hmmmmm.. black buttons and different logo.. nice find! I hope someone knows cause i am also interested.
Yeah, I remember that commercial, was it for Zelda? Also wondered about the black buttons but never cared to ask around ^_^
Not to mention the red Nintendo Entertainment System text is much larger. My guess the system is probably just a custom shell made for this video. Another thing I noticed, but this could be do to the crappy image quality. There is no select/start text on the controller.
im not really sure as i haven't had a NES in years but imo that looks like a normal PAL unit. im gonna take a diggin' on all that paperwork i have laying around and see if i still have a pic somewhere. not sure for the buttons, but the logo is way too familiar looking.
From that pic, it looks like the cart lid doesn't even really open. Looks like just an edge was carved to give the appearance of a real NES. I know back in the day some commercials used mock ups carved out of wood when consoles weren't finalized.
i've wondered about this for decades but never bothered to ask because i figured if it was known i would have found some information by now
I think a black and red NES without any of the gray colors would look amazing But it could very well be nothing more then a mock-up.
oh, now that i take a closer look at the pic i took, it seems the placement is kind of an optical illusion
Yeah the second controller is on the left but it appears as a blank space if you don't look at it right.
Is it just me or does it appear much smaller than a retail unit? It almost looks like it was made for famicom carts to fit in.
It must be a mockup enhanced for the TV ad. The Nintendo bit is bigger, and the two buttons made black to emphasize the fact that it has them and it's not just a grey cube. Standard advert tinkering I would say.
It was from the commercial where they rap about Zelda. Watching it (and the other one) makes you a believer in word-of-mouth advertising because I doubt those commercials helped to sell it. In the commercial though they do close the system lid with an odd cartridge in it. I think ASSEMbler is right though in that it is simply tinkering by whoever made the commercials at the time for Nintendo. Commercial http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=2594
wow, rise from your grave and all that. Snow, don't doubt the commercials of the 1980's. The 80's was full of crappy commercials that are so tacky and lame in current day, but in that era they really grabbed your attention. The thing that amuses me the most is how nerdy the kids were. They were really playing to the early video game stereotype that only geeks liked video games. Kinda like how having a computer before the internet made you a geek. Dunno why, commodore 64 had a badass library of software and games, I figured everyone could have found something had they pushed the advertising a little more. Wonder what the commodore OS would be like now.
