![]() ![]() This ad for the Player's Choice line of first-party N64 games features a young kid potentially blackmailing his father (and grandfather) to keep their cross-dressing antics under wraps in exchange for cash to spend on sweet N64 titles. Player's Choice Blackmail Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The ads for the 3DS remake were much more wholesome. Still, for a company that's made strides over the decades to make gaming as inclusive as possible, this was an odd misstep. Playing on the schoolboy attitudes of the time, this one raised some eyebrows at the time, and the line didn't feature in some trailers and print ads internationally. Perhaps the world has got a little better over the past few decades? "Will thou get the girl, or play like one?" Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Two decades into the twenty-first century, they're now embarrassing artefacts. The following commercials simply wouldn't be made these days on the grounds that they're riddled with stereotypes. We've seen the good, we've laughed at the bad, and now it's time to endure the questionable. If nothing else, this one is memorable, but the number of viewers who'll want to see a rodent humping a Game Boy Micro is low. Rodent Loves Game Boy Micro Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube ![]() Still, maybe it's better to be bad than bland. ![]() This was part of the 'Play It Loud' era, and this brand of gross-out humour was in vogue at the time, but they rarely jived with the wholesome games being promoted. A 'little bonus level' serves as the 'waffer-thin' mint in this version causing the gluttonous gamer to explode. This rancid Yoshi's Island ad is a homage/rip-off of the Mr Creosote scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. We'd like to write something more about this terrible selection of Wii U commercials, but they've caused our eyebrows to clamp to our chin. If too-cool-for-school Steve Harris from Stranger Things can't save your console (skip to 2:36 in the video above), you know you're in trouble. To be fair, the ad people didn't have as much to work with around the Wii U era, but the approach they adopted of kids 'pitching' the console to their parents was particularly insipid. Wii U "Family Time" Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Recently, video producer vini64 has made some very helpful compilations of worldwide commercials for specific Mario games, and there are some real beauties to enjoy from across the plumber's career. It's got some gameplay footage, but beyond that we don't know what they were thinking. It's just what it is a twee little ditty about cleaning up. You watch this waiting for the punchline. "Clean is better than dirty" Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube There seemed to be an obsession with adding rap and, on occasion, marionettes to Zelda commercials. Let's, for a moment, assume that this hip, poppin', fresh rap actually had a residue of cool in the early '90s (Eminem was a long way off, and we're not sure Vanilla Ice was ever hip), any cool evaporates immediately thanks not only to the kids themselves, but also the announcement that "Your parents help you hook it up!" Gee, mom can get involved too?! AWESOME!!! We're really not sure what they were going for here. That's okay - no problem! They're just wrong. Some people will say this was the greatest Nintendo ad ever. "It's The Legend of Zelda and it's really rad." Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It turned out that resistance was futile for game-addicted Nintendo fans, but we can only imagine the psychological damage inflicted on the youth of Australia by this ad. This Australian ad features a bunch of horrific early CG, botched versions of characters from NES games telling you that it's impossible to beat them while doing their very best impression of the Borg from Star Trek. You cannot beat us." Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube calling DK 'papa' and looking like Helena Bonham Carter from Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes reboot? Donkey Kong himself playing Donkey Kong Jr. Mario as a banana-brandishing hoodlum? Donkey Kong Jr. ![]() Save Papa Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube "Will thou get the girl, or play like one?"."It's The Legend of Zelda and it's really rad.". #Donkey kong 3 commercial tvSo, let's dredge the lake for the worst Nintendo TV commercials. Nintendo signed off on them back then, but you'd hope that stern words would be had with anyone proposing them in ad meetings these days. The following videos fall into two main categories: the first set, which are so toe-curlingly dated that they're tough to enjoy even with our irony dials turned up to eleven and the second batch, which are simply disappointing products of their time. ![]()
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