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We decided to reupload the original television commercial that aired here in the United States, for the first Nintendo Game Boy! We're celebrating its 30th b...
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Dec 31, 2014 · Publication date. 1989-12. Topics. nintendo, commercial, tv, 1989, gameboy, video game, portable, handheld. Language. English. Item Size. 56.6M. Aired late1989 during the Rolling Stone's Steel Wheels Concert.
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Here's the thing about Game Boy: it wasn't just a first taste of what console-style gaming could deliver on the go. It was also the hardware that popularized one of the most enduring success stories in all of gaming: Tetris. This commercial — the first released for Game Boy — hypes them both. They go hand-in-hand, really. Tetriswas bundled in along...
These days, Nintendo communicates directly with fans via Nintendo Direct broadcasts that essentially boil down to fan-focused infomercials. But there was no internet in 1989 (not the way we think of it, at least). Instead, we got stuff like this. Nintendo's three-and-a-half minute Game Boy ad breaks down the new technology and explains the appeal i...
Forget any notion that games struggled to cement their place in pop culture early on because they were dismissed as kid's toys. Adults were the real early adopters, especially during the '80s when any kind of gaming buy-in involved a pricey investment in new technology. Nintendo knew that Game Boy represented an exciting proposition for daily commu...
Look at all this chaos. All this noise. All this fun! If the previous commercial focused on convincing adults to buy into Nintendo's new approach to gaming, this one is all about the teens. From the chaos of the scene to the rock-like music to the graffiti-style graphic at the end, this kid-friendly pitch attempts to sell the idea of handheld gamin...
The Game Boy's April 21, 1989 launch date applies specifically to Japan; it didn't come to the U.S. for another few months. So this Japanese commercial (and another one that arrived alongside it) are really the world's first taste of Nintendo's on-the-go gaming system. I have no idea what's being said here, who provided the music, or why both comme...
Nintendo's Game Boy turns 30 on April 21, 2019 so we took a look at some of the company's earliest ads for the then-embryonic mobile gaming market.
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Mar 29, 2024 · In one notorious advertisement from the era, a teen boy is portrayed passionately engaged with his Gameboy, with the peculiar addition of a ferret nosing its way down his trousers. The creative logic behind such an ad is mystifying.
No, Sean William Scott would've been 12/13 years old in 89 and this kid is way older. Here Sean is in 1996 in a Sunny D commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9892GI_qqc. To the poster below, a quick Google search confirms nothing. Fake news.
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