 Nintendo used to be a very different company throughout the years they have shifted tones multiple times if you go all the way back to like the 80s and 90s they had some of the weirdest and strangest commercials on tv for their video games and consoles like take a look at this one hey little buddy want a ride? yeah whatever that's worse I'll be right back where can you catch a 100 50 pokemon on your game boy that's where boy is here oh my god can I can I start by saying creepiest botch driver if a man looked at me like that and said hey little buddy want a ride I'll walk today they would never put their most adorable characters imply that they're getting crushed to death and I want to watch more of these weird commercials but it's it's funny as well because I don't I don't know when this is game boy red and blue right so this has to be like mid 90s but then even if you go to Nintendo's youtube channel and go back to their oldest videos even their marketing strategy back here was weird considering they were trying to portray this family friendly image like this video where they hired Joel McHale to do a skip video where he's trying to make a viral video for Nintendo and I need you to remember before you see this that this is like mid family friendly this is a viral video marketing for the Nintendo 3DS a handheld console that was very much being targeted to a children audience this is what the hot women can sell anything young people can smell a commercial from a mile away just like how they can view the incredible 3d technology of Nintendo 3ds at whatever intensity they prefer he really just read a line that Nintendo handed him while two bikini babes it's so it's so straight and it's it it feels wrong like the tone is off they were clearly struggling to figure out how they wanted to market their consoles let's keep switching back between 10 years ago Nintendo and these old commercials I can't take it anymore he talks to Pikachu Pikachu listens meanwhile I'm getting fat I walk myself where's the love okay that was pretty good why am I relating to that dog so much in that position saying meanwhile I'm getting fat meanwhile I'm getting fat oh my god that dog's my spirit animal now let's go back to Nintendo's youtube from 10 years ago you guys know that I love skill oh I'm sorry were you watching something you guys know that I love Skillshare in fact a lot of you are probably sick of hearing about how much I learned from Jordy when it came to video editing so instead of that let's try something new today we'll talk about a whole nother aspect about video production online and that's marketing from designing youtube thumbnails to how to make a twitch band learning how to stand out is key so you can also try this hand lettering course by creating a beautiful logo for whatever you have like this new logo I have now for my podcast Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people anything you 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really get it's better than any of the tv's I've seen I loved my 3ds but the way they initially marketed it it's definitely not a console I would have cared about at all and they're talking about a lot of the games they're playing but they don't actually show the games or even the 3ds screen at any point while these people are playing the games I just got a chance to check out the AR games the augmented reality games and I can see a lot of titles taking advantage of that I'll take things that didn't age well for $10 oh that's incredible it's like you're really there that screen isn't even turned on my man really goes it's like you're really there it's like you're really there no one's held a 3ds turned on the 3d and gone whoa it's like I'm in virtual reality anyway it's just it's so strange like why why didn't maybe it's because like I guess I guess the reason is it's supposed to be the 3ds and you can't really film the 3d effect so if they just turn that off and then film the 2d then they're all like reacting to this 3d immersion but the viewer in the watching the trailer can only see 2d and they're like I don't get it which is terrible marketing you can't show the main thing it's in the name of the console and you can't show it to people before they buy it I like the 3d much better than the 2d because it just feels more realistic how does it feel more real anyway let's go back and watch another old old commercial I kind of like jumping in between them yeah we're getting calls about a wild party over here know anything about it which one of you jokers goes by the name Mario so Mario gets arrested for partying with a group of miners please have a seat right there no Nintendo what did you do and I have to say as well the only person arrested was the adult Mario which is also kind of weird because it kind of highlights even more that the only person here that could be arrested was the one adult hanging out with the children this was a really weird thing they did nine years ago on Nintendo's YouTube channel I don't know where it was filmed but they got a bunch of celebrities like Cody Rhodes the wrestler and Elijah what let me let me just show you so my fondest memory of the Legend of Zelda series in general is probably from the least popular Legend of Zelda game and that was this is a multi-million dollar billion probably dollar company they've got celebrities in an interview actually thought that he filmed this on his own phone or something and like sent it into Nintendo and they were like I will throw that up on YouTube sure why not but then as I looked at the channel I saw they did a bunch more in fact listen to Chris Evans's Chris Evans Chris Evans it how do you sorry what was that Chris you speak up Chris are you recording your audio through an old boot I can't even understand it like I'm not even I'm not even kidding maybe I'm maybe I'm getting old but that audio is so bad I can't even understand what Chris is saying I don't know how they wouldn't have got better equipment for it what are you looking at Elijah what's up there he's maybe he's wondering where the boom mic is support me how are they getting my audio right now I'm sure they'll figure it out surely they're not using the audio from that right there's got to be a microphone around here somewhere let's uh let's go back to the 90s I'm preferring the 90s ones I don't know what Nintendo was doing on their channel early oh it's okay I kind of like this one Nintendo's YouTube channel has always been a bit weird they did this thing at some point where they had these talking tennis balls they were essentially just talking about Mario tennis but it was a whole series on the channel and I guess it was so bad that they had to turn comments off I really wanted to know what people were saying about this that's how you know it's good you know when you when you have to mute what people are saying about it another thing that Nintendo used to do on their channel that they just don't do anymore is collaborate with content creators on YouTube they were they were they would actually work with other youtubers and have them make content for Nintendo's official channel and it's so surreal because Nintendo have just separated themselves so much from that while they still work with some content creators as Nintendo ambassadors some content creators as Nintendo ambassadors the connection is very loose so in this video they're trying to come up with a a storyline for the new mario brother's game groovy baby yeah magic girl you can't talk about the bind club time travel goombas you can't talk about mario rescue princess peach from bowser yeah it was kind of cringe to get there but I do find that punchline hilarious it's the fact that Nintendo approved and it's on the official Nintendo YouTube channel they're making fun of the fact that every single frickin mario game has the exact same story and premise I love that they got away with that I just I there's something about this that I do love I love seeing Nintendo work with content creators that love Nintendo this in my opinion was a very special time that can't happen anymore and that that's actually kind of sad but at the same time um the same people did this and and this is this is on the official Nintendo YouTube channel okay maybe we shouldn't go back to this all right let's go back to the old ones as Nintendo begins to take on new forms it's important that we can measure how addictive they truly are yeah you can't do this anymore you can't there's so there's so much here that you can't there's so much that you can't do here there is so much that you can't get the game boy where to begin with that one Nintendo let's ignore the absolute obvious and burn that image out of our brains please or else I'll never be able to play my game boy again without thinking about it animal testing that's out no way that would no way that would be okay anymore but also just implying how addictive the video games are I think if we were to jump all the way into 2020 and 2021 the weirdest thing that I don't like that Nintendo is doing now it getting all these celebrities to make commercials I guess in a way it's like it's kind of good I guess that it's bringing it mainstream more like then like the switch is doing so well that they've got these big celebrity names making commercials it's just that they're also cringe and obviously faked like this one with Brie Larson Brie Larson plays her favorite Nintendo switch games Fortnite uh what script I'm kidding but seriously Nintendo switch that's my way to play it's bad it's bad commercial it's just bad this is bad commercial I don't like I don't like any of these we'll take a look at some more but I don't like any of these I mean if it's if it's her favorite game then maybe have the commercial be about why it's her favorite game like what she like about the game like I want to hear Brie Larson talk about her favorite switch game that's what I could connect with not this fake trailer with a with a fake phone call with a with her agent talking about a script that's not real here's one with Serena Williams playing of course her of course Serena Williams favorite switch game is fitness boxing why wouldn't it be because she plays tennis right I wonder if at any point during this commercial she plays a tennis game let's let's place bets if she plays a tennis game you smash like on the video if she doesn't play a tennis game you you hit dislike okay ah losers first I'm just gonna enjoy these two minutes smash like on the video I don't get what was the need for this little skit in the middle part with this dude who's apparently a mute and can't talk he doesn't say one word the whole time he just shakes his head I don't know like just make him feel real like you know make him feel real there's a way there's a way to make him feel real I will say that Nintendo's marketing is a lot better these days like a lot better in this switch generation than it used to be back in like 3ds and we you and stuff it's just it's just some of it I don't know feels too commercial for me it feels too fake sorry is John Mikhail here again I thought I was watching a commercial for Pokemon Stadium too because what's because what's more attitude error than a motor a cross motorbike whatever they're called and a bikini babe sat in your room while you play Pokemon Stadium too what a life nothing will impress you that was a big thing back then that was a big thing with having like girls women the attention was on the video game like what what was that I don't even know if I can find it old Game Boy commercial I don't even know what to type without sounding creepy um bed let's let's say bed we'll say bed because that will probably yeah oh my god I forgot about that one I can even show it like legitimately I don't know if I could even put this in my video but this was the one I was thinking about the second best thing to do in the dark this is real this is a from 2006 doesn't even feel like that long ago the second best thing to do in the dark you know it's it's not wrong and then this one which I don't think I can even show but I really I can't I can't show it the new Game Boy pocket seriously distracting what what is the situation here you've got your last you're both you're already clearly and then you're gotta play some Tetris real quick can you just can you just are you good can you it does your nose itch can I get that for you real quick well I crack out a high score a tetris oh here's another one keep it in your pants I mean that's not as bad but you know what it's implying okay that's not real that can't be real what the heck man whoa like like this one's cute and this was legitimately me back in the day like when I got told to stay in my room where my n64 was I was like oh okay I guess I mean some of these are oh my god oh my god these were worse than the commercials I didn't know there were so many oh that's Sega Sega we're not even gonna talk about Sega Sega had some bad ones I don't really have an overarching point to all of this I you know old Nintendo commercials we know they were weird very weird things that you can't really get away with anymore and we also know that Nintendo's marketing back around the 3ds and the Wii U was horrible you know I really I really can't I really can't say anything bad about their marketing anymore I just don't like those weird celebrity ones but end of the day like I think Nintendo has come a long way they've just made a lot of mistakes to get here uh there was no point to this video I just wanted to have some fun and talk about something that interests me I hope you had a good time I hope you like it and I'll see you soon for another one bye bye