Did anyone here get them? The one that stands out to me was Donkey Long Country.
If you did get them, do you still have them?
If you did get them, do you still have them?
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Nintendo VHS Tapes
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I had one that was about Majora's Mask and Banjo-Tooie, so it must have been pretty late in the 90s
I think that was the only one I had. I have no idea where it ended up.
I think that was the only one I had. I have no idea where it ended up.
I must have watched the Pokemon one dozens of times. The course of my nerdy life was forever changed when that came randomly in the mail. And I read the Nintendo Power mini-guides just as much.
I've never even heard of these. Pretty weird! This is the kind of stuff that gets lost to time.
Yer man Chris Scullion at Tired Old Hack has a project preserving these:
Playlist without commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbnmrBeC2-M&list=PLW_XTm_b6xI89F6psTfLq5-JItOIyW-PG
Playlist with commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757GlKCYXIo&list=PLW_XTm_b6xI9ZirSYZq5YDPToK2ifPWTn
Playlist without commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbnmrBeC2-M&list=PLW_XTm_b6xI89F6psTfLq5-JItOIyW-PG
Playlist with commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757GlKCYXIo&list=PLW_XTm_b6xI9ZirSYZq5YDPToK2ifPWTn
I was getting these during their heyday and I watched them repeatedly. The ones I remember most vividly -
Pokemon
Star Fox 64
Diddy Kong Racing
I also remember this mailer they sent out for Goldeneye.
Pokemon
Star Fox 64
Diddy Kong Racing
I also remember this mailer they sent out for Goldeneye.
I got the Pokemon one, no idea how since i wasn't subscribed to Nintendo Power or anything, but man I watched that tape over and over in the summer leading up to the games' US release.
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Dunno why everyone's clueless about Donkey Long Country I had that one too. The Street Fister II video guide was my fav by far.
Me and my friends literally watched this one THOUSANDS of times...would imitate and re-enact every step of the video LOL
I have almost all of them and I burned them all onto a disk that I stored...somewhere...
PM me. I can send the file to you once I venture that deep into my closet.
That being said, there's a Toys R Us video with some early beta footage of Conker's Bad Furday when it was still just a platform about looking for stolen wedding gifts. For a while I saved those tapes because I enjoyed the nostalgia trip of 90s/early aughts video game marketing but they're also an interesting snapshot into popular N64 titles before they were finished products.
Agreed. I remember LOVING all the little jabs at Sony and Sega in these tapes.
I am haha. I swear we're actually working on stuff, just took a long hiatus to get over some life happenings.
One of my most embarrassing childhood memories is forcing my friend, who owned a Playstation, to watch this video to prove to him that the N64 was the superior console. He didn't give a shit either way because he wasn't a gigantic nerd fanboy like I was.
I had the Donkey Kong one where the guy acts a fool and they go out and see the gorilla and chimp.
I had the Jet Force Gemini one and my old childhood friend stated that he had one for Majora's Mask but I never could confirm it.
I've got all of these (the Majora's Mask one doesn't ring a bell though) somewhere.
I had to have watched the N64 tape like 100x waiting for that thing to be released. I2 yr old me didn't know what preordering was so we went on release day only to find out I had to be put on a waiting list. Think I finally got my system in early Nov.
I had to have watched the N64 tape like 100x waiting for that thing to be released. I2 yr old me didn't know what preordering was so we went on release day only to find out I had to be put on a waiting list. Think I finally got my system in early Nov.
I think I still have an orange (yep, orange) VHS "hype" compilation - I got free from a Nintendo magazine, not ONM - of upcoming games for the then-soon-to-be-released Gamecube. That was actually the first time I saw the CGI trailer for Melee...which then transitioned to this incredibly super-cut twenty-or-so seconds of gameplay. Mind = blown.
Yeah, I had the Star Fox 64 tape, too. I remember watching it a few times. Actually thought about it recently.
I might have had more. I kinda remember one with Super Mario 64.
I also had the Virtua Fighter 32X tape that came with a t-shirt and (I think) a coupon, but that's Sega...
I might have had more. I kinda remember one with Super Mario 64.
I also had the Virtua Fighter 32X tape that came with a t-shirt and (I think) a coupon, but that's Sega...