Gold disc for Zelda! (1 Viewer)

[Greg_S_H]

The following is NOT the commercial I was talking about:

http://zc.zeldaxtreme.com/download/z...ommercial.mpeg

The one I remember involved a guy running around, fighting creatures. Actually, maybe he was just looking over his shoulder and swinging his sword. I think he was pretty tall, unlike Link. The ad was dumb, but the few game play screens were enough to make most of us who saw it want the game.

The one I linked is just plain awful.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

Anyone remember the cheesy live-action commercial for the original Legend of Zelda?

I have an old tape of MST3K with a commercial for Zelda: A Link to the Past that involved a guy running around doing nothing. It was pretty bad.

 

[Dave Bennett]

Are you guys talking about the commercial where the guy keeps yelling the names of all the monsters in the game and then at the end goes "Zelda Zelda Zelda!"? I vividly remember that commercial. Before I'd played the game I couldn't stop thinking fo the fact that a video game shared the first name of my grandmother(though she went by her middle name).
Speaking of other crappy nintendo related commercials, how about the one for the nintendo breakfast cereal "Nintendo, it's a cereal wow!" What a lame idea that cereal was, two different cereals in seperate bags in the same box.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Maybe, Dave. I know I knew the word "octorok" before playing the game. But, I never saw that rap commercial before today. People are so obsessed with this unfunny ad that finding the other one online may be impossible. Every link has the rap ad. I know I'm not dreaming this, and I don't think I'm thinking of a Link to the Past ad.

I found an old Usenet post complaining about the original Zelda ad showing nothing of the game, but rather showing a lame live-action sequence. That's the closest I've come to a reference to "my" ad.

 

[Matt Birchall]

I remember the commercial you're referring to. I thought he was a nerdy looking guy, running around some house-type-thing, yelling "Zelda!" and "Tektites!" several times. Kind of a trippy commercial. Totally turned me off to the game, which I don't think I got around to playing until maybe a year later or so.

Have never seen it on the web.

 

[Mark Evans]

Ah ha ha, but c'mon, that rap commericial is so mind-bogglingly awful that it deserves to be preserved for all time .

It's the Legend of Zelda, and it's really rad!

 

[Eric Alderson]

I like the line "You're parent’s help you hook it up". My parents never had a clue about hooking the NES up.

 

[Jason Borchers]

I was right! Gaming Age is back up, and they have both Zelda commercials here.

It's part of a special called Flashback: Video Game Advertising, which is a collection of magazine ads and commercials for NES games (see also part 2 and part 3 for other systems' ads). Fun stuff.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Thanks, Jason! That's the one. Boy, is that bad. I don't know where I got the sword stuff from, but I think it may have been my mind trying to protect me from the reality of that commercial. "Which! Way! To. GO?"

 

[Matt Birchall]

Holy shit! I'm back in 1987 again.

Nice find, Jason.

Hated that damn commercial.

 

[Jason Quillen]

Speaking of hating Zelda commercials...I'm starting to think bad commercials are another tradition for the franchise, kinda like the gold cartridges / discs.

The Wind Waker ones are BAD. With that girl in a cloak? "In the land of HI-raule"? Ugh. I always think its one of those old skittles commercials - where all the skittles pour down from the sky and the Gray world suddenly becomes colorful.

Not to mention the "dramatic tension" at the end when the girl says "to save.............................................. ..........ME." Didn't see that one coming.

Sorry, but I saw the damn thing like 30 times tonight alone.

JQ

 

[DonRoeber]

I'm pretty worried. My fiancee knew all of the words to the Nintendo Cereal song.

 

[Greg_S_H]

By the way, the Wind Waker site at zelda.com has been redesigned with a scrolling view of the island. It looks pretty good. You can get a screensaver with a similar view. If anyone downloads it, tell me if you hear sound. I have the sound turned on, but I'm not hearing anything.

http://www.zelda.com/gcn/index.jsp

 

[Adam_Garris]

tell me if you hear sound

I just downloaded the screensaver, and it does have sound.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Does it have the full, constant sea sounds with the occasional bird like on the site? Also, does the scene scroll? Right now, I get a non-moving scene that has some wave action and some other animation, but no sound. It does go from night to day, and I found that by pushing the space bar, I could start it raining.

I'm going to install the latest version of Shockwave and see if that'll help. Maybe it won't work with Win98.

Edit: It didn't help. And, I need to make a correction about the space bar. Obviously, pushing the space bar will knock you out of the screensaver. What was happening was, I did a right mouse click to access the shockwave options, and it was locking me up. I had to reboot, but before I did, I could make it rain or go to night by pushing the space bar. I guess you can't do that normally.

Edit 2: It's Flash, not Shockwave. I think I'm up to date as far as Flash goes, but I'll give it a shot.