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Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?
Instead of the Game & Watch, the US got the Mego Time-Out. We recovered the original commercial.
This 16mm film by DuRona Productions comes to us from game historian and Nintendo expert Chris Kohler, who stumbled across it in an online auction listing. If you look at another copy of this commercial on YouTube, you’ll notice there should be a lot more blue in places like the football player’s uniform, or that woman’s very shiny hotpants. There’s shades of how Nintendo would focus on young, trendy, mobile demographics in their more recent marketing campaigns… but we’ve never seen an ad where someone plays Switch in the hospital.
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