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Posted on Tuesday, February 12 @ 16:00:00 Eastern by

Among these rediscovered Nintendo VHS tapes are the World Championships, Ken Griffey Jr., the insides of the company's Washington offices, and my personal favorite, the video above that sells the Super Game Boy and an incredible round-up of some of the best SNES and Game Boy games. Some of them are forgettable, but it's amazing to see Donkey Kong Country's full-screen-text hype.

The playlist above is made up of several Nintendo tapes from the company's booming early 90s, all the way to DKC and the SNES. Collector JJ Hendricks says in the comments of his uploads that he's the second collector of the tapes received from an ex-Nintendo employee.

I'm just nostalgia tripping at this point. Won't you join me? There's nearly an hour of material here, so I hope you don't mind if I play it loud.
Tags:   Nintendo, Just Watch, snes


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  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 12th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
    I'm reminded of the Star Fox 64 VHS. It had Sega and Sony employees kidnapping and interrogating a Nintendo "Test Pilot" by torturing a Mario doll.

    youtube.com/watch?v=NBF3X3ZaS2Q
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 12:01 pm
    I love that one too. The only Nintendo tape I got as a kid was the Pokemon VHS explaining the whole phenomenon before it hit the United States. They turned me into some kind of collectable monster ambassador.
    0 0
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Feb 12th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
    This is up there with my "Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes & Strategies" VHS I found at the thrift store about a decade ago.

    Tonight I shed a single tear for Nostalgia.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 12:02 pm
    I had one of those books for Nintendo 64 from the Scholastic book club... and then the internet came in and shat all over it.
    0 0
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Feb 12th, 2013 at 6:15 pm
    Thumbs up for Dan!
    0 2
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Feb 12th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
    If there was one thing I loved more than my Genesis, it was my GameBoy, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I think 90% of my allowance during my childhood was spent on batteries, since my parents agreed to buy games as long as I kept it juiced. Those were good days.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
    That's a great deal. I mean, games certainly still cost more than a pack of batteries. I remember I used to go through Costco-packs of Duracell AA batteries within the month. Then we'd be back at costco for our monthly visit and I'd get another pack.
    0 0
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
    Yeah, as much as the claimed to hate my gaming habits, they certainly supported it quite a bit. I think I ended up getting an average of two new games every six months, split between the GameBoy and Genesis. But they also paid for me to rent a game once a week. The more I think about it, the more I realize how awesome my parents actually were.
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  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Feb 12th, 2013 at 8:34 pm
    If only they knew that just a year later the PS1 would release and no one would care about the Super Game Boy anymore.
    0 1
  • Sammo
    Sammo
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Feb 12th, 2013 at 10:00 pm
    It amazes and frightens me to think that I was alive at the time this video was made, when gum-chewing college kids in sweats and shades playing NES in a huge bouncy castle was the pinnacle of cool.

    We have come so far in video game marketing. I can't believe they used to make ads without dubstep in the background.
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
    Haha, thumbs up for TPS.
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  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 5:56 am
    "... raining Super Gameboy Fun on kids, teens, and families." That's not all that's raining...
    0 1
  • Herb211
    Herb211
    Joined: May 2009
    Posted: Feb 13th, 2013 at 6:49 am
    Oh man i remeber everyone one of those! Awesome
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