Welcome to my first ‘Ad Of The Week’, every weekend(ish) i’ll be showcasing a classic/well made/stange/wtf Nintendo advert from the archives for your entertainment.
This week i’ve chosen a very stylish DS advert. It’s one of those adverts where they manage to get the product across as well as it’s purpose without going into mass details about it. the marbes are used well, keeping focus on the message throughout the advert while looking rather spiffy. Theres one particular scene towards the end where it’s on a road where the lighting and reflection is spot on. They also never look too out of place, which gives the advert a nice natural feel to it.
Anyway, thats enough ramble, here is the first ‘Advert Of The Week’
After a few minutes of watching Mario run around in circles collecting coins my game was finally downloaded and so it came time to play. Upon hitting the start button I was presented with the garishly yellow title screen and jaunty tune I had grown to love. Then it was onto the first level I have played so many times as I jump down the cliffs punching pterodactyl type things and collecting money bags. One thing I noticed though was the controls seemed alot more sensitive and slidey than i remembered. erhaps this was due to games getting the control schemes better due the the years, or the fact that the Master Systems control pad was so sticky that slidy controls were needed to make the game playable, but after a few minutes I found myself getting used to the controls. After that I felt at home jumping around puching blocks, thinking normal places looked odd and then remembering the secret/impending doom hidden inside of them. The smiles kept on coming as I fell into the ocean and the music changed to another of its limited sound set, which brings me to another gripe. I can’t remember underwater sections being this dodgy to control either, as you need to hold down to move down or you float back to the top. Anyway, it didn’t take me long to get the hang of things and soon I came across my first boss.
