. Having $5 in your pocket on a Friday in that place made you feel like a king!
What really caused it to sink in for me that this was a long time ago was when I read a TH-cam comment on a similar video to this that said, "My dad used to play these." I'm old enough to be that dad now. I mean, stuff like this was the future when I was a kid. It really was, though it's laughable and cheesy now. You kids don't know how good you have it. Back in the day we didn't have Steam... we had to go to Blockbuster Video and rent a game cartridge and bring it home, and even then you probably had to blow into it a few times to get it to work. Can you imagine that? So primitive by today's standards!
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0:04 - Tetris
0:35 - The Adventures of Bayou Billy
1:05 - Metroid
1:18 - Rad Racer
1:35 - Iron Sword
2:06 - Mendel Palace
2:36 - Acclaim Remote Controller
3:07 - Dr. Mario
3:37 - Anticipation
4:07 - Jeff's Video Game Review: Battletoads
4:37 - Dragon Warrior
5:08 - Nintendo Power Set featuring Power Pad
5:38 - Solar Jetman
6:09 - Top Gun The Second Mission
6:39 - Total Recall
6:49 - Crystalis
7:19 - Fester's Quest
7:48 - Caveman Games
8:18 - Yoshi's Cookie
8:49 - Tetris
9:19 - Swords & Serpents
9:49 - Nintendo Entertainment System
10:19 - Kirby's Adventure
10:50 - Mega Man 3
11:20 - StarTropics
11:51 - Game Genie
12:22 - Paperboy
12:52 - Ultima Exodus
13:22 - Nintendo Entertainment System featuring The Legend of Zelda
13:53 - Bases Loaded II Second Season
14:24 - California Games
14:54 - Cabal
15:09 - Legacy of the Wizard
15:39 - Nintendo Power magazine
16:09 - Super Mario 1, 2, and 3
16:36 - Star Wars
17:05 - Jacke Chan's Action Kung fu
17:35 - Nintendo Entertainment System
18:06 - Marble Madness
18:36 - Tetris 2
19:06 - Adventure Island II
19:35 - Super C
20:05 - Nintendo Entertainment System Deluxe Set
20:36 - RoboCop and Bad Dudes
21:05 - Iron Sword (repeat)
21:21 - Double Dragon II
21:36 - Ultra Games featuring Metal Gear, Defender of the Crown, and Skate or Die
22:05 - Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
22:31 - Super Mario Bros. 3
23:01 - The Rocketeer
23:31 - Yoshi
23:59 - Hoops featuring Bases Loaded
24:28 - Nintendo Entertainment System featuring Rob the Video Robot and the Zapper
24:59 - Disney's Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers
25:29 - The Battle of Olympus and The Guardian Legend
25:59 - Air Fortress
27:00 - Gauntlet II
27:25 - Tetris
27:55 - Supersonic The Joystick
28:27 - Little Nemo The Dream Master
28:57 - Super Mario Bros. 2
29:27 - Super Mario 1, 2, and 3 (repeat)
29:54 - Xexyz
30:25 - RBI Baseball
30:55 - Konami video games
31:25 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
31:56 - Sky Shark
32:26 - Miracle Keyboard
32:56 - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
33:26 - Ninja Gaiden
33:57 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game
34:27 - Power Glove
34:57 - The Legend of Zelda
35:27 - The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants
35:42 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch
36:13 - WWF WrestleMania
36:27 - Back to the Future II and III
36:43 - Astyanax
37:13 - Batman
37:43 - Back to the Future
38:13 - Simon's Quest
38:44 - NES Max
38:59 - Super Sprint
39:30 - Top Secret Golglo 13
40:00 - Freedom Stick
40:32 - Captain Skyhawk
40:47 - NARC
41:02 - Double Dragon III
41:17 - The Punisher
41:31 - Ice Hockey
41:46 - Acclaim Double Player System
Where's mk or is this only NES
Super mario bros 3 is my favorite game
Teenage mutant Ninja turtles its a very cool game on this platform
Thanx Dan!
Wow
Imagine being one of those children, now being in your late 30’s/early 40’s telling your coworkers that you were once in a Nintendo commercial for some reason
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I think most folk would probably find that interesting.
I’d find this pretty interesting.
Ask jack black
I was in a couple toys commercials back in the 80s I show them to my kids they get a kick out it !!! Some of them I didn't even get paid in cash just the toys we were pushing but....that was good enough for me!!!!
A huge compilation of NES-era TV commercials - I've been collecting clips for this collection for quite a long time now. I hope you all enjoy the nostalgia watching it as much as I did while making it!
Are you doing any more games commercials like Super Nintendo GameCube Wii and game boy and gba
Amon Jenkins I got most of these from NES Times and Emuparadise, both of which are down now :(
I think all these other people mean to really say THANK YOU!!!!!
Thanks, these are cool!
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That witch doctor commercial is ingrained into my childhood memories. They played it SO much
j ss Seriously! During cartoons it would show up in just about every commercial break, and that song was so catchy! I remember the opera singing Tetris one playing a ton too.
Same here
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Krystal Myth that and the terrible thunder lizards song during Eekstravaganza.
Man how can I not love this.... I was born in the perfect era, I had Atari 2600 by age 5, searched far and wide in 1986 for a Nintendo Entertainment System before I FINALLY got one (still have it, works fine). Even got the Top Loader in '93. There was NOTHING better than hanging out with friends (sleepovers or just hanging out) playing NES all day (and sometimes night), best times ever.
The nostalgia is real...and yes I sure did sit right here and watch a buncha 80's - 90's nes commercials for 40something minutes
When I was a child, I played nes with friends. I miss good old days spending hours of play. 😔
me too double dragon 3 was amazing game i have it her she was verry good game
nothing better at the time
I miss games with barely any plot and were all about being fun to play. Now all the focus is on story and cut-scenes.
I mean. I’m 38 and still play games with friends, spending hours of play...
YeAh for me was the same i wanna back to this days again too it was amazing and so fun me and one nightbour girlfriend everynday wake early and going in my home yo play all day nes games it was si fun now this days everything today is so stupid and super borring i wanna back to this old days on old tv to plat this games all day was the best time i remember how the days was just like this everytime strong sun in hot ds and we was inside playing nes was just more fun then the games today for thst just i wanna back to this old time again
The commercial wasn't lying when it said Festers Quest was one tough game.
Ikr. Same with Solar Jetman.
I had to learn to beat FQ in one swoop, otherwise it was a pain to walk back from the beginning to where you left off.
I love how these old commercials hyped up these games like they were the coolest thing ever. That's the best thing about these commercials. You don't find anything like this now days.
Commercials these days have the opposite effect and make me want to avoid the product.
+Jim why do commercials for consoles/games these days have opposite effect on you?
@@jasonlee7816 They act like they're embarrassed of them. There's no passion.
yeah true they make them looks like they are the the best thiing but real they are not so good like how tho they say if you play them the more of the games are just tupid and the just make them look like something big and verry amaxzing :D but was fun dd3 was verry good game
Anyone else roll their eyes when an ad interrupts these commercials?😆😆
all the time!
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I feel the commercials were actually way cooler than the games
Well at those times the graphics were so basic that you needed some imagination to imagine the worlds a little and the commercials did something similar avoiding showing much of the game itself and instead making clips with actors etc.
And way mor confusing
Agreed in some cases... Like Crystalis deserved a better commercial. That game was so much better than the ad showed, which DIDNT show any gameplay. That game is definitely one of my NES favorites.
@joe fisher a lot of times they were!
Out of fairness some of these games that got good commercials ended up sucking.
Nes, megadrive and playstation adverts in the 90’s were simply amazing... i could literally sit and watch every single 1 of them back to back for hours and hours
YES!!!!
TOTALLY!!
Fun times, i miss the good old days of being a kid, innocent, not knowing about the world today
And you think you know about now?
That’s why I hardly follow the news. Too depressing
@@austinmorrison6953 I follow the news too. I was listening to the news on NBC4 and WTOP lately and they were talking about how much time kids spend playing video games. Kids don’t have too much time on their hands because they have to focus on school.
And I so miss my days of being a kid.
Gotta love how something like 2/3 of these feature the "so real it physically comes out of your TV" trope.
it was like the wild west when it came to commercials back then. you didn't know what was gonna happen in the next three minutes. it was sweet
That's a really lovely way of putting it. The sad part is, as a kid I kinda just figured that's the way things would be forever. Like, these commercials are so crazy and awesome, things will just keep being this way forever, but get even MORE crazy and awesome in the future. But it kinda just got stuck there in that timeframe. I feel lachrymose.
That beautiful, beautiful world full of imagination and innovation... lost forever.
Not!!
So much nostalgia. I can’t get enough.
I played a LOT of NES games when I was growing up. Surprisingly, there are a lot on here I never even heard of. I really enjoyed this.
Can you imagine being happy and playing Nintendo again? Them days are gone
Eh, its not like Nintendo is gone. The company still rocks. And while I may not have my old NES, I'm loving the Classic.
@@bezoticallyyours83 Im talking about those days, society, being in 2020, sitting around looking at lame ass losers on tik tok all day, karens, covid, ya know being a happy kid chillen playin nintendo instead.
I just love how they release dedicated video game consoles that became successful in the 80s.
I really do miss the old days of gaming
yeah me too it was cool when i was kid i have this game with the purple batman and that game with double dragon 3 it was so good days i play them s o much it was more good then the pc games now and ps4 bc they have verry good and realystic graphics but the old games like double dragon 3 is the best bc they are the first thing what i play and they are the start of the gameing for that this old games are more good then the now games now for ps4 or for pc old days i will remember them forever how much time i try to finish double dragon 3 when iwas kid it was so good
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Holy Macaroni what's wrong?
@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate its the primacy effect. plus old games were terrible and caused violence. i remember killing my brother because he deleted my save.
Totally RADICAL!! EXCELLEEENT! MONDO BODACIOUS DUUUUDE!! COWABUNGA!!!
You really know how to play with my nostalgia lenses, NintendoComplete! This is great, and I'm always on a TH-cam 90s commercial binge nowadays anyway, so this is *TOTALLY AWESOME!*
This is truly nostalgia overload and I am here for it! What a time to be alive?! I loved these commercials as they hyped up the games. You didn’t know what to expect and I actually liked that. There is something about the memories of anything Nintendo that always makes me long for the days of my youth.
Thanks for posting this! I remember so many of these commercials especially the Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris 2. This is back when I actually enjoyed watching commercials lol.
BAYOU BILLY! Man, that game was brutally hard! Kids these days just don’t know what it was to have a game mercilessly kick your ass and then make you start all over from the very beginning. LOL
That's probably one of the worst games ever made. The difficulty is so ridiculous because of the 20 hits to kill each enemy. Compare that pile of shit to a brilliant beat em up like Final Fight. Just terrible. I remember renting that game from a Video Cube back in probably 1990 and not playing much of it at all over the weekend. Terrible stuff.
@@user-tl4fi6oy8d Me and my cousin rented it from our local video store as kids back when it first came out and it frustrated us for an entire weekend. It was so hard that it wasn’t even any fun. I don’t think either of us ever played it again.
Mega Man and Castlevania are great examples of games that are hard but fun so you'd keep trying to beat them even if you kept losing. The gameplay of Billy is so boring and tedious that it was easy to stop playing and return the game and forget all about it.
@@BangBang-hk4rg I dunno if you have any interest in it anymore, but if you do, you ought to try the Japanese version (called Mad City). It's much fairer and easier, and a lot more fun because of it. It feels like a good classic Konami game. The US version had the difficulty pumped up so far that it all but ruined it.
I actually translated the Japanese version if you wanna check it out: th-cam.com/video/HXjIcnuxM7g/w-d-xo.html
@@NintendoComplete Nice! I’ve got a modded Arcade1up cabinet that’s running a Raspberry Pi. I’m going to see if Mad City is on it 👍
You're badass man. Thanks for giving me that memory lane walk🤘🏽👍🏽
This compilation had an ad that I have been dying to remember for a few decades now
Thanks NintendoComplete
Glad you found it. It's so frustrating when that happens!
Did I just watch 42min of old NES commercials???!!! Yes, I sure did and I may watch it again!!!!
Besides the point that most of these were really good, funny how most good games didn't get tv ads. That hasn't change. Thanks for the memories.
woaw... people would look at the nes games and say "this is it, graphics has reach it's limits and". it's just so fun to see how far we've gotten and to see the future games coming
I don't know if anyone caught this, but the Simon's Quest commerical uses gameplay from the FDS version as you can hear the extra sound channel that the NES version doesn't have.
They would usually use the FDS versions of the audio of the commercials, happens a couple other times in the video
40 Mintues of cheesy goodness. Well worth the watch. Good job NintendoComplete.
What's interesting to me is seeing how heavily video game advertising relied on actors & props to represent the game's concepts, whereas today's video game commercials are almost exclusively actual game footage.
Oh man so many of these take me way back. Thanks for up loading this.
Alidar Jarok No problem :)
I hope you do more like for the snes and genesis.
Its crazy to think i used to see alot of these every day and be bothered by them, now i go out of my way to watch these decades later lol
Shocked to see that games were still around 40-50 dollars back then. Very happy when they started renting games at the video store.
Takes me back. Use to see these home from school before afternoon cartoons and on sundays.
14:55 is that James Avery narrating the Cabal commercial?
I remember getting an Nes for Christmas when I was 5. I have had so much fun with Nintendo systems.
yeah true dude me too i have double dragon 3 she was amazing and i play her so much when i was kid it was so fun i will remember my old days forever how much times i try to finish this game when i was kid and that game with the purple batman and that game for chip and dale dam it was so good days
Thanks for remembering the NES tv commercials....I die instantly when I watched the bears playing Tetris. My favorite NES tv commercials.
I haven't seen half these commercials, these were great!
I'm now 46 years old and Nintendo was the best thing in my life when it first came out. My brother and I wanted this system so bad but my family was a little poor.....not crazy poor but just middle class and my Pop always provided for us and payed the bills and fed us and worked really hard. So when Nintendo came out we got the hand me downs like the Atari 2600 from family friends that knew we couldn't afford it. We were happy with the Atari. We'd then visit other kids houses and watch them play NES but never could play. Most kids were pretty stingy about not letting my brother and I play. It sucked and hurt but what can you expect from kids. Our next door neighbors got a system and we used to go over and just watch them play Super Mario Bros. and Pro Wrestling and when we asked if we could play they always said later but never. Another friend of the family got a system and he'd let us play a few times but it still hurt because we loved video games. Finally my Pop told my brother and I that if we'd make the A, B honor roll in school in our report card for the next period in combination with keeping up with our chores and keeping our room clean, he promised he'd get us a Nintendo. So we worked very hard and did it. We both got A B honor roll in our report cards and as soon as we came home we were itching so bad for our Pop to come home from work. We saw him drive up and we greeted him and shoved our report cards in his face like animals and he was like...Calm down. He looked at them, then looked at my Mom with a smile and grin and said, "I'm proud of you boys." Then said, let me go to the bathroom first and meet me outside at the truck. He drove us to the Toy's R Us and we walked in that store so excited and he said get your Nintendo. We picked the ticket and he paid for it and walked over to the pick up room and we left with our Nintendo Entertainment System that was finally ours!!! So fucking Awesome. We only had Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt for a few months but that was okay with me as we humbled ourselves to finally play our video games in peace in our own room with my Pop playing with us as well. He loved video games as well. These commercials were so awesome as I was living life in this era and it was so very nostalgic and meant something to me. Fast forward to 2020 I have every single game I have always wanted but never had, every played, rented, etc. and every accessory and multiple systems that I have learned to repair and it feels great. Fuck all the stingy kids that made my brother and I feel like crap. As old as I am that still stings as a bad dumb memory sad to say but I now have the funds to collect everything I want as a kid and now have. Sorry the for long story but I just felt like I needed to share this story in anyone out there felt this way etc. lol. So Fucking ey.....so I now tell my kids that I was in a gang back in the day. I sport my fingers and say with a Mexican accent..."I'm N.E.S. 4 LIFE!!!" lol ...Thanks for posting this wonderful video! A+++
Kids were definitely stingy back then with their Nintendo... We got one in 87 for Christmas though it was my gift I knew it was for me and my brother as he got the 13" color TV that year. Our parents knew we would have to learn how to share because he had the TV and I had the Nintendo lol... Pro wrestling, Contra, Super Contra,Mike Tyson's punch out,Rc Pro Am,man me and my bro had a blast. Luckily for me he grew out of playing games so two or three years later I wind up being the one getting the Super Nintendo all to myself and that's when I really started playing games like Zelda final fantasy and RPG games and I've never looked back
My ass is just gonna sit here for the next 45 minutes lol
Masta Fu I hope I made the numbness worthwhile for you :)
45 minutes you did Not waste my man
Same here...
0:35 Mad City (Famicom)
2:06 Quinty (Famicom)
13:54 Moero Pro Yakyuu 88 (Famicom)
15:09 Dragon Slayer 4 (Famicom)
18:36 Tetris Flash (Famicom)
19:06 Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima 2 (Famicom)
19:35 Super Contra (Famicom)
23:31 Yoshi no Tamago (Famicom)
23:59 Moero Pro Yakyuu (Famicom)
29:55 Kame no Ongaeshi (Famicom)
30:24 Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium
(Famicom)
33:26 Ninja Ryukenden (Famicom)
33:57 TMNT (Famicom)
34:27 Pax Power Glove (Famicom)
38:59 Super Sprint (Famicom)
41 min actually.
I miss the golden age when everyone totally talked rad, like Bill and Ted, and everyone’s creativity was so fun and loose.. I was just a kid, but it sure seemed awesome then and Still.
where r u from? how is talk rad?
@@marbistacio Illinois, the 80’s and 90’s had something I wish we could get back.. a ‘vibe’ or something.. 🕹📼🪄
When friends actually came over to have fun! Such good times!
that takes me back, i seriously miss those days
Yeah me too it was amazing old time when i play them in that time when i was a kid i know it someday i will wanna back and inwas right i rly wanna back in this old timenagain now it was so fun
bayou billy was one of the toughest games I remember playing! that 2nd racing board seemed it never ended! but once you got that whip...and ironsword after awhile, I just saved enough money to play roll the bones. that might have been the beginning of many gambling habits to come. def influenced me
Remember going to Toys R Us and pulling a ticket from the game isle, pay for that piece of paper and proceed to the acrylic security game room. Then read the instruction manual in the car ride home. All we had was a few game review magazines, commercials and box art. Good times.
I remember that! :)
The golden age of Nintendo, in my opinion.
Died when reggie retired
@@youraveragemorononyoutube4435 Before that.
@@chucke.cheese2212 maybe the wii u
@@youraveragemorononyoutube4435 No.
Great job man! That was RAAADICAAAAL...
I love these old commercials!!
Amazing. Thanks for making this.
I wish for other system videos
That Mendel Palace commercial taught me at a VERY early age to never believe the hype.
“Festers Quest is one tough video game!” Damn they nailed it with that commercial lol. That game is tough as shit, kind of like the Dark Souls of its day...yea i spent way too much time playing that game..
Thanks Nintendo Complete. These are fantastic and brought back some good memories.
I keep imagining James the AVGN saying: “Ass!” After each commercial X D
Ah... James... before his shillout to Cinemassacre.
You are correct!
@@mashroob Screenwave, you mean.
Guida Diehl
Sure.
A shill is shill to me.
@@mashroob ...he owns cinemassacre... he is still the same guy
I know it's nostalgia because I was an 80's kid but thinking about the 80's makes me feel comfortable and warm
And I'm subscribing just for this. Great stuff, NintendoComplete!
Tyvm! Did you see the one I just posted for the SNES?
I subscribed too!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU WHAT A TIME TO BE A KID!!!! What a nostalgic return to my childhood brother I can't thank you enough!!!🤘
The good old days. Bring back memories.
Mendel Palace was Satoshi Tajiri's first video game before Pokemon.
Anticipation was hilarious because of all the weapons that were in it, if you've seen James and Mike Mondays on Cinemassacre they showcased that.
@@ramiroezequielnoriega2599 It was published in North America by Hudson Soft, but developed in Japan by Game Freak.
Golgo 13 sure as shit wasn't a secret agent, he was a straight up assassin.
He's also the second best selling manga series of all time.
I love how they focused on immersion and the barrier between TV and real life. I remember that when I was a kid, and it really excited me. It was exactly what I wanted. They should do that nowadays.
I remember the commercials for Dragon Warrior, Mega Man 3, StarTropics (wish they picked it back up with a sequel like they did with Kid Icarus), NES/Zelda Rap, Mike Tysons punch out, zelda 2, castlevania 2: simons quest & i could have sworn there was one for Gauntlet.
Was surprised to see one for Metroid.
As cheesy as these look now, these were awesome back in their heyday & bring back memories
The good ol' days ;)
I still remember that witch doctor song word from word. Good stuff.
And bring back the Battletoads!
The man providing the VO in the commercial for Yoshi's 🍪 is veteran VO 👨🎤 Pat Fraley, notable as the voice of Denver in Denver: The Last Dinosaur, Wildcat in Disney's TaleSpin and Mr. Thompson and Krang in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja 🐢 animated series.
I've seen (and done) a lot of things while playing nintendo, but this kid does a freakin backflip 2:53
I got a kick out of the Solar Jetman commercial. I received the game for Christmas and could never get far due to the difficulty. "No one said it was going to be easy"? You damn right..
Damn commercials interrupting me from watching commercials
Right?
Looking back, I realize how many of these commercials looked a lot more fun than the actual games they promoted. Lol
The Nintendo entertainment system is a classic system with classic games and commercials
excellent collection of videos, congratulations on the excellent work. I remembered my childhood.
12:37 sounds EXACTLY like the Earthworm Jim sound when you bump into something
This brings back great memories
we used to hate commercials but now we go out of our way to watch them on our free time
I can’t believe I watched 42 minutes of Nintendo commercials 😂
So far, Chip and Dale is 1 of the biggest sleepers. That game was fun af. For real, it was a really good game.
Yeah true if you want in this old days to play good game with friend chip and dale was so fun for that i have it 1 and 2 it was amazing to play them
thank u NC for this trip down memory lane. so much damn nostalgia, cant wait for the genesis games commercials :)
Nes was very popular in the 80s I miss the atmosphere of the gaming era of the 80s😢
No wonder we miss the 80s and 90s. Even the commercials is so much better. The eras was a perfect storm as a kid and then as a teenager in the 90s.
Man they use to go all out with these video games commercial why can they still make them like this
These commercials are actually better then playing most of the games by yourself in your room with the blinds closed during a wonderful Saturday morning.I feel the spark of that nostalgic feeling that’s quickly fleeting during some parts.Probably why some games came with t-shirt and poster keeping you immersed in the fantasy.
A bit late to the party, but I think you're absolutely right. It would make sense, since he did a lot of voice acting besides acting.
i can't believe i found a commercial for anticipation, i loved that game so much
Love how they overdubbed Mike Tyson laughing.
My kids love these commercials, so that’s saying something. We just don’t get many good commercials these days.
I remember one of the video rental stores in town having NARC with a sign on the box saying you had to be 17 or older to rent the game.
I'm pooping and watching old NES commercials. Doesn't get any better then this.
You miss the 80’s of course.
Now you REALLY miss them!!
"Your kids will freak for Battletoads!" No, they'll freak trying to play Battletoads
My thought was: “Yeah, interesting that they are showing all these levels...no one got past those stupid bikes”
@@85walterrulez pfft I can beat it blindfolded been playing it for 30 years now th-cam.com/video/z7xEfoJDGro/w-d-xo.html
Yeah so true im 27 now and in level 3 i never finish still with this stupid bikes
христиан кискинов Don’t give up. I finally beat the game this year after pretty much rage quitting at 13 or 14. If it’s taught me anything, you just need to stick with it and learn the game, but it can be beaten if you stick with it.
I loved this game as a kid and beat it often.Then found out as an adult the Internet declared it one of the hardest games ever.Back then every game was hard.
I heard James Avery....RIP Uncle Phil
It might just be me but there was a smell that new nes games had that I loved, that Nintendo smell
Yes! That weird mixture of plastic and cardboard smells. Nothing else like it.
Yes! It's all coming back to me! That scent which welcomes you, when opening the box and pulling out that freshly new cartridge, carefully wrapped in plastic, along with the manual and some registration cards.
I LOVE 80 & 90
Same here & I was a baby in 1988, that year is when I was born now I'm 32 years old & supernintendo will always b my favorite & I play it from time 2 time
Me too! I always want to go back to the early 80s and early 90s with these games and commercials!
The purple batman double dragon 2 and 3. And contra super c i remember them i have them when I was a kid this was amazing games i wanna back to the old days was more good then now
thank you so much for this!
14:54 Is that James "Uncle Phil" Avery in the Cabal commercial?
I was going to ask the same thing. Sure sounds like him.
@@AncientElectronics Yes! I was going to ask the same question but had to see if anyone else had heard it.
Man, i miss going to my local mom and pop video rental shop, it was magical. Loved browsing the games trying to make a decision. Having $5 in your pocket on a Friday in that place made you feel like a king!
Wow. I remember a lot of these
I was around when all these commercials were new....God im old.
I miss this stuff :(
These commercials pretty much summarized my Junior high years. If I wasn't in school I was playing Nintendo.
OK that officially makes you older than me. I was 8 when I got my first NES in 1988.
True. When I was eight, I was playing Atari.
What really caused it to sink in for me that this was a long time ago was when I read a TH-cam comment on a similar video to this that said, "My dad used to play these." I'm old enough to be that dad now. I mean, stuff like this was the future when I was a kid. It really was, though it's laughable and cheesy now. You kids don't know how good you have it. Back in the day we didn't have Steam... we had to go to Blockbuster Video and rent a game cartridge and bring it home, and even then you probably had to blow into it a few times to get it to work. Can you imagine that? So primitive by today's standards!
There is something about these commercials that make these products appealing even today, even if the games themselves did not age well.