Your parents help you hook it up (wiki wiki wiki)
Some of you may remember the original commercial for the first Legend of Zelda game for the NES. How many of us remember this scenario that played out across countless livingrooms in the United States? A nerdy kid with orthodontic work and glasses sits next to a cool kid in a jean jacket who is obviously only coming over because his mom won't buy him a NES. Fawn over the graphics, add a little beatboxing with some 80's white-boy hip-hop rhymes, and boom! I actually saw this commercial for the first time when my cousin (who had cable, and was thus cooler than me) sent me a tape of some Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future episodes. My seven-year-old non-cable-watching mind was blown by the idea of a commercial for a videogame. I remember rewinding to watch that commercial several times, while I think I only watched the shows wrapped around it once.
And, just to show how far we've come, compare the awesome graphics of the original Legend of Zelda to the Twilight Princess trailer.
Posted by ClockworkGrue at September 15, 2005 10:55 AM
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"Your parents will help you hook it up" must obviously be understood as "You must help your parents hook it up" =)
There was some rumbling a while ago about rap music being used to sell games. Someone noted that Nintendo didn't need rap music to sell Zelda! Well, of course, I already knew at that time that history disagrees with small points like that =)
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