Great vintage video game commercials

[doubledown]

This site has a bunch of great old commercials

 

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary%27s...rts_summary.htm

[doubledown]

I jsut noticed something funny on these commercials. The second to last commercial "Atari 2600 Jr "The Fun Is Back"" has an error. Notice which direction the cartridge label is facing as the child attempts to insert it into the console, and then which way it is pointing when they are playing later. You think Atari would have fixed that.

[SteveW]

I've seen that site before, and it still ticks me off that most of the commercials are in cruddy Real Video format, instead of an internet standard like MPEG. I've had nothing but problems with Real's lousy Mac software, and i've never bothered installing it since i've gone to OS X.

[Susuwatari]

Unfortunately RM takes up less space than any decent compression with the possible exception of Divx4 or Xvid.

[Raijin Z]

Hey kids, fuck Realplayer.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_A...Alternative.htm

 

Yeah, I have all of those commercials already... I have a pile of NES and a few Genesis commercials too. A metric shitload of miscellaneous eighties commercials on top of that. Le sigh, I put a few of them in my off-limits directory for IRC fun... Some great ones, namely Mario 3 and Metroid 2J.

 

Just copy the URL from my sig and tack xemp onto it. There's more crap besides commercials, as I use xemp for uploading large files to temporarily. temp is for smaller stuff, mostly images.

[Max-T]

Thanks for the link! I've seen a bunch of other classic commercials on X-Entertainment, but the one for Yar's Revenge on this site has to take the cake for worst advertising jingle ever. And I love that game -- but somehow, I'll never be able to think of it quite the same...

[compacho]

Ya might wanna try this place too. I especially love seeing the ocarina of time commercial again.

 

http://www.majkel.mds.pl/html/reklama/indexENG.html

[2600Lives]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The Vanguard one is THE funniest thing I have EVER seen! "Luther destroys the Gond!" I'd have changed some of Luther's "dialogue", though.

 

"HA HA HA! Luther like veedeeo games! HA HA HA! Football! Luther hungry! Eat little brother brains! HA HA HA!"

[AtariK2]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The Vanguard one is THE funniest thing I have EVER seen! "Luther destroys the Gond!" I'd have changed some of Luther's "dialogue", though.

 

"HA HA HA! Luther like veedeeo games! HA HA HA! Football! Luther hungry! Eat little brother brains! HA HA HA!"

 

LOL! Thanks for the hearty laugh.