Old school Zelda rap commercial

23 Comments by Blake Snow Feb 24th 2006 8:00AM
Filed under: Culture, Retro

Continuing the festivities of Link's 20th anniversary this week, the above Nintendo commercial doesn't even need introducing (this news is so old). Best line of the 1987 ad regarding the NES's installation: "Your parents help you hook it up!" Awesome!

[via Game | Life]

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Viridium: Feb 24th 2006; 8:14AM

Or "your" parents, even!

Wow, I don't remember the commercials being so lame at the time...

PodMonkeys: Feb 24th 2006; 8:15AM

HAHA! Thats awesome! It really takes me back to the days of Revenge of the Nerds, and Lost Boys.

electronicat: Feb 24th 2006; 8:16AM

Now we know where Eminem really got his start...

DidYouLoseASock: Feb 24th 2006; 8:19AM

all i can say is, wow......

DG: Feb 24th 2006; 8:33AM

The best rapper they could find was some lame white kid?

Jon: Feb 24th 2006; 8:33AM

If someone hasn't seen this commercial yet, they suck at the internet and/or life. No offense. :D

Neko Tsukimi: Feb 24th 2006; 8:47AM

At least it doesn't involve crazy synchronized dancing like one of the Japanese Zelda CMs... But then again, this CM really emphasized the sweet graphics of the NES days XD

Sense: Feb 24th 2006; 8:55AM

I actually remember that commercial, even though I was only 4.x years old at the time.

On a side note, I hope Twilight Princess is a little more challenging than the last few entries.

Justin: Feb 24th 2006; 9:07AM

"The best rapper they could find was some lame white kid?"

What was true then remains true today. Time truly repeats itself. Circle of life and all. Yeah.

Phillip: Feb 24th 2006; 9:13AM

A (only) slightly better Zelda rap commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/?v=_G0ArSPTHIY

and my favorite Zelda commercial... a little on the scary side, but the dancing is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/?v=svdZBufdc3U

Brian: Feb 24th 2006; 9:35AM

Just a heads-up on the dancing commercial:

Once you watch it, you can't ever unwatch it.

Kamalot: Feb 24th 2006; 9:36AM

This is fabulous! I remember this commercial. :)

I also saw some Transformers commercials recently. Man, how was that stuff ever cool?!

B: Feb 24th 2006; 9:42AM

Hurray for 80's 1337ness!

Jerm: Feb 24th 2006; 10:42AM

Awwwwww, this isn't the good rap commercial. I thought it was the first Zelda released on the GameBoy with the guy rapping in the castle. "Down With Zelda from the very start, I got the heart, smarts, to play the part" Now that's rapping.

vidGuy: Feb 24th 2006; 10:50AM

What's said between the end of the rap and the boys' reaction? "Our hero pulls through. __________ Awesome!"

Anyone make that out?

vr console: Feb 24th 2006; 11:05AM

This commercial is so bad that it is funny. Ninty wishing they were white. Times have changed - Just imagine something like that today for Revolution!

Morder: Feb 24th 2006; 11:30AM

"Anyone make that out?"

Sounds like "wiki wiki wha" like the sounds of a scratching record

Nin10dude: Feb 24th 2006; 11:31AM

Fucking AWESOME.

Morder: Feb 24th 2006; 12:11PM

http://www.varlew.net/videos/videos.aspx?vid=lozlttp

here's a german version of the michael jackson style japanese commercial for the snes link to the past

squashedyoshi: Feb 24th 2006; 2:44PM

"Our hero pulls through. Yeah! Go Link! Yeah! __________. Awesome!"

Not sure...

Hero Of Time: Feb 24th 2006; 3:47PM

"WOAH, NICE GRAPHICS!!!!!"

Irony.

Morder: Feb 24th 2006; 4:12PM

I fixed the above link to the video, I do appologize to everyone. I was wondering why I had so many hits to the main page.

btw, after listening to the video again "Our hero pulls through. Yeah! Go Link! Yeah! It's uh...wiki wiki wa awsome, intense"

TaiZ: Feb 24th 2006; 5:33PM

I'm pretty sure it's "And with your help our hero pulls through. Yeah, go Link! Yeah, get some! Wiki Wiki Liiink! Awesome. Intense."

But it's been years since I've seen it, and I'm on dialup and in too much of a rush to listen to it again.

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