Ah, old game commercials. So terrible, yet so golden.
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Anyone got any other batshit-insane commercials that you hold dear?

(Check you links, they are all redirecting to the same vid where I'm told can't eat Nintendo :P)
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There was an Atari 7800 commercial shown in this country back at it's release. It involved some kind of 80's rap song along the lines of "What do we want? We want Atari! What do we want! ~yo~ Seventy-Eight Hundreds Everywhere".
So far, I've never seen uploaded onto the internets. Truely horrible. And not just for the fashion and hairstyles.
Even back in this era, games and their consoles were praised for their 'great graphics', 'incredible sound' and 'life like animation'...

Nope! the url= still links to that same vid. The text that is linked is more correct though :}
(To be fair, the forum is acting up weird, missing the apostrophe and adding return carriages and spaces in many places)
After watching the Pole Position vid: I love the 80s. Why can't modern game commercials be like this. (Including such annoying songs that I'll have playing in my head for the last hour)
try this:~
Nintendo Commercial
Wizard of Wor - With Madden
Pole Position

Thanks.

Best NES ad ever. You must watch this.
NES Advert
And this Atari 2600 ad seems to creep me out for some reason.
Atari 2600 Advert
OK, this isn't a gaming commercial per se, but it has Pac-Man so shut up.
Pac-Man 7-up Advert
Never mix rap with Atari consoles. Please.
Atari Reduced Price Advert
But it's OK to mix Chicken McNuggets with Atari consoles.
McDonald's - Atari Promotion Commercial

There is this Zelda one that's good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtuK4CU3ko

Who can forget the venerable Mike Tyson's Punch Out?. I remember that commercial and beat the game after many hours of gamer's thumb!

Your parents help you set it up.

I set up my own damn NES hehehe. My parents never touched it lol.

Here's a pair of old C64 commercials. At that time, it was okay to bash the competition directly.
The competition loves it
Comparing prices
And also, this is not actually a commercial for the C64, but it might have been used for one.
Press Play On Tape - Comic Bakery (Larger Than Pop Game Boy Band Mix)

Dear god I remember that ad from when I was only four or five. Looking back years later, I thought I'd imagined it.

Yeah, Captain Kirk promoting the VIC20. Golden...

"Unlike games, it has a real computer keyboard!"~
Good point Shatner! Pity this did not take off too well with the following console generation :\