The above clip is about as old school as it gets. It’s the first ever Nintendo Commercial. They really tried promoting Rob in the beginning, but the robot buddy became a fairly useless peripheral before long. The idea behind Rob was to give kids a robot who could play games with them. If I remember correctly, he only worked with specific games and really wasn’t all that reliable. The concept was great, but perhaps a little before it’s time. The world was not ready for Rob back then and now we are way beyond the need for a peripheral like that with the boom of playing games online.
As far as systems go, the NES definitely deserves a part in the history books. The Atari brought gaming into our homes and the NES pretty much took things to the next level. Hopefully you enjoyed the commercial. It seemed a little serious for playing Duck Hunt, but commercials were always kind of wacky back then.
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3 Comments to Old School Sunday: First Nintendo Commercial
You see a console these days with that much stuff, it’s a photo of a collection!
by: Kai
On November 19, 2007 at 3:12 am
And for just over 100$
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3 Comments to Old School Sunday: First Nintendo Commercial
by: Jeff
On November 18, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Man it came with a lot of stuff
by: erathoniel
On November 18, 2007 at 11:13 pm
You see a console these days with that much stuff, it’s a photo of a collection!
by: Kai
On November 19, 2007 at 3:12 am
And for just over 100$