Nintendo system commercial Korea

old commercial for Nintendo in Korea. It's published by Hyundai I think and it was called Comboy.

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Entertainment

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• nintendo
• gameboy
• tv
• commercial
• ad
• korea
• hyundai
• comboy

[NnReinInN]

Sick Commercial :D

[smaery]

korea....cool

[PolyesterMoustache]

I found a korean gameboy in the trash once.

[gerryono]

@FleshMan7063

There was an american advert for the NES that was almost identical to this

[drktigger]

Oh my lord...

[RobochaoXX]

This commercial is so full of life

[SPS148669]

The Koreans got the western NES but badged Comboy and European PAL SNES with both Comboy and western Super Nintendo logo on it but on the Korean Wii Virtual console has the Japanese Famicom and Super Famicom badges/logo's. Dos this cause mass confusion with the older generation.

[Hariuka]

so this is what happens when im on acid...huh

[FleshMan7063]

this would've never passed in america.

[VaderNES]

They would know. Its styling is very Japanese, while the western NES's styling is American.

Plus, they could have thought Mario was an American character. From official artwork, that wouldn't be that hard to mistake.

[amadeusyaoi]

I'm not sure how the Koreans would know it was the Japanese-style model in 1988. I mean, if they thought Mario was Korean, haha...

[VaderNES]

I already knew that. The reason why the NES design was used in Korea is because Koreans hated the Japanese. The reason why it was Hyundai branded is because Hyundai is a Korean company, while Nintendo is Japanese (which was already a problem, as I explained).

The reason the design was used in the US is because it did look like a VCR or a similar device. You are right, they didn't want to be associated with video games, which were low in popularity in 1984 and 1985.