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curl-6 on 19 April 2025

The 1991 original:

The 2025 trailer:

34 year throwback for longtime Nintendo fans.



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Mr.GameCrazy on 19 April 2025

Huh. Paul Rudd finally aged.
-Deadpool

Seriously, though, this is an awesome commercial for the Switch 2. I wish it was called the Super Nintendo Switch, but I understand why they didn't go with that name.



Veknoid_Outcast on 19 April 2025

This put a big smile on my face :)



Slownenberg on 19 April 2025
Mr.GameCrazy said:

Huh. Paul Rudd finally aged.
-Deadpool

Seriously, though, this is an awesome commercial for the Switch 2. I wish it was called the Super Nintendo Switch, but I understand why they didn't go with that name.

haha literally my first thought when watching it was exactly that: Paul Rudd is finally aging!

And yeah great throwback to that SNES commercial.



Leynos on 19 April 2025

That's funny. Shame Tony Jay is not with us as I'd love him in that ad.



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JRPGfan on 20 April 2025

I didn't really remember the 1st commercial, to me this was mostly just cringe.
But I can respect the effort, even if the two are very different, and they even spend time explaining it in full.



the2real4mafol on 20 April 2025

I watched the SNES one last night not realising what Nintendo were doing and then watched the Switch 2 advert, didn't clock they got the same guy to do it until I read the comments on the Switch 2 video. They were both silly adverts but I thought it was really cool that they tried to recreate what 90s adverts were like and mostly succeeded. If only they called it the Super Switch!



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Wman1996 on 20 April 2025
Leynos said:

That's funny. Shame Tony Jay is not with us as I'd love him in that ad.

Agreed. The odds would be against him though because even if he was still alive that would mean he'd be about 92.

The OG commercial is such a banger combination: Nintendo, Paul Rudd, and Tony Jay.

This is cool marketing from Nintendo. Nothing is too big to fail or disappoint but I doubt Switch 2 can fail when there is marketing like this that is far better than Wii U. 



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EricHiggin on 20 April 2025

Nin - Ok, we get it, Wii U wasn't a great name even if the marketing had been done well. Don't worry, we're gunna call it Switch 2, its all good!
Gamers - They should've called it Super Switch...

Kinda found the ad cringe, but if Nin had called it Super Switch, it would've fit the ad sooo much better that it would've been more funny.



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The_Liquid_Laser on 20 April 2025

I didn't even recognize Paul Rudd in the earlier commercial.  The secret to him not aging is that you don't recognize him when he's young.  That commercial was made before Mario Kart even existed.

Now I wonder if Atari will bring back Pitfall and do the same thing.



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