{"id":65889,"date":"2014-06-15T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65889"},"modified":"2014-06-16T01:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T23:06:20","slug":"nintendo-are-advertising-masterminds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/65889-nintendo-are-advertising-masterminds","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo are advertising masterminds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/65851-nintendo-execs-fist-fight-during-e3-presentation.html\">E3 2014 opening press conference<\/a>\u00a0saw its executives fist-fighting, Robot Chicken sketches with Mario and Star Fox, and then something about a new Zelda game for the Wii U &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure, I lost interest after the first ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of the company&#8217;s always-fresh take on marketing material, here are some of Nintendo&#8217;s best adverts.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Nintendo Cereal System<\/h3>\n<p>Did you know that Mario had his own cereal? Well, he did. As you will see from the advert, below, he was not the only Nintendo character to feature on the breakfast snack &#8211; Zelda got in on the action, too. Cue the cheesy music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xoL621d72VY?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Paper Mario<\/h3>\n<p>What do you get when you take a Nintendo 64 title, add in some paper characters, Princess Peach screaming for help, and a paper shredder? Well, you get this advert. This was the Paper Mario commercial that was aired on TV to promote the game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZSkUTWZyeA?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mario\u00a0Milk<\/h3>\n<p>Cereal would be nothing without milk, and Mario knew that. The plumber was tasked with selling the white liquid goodness during a series of TV adverts that aired in the 90s. Drink your milk kids, it makes you big and strong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sllvCPKDVZM?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Super Smash Bros. N64<\/h3>\n<p>While Nintendo&#8217;s previous adverts, and involvement in adverts, may not have been what you would call &#8220;cool&#8221;, the Super Smash Bros. promo somewhat redeemed the Japanese&#8217;s company&#8217;s street cred. Mario, Donkey Kong, and Pikachu in an all-out brawl &#8211; hell yeah.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K783SDTBKmg?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Yoshi NES<\/h3>\n<p>This advert was clearly inspired by Godzilla. A bunch of over dramatic people running away from a giant shadow, screaming people begging for help, yip, it&#8217;s Godzilla. Except on a smaller, friendlier scale.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/agZOvKAPrV4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mario Party 6<\/h3>\n<p>What happens when you attend a sleepover and are the first person to fall asleep? You have your kidneys cut out and wake up in a bath full of ice. Wait, that&#8217;s not it. Oh, yes, people put shaving cream on your face and stick your hand in a bowl of hot water. How childish.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4cUVwu6a2I?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Super Mario RPG SNES<\/h3>\n<p>This has to be my favourite advert on this list &#8211; I love crazy Japanese plants singing a catchy tune that I cannot understand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pi89eX4gMh4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/65877-battlefield-hardline-cop-killing-multiplayer-gameplay.html\">Battlefield Hardline cop-killing multiplayer gameplay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65891-steam-summer-sale-2014-launch-date-revealed.html\">Steam Summer Sale 2014 launch date revealed?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/65917-madcatz-mojo-console-arrives-in-sa.html\">MadCatz Mojo console arrives in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo may not be rocking the gaming world like Microsoft and Sony, but they sure do know how to make a good advert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":65973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4543,21,73],"class_list":["post-65889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-advertising","tag-headline","tag-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65971,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65889\/revisions\/65971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}