The Weird World of Retro Game Media

Happy 30th to Pokemon

Video preview for M.C. Kids. Features an early build of the game and footage from the Treasure Island movie.

A series of bizarre ads for Ghostwriter, which was sponsored by Sega.

SimGraphics' video actor footage of the CG Mario head also featuring brief footage of Charles Martinet at work.

Full video via the VideoGameEphemera YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUG...

NES Ad (1996)

Happy 40th Anniversary to the NES

Ad: Mario & Wario (1993)

Original ad with actual Randy Savage voice

WWF Wrestlemania Challenge

If you wanted Mario to reference Randy Savage, here you go.

Footage is actually reused from the Wrestlemania NES ad.

"They stole Aikman's brain"

Troy Aikman Football commercial

Early development pitch for NBA Jam. A lot of concept ideas that never made it past early development.

Here's some GamePro VHS clips with JD Roth.

Some more on the game dev of MK1 and the Genesis cheat code.

The development of the home console ports of Mortal Kombat (via 1993's GamePro Power Up)

Beta footage of Mega Man X (from GamePro Power Up)

The development of Disney's Aladdin for Sega Genesis (from GamePro Power Up)

Mario is a 76ers fan.

SimGraphics' video actor footage of the CG Mario head also featuring brief footage of Charles Martinet at work.

Full video via the VideoGameEphemera YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUG...

"will make a new, third game"

This is Ecco Jr. erasure

A series of bizarre ads for Ghostwriter, which was sponsored by Sega.

Video preview for M.C. Kids. Features an early build of the game and footage from the Treasure Island movie.

Happy 30th anniversary to Mortal Kombat 3

Wall Street Kid for NES

I think things would have been a little better if we all had played this on NES

After playing Sonic 3 for the first time in 1994

almost three minutes of SNES trailers from Nintendo Power Previews.

Videos are longer now, so an excuse to post the Rikidozan entrance from All Star Pro Wrestling