Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted June 13, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted June 13, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up / "So slim you can play it anywhere" (credit: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ) [/url] Gamers of a certain age may remember Nintendo's Game & Watch line, which predated the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up by offering This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that can This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . But even most ancient gamers probably don't remember Mego's "Time Out" line, which took the internal of Nintendo's early Game & Watch titles and rebranded them for an ********* audience that hadn't yet heard of the ********* game maker. Now, the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) has helped preserve This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , marking the recovered, digitized video as "what we believe is the first commercial for a Nintendo product in the ******* States." The 30-second TV spot—which is This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up for the first time—provides a fascinating glimpse into how marketers positioned some of Nintendo's earliest games to a public that still needed to be sold on the very idea of portable gaming.Imagine, an “electronic sport” This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (credit: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ) Founded in the 1950s, Mego made a name for itself in the 1970s with licensed movie action figures and This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (a childhood favorite of your humble author). In 1980, though, Mego branched out to partner with a brand-new, pre-Donkey Kong Nintendo of America to release rebranded versions of four early Game & Watch titles: Ball (which became Mego's "Toss-Up"), Vermin ("Exterminator"), ***** ("Fireman Fireman"), and Flagman ("Flag Man"). This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up | This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/46144-steam-gaming-historians-preserve-what%E2%80%99s-likely-nintendo%E2%80%99s-first-us-commercial/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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