The Wizzard

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believe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKG1nvV1Wnc

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I'm not sure which Mega 64 videos are parodies and which are commercials, but the Assassin's Creed, Resident Evil 4, and Alien Hominid HD (That one is a definatley a commercial) are all good.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKxpmnAFRw

Super Mario Advance 4. I love the song (Kojima Mayumi - Hatsukoi) and the execution. Broke my heart when they only aired the full version once or twice on TV and then switched over to the 15-30 second clip.

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Hey, a new comment system...sweet!

@Taedirk: waw..that one was..weird..and incredibely artistic at the same time!

My favorite game trailer has to be...the TGS trailer of the first Phoenix wright port for DS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jns2Dlv9S9w

It has some better jokes then some of the game cases, and incredible voice acting.

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I always liked this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqxuR1kQu2w

Plus Zero Mission is one of my favorite games. The 3D metroids just don't compare.

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Probably the Mario Kart Super Circuit commercials. I saw some TV show (The World's Most Outrageous Commercials, I think) where they showed a few of the MKSC commercials, and there's 4 old people playing GBAs with Link Cables (Who remembers those? :D). And one of them would usually physically knock another out of the match, either by pushing their wheelchair off a hill, or tying an anchor's rope to their leg...

But I like the Super Smash Bros. commercial, too. :c The N64 slogan has to have been the coolest Nintendo one...

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The Spyro the dragon TV commercial.

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I would actually say the Cowboy Jed ones for Mario Kart Wii. It was such a breath of fresh air from their current insipid casual efforts. I was expecting yet another horribly bland and dull 'Wii Would Like To Play' one with barely any game footage and just actors jumping about, disturbing smiling and demented waggling, making every game look like a tiresome party game. So it was so refreshing to see this type of ad again. It was really cool and genuinely fun rather than the soulless fun of the 'Wii Would Like To Play' ones. It was proper Nintendo. Sure there were still cringingly fake ultra-smiley actors pretending to be non-gamers, but they weren't the main focus of the ad.

I know "Wii Would Like To Play" is an effective way to show the shallow party games, but their use to advertise the deeper 'core' games is completely inappropriate. The sheer depth, beauty and 'wow factor' of games like Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda: Twilight Princess, etc. really does not come across in 'Wii Would Like To Play' style ads and yet all those games were burdened with one.

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Final Fantasy 3/6j "Next!":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeYu8CvKW-g

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Easily the Radio Zelda ones for Majora's Mask.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03hTVBBLBZ4

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The commercials for Battle Tanx 1 and 2 for N64 were awesome, parodies of the snuggles the bear laundry detergent commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7brl9mzmgPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLdn8QfxxCo

Also the kid beating Saddam Hussein at Starcraft 64 was awesome too. The N64 had some good commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW8vBkKursE

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And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXN6vtljTg

Although its not for any game in particular and is actually a fruit snack advert. Still awesome though

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Best commercial for a video game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntHVUp7m4E to this day I get chills from watching it.

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I've always loved the "jump in" commericals for xBox 360. They cut right to the heart of it: Playing games is fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjacKfoiH6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1koDmMSfi0M

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The Game Gear commercial where a kid is sitting outside playing a Game Boy, picks up a big tree branch, smacks himself on the head with it, goes back to the Game Boy and says "Whoa...color!"

The NES "Zelda Rap" commercial is pretty cool too, as is "Don't Copy That Floppy" (if it counts), and the Japanese "Sega Saturn-Shiro!" commercials.

BTW, DS Fanboy, Your new comment fields are broken:
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nothing beats the one embedded in the post. nothing.

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Most depressing ad: FFF: Chocobo's Dungeon commercials in Japanese. Awesome voice acting that we never get to hear in the US version. Japanese version had great voice actors and we somehow got the English version covered in crap. Worst part: It's forced subtitles whenever you hear the voice acting anyway, so there was no need to even translate it.

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Metroid Prime 2's "who are you?"

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