Five of the Best: Video game adverts on TV

I still get excited seeing a video game advertised on the TV or at the cinema. It’s like proof this thing I do is real. I get all energised and spin to the person next to me, trying to tell them what’s being advertised before it’s announced. I must look ever so impressive to them.

But video game adverts aren’t really that rare any more are they? These days games are much better represented at the big entertainment buffet. It was different in the 90s though. Not only were games something really new and that only children did, they also didn’t have any graphics, which made it much harder to show them in an exciting way on TV. The only recourse was to get creative so that’s that’s exactly what the advertisers did.

Here’s to video game adverts on TV and here are five of the best. Happy Friday!

Trying to pick a Nintendo advert from probably hundreds over the years is a very hard job. I’m particularly fond of the Nintendo 64 Smash Bros. advert where a bunch of people dressed up as Mario and Yoshi and the rest go from holding hands, skipping through a meadow together, to punching each other in the face. And I love the Wii Zelda adverts featuring the late, great Robin Williams and his daughter Zelda because how can you not? Robin loved the series so much he named his daughter after it.