Your favourite Videogame TV commercials

[marcus]

I always love the wonderful quirky, commercials shown in Japan (need look no further than the Donkey Konga commercial for an example of this), but which is your favourite? The following site hosts hundreds of game commercials which will help you choose, for me though nothing beats the short but sweet Chu Chu Rocket commercial, be warned though you wont be able to get this song out of your head all day - http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/chuchu.mpeg

The full list can be found here - http://www.majkel.mds.pl/html/reklama/indexUKG.htm

[Bomberman UK]

Wow, nice site. I'll download some of them later.

I honestly can't think of many memorable UK TV adverts. I guess the best one I recall is the GameCube launch advert with the glass Cube's, I loved the music.

[overlord uk]

No URL unfortunately, but has anyone seen that Japanese ad for Zelda on the Super Famicom, the one where everyone's dancing? Superb that 'un, why can't we have ads like that over here?

[Bomberman UK]

This is the advert I'm talking about:

http://217.153.29.18/%7Emichal/nin/gc60sec.mpg

Brilliant. If only Nintendo had continued this theme.

[Max M]

It's gotta be this Zelda advert with the rapping geeks. Gotta love the bit where he pushes his glasses up his nose.

Thanks for the link. What a site.

[Abhisara]

It's gotta be this Zelda advert with the rapping geeks. Gotta love the bit where he pushes his glasses up his nose.

Thanks for the link. What a site.

"Your parents help you hook it up!"

[Sdub]

A freind of mine told me that the Marketing dept for the game The Getaway, actualy went to Prague to film the advert...

Seeing at both the Company and the game are based in London, that seems a little excessive...

[revisedgenocide]

The ad for the getaway was quite decent from what i remember, shame about the game though even if i did battle my way through it.
Im quite keen on the new nintendo adverts though it may just be the shock of seeing a gaming ad on tele outside the christmas period.

[Papercut]

ah wow, I've been after the Rez advert for ages. Well dodgy, I can only imagine the use of the trance vibrator is implied (first one):

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/rez.mpeg

http://217.153.29.18/%7Emichal/pliki/ps2jap_rez_mix.mpg

the McDonalds adverts are pretty mental, especially the second one:

http://217.153.29.18/%7Emichal/nowe/mcdsonya.mpg

http://217.153.29.18/%7Emichal/nowe/mcdsonyb.mpg

Sega Saturn guy is always cool (theres a whole bunch of these somewhere):

http://217.153.29.18/%7Emichal/xxx/segata_saturn1.zip

http://217.153.29.18/%7Emichal/xxx/segata_saturn2.zip

the Super Monkey Ball adverts are class, first one in particular:

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/smb1.mpg

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/smb2.mpg

wish I knew what was being said for Samba:

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/samba.mpeg

the VF4 adverts are brilliant:

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/vf4_1.mpg

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/pliki/vf4_2.mpg

[chevkoch]

The Dreamcast commercial that aired in the USA during Sega's "In the Box"-campaign titled "Apocalypse" was fantastic, a short action movie in itself. I looked on the net, but sadly, was unable to find a place where you can still download it.

[dataDave]

The Ocarina of Time TV ads were great, if you'd never even seen a screenshot before - Like me at the time. That one really got the blood flowing.

[Tig]

The Ocarina of Time TV ads were great, if you'd never even seen a screenshot before - Like me at the time. That one really got the blood flowing.

Not the one which said, "Will thou get the girl or play like one".
They were never forgiven for that.


And years later, just when everyone had forgotten about it:
"GBA SP - For Men!!!!" D'oh...

[Oh! My Car!]

The Mario Kart 64 ad was hilarious! With men dressed up as Mairo and DK slipping over bananas And the ad for one of the Metroids, back in the day, with a woman dressed up as Samus too! HAHAHA 8)

[Filth]

Gotta love those Japanese Animal Crossing ads.

[Prine]

MArio Bros 3 advert, when the whole world chants Mario! Mario!

I also loved the Soul Edge advert namco aired in uk. The human phenomenons caught on tape, i thought it was real back then :O