Super Mario Brothers Trilogy Commercial
Posted by Josh on May 18, 2008
Super Mario Brothers Trilogy Commercial
Hall of Fame Category: Commercials & Advertisements
TV in the mid/late 80’s was crowded by NES video game commercials. You had your Sonics and your Zeldas, but by the end of the 80’s there was one face in video games that everyone knew, and that face belonged to Mario. The main reason why Mario was so popular was because you got a free Mario game when you bought your NES. But by Super Mario Brothers 2 and 3, Mario had become the only other mustache wearing older man in a young boy’s life besides his father and that guy that offered him candy to get in his car on his way to school. 80’s and early 90’s video game commercials were about one thing, over-the-toppiness. You had lasers shooting out of a kid’s TV screen, explosions from behind the couch, a random army general sitting by the kid and shouting to him “You the only one that can save the world!” while 2 monsters fight in the living room, all for an 8bit, 2-D, side scrolling game that isn’t all that exciting. But Mario was that exciting. And if you watched saturday morning cartoons you saw this commercial over, and over, and over again. It’s probably my most remembered commercial from childhood just because I saw it so many times. And only Mario could get a crapload of kids (some with retarded hair cuts) to gather together in a color arrangement that would make his face visible from space.
