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Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?

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> We’re excited to preserve this best-known copy of this commercial and share it with you!

So, where's the link to archive.org?

For anyone interested in the history of Nintendo there’s a Business Movers podcast series in progress (new episodes every few days) about Nintendo

I think it's hilarious that they link to a youtube video that already has the same commercial.

They also mention their version is revised, so the version on YouTube is a better candidate for being the “first commercial”.

I guess it's living up to Betteridge's law. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

edit: I see its already been mentioned by poochipie.

No [0].

Nintendo was incorporated in 1889 [1].

Here is an 1890 Nintendo commercial [2].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#/media/File:NintendoCar...

We don't usually call printed advertisements commercials. Commercial usual means an advertising in a radio or television setting. Even advertisements in a movie theater don't tend to be called commercials.

The history of Nintendo as a board and card game company is extremely well known.

Implicit here was English and television.

Television or Radio sure, but I didn’t assume English.

There is a Color TV-Game commercial supposedly from 1977 (not totally clear whether this is the year of the ad itself or the year of the product launch) [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmwNej8noQ

I think a good argument can be made for 1977 or 1978

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV-Game

They came out with a 3rd machine in June of 1978.

The commercial features the first two machines. There's many plausible reasons for this including, most prominently, that the third might not have been released yet.

Certainly not definitive but likely

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