Nintendo - Play It Loud commercial

The '90s. Grungy fonts and flannel everywhere.

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• nintendo
• play
• it
• loud
• commercial
• 90s
• snes
• super

[matoro1989]

Nintendo's ideal is completely different now. Went from rebellious gamers to healthy lifestyle... :/

[setzerlock]

It's great to look back and see that when we were kids and watching "good value programming" on Saturday mornings, we were getting cool ass commercials with the Butthole Surfers playing in the background in between cartoons. Don't get that nowadays, that's for sure.

[TheLubaz]

@IDNA222

Yeh sucked for them back then

[IDNA222]

Wow.

Everyone was such a scrub casual in the 90's. Truly, the early-90's were a dark age for gaming.

[klix360]

play it loud gamers

[uloset]

I thought this commercial was awesome as a kid and what made it great for me was the fact that it confirmed MKII was coming to the SNES. If you lived through the time period it is pretty easy to see this was just Nintendo trying to take the crown as the gritty mature system from the Genesis. This was also about 3 years into the SNES's life cycle so they were also trying to keep or regain some owners who were kids when the bought the system but were entering their pre and early teens.

[Ignjaleks]

@matoro1989

Because it got accepted by the society and now everybody plays games.

What a shame.

[remaftp]

Pretty embarrassing that I used to think this bullshit advertising was cool. I was young and stupid tho, so whatever. (Butthole Surfers DO rock)

[TheSsbcandidates]

Kids nowadays... man.

[Gravidtron]

The reference to "Encyclopedia Britannica Presents A Parent's Wish List" at the beginning is the funniest part of the commercial. Of course, the source material was pretty funny too.

[matoro1989]

@EricNinden It is my birthdate. While I don't remember this specific commercial, I remember stuff as early as 93 and 94 pretty distinctly. I moved when I was young, so the change in house and everything left the details pretty well imprinted from kindergarten years. Laugh if you want, but kids like that are still around (most of the stoner grunge kids from back then are still stoner grunge kids now... they don't change much).

[EricNinden]

@matoro1989 That's fair enough. I just hope the "1989" in your name is something other than your birth date. Making you 3 or 4-years-old when this ad aired. Not saying I think it is, but... You never know.