80′s Australian NES Commercial Will Haunt Your Every Waking Moment
3:30PM December 6, 2008 | Luke Plunkett
You know, the NES never really caught on in Australia. It was always Master System/C64 country. No wonder, when you look at horrific, blankie-clutching stuff like this.
They were pretty even, which led to the suburban primary-school equivalent of gang warfare… lots of ‘Sega’ kids and ‘Nintendo’ kids; any rich kids who owned both were factionally uninteresting, and thus to be shunned. a bit like the UK, if the games mags of the time were any indication.
“You know, the NES never really caught on in Australia. It was always Master System/C64 country. No wonder, when you look at horrific, blankie-clutching stuff like this.”
jeremy
December 8, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I expect it probably sounded much less ‘all your base’ when it was in Japanese. Really does make sonic the hedgehog look cool by comparison.
Report PermalinktheTRON
December 8, 2008 at 1:19 PM
So glad I didn’t see that as a child…
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December 8, 2008 at 7:18 PM
I don’t remember this, only the ads they stole from the US later on, and the various Sega ads.
I also think it’s awesome how the kid shoots the Zapper at everything except the screen.
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December 9, 2008 at 2:52 AM
@JuliunGaloodle:
They were pretty even, which led to the suburban primary-school equivalent of gang warfare… lots of ‘Sega’ kids and ‘Nintendo’ kids; any rich kids who owned both were factionally uninteresting, and thus to be shunned. a bit like the UK, if the games mags of the time were any indication.
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December 9, 2008 at 3:59 AM
“You know, the NES never really caught on in Australia. It was always Master System/C64 country. No wonder, when you look at horrific, blankie-clutching stuff like this.”
I thought that was just me.
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December 9, 2008 at 8:37 AM
hahahhahahahaha… i remember that, didn’t remember how creepy it was though…
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