The US National Video Game Team Does Exist...

[pocketmego]

Remember that bizare 7800 commercial featuring that guy from the US national Video Game Team...

 

I always assumed this was some joke Atari made up, but apparently this was not the only place these jokers appeared.

 

Here is an article all about them...

 

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/video.htm

 

Oh and here is that 7800 ad...

 

 

-Ray

[jboypacman]

They were for real?I always thought they were made up.Goes to to show,truth is stranger than fiction.lol.

[NE146]

Yeah they were in all the early issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly (if you can remember back that far) Didn't they do the reviews on them as well?

[jbanes]

Remember that bizare 7800 commercial featuring that guy from the US national Video Game Team...

Remember how I already pointed out they were real?

 

Seriously, nice link!

[ganonbanned]

You know whats even more bizzare... SEANBABY HAS A WEBSITE i didnt know that.

[gdement]

On top of those horrible videos, they also would endorse any product that was desperate enough to pay them. They not only endorsed the 7800 against the NES/SMS, but I noticed recently that they also gave an endorsement for the "Freedom Stick" - an infrared joystick for the NES, 7800, SMS, and C64. I had one, and it broke the first time I threw it on the carpet.

[rbudrick]

I had all three of these videotapes back in the day. I bought them atAmes department store. I think one of them had extra blank space on the end so I used it to record some videogame endings I did along with parts of an episode of Video Power. HA! what a dork.

 

Wasn't Donn Nauert the one famous for doing that 4 word review of a game that was simply "Just another karate game?"

 

-Rob

[jbanes]

Wasn't Donn Nauert the one famous for doing that 4 word review of a game that was simply "Just another karate game?"

The year was 1989, and the game was Flying Dragon. Donn Nauert had a review due for Electronic Gaming Monthly #2. The review was, "Just another karate game." And so the legend was born, and it continues to live on in infamy...

 

(In case you missed it, that was a rather melodramatic way of saying: Yes. That was him. )