[HN Gopher] Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?
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       Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?
        
       Author : Caiero
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2024-06-14 18:51 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gamehistory.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gamehistory.org)
        
       | ranger_danger wrote:
       | I think it's hilarious that they link to a youtube video that
       | already has the same commercial.
        
         | jwrallie wrote:
         | They also mention their version is revised, so the version on
         | YouTube is a better candidate for being the "first commercial".
        
       | butz wrote:
       | > We're excited to preserve this best-known copy of this
       | commercial and share it with you!
       | 
       | So, where's the link to archive.org?
        
       | poochipie wrote:
       | :)
       | 
       | No [0].
       | 
       | Nintendo was incorporated in 1889 [1].
       | 
       | Here is an 1890 Nintendo commercial [2].
       | 
       | 0:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
       | 
       | 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
       | 
       | 2:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#/media/File:NintendoCar...
        
         | toast0 wrote:
         | We don't usually call printed advertisements commercials.
         | Commercial usual means an advertising in a radio or television
         | setting. Even advertisements in a movie theater don't tend to
         | be called commercials.
        
         | kristopolous wrote:
         | The history of Nintendo as a board and card game company is
         | extremely well known.
         | 
         | Implicit here was English and television.
        
           | Retric wrote:
           | Television or Radio sure, but I didn't assume English.
        
             | 0xcde4c3db wrote:
             | There is a Color TV-Game commercial supposedly from 1977
             | (not totally clear whether this is the year of the ad
             | itself or the year of the product launch) [1].
             | 
             | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmwNej8noQ
        
               | kristopolous wrote:
               | I think a good argument can be made for 1977 or 1978
               | 
               | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV-Game
               | 
               | They came out with a 3rd machine in June of 1978.
               | 
               | The commercial features the first two machines. There's
               | many plausible reasons for this including, most
               | prominently, that the third might not have been released
               | yet.
        
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