Old Zelda Commercial

[Neo]

Not to be out done, I thought I would contribute this gem ;)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5206257500748953004&q=legend+of+zelda

<3 the dancing.

-Neo

[Demon_Child]

I remember the commercial for the original Legend of Zelda game for the NES and with a little sleuthing here and there and I have found it. Most of you probably weren't even born when this was aired on tv back in 1987.

http://www.vimeo.com/clip=12231

[KexMex]

A ha ha ha... awesome!

Legend of Zelda was if I remember correctly, the first game to sell over a million. Wonder what they earned on that...

[pixels]

wow. such marketing skills.

[Neo]

I remember the commercial for the original Legend of Zelda game for the NES and with a little sleuthing here and there and I have found it. Most of you probably weren't even born when this was aired on tv back in 1987.

http://www.vimeo.com/clip=12231

I was a little over 3 years old back then!!!1 =P

lmao "your parents help you hook it up" thats great.

-Neo

[Nuts]

lmao "your parents help you hook it up" thats great.

-Neo

I was curious about that. Were children dumber back then? :) Today the slogan would read "your children help you hook it up."

And Zelda was kick ass. I worked for a video store when Zelda was out (a few years old at the time) and we would never have any copies available. I recall renting Zelda and getting so very far in the game and then the NES crapped out and my game was erased. Oooooh, I was sooooo mad! :cool:

[Ecthelion]

Zelda is one of Nintendo's best games ever. Despite the relative lack of a sword combat system through every game, they were still great.

Concerning the video, that was just wrong. Purely and utterly wrong in every facet of the word. And the quake? Come on! Poor Link...never gets the respect he deserves. Hopefully Twilight Princess will change all that.....if it ever stops being delayed and is actually released...

[Neo]

I was curious about that. Were children dumber back then? :) Today the slogan would read "your children help you hook it up."

And Zelda was kick ass. I worked for a video store when Zelda was out (a few years old at the time) and we would never have any copies available. I recall renting Zelda and getting so very far in the game and then the NES crapped out and my game was erased. Oooooh, I was sooooo mad! :cool:
Hehe.

I think back then it was more of a "parents are old and thus should know more..." but times have changed.

Yeah, that must've been fun =P My dad played a few NES games way back when, though he was addicted to Tetris (I mean to the extreme).

I myself have never played Zelda 1 or 2 for very long (we have the special collectors disc for the Gamecube, but I find that I enjoy OOT or MM more -- yes I know that sonds bad from someone who trumpets old school rpgs... but meh.)

-Neo

[Ecthelion]

My dad used to be addicted on Donkey Kong Country and Kirby's Dreamland. He actually beat them before me! Nowadays, it's a different tale altogether. The complexity of most of today's games are beyond "push A to jump and B to roll". He was playing Rainbow 6 Raven Shield for a while, though.

And to bring this post back on topic: Link looked like a girl, and Ganon looked like an under-funded soccer teams mascot. Why anyone bought the game after watching that ad is beyond my comprehension...

[GenocideAlive]

Once upon a time, there was once this thing called "Atari". "Atari" was the first video game system ever, and while its graphics weren't 512MB hyperthreaded 2000x3000 pixel quality, they were video games. These video games spawned newer, better video games. These better video games in turn inspired others to create wholly dedicated systems to gaming using cutting-edge 8-bit technology. And that's when actual genres (besides action) became defined. Zelda is the first true RPG.

I guess it's hard to appreciate when you don't understand a world without FFIX or some othersuch eyecandy garbage.

[Nuts]

I had an original PONG console, beat that.

As for RPG's, I always liked the Phantasy Star for the original SEGA Master System.

[Fred1000000]

Dang, I'm still not sure if my uncle has a Pong machine.....But I DO know for a FACTthat he has an atari. I've played it.

[Neo]

Once upon a time, there was once this thing called "Atari". "Atari" was the first video game system ever, and while its graphics weren't 512MB hyperthreaded 2000x3000 pixel quality, they were video games. These video games spawned newer, better video games. These better video games in turn inspired others to create wholly dedicated systems to gaming using cutting-edge 8-bit technology. And that's when actual genres (besides action) became defined. Zelda is the first true RPG.

I guess it's hard to appreciate when you don't understand a world without FFIX or some othersuch eyecandy garbage.
FF9 actually is pretty nice graphically, for eye candy I would turn to FF8 and/or possibly FFX

And FF7 had some pretty rotten graphics.

Although personally I enjoy storylines and/or gameplay a lot more then how a game looks.

Hehe. My dad has an old atari thing somewhere in his garage, we used to play it all the time over there.

-Neo

[Geno]

I remember the commercial for the original Legend of Zelda game for the NES and with a little sleuthing here and there and I have found it. Most of you probably weren't even born when this was aired on tv back in 1987.

http://www.vimeo.com/clip=12231

This is sad... I was a year old when that was out... And yet I remember it. I don't know why, but I remember watching that a long time ago. >.<;

~Larry "Geno" Meyers

[Night-Hawk]

Wow that was very entertaining jsut one fast question whats danceing have to do with zelda there isnt any danceing that the game ? lmao

[GenocideAlive]

FF9 actually is pretty nice graphically, for eye candy I would turn to FF8 and/or possibly FFX
"FFIX" was a device for emphasizing the almost-ludicrous nature of fastidiousness in name and graphic pointlessness some franchies have adopted over their original creativity and quality. "Final Fantasy 9" is a continuation of "Final Fantasy", which started off on the Nintendo with an extremely creative character class system.

I beat Final Fantasies NES I, SNES I, II, III and PS VII. Beyond that, I think the game took on a facade of unrealisitic characters, exaggerated plotlines, and cookie-cutter melodrama. They turned into Jerry Bruckheimer whom created a very good formula, then proceeded to piss on its legacy by attempting to "out-do" each previous installment in every visual category possible while ignoring the eroding undercurrent of plotline and character depth.

In short, saying FFIX had nothing to do with FFIX in earnest.

And in regard to Phantasy Star, meh. I never really liked the "anime" look those characters had and I seriously disliked a lot of their plot/character systems. Shining Force was a lot cooler to me but maybe just because it had a more strategy feel to it. Shining in the Darkness, however, was probably one of the worst games I'd ever had the misfortune to see. That miserable piece of shit was dedicated maze-dungeon playing, which I seriously despise.

Anyway, I liked the Zelda series (obviously) and I liked the FF series. They were pretty unbeatable. There was a game for the DC or something, that I can't really remember anymore it was called Dragon something or other, and it was like a Final Fight type RPG. Characters could build up spells, dmg, and that kind of thing. Its storyline wasn't linear though, so I think you could make various and sundry "choices" as to what to do next. I remember this one girl who had a shield spell that forced enemies back and could trap enemies on the periphry of the screen and damage the shit out of them. Basically she was using it to crush them.

[KexMex]

I had an original PONG console, beat that.

As for RPG's, I always liked the Phantasy Star for the original SEGA Master System.

Phantasy Star is a piece of art. Truly.
So is FF, although I'm nostalgic and can't really get to like anything over VII for some reason.

Oh and GA, I also like Shining Force. Especially SFII, which beat SF to a pulp.

[Neo]

"FFIX" was a device for emphasizing the almost-ludicrous nature of fastidiousness in name and graphic pointlessness some franchies have adopted over their original creativity and quality. "Final Fantasy 9" is a continuation of "Final Fantasy", which started off on the Nintendo with an extremely creative character class system.
Uhm... FF9 isnt a continuation of anything. FF9 is its own game -- just like the other FFs there are no true sequals when jumping numbers.

FF9 actually went back to the "roots" of FF (so to say) and had a ton of references in it to past games. Hell it even had a couple of music tracks from FF3 I think (Thats FF3J).

Its actually really enjoyable. FF7 was over rated and has a huge fanboy following (for only god knows why) the game was so lame.

I beat Final Fantasies NES I, SNES I, II, III and PS VII. Beyond that, I think the game took on a facade of unrealisitic characters, exaggerated plotlines, and cookie-cutter melodrama. They turned into Jerry Bruckheimer whom created a very good formula, then proceeded to piss on its legacy by attempting to "out-do" each previous installment in every visual category possible while ignoring the eroding undercurrent of plotline and character depth.
I've beaten 1 through 10 // 10-2. The later ones may not hold a candle to FF6(SNES 3) in terms of storyline, but that doesn't mean they aren't good in thier own right. Besides, that would be like me claiming that Phantasy Star sucked (even though I've never beaten it).
Oh, and I think your talking about Dragon Quest.

Now if only we can get Square to make a true Chrono Trigger sequal...

-Neo

[Mindslaver]

I will never be able to play a Zelda game again, without these strange dances popping up into my head.
Wow that was very entertaining jsut one fast question whats danceing have to do with zelda there isnt any danceing that the game ? lmao
It's a marketing ploy. There's little relation between Zelda and dancing.

[bluemicrobyte]

These old commercials are interesting..... very strange too..... extreme nerdism in that oldest commercial....... and "good grahpics"......... sometimes I wonder what came before the NES........

[kongurous]

sometimes I wonder what came before the NES........

Atari 2600 and Intellivision. No need to wonder anymore:P

[TinyDancer]

You know, now we find 8-bit graphics to be rather obsolete. What will happen in the future when our so-called "Incredible" graphics have been completely outdone? What will we think of Atari and the like?

As for the dancing commercial...wtf. Very amusing though, makes me want to play for sure!

[Fred1000000]

The generations.

Pong
Atari 2600/Intellivision

The great video game depression had seperated these generations for a little while. A year or two or a few. It had started with the making of the ET game. Spielbergs blockbuster hit was such a big success, why not a game? Well, this game was meant for kids. But, instead of being FUN, it was a frusterating series of falling through endless pits. This made people not want to buy any more games. If you REALLY need this game, go rummage through some New Mexico land fill. Seriously.

NES/Some other Atari system that flopped
Super NES/Genesis
Playstation/N64
Dreamcast is somewhere in between generation 5 and 6, as it has games that were for the PS1 and 2
PS2/Gamecube/XBOX
XBOX 360/PS3/Revolution

Wonder no more. Oh, handhelds?

Gameboy/pocket/light
Gameboy color
Gameboy advance/SP
Nintendo DS/PSP

And there were a bunch of other little hand held that never made it. Such as the Neo Geo color, whicjh may have done good sales, it was still nowhere near the calibur of the Gameboy.

[Demon_Child]

The generations.

Pong
Magnavox Odyssey
Atari 2600/Magnavox Odyssey2
Intellivision/Colecovision

The great video game depression had seperated these generations for a little while. A year or two or a few. It had started with the making of the ET game. Spielbergs blockbuster hit was such a big success, why not a game? Well, this game was meant for kids. But, instead of being FUN, it was a frusterating series of falling through endless pits. This made people not want to buy any more games. If you REALLY need this game, go rummage through some New Mexico land fill. Seriously.

NES/Some other Atari system that flopped (Atari 5200)/Sega Master System
Super NES/Genesis/SegaCD/Sega 32x/Sega Saturn/Turbographix 16/Neo Geo
Playstation/N64/Atari Jaguar
Dreamcast is somewhere in between generation 5 and 6, as it has games that were for the PS1 and 2
PS2/Gamecube/XBOX
XBOX 360/PS3/Revolution

Wonder no more. Oh, handhelds?

Gameboy/pocket/light/Sega Game Gear/Atari Lynx
Gameboy color
Gameboy advance/SP
Nintendo DS/PSP

And there were a bunch of other little hand held that never made it. Such as the Neo Geo color, whicjh may have done good sales, it was still nowhere near the calibur of the Gameboy.

Much to learn you still have. [/Yoda]

Added in most of the other systems that have been either overlooked or forgotten.

[LinkTheGameFreak]

you're missing 3DO somewhere between Super NES and Nintendo 64

[Demon_Child]

I said "most of the other systems" in my post above, Link. :rolleyes:

[LinkTheGameFreak]

I said "most of the other systems" in my post above, Link. :rolleyes:

sry DC, I haven't slept yet and I must've overlooked it, but 3DO is nonetheless an important contributer to the almost great failing of the video gaming market (it was one of - if not the first - high priced gaming consoles that failed to deliver) great graphics but no way to get people to pay the high price tag - even after they dropped it the consumers had already lost interest :(

Philips CD-I is another fuckup bastard child game system... I'm not even gonna try and decipher that SOB :mad:

[Demon_Child]

I could have also added in the Amiga and the MAME but those were technically emulators and emulated games for the PC.

[Nuts]

OMG, you forgot the Atari 7800, how could you?!?!
The first backwards compatible console evar!!!

http://www.atariage.com/7800/faq/index.html

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

People should do that "Group Techno Dance using Japanese People" methode to sell everything. :D

[GrassDragon]

Go Link! Dance him to death!

[LinkTheGameFreak]

ok.... :cry:

*dances a sad, sad jig...*

[Neo]

Your lists seem to be very american oriented, wheres the famicon or wonderswan and such? =(

Lol, that commercial is just so wierd... I love the dancing though. The next time i fight banon im going to dance around with my GBA XD

-Neo

[Whiteknight]

Once upon a time, there was once this thing called "Atari". "Atari" was the first video game system ever, and while its graphics weren't 512MB hyperthreaded 2000x3000 pixel quality, they were video games. These video games spawned newer, better video games. These better video games in turn inspired others to create wholly dedicated systems to gaming using cutting-edge 8-bit technology. And that's when actual genres (besides action) became defined. Zelda is the first true RPG.

I guess it's hard to appreciate when you don't understand a world without FFIX or some othersuch eyecandy garbage.

If you want to get technical, the very first video game was a sort of tennis game, dubbed "Tennis for Two" invented by William Higinbotham in 1958 for a Nuclear Plant's "Visitor's Day" to try to make it slightly more exciting. It took an analog computer with an oscilloscope that simlutated a ball which could be served and responded with somewhat realistic physics, like the ball being bounced back at you if it hit the net.

You might also say that the ENIAC was the first video game system, with a few games like Tic-Tac-Toe, or perhaps the PDP-1, where the game "Spacewars" was created (and, incidentally, the first controllers), which was the first largely popular videogame.



Now if only we can get Square to make a true Chrono Trigger sequal...

-Neo

Was I the only one who liked Chrono Chross?

[GenocideAlive]

If you want to get technical, blah blah blah popular videogame.
No. No, I don't. And I don't think anybody else wants to either. I'm going to spend the next ten minutes trying to innundate my brain with various other informations so that I can attempt to pump out that completely useless bullshit out of my head.

[Neo]

Whiteknight I enjoyed Chrono Cross, but as a sequal it failed miserably, at best its a spin off, nothing more.

-Neo