Super Mario Galaxy commercial brings a tear to our eye

Argh, too.. much.. nostalgia..
Damn I can't wait for Galaxy 2.

sniffle...sniffle... dammit joystiq u made me cry.

Hmmm....pretty damn cool. Makes me want to play some Mario/reserve Galaxy 2.

Welcome NEW Galaxy!

I hope someone at Nintendo see this.

Because I know exactly why he put his employment info at the end.

That was great.

Awesome. I was expecting much, but dear lord, that was simply awesome.

...I haven't found me teary eyed in a long time (since Mario Galaxy, the storybook, that music...), but this, it's like a video about a big part of my life, all those memories...

Darnit! That made me cry...

I'm not even a huge Mario fan, but darnit that character has MADE gaming everything that's worth loving about it.

My entire life just flashed before my eyes

I'm actually fairly recent to gaming, found a Gameboy Color in 2003, but DAMN that "commercial" made me want to buy Galaxy all over again. Maybe they'll release a sequel that has the same mechanics but new environments...?

Oh cool.

That was amazing, gave me chills...

Being of the generation that ushered in the video game era, that "commercial" was more than just a nice summation of Mario. My whole life in a Mario timeline just flashed by there. It wasn't just seeing the games. It brought back all the memories of playing the Marios for the first time, at each phase and the friends and family I was with, the sleepovers, the birthdays, the Christmases, old girlfriends, college, the times around me, culminating with Galaxy being a Christmas present from my wife-to-be along with a Nintendo Wii mere days after we got engaged... that little plumber and I have been through a lot together.

UUUUGHHHH Why isn't this video in HD?

BRB replaying Super Mario Galaxy.

that video made me realize my biggest mistake in my entire gaming life: owning a wii for a year but never picking up super mario galaxy.

They don't make commercials like that anymore. Oh wait...


Did they ever?

I have to agree with everyone else on this. That video actually brought a tear to my eye. It just kind of made me hold my breath as it went on, realizing what a big part of my life Nintendo and Mario have been, and like was said before...made the times spent with all of these classic games (and yes, even Galaxy is a classic) flash to mind, thinking about the years of my life. Nintendo needs to snap that guy up FAST to work in their marketing division.

Holy














Shit

Man that was a great ad. I wish companies would start doing ads like this instead of trying to make that post-modern stuff (see crying baby ps3 ads).

Mario and Ed Pezuzzi,

You can keep the breath; you know, the one you took away!

is it just me or is everyone just agreeing with what the witter said, i am a mario fanboy and all i have play almost every single title but calling this comercial masterpiece or awesome is just exagerating it was just plain good

It made me have goosebumps, but if this was a commercial dedicated to The Legend of Zelda..I might be in tears right now.
Of course I'm not saying it was bad, it was an incredible video.

Nintendo needs to be doing advertising like this. Dramatic callbacks to the legacy they've built. Fantastic work.

BEST. COMMERCIAL. EVER!

When I saw this ad one line popped into my head,

Do you still remember fun?


Best ad ever, I cried.

Nintendo would fail miserably to not pick this up and have it updated for Galaxy 2. The best ad ever and it should be on TV.

If this becomes the commercial for Super Mario Galaxy 2, it would be awesome. What got me misty was the Sunshine to Galaxy transition and Mario & Princess floating in space. Commercials like this would make video games appear 'mature' and 'grown-up' because they tap into palpable emotions like music and films do. Not "hey, buy this because Gamestop or G4 tells you to."

Meh?

I guess I'm just a soulless husk of a human being.

:(

So...beautiful. Should have sent... a poet...

That really was good, aside from Super Mario Bros. 2 getting the shaft, that is. I mean, you include Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. but leave out Super Mario Bros. 2? Hell, they even left out both the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 and the American release (aka reworked Doki Doki Panic). Both games are great, but they both seem to be considered lesser Mario games by many people (which is BS, they are both incredible games within the series, and two of the best reasons to have ever owned a NES/Famicom).

Yes Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 wasn't released in the US until it appeared on the All Stars cartridge for SNES under a different name, and didn't really introduce anything new other than the levels themselves and a Megaman-esque level of difficulty, and granted that USA SMB 2 was essentially Doki Doki Panic, but who cares? Personnally I liked both games a great deal better than Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine. Take a stand! Stop the SMB 2 hate! I need a support group here, my SMB 2 feelings have been trampled upon once again and I just can't take the hate (or in this case, indifference) any longer.

That was brilliant. This sums up so much of Nintendo's appeal. Of course there's the nostalga factor, but how many games could truly pull something like that off? If you showed a video like that with Halo footage to one of the series's fans 20 years after the franchise started, the response would most likely be, "Yup, those were great games that helped push the shooter genre." But show that footage to a long time Mario fan, and he'll be on the verge of tears at least. Nintendo's games do so well at creating pure unbridled fun, that even something as simple as the Mario games can be breathtaking.

So yeah, Nintendo, hire that guy for next year's E3. You'll make a lot of fans very happy.

I gotta saw that was beautiful!

I'm near tears...that was marvelous. Bravo! Bravisimo! Great way to celebrate the little Italian plumber that saved an industry :)