Flip on the TV these days and what do you see? Commercials and its seems that they got them for everything, including video games. Some Commercials are better than others and they forever will be, so that why today, I’m here to recognize the commercials that got us most hyped for any video game related product by anyway necessary, or just plain cool to look at. Many elements come in to play, either flashy colors cheesy songs, or even subliminal messaging,. Believe me, there have been insindence

This commercials starts with a man walking into a video game store and asks for everything created by ATARI for the 2600 console. Unfortunately, our confident customer doesn’t realize that he about to bring home stacks and stacks of games and guides, and just to push this commercials over the edge, the store clerk proudly announces to the dazed man that there's more merchandise on the way. Now this commercial was created in 1982, so the whole part about the new games arriving soon was a total lie, because the crash of 1983 would happen the following year. Talk about false advertising. Anyway, this commercial is energetic, interesting and it sells the product quite well. Its a really funny commercial and that’s why its number 10.

I had a tough selection to make. To put either the commercial for Mario party 4 for its cheesy costumes and hilarious antics, or 1 on this list because Mario gets his punk ass thrown in jail. In the end, I chose Mario Party 4, probably because Yoshi gets smacked against a freeway structure and Mario just falls off of a house on a pair of skies. This commercial really describes the excitement and weirdness of the Mario party games, and after viewing this great commercial, I wanted to get this game. Too bad it wasn’t as good as the rest of the previous three.

Now this is how you make a Mario commercial. It starts out with one person calling out Mario, and soon, the camera pans out and most of everybody on USA and some in Canada are chanting his name. Now that’s epic! Just imagine if the directors got that many extras. Actually, I bet anyone would want to be in a Nintendo commercial around 1990. Nintendo ruled the world at that time and after hearing Mario’s name chanted over and over again, you know that you had to have his games as fast as possible. Believe me, if you didn’t have his game, the rest of your class in elementary school would have ridiculed you.

When this commercial came out for the first time, I laughed so hard, and interesting enough, I rented the game the first day I say this commercial. Talk about corrupt power. Its basically two rich snobs who find out that their Mercedes got smashed by Bowser when they beat him in doubles tennis. It just goes to show that you should never piss Bowser off, or suffer the consequence. Ha, take that loosers!

Picture this. Its 1985, you’re a little kid flipping through the channels of your television on a normal sunny afternoon, and then, as if it was planed, this commercial appears on screen and it captures your eyes. It’s a dark and serious commercials, as if its something out of Star Wars. Almost instantly, five people in the shadows appear in the dim limelight, each dressed in space uniforms. They continue walking, and then, out of no were a TV appears. Its shows the image of a Kung Fu master kicking his enemies away from him, while at that time, a energetic voice says “What will the future bring from Nintendo?” You, the little kid, who looks like he found the keys to a candy shop, excitedly wanted to know that question. After a barrage of video game battles, and awesome 80’s music, you are greeted to one of the most ingenuous lines in Video game commercial history. “NOW YOU’RE PLAYING WITH POWER”. Of course, after watching that, your begging your parents for a NES, just from watching a commercial. NOW YOU’RE BEING BRAINWASHED BY POWER.

Its dark, its gritty and it has a few seconds of an almost naked Joana Dark. You know that by the end of this commercial, you had to get this game. It was the hottest thing in 2000. So hot, it made The Sims look like a boring kiddy game. Plus, the fact that same producers who created Golden eye created this game, it had to bee good, and in the end, it actually turned out to be one of the best games on the N64, just right behind Golden eye and OOT, and a few other games which are better the Perfect Dark.

This one starts off very Kid friendly and colorful. Mario, Yoshie, DK and Pikachu are holding hands and skipping through a flowery meadow. They skip, skip and skip along until Mario trips Yoshie… WAIT A MINIUTE? MARIO TRIPS AND HURTS YOSHIE? What’s this all about, and before you can say “OMG, Mario?” all of them start handing out bloody beatings* to each of them. What a weird commercial, but yet, its strangely satisfying. Any game which allows me to beat the crap out of that jerk Pikachu, or any Nintendo character was to be worthy to be bought, and in 1999, we all got that game. No wonder the game turned into a franchise. (* may not be bloody).

"You look like a real JERK!" "Well, I am a company executive" "He stops exiting things from happening" Holy crap, this commercial is just crazy. Its basically some family who gets tumbled out of their car, in mid air, from a giant hand in the sky, who I believe is God, and they somehow land in race cars. This poor family, who are now in total shock, are in the race from hell. They run into signs, into each other, and look like their having the worst time of their lives. Of course, by this point, I laughing at their misfortune and jamming out to the world’s best commercial music. While it might have been a successful advertisement, the presentation is enough to get me to play Pole Position each time I view this commercial. Talk about an energetic sleeper on the list. “Its sure to leave skid marks on your soul"

In the late 80's, Nintendo ruled the video game industry, so for Sega to release an attack add of this proportion is just risky. Just think of all the NES fan boys back lashing against this evil company, but Sega manage to pull off number two on my list. What makes it great? It’s got a ton of celebrities; a crazy musical track and awesome sound, that and it insulted Nintendo. Actually, what’s interesting is that when I think of the old Nintendo vs. Sega battles back in the 1990’s, I always think as Sega of being the evil of the two companies, and for Sega to have relies something that make Nintendo look like a babies toy, no wonder many abandoned Nintendo for Sega.

Holy crap! This commercial is insanity. If you thought Sega’s attack add of Nintendo was powerful, this commercial just proved that Nintendo was the king of the after school activities. This commercial has a bunch of flashy images, a rocking song glorifying the crap out of Nintendo and their new product, claming that you will be able to “fire your way through enemy fire”, and to top it all of, not only does the TV explode, but the world explodes. It’s as if Nintendo was implying that if you don’t buy this product, then they would blow up the world, and as foolish kids, of course were going to believe it. Talk about a company’s wet dream. After viewing this insanity, you’re going to need Tylenol, fast.

So, did you get thought the list without the urge to by video game related products? Good. Remember, Video Game Company’s try to create flashy commercials to hypnotize us to buy their product. You have the power to either by their stuff or not. Don’t let them push you around. Now if you excuse me, I’ve got to go buy every issue of Nintendo Power right now.

List by BimmyandJimmy