Video Game Commercials of 1994 - Sonic & Knuckles, X-Men & More! / MY LIFE IN GAMING
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- Jump in the wayback machine and check out the games that were being advertised on TV in 1994. Sonic & Knuckles, Super Punch-Out!! and other surprises. What are these games' legacies when looked back on today?
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"Play the 3DO! A machine for grown ups!"
*Shows Putt-Putt*
Meir I died once I saw that. Gosh, everyone was trying to be like Sega back then.
Airsh Bornely you wish lol, actually I guess they achieved that since they all went out of consoles except nintendo.
.....and your point is?
Adverts were savage back in the 90s :) love it.
Nothing beats that Sega Baseball commercial. "Hey Ricky!" NUT SHOT
Whoah hang on Coury! Headbangers Ball!? What are your plans with the full 2hr shows? :)
I would love if he could upload them, comercials and all. I miss Headbangers Ball.
I was thinking the same thing. Would love to see these tapes. Watch some Danzig!
[Coury] I'd love to put them online, but TH-cam would pull them down pretty quickly I think. I'm working on something else.
If you have access, MySpleen would be a perfect place :)
My Life in Gaming awesome, I appreciate your efforts man!!!
1994: Is there a way to skip all these commercials? Now: It's cool to see these commercials again.
Stinger2578 unloved the commercials then. My mom probably wanted to skip them lol
I think I can recognize nearly every video Corey has behind him; Danzig, NIN, Prong, Type O Negative, Dream Theater, Tool, just to name a few.
Also bit of a correction; Headbanger's actually got cancelled in the States in 1995. The UK version did run until '97 however.
You know, in a way we’re kind of unlucky now that we can see all the video of any game we want. This video really reminds me how every time a game commercial came on I dropped everything and intensely stared at the screen. It was like a random Christmas present
Robby Huang
Maybe, but now we don't run the risk of getting a bad game. It's pretty rare for me to buy a game I don't like anymore. Really at worst, I get games that I think are fine, but don't hold my interest. Back in the day I remember friends complaining about buying a game they hated. I was lucky as my father was a gamer so he was able to suss out if a game was bad or not by reading magazines and talking to independent store employees.
Hurray for mind control? No thanks. Don't you realize what they did to your brain thanks to television?
Someone better tell 8 Bit Guy about the IR 7000
Loved the NINTENDO vs SEGA ads in the 90's.
7:57 Shield your eyes kiddos! And good lord these are nostalgic ads for me. 9 year old Shawn remembers like all of these!
AR GEE TEE, EIGHTY FIVE
BladeBlur
ARRR GEE TEE SEVENN-TEEN BAAWLLLMMMERRRRRRR
This video was so great right up until that! ;-)
Yeah - it was a bit of a shock tbh, Shawn. lol
Congrats on the channel though - it's getting picked up more often now, like the photos of the new Sega pads.
Very well said; these were among the few commercials we would be excited to see back in the day. Back in the '80s, video game commercials were even less common; the only one that I remember is Dragon Spirit: The New Legend. It strikes me as odd that while back then, we'd use commercial breaks as an excuse to get up and grab a snack, today, people willingly flock to TH-cam or wherever just to watch commercials. Times sure have changed...
How can we get the best picture from these commercials? 🤔
L0L247 RGB!
I know right?! mom and dad must have had an amazing S-video recorder and nothing but chrome tapes in SP!
TomGreen 99 lol
Brian Buckley I recorded shows on my VCR as a kid. I still have some laying around. Those were the days.
Since the XRGB mini does really well with 480i... I wonder i f you can use it to scale old VCR recordings
Thank you for preserving all these cool 90s game commercials!
Dat split second of Dream Theater tho......
Right?
ah, 1994, i was in a 5th grade primary school, playing sonic 2 on Genesis all days (never bough Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles until 1996)
RIP Peter Steele. Loved seeing that clip from headbanger's ball. you going to release all of those, too??
i second that
Didn't Peter Steele do the Jerry Springer show around this time (or a little bit after)? Some episode like 'Girls Who Only Date Metal Stars' or cheesily similar? Off to search for that now I suppose!
wouldn't he get flagged for copyright with the music parts? I don't remember the show, but seems like it would get the vid flagged
tron999 R.I.P. Lexington Steele as well
Yay, the good old 90's.
Reliving my youth here, thanks guys.
Growing up in the 90's, I miss the "Extreme Marketing" tone of products. Yes it was over the top and sometimes insane or even annoying, but that's what made fun to watch.
A better question is "When was the last time you saw a commercial on television". I haven't watched normal broadcast tv in years.
Justin Parris true
Uniracers was one of my favorite SNES games. I would get so into it...
@0:26 Type o Negative!!
I'd love to see more of these kinds of videos, maybe for different years and such.
You're gonna dump that Type O Negative interview, right? RIGHT?
Learned about Type O Negative via Spotify. I don't remember them from the 90s. They make good music at times but some people feel they are too Gothic ? whatever, i think it is good to be diverse.
I need to see it
I miss those days of mystery and wonder.
Uni-racers looks like it could be revived as a mobile game.
Loved the 3DO! Bought one in the fall of '94 when they dropped the price to $399.
Never clicked on a video so fast! :)
I have a ton of VHS recordings of Beavis and Butthead and Nickelodeon from around 1997-1998 and have quite a few video game commercials. I tell people that in my opinion, about 99% of commercials from that decade were awesome!
[Coury] maybe it’s because I was a perfect age for it, but watching some B&BH while making this episode confirmed that it holds up pretty well. Still funny.
The new episodes Judge did a few years back were really good too.
i had a bunch of tapes with recorded cartoons from mostly cartoon network and hbo family and random game shows that my dad or mom would record for some reason. i probably played them everyday when i was little lol.
Overacting, Dutch angles, strong lighting contrasts, many hyperactive clips strung together… Ads in the 90s were so weird.
Those commercials brings me back. Amazing stuff!
SupaPixelGirl You remember for sure!
These are amazingly high quality compared to most adverts uploaded to TH-cam which are crappy, low quality, super compressed, 240p videos. I wish you’d upload these in 480i without deinterlacing, as they’d be the highest quality version ever.
i think i had the ir 7000 or whatever.. i either had that or something similar.. but the only other person who had one was this girl named robin and she was cool but we didnt talk much on it... it wasnt enough to receive a message from outside the room if i remember correct
Cloud Air it was then 90s. That shitmwas amazing even if you didn't have many people to talk to. Or a long range.
tru dat
Thumbs up for Peter and Josh at the beggining of the video
So this is how games were advertised when I was a newborn.
seanmyster6 lmao. Yup
I was still a virgin in 1994.
Never really played Sega... Nintendo always had my attention!
The music of DOOM on 32X is CRAP!!!
When I hear "90's commercials", I think of the Virtual Boy Commercials. They were... well. You probably know.
Man. I click like on this just for seeing dream theater in the first couple minutes. Somebody had their eyes and ears glued to the right places way before the rest of the world caught up.
Holy shit man, these bring back great old memories. Lol i remember the cdi burn cycle commercial, at the time i had no idea what the hell it was.... didnt seem like a videogame. Thanks man for the nostagia factor!! Thumbs up!!! Shit man, we getting old man lol.
There was a Beavis and Butthead game released on PC called Virtual Stupidity around 1995/96 that was excellent.
Whoa, you actually have a tape of the “Do the Math” advert? I love these old adverts, but it’s really crazy to think that they were really used for advertising between shows or sometimes in middle of shows because I wasn’t ever around for them.
Man, a lot of these ads really take me back. It's also kind of absurd to realize how crazy many of them actually were.
These are high quality rips from old tapes in my opinion. I'm about to digitize old family tapes as well, I did one at CVS a while back and it was...OK. Did you do anything special? Any tips?
Dude, how to digitize videos could be an entire episode on My Life in Gaming!
More please
[Coury] Hopefully I can. This was a pure luck situation, and it just kinda fell on my lap.
Those game adverts back then are amazing, so much better than the awful ones we hardly see now.
size t.. *WENTY TWO!!*
Seriously I laughed SO hard at this for some reason. lol
Always love new uploads from My Life in Gaming :D
Do you know about the BennVenn mod for the GBC? It adds a backlight to the system but has some minor drawbacks. This Does Not Compute did a video on it last year in August.
Is that James LaBrie @ 0:23?
Was the guy in the Boogerman commercial Bulk the bully from Power Rangers???
TomGreen 99... He is also the guy who steals Pee Wee Herman's bicycle in the movie "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" these were such good memories.
That is such a good Pearl Jam shirt dude jeeeeze.
Do more of these please. This was fantastic.
The quality of this channel is outstanding
Nice to see Dream Theater represented in the old HBB footage. Still one of my favorite bands 😆
I was a kid back in 1994 but I wanted to play Uniracers SO BAD but could never find it. I guess this explains why.
This is so cool. Thanks for your capture work.
I remember those days. 3DO took E3 95 by surprise, announcing the M2 Accelerator, a technical update over the original hardware that would push 1 million polygons per second. Imagine having a console with Dreamcast graphics competing against the original PS and N64 in the same gen. 3DO managed to get many third party games for the console and advertised the then impressive looking Blade Force as an M2 launch title. But... the M2 would never become a reality. I remember buying Gamepro mags, I still have them with me. The last one I got was the Sept 95 issue. After that, they stopped being distributed in my country but I started to buy them imported many years later.
Great job on the video transfers!
I still have around 112 VHS and SVHS tapes that have tons of video game related news stories from 1987 - mid 90's (from CNN, E! News, The Next Step, Computer Chronicles, and more) + many game commercials from that time period, as well as some VHS tapes from the 80's of Japanese TV. I'm sure some of those must have video game commericials.
I need to look into a service that can convert these for me. I've been wanting to preserve and share these tapes before it's too late.
I love the 90's... I played with Super Power, I played it Loud, I was Bigger..Badder..Better, I did the Math, I was welcomed to the Next Level, I was welcomed to the R.E.A.L World, I headed for Saturn, but I was not (red)E.
Wow. What a heavy piece of nostalgia this was for me! In 1994, I was 11 years old, and it always threw me for a loop how in your face commercials were back then. Some of these I don't remember, like the Sonic ones (probably because I was a huge Nintendo fanboy back then, and would change the channel anytime Sonic showed up,) but yeah, those ads for those other consoles were ALWAYS trying to piss on their competitors. This was great, I'd love to see you do another one of these! Also, what's up with the HEAVY thematic use of grumpy/assertive old men and black and white commercials? Most of these commercials had some sort of combo with these two things. Weird.
Wow, this brought back so many wonderful memories. I have a tape full of gaming commercials that I recorded too somewhere at my parents' house that i need to dig up sometime.
I loved the second part of the Sonic & Knuckles commercials with the elves too. "Who's laughing now? .... Fat Man!!"
You should check out some of the Sega ads we had in the UK in the 90s. They were odd. All based around this pirate Tv channel. There was also a commercial for Super MArio All-Stars with the legendary Rik Mayall in it. Not quite as in your face nuts as these US adverts though.
Wow! 11:41 the bald head guy is Napoleon from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Always wondered what happened to that dude. Now I know. "We all know, the boy and the girls are doing it". That freaked me out!
There were a few adverts not too long ago on Australian TV / Foxtel for Destiny 2, but it was mostly game footage clips and I'm sure a lot of PRE ORDER NOW being shoved down our throats.
Hey Coury, what setup did you use to digitize the VHS tapes? Any tips about the hardware and software side would be much appreciated! How about a making of video? Anyway, keep inspiring us all!
1994 was an interesting year for me. I was 20 years old and lived in three different states: CA, WA, and then TX. I was living in Seattle when Super Metroid came out, and so I always associate that game with my time living there.
I bought my CD-i in December '90, and then landed a job with PIMA the next year, though I'm not sure if everyone who bought the system got a job with them. :)
Great video. I love seeing things like this. Any chance you could get a hold of someone like 80sCommercialVault on TH-cam here and get all the ads uploaded and preserved? Thanks
That MK2 commercial was epic! I recall seeing the MK1 commercial all the time but that MK2, I barely saw, though it did leave an impression as I still remembered it all these years later. Thanks for including the full version, definitely nice to see it again!
omg you have the Shaq commercial that I've been looking for! I found an old 8mm tape with only part of the commercial on it and for years I've been trying to find the rest. Love this video, it brought back so much nostalgia.
It's always a good day when I see a new MLIG video in my subscription queue.
Boyz, this one is a classic for the record books!
For CD-i, my friends and I really like to play Name That Tune. The live action parts were horrid, but it was a great use of the technology for the time.
This episode was so well paced. It had a great mix of info, commercials, and personal stories. You guys are so talented. Keep up the good work.
How did you digitize these VHS tapes, I tried plugging in my VHS through the Framemeister and I kept losing sync
I love stuff like this. Its funny how we used to hate commercials but years later we ll go out of our way to watch them. They definitely are the best "time capsules" . MTV used to have such great programming. Animated stuff like Liquid Television - The Head - The Maxx - Beavis and Butthead - Aeon Flux to name a few. Their other shows were awesome too. MTV's The State maybe the best sketch comedy show ever. The obscure Dead At 21 (which I cant find anywhere) was pretty interesting and would love to watch it again as its been about 24 years (I believe it came out in 94)since Ive seen it. The here in mentioned Headbangers Ball and Matt Pinfield's 120 Minutes were great and introduced me and Im sure a whole bunch of people to awesome music. Yes MTV used to play music videos - weird yes I know Music Television was...music television. Great stuff as always guys.
I love gaming!! I just dropped a video on the very first gaming console ever made, so if you're seeing this can you check it out and give me your thoughts?
This was so much fun, it's inspired me to do a retrospective on commercials for Spider-Man video games. Thanks!
I remember watching the 3DO and Jaguar commercials when I was a little kid and being fooled into believing they were the better consoles.
This is one of the absolute best vids I've seen. EXCELLENTLY captures the time. Man thank you. To say the least- SUBSCRIBED. You really took me back so the good- no- GREAT old days of my teens. Thank you.
Did you just say Gambit was the most popular X-Men of the 90s? Are you dumb? It was definitely Wolverine? And still to this day remains one of the most popular X-Men of all time your opinion is biased. I didn't even like Wolverine that much but Gambit? I'm pretty sure he wasn't the most popular I mean I didn't like either of them but I like Gambit significantly less than Wolverine saying Gambit was popular is like saying Jubilee was popular. Let's all be honest jubilees Power Sucks I did like Gambit's power but it's nothing compared to an adamantium skeleton.
God I miss headbangers ball. Rock and metal were king, MTV was actually a music network and not bullshit programming . MTV played 24 7 from the time I was 12 to 17 on my brother and Is television sets,All of our friends gathered around the tv everyday and night watching mtv... God I miss the good ole days . Thank you for reminding me how amazing the 90s was.
Since we're talking about Mortal Kombat I wanted to give everyone a tip. Play the PC port. I had the game on SNES, Genesis, 32X, and Game Boy but when I heard the PC version was arcade authentic I knew I needed it. So I got it, plugged in my gamepad, and I played the best home version of MK I've played to this day. It's still very much worth playing today.
I was a poor college student back in '94. I got gifts sometimes so I had a SNES with DK Country, Pitfall, Madden and Uniracers and a Turbografx16 that my brother didn't want. I bought used games from the movie rental store for the Turbo once in a while. I switched to PC games after I got my first computer in 1994 because the graphics were better. I got a Playstation after I graduated and got a job in "96. I have no idea what happened to any of that stuff....but I've replaced all the consoles and games. This comment is for me...not you.
The Sega IR7000 brings back some fond memories. In the UK, it was released as the Casio My Magic diary 7000, which my sister owned, and I always used to pinch from her on car journeys to play its version of tetris! In fact, I'm on ebay now trying to find one :)
Guys i'm looking for a guide like the RGB ones but in Surround sound sistems and decoders aplied to gaming. Since i've seen a lot of dolby surround games (like Dk64 or perfect dark, ps2 titles, xbox, gamecube etc.)
I love your channel!
New to this channel and I appreciate your thoughts and analysis as opposed to just running the commercials without comment, which is what I was expecting. And this might sound strange, but I'm also thankful you're as old as you are...it lends your commentary significantly more weight as someone who was there at the time. Call it ageism, but I find it difficult to put as much stock in some of these other retro gaming youtubers who were born in the 90s, who weren't around to personally experience (or too young to fully fathom) the gaming climate they are commenting on.
*adding: The Atari Jaguar port of Doom was much better than the 32X version though. ;)
Was that Tool's Undertow in the background during the Shaq Fu segment? Then 21st Century Digital Boy during the MK2 segment...just awesome.
I LOVED Head Bangers Ball!!!!! Great video! I turned 12 in 1994, this was GREAT! I just wished the commercials had more to do with the games.
Awesome video. Brings back memories. Also to show a GODZILLA poster with videos from Type O Negative playing the background, I give you 10 out of 10 stars.
Wow, this video makes me feel my age, I remember the bulk of the commercials shown. 1994 was an odd era of gaming with Sega bringing out 32x and Sega-cd and the games really pushing the snes and genesis to their limits. Good times. SEGA!
Cant wait for the 1995 video for the Mr. Creosote influenced Yoshi's Island commercial. Soo horrifying as a kid and then baffling when my parents finally let me jump from the mostly kid friendly Monty Python and the Holy Grail to the gross Meaning of Life.
"I mean, think about it: When was the last time you saw a video game commercial on television?"
Well, it was for Anthem. And I actually thought it was a movie trailer. Turns out, the game kinda sucks. Oh well...
Headbangers Ball! Hell yeah bro. Long live metal. You excited for motley Crue and poison with Joan jet coming in the summer. Someone else is touring with them too. Definitely the concert of 2020
I could’ve sworn I just heard you call the Sega CD a success... I might’ve heard wrong, but I looked it up, because I wasn’t sure and I was curious and yeah... 2.1 million is five years... So, no, not a success by any means.
In response to your last statement, I'm 31 so this was my childhood. lol And while we couldn't just look stuff up on the internet, we could however, try a game by renting it. In fact, that was how my friends and I played most games because our parents wouldn't buy them for $50 a pop. Or I would get older games used, cheaper. A local game shop opened here and became very popular because of that. Until EB Games and Gamestop came around, they were the place to go for used games.
cool commercials and video concept.. but im just blown away by the quality of your vhs rips, especially since there tv recordings.. NICE JOB
Guys like you and Metaljesusrocks (for example) made me finally regret selling my stuff back in the days, hooked me up & got me into retro collecting.... So in a way, you could say my wife hates you :-D
Indiana Jones, Super ROTJ and Pitfall are all great games. Most negative reception today is younger audiences not being able to handle the difficulty.
Have to say, the SNES versions of MK titles are inferior due to way less buttons and altered music.
that's f...in awesome..🤘🤘🤘Metal Music, Video Games and old Style Commercial.. Great. I was 24 in 1994 🤓🤓🤓
OH GOD!..... I got a Nostalgia boner. pit fall for Atari was actually the first video game I ever played as well but honestly at that point in time I hated those video games I stopped playing video games until Zelda A Link to the Past and I fucking loved that game