 This video is sponsored by me, links down below to the new song if you want to support it and my Twitch if you want to come watch. Have fun! Super Mario Bros. released September 13th 1985, five years before I was even born. When the year 2020 when Mario turned 35, Nintendo celebrated with a 16-minute-long Super Mario Bros. 35th anniversary direct, filled with cool new Mario releases and surprises. Of course, Nintendo fans around the world immediately became excited as they remembered that Nintendo's other flagship franchise, EarthBow, I mean, Zelda, was originally released in 1986 on February 21st, making 2021 Zelda's 35th anniversary. What fun new surprises did Nintendo have in store to mark this historic occasion? Nothing? What? On the 17th, we had a 50-minute regular direct that was… fine. Worms everywhere. And tucked away at the end was Skyward Sword HD coming to the Switch, which to be fair, I was pretty hyped for. This Legend of Zelda game will be coming to Nintendo Switch. Skyward Sword! Let's go! I love it! But there was not even so much of a mention of Zelda's 35th birthday. Where's Link, Princess? Why? Right here? Can't you see him? No. To make matters worse, as February, March, April and May all melted away like the 35 candles on Mario's huge-ass birthday cake, there was still no mention of our princess's body until June. When? This year, the original Legend of Zelda game reaches its 35th anniversary. While we don't have any campaigns or other Nintendo Switch games planned, and as if a million nerds cried out in terror, the dream of a Zelda 35th celebration was dead. We've been working on this Game and Watch system as a special item to help mark the occasion and reflect fondly on the earliest days of the Legend of Zelda. So this Game and Watch is quite literally it. Zelda fans have been sat at home watching the metaphorical clock run-out on their anniversary for the last five months, and now as a thank you, all they can do is quite literally just sit and watch the Zelda clock run-out. I've seen people try and justify the lack of a Zelda birthday bash by pointing out what we did have smatted around here or there, Mario Game and Watch, Zelda Game and Watch, Mario Red Console, Zelda-themed Joy-Cons, Mario 3D World, Skyward Sword HD, but I mean, come on, for starters, that last one doesn't even count, because Mario 3D World came with a whole additional Bowser's Fury game. All Skyward Sword comes with some actual decent controls, assuming you're not currently suffering from Joy-Con Drift, although I guess those new Zelda Joy-Cons will solve that for at least six months, besides the fact that Zelda 35th wasn't even mentioned by Nintendo. And Mario had a whole 16-minute direct, let's tally up everything else. Mario fans also had a free Mario 35th game, Super Mario Missions and Rewards on Nintendo's website, 35th-themed merchandise at the Nintendo New York store, a special-made 35th course in Mario Maker 2's Smash Bros. Ultimate had an in-game tournament, a Mario-themed Splatfest in Splatoon, Keychains, Super Mario Furniture and Animal Crossing, Mario Dresses, Mario Shoes, Mario Lego, Super Mario All-Stars came to the Switch online that day, Mario 3D All-Stars with Mario 64 Sunshine and Galaxy all on the Switch, not to mention another brand new Mario Kart game. Even the Mario Kart mobile app celebrated with an in-game event, but sure, Zelda fans can look forward to more of this. Now you have to make an adventure, because the only way to defeat it is to cut it in the same direction that its mouth is open. It doesn't work if you cut top to bottom on it, maybe it builds a little bit better at this point. Okay, so here, I have to cut vertically. I mean, we could have at least got some clothes. I would have settled for Zelda Crocs. Needless to say, Zelda got done dirty. So I think it's up to us, the fans, to celebrate and appreciate everything that Zelda has given us throughout the years. I can't think of any better way for me to celebrate Zelda than to look back at the history of Zelda. Through the eyes of decades-gone marketing and weird commercial, I don't know if you guys have ever gone back and watched some of these old wacky Zelda commercials, but they're like something ripped out of an alternate universe. Thankfully, no one else has reacted to these trailers on YouTube before, so this will be the first- Hey, what are you doing? Hello? What are you doing? I'm about to react to old Zelda commercials. Oh yeah, interesting, huh? Cool. You know, you think maybe somebody had done that before at some point? You? Four years ago? Can you do you mind if I do it now? Yeah, sure, I went up. Oh, okay. Great, sorry, you had me worried that for a second. Peebs? Hey, oh, Peebs! Yeah! Yeah! I was just wondering, did you want to be in the video? I mean, since you're already so experienced in reacting to Zelda commercials, I could use a hand. Oh, yeah, sure. I mean, I thought you'd never ask. Let's do it! I'm actually waiting to see if there's a single one I haven't seen. Oh, I haven't seen this one. Never mind. We've already hit one. I haven't seen this one. You're welcome. What I love so much about old commercials is how much they feel like movies, like old 80s movies. They tried so hard with practical effects and like outfits and costumes. Yeah, I think that's one thing I miss is those old commercials where they do stuff like this. I mean, this commercial is so stupid. This is the good one. Who could fit for get the, hey, nice graphics! Whoa, nice graphics. I'd like to get my hands on that game. The Legend of Zelda and it's really rad. Those creatures from Giana are pretty bad. Do you know the words? Yes. I love how back in these days it was like, nice graphics about these really old 8-bit consoles. And now we have Breath of the Wild and people are like, why is it not in 4K though? It kind of looks the same as the other game. It kind of looks like a baby's game. Oh God, this one. I don't know. Do they not know what the game is like or do they just think the game is not interesting enough? Did they think that this is what the game was going to be like just some lake running around? Zelda! There's some guy in a dark room screaming Zelda. All right, dark room. Zelda! This is better. Yeah, this is, yeah. Here we go. This is more like it. Someone played the first game and we're like, nah, nah, nah, this time. Oh, he has a sword? Well, that would have been nice to know. What did they say? Find the crystals? Find the crystals. Was that a thing? Ah, it's been a while since I played Zelda 2. You're finding something in Zelda 2. Maybe Link's just running around. Where's the crystals? Crystal! Ah! I love the original Zelda, but I did play Ocarina of Time first. I had to go back and play that one. Zelda 2 I didn't really love. Yeah, I've never beaten Zelda 2. I don't think I've even come close to it, to be honest. I don't think anyone has. Has anyone ever beaten it? Have you beaten it? Let us know in the comments. Don't lie. We'll know if you're lying. Yeah. If you tell us you beat it, we know you're lying. He's banging out with y'all like an invisible wall there. Yeah. What is he doing? Zelda just wakes up and he's over there. I'm going to go back to sleep. This one is technically better because he's running around as Link, but it's still essentially the same vibe. It really is. Zelda! Zelda! Is he doing that? Yeah. Dude, there's no wall there. Just walk up. I remember in Zelda 2 the invisible wall, that was a big part of the game, but we didn't know because we didn't beat it. Oh, it's this one. I love this one. I wish I could do that. What? Oh my God, that move. I want that costume of the guy swinging the mace. I like that they put the spin move. Yeah. Yeah, they did the spin move. I never really thought about that in this commercial, but you couldn't spin. Which Zelda was this? It had to be the SNES. Yeah, you're right. This is the super Nintendo. I was going to say, for a second I thought it was the originals. When I found this one, I watched it like 10 times. I think the Dada Dada. Dada Dada. Dada Dada. Can I look up the lyrics really quick? Yeah, yeah. Dada Dada. I think it was like coming soon or something, or better than ever or something. Yeah, it's coming out. It's coming out. It's coming out. They say it like 5 times. You've got to drive home the point. Dada Dada. Like and subscribe. Oh, I forgot how cool the game it is. Oh, Regis! I forgot about that. They just tried so much harder back then. Yeah. I do because anyone can do that, but it still looks cool. Oh, I've never seen this. I don't think I have either. It looks kind of like a hobbit. Like he doesn't look like Link to me. Is he supposed to be Link? I think so. He looks kind of like Samwise Gamgee or something. That's interesting. I've never, I've literally never seen that one. That wasn't that interesting, but it's still cool just seeing the effort they put in. Also, I told you I'd show you stuff you hadn't seen before. Oh, I didn't think you could deliver, but so far, so good. Maybe you're not the expert you thought you were. Are you telling me that because I googled Zelda commercials one time or years ago, I'm not an expert on it? All I did was Google Zelda commercials. I have not compiled these at all. Oh, this one. This one, though. This one's a good one. Yeah. You know the words? Zelda! And boys. Da, da, da. Yeah, I know. I just love the effort they put in. Yeah. It's almost a shame that there isn't better quality versions of some of these commercials. Well, the top comment on the actual YouTube video for this on YouTube, where else would it be? When the new one was coming out because they remade it, they were like, Nintendo, please remake this commercial. How good would that have been even if they had animated it? Yeah. It would have been so good. Hi. Rick Mail here. Who? Rick Mail here. Am I supposed to know them? Well, this is early 90s, so we were like three or whatever. He looks like he could be famous. What was with that last little gag at the end? He ran into the invisible wall from Zelda 2. Whoa. That's the one he was bashing on? They brought it back. What a throwback. Am I the only one kind of weirded out by how sensual that commercial for Zelda was? Maybe it's because I don't know who he is. He's like a famous saxophone player or something. Who's in Harry Potter? Oh. He played Peeves, the polter guys. Okay. You don't see that much of Peeves in the movie. Oh, wait. I know him. Drop Dead Fred. And the young ones. That's how I know him. From the very start, it's marked to play the part down with Zelda. I love this. With an overhead view because a man's got to do what a man's got to do. So I say I'll track collect effects over back because I always have a deck with Jack. In other words. It's so good, dude. Yeah. This one's very good. It is really good. There's two elements to it here that I really like. The way it's shot using these like props as projector templates essentially to like flash the images on the giant Game Boy. So clever. So cool. But the rap is actually good. Yeah. I'm always down for a good musical commercial or segment or whatever. What? No, no, no, no, no. No. I've never seen that. You didn't tell me you were going to show me stuff I'd never seen before that I didn't want to have seen. I want my money back. I'm sorry. It popped up so fast. I was not expecting it. Willis Thal. No one says Willis Thal. Willis Thal is sink or swim. Willis Thal finish. Oh, it's drying. I mean, it looks epic. It makes me want to play the game. Willis Thal saw. Oh, Willis Thal suck. Oh, my God. I was not expecting that epic troll. Why does that seem like a fake trailer me now? Like it was so epic all the way up to Willis Thal saw or Willis Thal suck. Oh, God. That moon is so terrifying. No. It's like shaking the room apart. This is a good commercial already. Yeah, it is. It's intense. Quick go back in time. Play the song. Play the song. Zelda. Zelda. Oh, dude, the Japanese version of the box. I have it. You want to start showing off Japanese versions of things? Yeah. Look how good this is. I love the Japanese box for this. I know I have it. Hold on. I bet mine's a better condition. I bet it probably is. Okay. Let's see. Who's his more mint? Mine's in a plastic baggie. Yours is actually in a little case. Well, no, it's the same case, though. No, I don't have a... You've got like a plastic, like solid case. Oh, no, this is cardboard. Oh, well, in that case, mine's in a little baggie. Well, do you have? Show me, because I might have it. Zelda's Adventure for the C.E.I.? No, but... Top that. Top that. Do you have the original Zelda's on Famicom? What? Well, that's what I thought. Do you have Wind Waker, Japanese Wind Waker box from Gamecube? I don't have the ones you just showed so I was moving on. I don't know, peeps. Do I? Dang it! I will actually admit defeat. It's you. I've seen your Zelda collection. It's better than mine. I have the original promo sealed Ocarina of Time that doesn't actually have a game in it, just an exclusive poster that you can only get in this, and I have no idea what it looks like, because I've never opened it. Hold on. eBay.com. I don't have it yet. Okay. I kind of want to keep comparing, but we should probably keep reacting. These Majora's Mask commercials are scary. That was actually freaky. I know. They're so dark. Great freeze frame. Putting on the masks always make me feel really uncomfortable in the game, because Link legitimately seems to be in pain, so I would try really hard to avoid having to put them on, because I felt bad. This one's interesting. They have all these cultures around the world coming together to marvel at Zelda. Or be afraid of it. Oh. It's Majora's still. The world's ending. Okay. 72 hours. One hope. That's a lot of pressure for like 10-year-old me, I gotta be honest. Game will come out. An animation was interesting. I've never seen that either. I haven't seen most of these. I really thought I'd seen like most of the Zelda commercials, but apparently not. Oh my God. That's creepier than anything we saw before with Majora's. Yeah. Maybe topped only by the mouth, the guys. Wind Waker. I love this game so much. This is probably the Zelda I've played and finished the most. Like me as well, even though I still stand Majora's Mask as my favorite, I probably played through Wind Waker the most. It's just so easy to pick up and go. I know. Wind Waker was also the first game I played that felt like an open world game. Yeah, I did. And even though every island, there wasn't some insane thing to do on every island, there was still enough reason to go to everyone and like, what's this island gonna be? I feel like so many people play it now and they're like, oh these islands have nothing on them because they're so used to worlds being so dense and full. Back then, like going to a random island and even just finding a chest was like, oh yeah, I found a chest. Zelda! Zelda! It was so good. There's a terrible Wind Waker commercial. I assume it's gonna be in this video. It better be. Bring puppets back, Nintendo. I know. They're really good about bringing back things like that. I think they should. Remember when they did the puppets for the E3 presentation? Yeah, actually yes. Yeah, they did bring it back then, I guess. This is the commercial that sucks. Why does it suck? I'm holding. What is wrong with this commercial? I wanna see if you can pinpoint what I'm thinking. To save me. Do you have a thought? You don't save Zelda in that one. That actually is true. That's part of it. But that's not my thought. Like go back and look through these commercials. Look at all the shots they're using. I don't like that. I feel like I'm being quizzed by the Zelda Master Obi. Well there's no right answer. It's just what my thoughts on it. Look at the whole theme of this versus the theme of Wind Waker. Yeah, it's got a very dark theme for sure. And it's not a dark game at all. Yeah, they pinpoint out only the dark shots. Look at all these dark shots. You wanna know why I think that might be? Why's that? Because think of what we've watched so far today. Most of them were really dark commercials. And that was working for Nintendo. And Majora's Mask and that promotion must have really worked because they made so many of them that they probably made this really happy like bubbly Zelda game and then thought we should probably throw in some dark commercials so it sells. I bet that's what happened. Yeah, maybe something like that. Is the ocean gonna get views though? Do you know what this is by the way? Are you familiar with this? The game that playing? Yeah. No. I only recently even discovered this. What is it? I still don't completely know what it is. Oh. It's like some tetra thing. Like a tetra based game? Yeah. Like I literally only just recently discovered this. That is nuts. You send me a link to that later. I don't even remember where I had it. I think I saved it in a YouTube playlist for like video videos or something. Oh! What that? So what? What kids are playing? Yeah. I thought you meant what the old men were playing. Oh! No, no. I thought that was some tetra board game. Dude, I wish. That would be so niche. That song when you're riding on the train though. Pretty good. You gotta admit that. I mean Zelda music is always good. Ah yeah, here's the song. Alright, you can see a bit. All those swords raining from the sky can't be good. That's probably a lawsuit. That's probably bad. I would not be happy about that. Well, actually you get a free sword. Yeah, but you have to fix the roof on your apartment. But you get a free actual master sword though. Now I'm thinking about it. Oh, it's a Skyward Sword commercial. That's actually pretty cool. I'm so stoked for Skyward Sword, dude. Skyward Sword HD. I know. I'm so excited to play it again. Yeah, me too. It's been a while. Are you gonna miss waggling the sword around in the air like a madman? That's one of the most contentious things of all Zelda games. It's the motion controls in Skyward Sword. Some people hate it. And then some people will be like, I liked it. I liked it. I thought it was good. I liked it. We're on the same page about so many things. Yeah. I actually thought it was really cool. There was different arguments. Some people said they just didn't like it. Okay, fair. That's subjective. Some people was like, it didn't work right. What do you mean it didn't work right? Did you have your things set up? I mean, I never had problems with it. The Motion Plus definitely helped. Oh, you had to have the Motion Plus to play right. Oh, yeah, you did. Then what are they complaining about? Yeah. Yeah, see it came in that box like that. I have to have that somewhere because I own the game, but I actually don't know where it is. I'm actually butthurt. Where is that? I know I have that. I'm actually butthurt, he said. I am. Where is my, where's my Skyward Sword? Dude, it's okay if you don't have it. It's fine. I mean, No, I swear I got it. I have the soundtrack. I have the soundtrack. You know, I have to get it again. I think my brother stole it from me. You dog ate it? The CD-i games, though. Do you have the CD-i games? Yeah. You want me to get them? Because yes, I do. Damn it. I like how you're one step away from actually walking around your room going, Zelda. Where is Zelda? Zelda. Speaking of another grids all the game. Oh, this one's fantastic. That's in my top five Zelda games of all time. It's definitely my favorite handheld Zelda. Yeah. Hey, it's that song again. The song is back. Why is that so catchy? Coming out soon, coming out soon. It doesn't work in English. It's coming soon, coming soon. At a certain point, all these game companies, not even just Nintendo, they feel so confident in the way their game looks. They just show the gameplay. I like those old commercials where the graphics weren't so good so they had to get creative with what the commercial was going to look like. I know the commercials really quickly into the last five to ten years got really... What am I looking for? Commercial. Really. Sorry. I like that I'm like, they got really professional, really commercial the last five to ten years and then in 2015. Nah! Maybe not in Japan. I don't know. Yeah, Japan. They know how to have fun. Yeah. Now we get boring, I think. Yeah. It gets less interesting over time. What were your favorites? Oh, yeah. I think easily, the guy banging on the wall and screaming Zelda became my favorite throughout the video. Screaming Zelda, man. Yes. Zelda! I like dada dada. Dada dada. That's in top five. Oh, yeah. That's three. For sure. The puppets for Link's Awakening? Yes, the puppets were great. Yeah, I'll put the puppets up there. That's four. We have room for one more then. Oh, wait. The actual number ones have to be the wraps. Yeah, the down with Zelda from the very start. That's so good. Look at us now. It's not as smart to play the part. It's down with Zelda. You know that too well. Did you see the latest Nintendo Switch? Whoa! Nice graphic. Doesn't like to get my hands on that game. He said, leave us too. But with your... Down with Zelda from the very start. I got the heart. It's smart to play the part. Down with Zelda. With an overhead view because a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. So I stay on track, collect the fact and never cut slack. And I always watch my back for Jack. Down with Zelda. That one's a tough one. Just like the classic puzzle solving action with amazing graphics. It's for the Switch, of course. So deep into mine is using the Triforce. Get caught up without getting removed. Years of making new friendships. From many years all the way to the Switch a hundred million souls Zelda ain't no niche. It's here. So from players all across the land. Link. Zelda even tickle we stand. Oh, and jokes aside let's not forget because without Nintendo we wouldn't have met. So whomever, wherever, wherever, however. Zelda forever. Years of saving the princess 35 years of making new friendships. From many years all the way to the Switch a hundred million souls Zelda ain't no niche. It's up to us. Thanks for watching whatever this video was. Thanks for having me. Just like Peebs suggested earlier like and subscribe. But not only to me but to Peebs who has his own main channel, a side channel, a Twitch. It's all going on. I can't even keep up. Below though. I can't even keep up either and I'm doing it. Oh, I have Twitch too and I'm actually playing through Skyward Sword right now. So come hang out twitch.tv forward slash beat em ups. All right. Bye. Bye.