Video Game Commercials of 1994 - Sonic & Knuckles, X-Men & More! / MY LIFE IN GAMING

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Jump in the wayback machine and check out the games that were being advertised on TV in 1994. Sonic & Knuckles, Super Punch-Out!! and other surprises. What are these games' legacies when looked back on today?
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@Stinger2578 6 жыл бұрын

1994: Is there a way to skip all these commercials? Now: It's cool to see these commercials again.

@agonleed3841 6 жыл бұрын

Stinger2578 unloved the commercials then. My mom probably wanted to skip them lol

@ThePSXcollector 6 жыл бұрын

Adverts were savage back in the 90s :) love it.

@SeanHowell 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing beats that Sega Baseball commercial. "Hey Ricky!" NUT SHOT

@Rottenation 6 жыл бұрын

"Play the 3DO! A machine for grown ups!" *Shows Putt-Putt*

@AirshBornely 6 жыл бұрын

Meir I died once I saw that. Gosh, everyone was trying to be like Sega back then.

@charliechan6892 6 жыл бұрын

Airsh Bornely you wish lol, actually I guess they achieved that since they all went out of consoles except nintendo.

@rjnash2610 5 жыл бұрын

.....and your point is?

@garaschneider4808 6 жыл бұрын

I think I can recognize nearly every video Corey has behind him; Danzig, NIN, Prong, Type O Negative, Dream Theater, Tool, just to name a few. Also bit of a correction; Headbanger's actually got cancelled in the States in 1995. The UK version did run until '97 however.

@RobbyHuang 6 жыл бұрын

You know, in a way we’re kind of unlucky now that we can see all the video of any game we want. This video really reminds me how every time a game commercial came on I dropped everything and intensely stared at the screen. It was like a random Christmas present

@wschippr1 5 жыл бұрын

Robby Huang Maybe, but now we don't run the risk of getting a bad game. It's pretty rare for me to buy a game I don't like anymore. Really at worst, I get games that I think are fine, but don't hold my interest. Back in the day I remember friends complaining about buying a game they hated. I was lucky as my father was a gamer so he was able to suss out if a game was bad or not by reading magazines and talking to independent store employees.

@JesusProtects 5 жыл бұрын

Hurray for mind control? No thanks. Don't you realize what they did to your brain thanks to television?

@redfive8075 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for preserving all these cool 90s game commercials!

@MotherKojiro 6 жыл бұрын

Very well said; these were among the few commercials we would be excited to see back in the day. Back in the '80s, video game commercials were even less common; the only one that I remember is Dragon Spirit: The New Legend. It strikes me as odd that while back then, we'd use commercial breaks as an excuse to get up and grab a snack, today, people willingly flock to KZfaq or wherever just to watch commercials. Times sure have changed...

@hateeternalmaver 6 жыл бұрын

Yay, the good old 90's. Reliving my youth here, thanks guys.

@TheMetalIsNeon 6 жыл бұрын

Someone better tell 8 Bit Guy about the IR 7000

@Shawn__Martin 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to clean these up and upload them for all to see. I think it's important to archive these old commercials before they are lost. Brings back a lot of memories some very vivid.

@stabinghobo57 6 жыл бұрын

Loved the NINTENDO vs SEGA ads in the 90's.

@ZakkHung 6 жыл бұрын

I was 19 during this time and I remember it like it was yesterday. I feel humbled that I was able to experience this golden age of gaming and the pinnacle of the console wars. We'll never see another time close to it. Thank you so much for the well produced video!! Cheers!

@bgp001 6 жыл бұрын

That MK2 commercial was epic! I recall seeing the MK1 commercial all the time but that MK2, I barely saw, though it did leave an impression as I still remembered it all these years later. Thanks for including the full version, definitely nice to see it again!

@RGT85 6 жыл бұрын

7:57 Shield your eyes kiddos! And good lord these are nostalgic ads for me. 9 year old Shawn remembers like all of these!

@BladeBlur 6 жыл бұрын

AR GEE TEE, EIGHTY FIVE

@electronash 6 жыл бұрын

BladeBlur ARRR GEE TEE SEVENN-TEEN BAAWLLLMMMERRRRRRR

@SmashJT 6 жыл бұрын

This video was so great right up until that! ;-)

@electronash 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah - it was a bit of a shock tbh, Shawn. lol Congrats on the channel though - it's getting picked up more often now, like the photos of the new Sega pads.

@DocFunky 5 жыл бұрын

I never saw a lot of these specific ads, but the style absolutely takes me back to my childhood. Man, those were the good old days. 😁

@ErnestJay88 6 жыл бұрын

ah, 1994, i was in a 5th grade primary school, playing sonic 2 on Genesis all days (never bough Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles until 1996)

@Orange666Crush 6 жыл бұрын

A powerful bookmark in history that will never be forgotten, thank you for the wonderful memories and this is something I will show my kids in the future!

@KuszArt 6 жыл бұрын

This was great. Love how you told us stuff about the games vs just showing the commercials.

@TarksGauntlet 6 жыл бұрын

Man. I click like on this just for seeing dream theater in the first couple minutes. Somebody had their eyes and ears glued to the right places way before the rest of the world caught up.

@JC-qu5lv 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks! Love that these commercials are getting preserved!

@moandaindesigns 6 жыл бұрын

I miss those days of mystery and wonder.

@retrotaco6668 6 жыл бұрын

Wow I miss these days!!! Loved video man!! I agree though that back then you really could imagine the game more since they would only show a clip and you had to actually purchase the game to see what it was like. Now you can watch full gameplay videos. I really miss the 90s so much.

@daakrolb 6 жыл бұрын

This is one of the absolute best vids I've seen. EXCELLENTLY captures the time. Man thank you. To say the least- SUBSCRIBED. You really took me back so the good- no- GREAT old days of my teens. Thank you.

@mtshark7 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video man! You did an amazing job preserving these commercials...this video takes me back :-)

@franklinbrown7389 6 жыл бұрын

This episode was so well paced. It had a great mix of info, commercials, and personal stories. You guys are so talented. Keep up the good work.

@SimonChristensen 6 жыл бұрын

Whoah hang on Coury! Headbangers Ball!? What are your plans with the full 2hr shows? :)

@Dark-Hound 6 жыл бұрын

I would love if he could upload them, comercials and all. I miss Headbangers Ball.

@EricHostile 6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Would love to see these tapes. Watch some Danzig!

@mylifeingaming 6 жыл бұрын

[Coury] I'd love to put them online, but KZfaq would pull them down pretty quickly I think. I'm working on something else.

@SimonChristensen 6 жыл бұрын

If you have access, MySpleen would be a perfect place :)

@EricHostile 6 жыл бұрын

My Life in Gaming awesome, I appreciate your efforts man!!!

@justanotheryoutubechannel 5 жыл бұрын

These are amazingly high quality compared to most adverts uploaded to KZfaq which are crappy, low quality, super compressed, 240p videos. I wish you’d upload these in 480i without deinterlacing, as they’d be the highest quality version ever.

@andyelliott6573 6 жыл бұрын

I was 10 in 1994 and I remember ALL these ads. Thanks for the great video

@GtotheNextLevel 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, this brought back so many wonderful memories. I have a tape full of gaming commercials that I recorded too somewhere at my parents' house that i need to dig up sometime. I loved the second part of the Sonic & Knuckles commercials with the elves too. "Who's laughing now? .... Fat Man!!"

@Melkiah34 6 жыл бұрын

Great video! Really took me back to 94 when I was 9, loved and played so many of those games, especially MK II, still have all my original consoles and games, all the way back to the NES.

@DanielSantosAnalysis 6 жыл бұрын

Dat split second of Dream Theater tho......

@LastCallHall 6 жыл бұрын

Right?

@geraldperez2768 6 жыл бұрын

I LOVED Head Bangers Ball!!!!! Great video! I turned 12 in 1994, this was GREAT! I just wished the commercials had more to do with the games.

@RetroWasteLand81 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video!! It was fun remembering all these great commercials I had forgotten.

@DrewberTravels 6 жыл бұрын

Uniracers was one of my favorite SNES games. I would get so into it...

@guardiane 6 жыл бұрын

omg you have the Shaq commercial that I've been looking for! I found an old 8mm tape with only part of the commercial on it and for years I've been trying to find the rest. Love this video, it brought back so much nostalgia.

@trevorbozeman 6 жыл бұрын

Seriously, only 1 minute in and I LOVE the fact you made your intro look VHS quality!!

@nitraw 5 жыл бұрын

I was 11 years old in 94. I had completely forgotten about many of these commercials

@videogameobsession 6 жыл бұрын

Great job on the video transfers! I still have around 112 VHS and SVHS tapes that have tons of video game related news stories from 1987 - mid 90's (from CNN, E! News, The Next Step, Computer Chronicles, and more) + many game commercials from that time period, as well as some VHS tapes from the 80's of Japanese TV. I'm sure some of those must have video game commericials. I need to look into a service that can convert these for me. I've been wanting to preserve and share these tapes before it's too late.

@cristianmaldonado949 6 жыл бұрын

This was the greatest era for a fan of videogames. Today's industry isn't as apealling for me anymore.Thank you for this great video!

@blehblehbleh7575 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the work in putting these together!

@superdupersubby 6 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see more of these kinds of videos, maybe for different years and such.

@EmeraldBlack-up6xi 6 жыл бұрын

Uni-racers looks like it could be revived as a mobile game.

@Pix3l_Pr1ncess 6 жыл бұрын

Those commercials brings me back. Amazing stuff!

@vitoralves7797 6 жыл бұрын

SupaPixelGirl You remember for sure!

@Recoil816 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh... the Super Star Wars trilogy. One of the absolute hardest series of games ever made. I still love playing them. So much nostalgia.

@GameplayandTalk 6 жыл бұрын

Man, a lot of these ads really take me back. It's also kind of absurd to realize how crazy many of them actually were.

@zebular 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this Coury! I think the advertising is just as important as the games themselves. Lots of nostalgia watching those.

@frombauer 6 жыл бұрын

Your VHS tapes aged remarkably well! As always an excellend episode and it's a CRIME you guys only have 84k subs.

@alejandrotarazona5359 6 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for Peter and Josh at the beggining of the video

@GameBoyGuru 6 жыл бұрын

Seeing some of these commercials for the first time! The ones I did see, however, and the overall style and approach definitely tickle that nostalgia bone.

@cactoidpinata 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for preserving these!

@cbake76 6 жыл бұрын

This was so much fun, it's inspired me to do a retrospective on commercials for Spider-Man video games. Thanks!

@andrewcavacuiti6386 6 жыл бұрын

I like that you showed Phatasy Star 4. My all-time favorite Sega game. Awesome video.

@deuxforever13 6 жыл бұрын

Holy shit man, these bring back great old memories. Lol i remember the cdi burn cycle commercial, at the time i had no idea what the hell it was.... didnt seem like a videogame. Thanks man for the nostagia factor!! Thumbs up!!! Shit man, we getting old man lol.

@johneygd 6 жыл бұрын

Every videogame commercial did cause wow feelings amongst gamers including me. Everytime i saw these commercials, i was like ‘wow,cool,mom i want this,mom i want that’ Those were the hey day’s!!!

@Brbos06 3 жыл бұрын

That MK 2 game commercial is still the best video game commercial I've ever seen!

@seanmyster6 6 жыл бұрын

So this is how games were advertised when I was a newborn.

@agonleed3841 6 жыл бұрын

seanmyster6 lmao. Yup

@JD-xz1mx 6 жыл бұрын

A better question is "When was the last time you saw a commercial on television". I haven't watched normal broadcast tv in years.

@agonleed3841 6 жыл бұрын

Justin Parris true

@lucidexistance1 6 жыл бұрын

Haha the 32X commercial in the background. Woman's voice: "Did you spill your drink?" Mans voice: "I don't have a drink!"

@RedArremer 6 жыл бұрын

1994 was an interesting year for me. I was 20 years old and lived in three different states: CA, WA, and then TX. I was living in Seattle when Super Metroid came out, and so I always associate that game with my time living there.

@retrorexx5361 6 жыл бұрын

Now this video brings back a lot of memories. Fantastic work!

@KWKBOX 6 жыл бұрын

It's always a good day when I see a new MLIG video in my subscription queue.

@Silvergun_Raven 6 жыл бұрын

I have a ton of VHS recordings of Beavis and Butthead and Nickelodeon from around 1997-1998 and have quite a few video game commercials. I tell people that in my opinion, about 99% of commercials from that decade were awesome!

@mylifeingaming 6 жыл бұрын

[Coury] maybe it’s because I was a perfect age for it, but watching some B&BH while making this episode confirmed that it holds up pretty well. Still funny. The new episodes Judge did a few years back were really good too.

@owltellyouwut 6 жыл бұрын

i had a bunch of tapes with recorded cartoons from mostly cartoon network and hbo family and random game shows that my dad or mom would record for some reason. i probably played them everyday when i was little lol.

@NJ2010100 5 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 90's, I miss the "Extreme Marketing" tone of products. Yes it was over the top and sometimes insane or even annoying, but that's what made fun to watch.

@Bubsy_Mods 6 жыл бұрын

Jeeeeez talk about memory lane! 1994 was the peak in 16 bit gaming era and arcades. It was indeed great times

@BeeRadDubya 6 жыл бұрын

I have to say Coury did an amazing job transferring the VHS tapes to digital, barely any grain.

@liberispuritatem 4 жыл бұрын

6:28 "That Sonic you like is going to come back in style".

@TerrorballNoise 6 жыл бұрын

@0:26 Type o Negative!!

@allissondiego1989 6 жыл бұрын

The quality of this channel is outstanding

@mikebyson7662 6 жыл бұрын

These commercials look clear and crisp. Good job.

@Mospen 6 жыл бұрын

Great idea for an episode. LOVED IT!! What a time capsule.

@Mephianse81 6 жыл бұрын

I loved being a teen during the 90's and will never forget it.

@THECH0SEN0NE82 6 жыл бұрын

cool commercials and video concept.. but im just blown away by the quality of your vhs rips, especially since there tv recordings.. NICE JOB

@TheBurleybrawler 6 жыл бұрын

Best looking 90's commercials I've seen.

@L0L247 6 жыл бұрын

How can we get the best picture from these commercials? 🤔

@TomGreen99 6 жыл бұрын

L0L247 RGB!

@Brian_Buckley 6 жыл бұрын

I know right?! mom and dad must have had an amazing S-video recorder and nothing but chrome tapes in SP!

@L0L247 6 жыл бұрын

TomGreen 99 lol

@L0L247 6 жыл бұрын

Brian Buckley I recorded shows on my VCR as a kid. I still have some laying around. Those were the days.

@phonedork 6 жыл бұрын

Since the XRGB mini does really well with 480i... I wonder i f you can use it to scale old VCR recordings

@JopieHaargel 6 жыл бұрын

Damn, Coury, what an absolute delight this video is. We also had headbangers ball on Mtv in Europe, wouldn't mind seeing the full two hour block as well...!

@josetrochez5982 2 жыл бұрын

I was 14 at the time and I remember most of them. Man.. you brought. E back. I miss the 90s. Best time of my life. Everything was more worth is cause it w a s less of it.

@stonerdemon 5 жыл бұрын

I remember those days. 3DO took E3 95 by surprise, announcing the M2 Accelerator, a technical update over the original hardware that would push 1 million polygons per second. Imagine having a console with Dreamcast graphics competing against the original PS and N64 in the same gen. 3DO managed to get many third party games for the console and advertised the then impressive looking Blade Force as an M2 launch title. But... the M2 would never become a reality. I remember buying Gamepro mags, I still have them with me. The last one I got was the Sept 95 issue. After that, they stopped being distributed in my country but I started to buy them imported many years later.

@MrHued 6 жыл бұрын

Loved the 90s music videos on the background during your segments, really setting the mood for this episode.

@SkyScourgeGod 6 жыл бұрын

I was only four when these commercials came out so I wouldn't remember anything if I did see them. My first console was an N64 that I still have, but the earliest commercial I can remember watching was for Halo 2, and that was a 2000's commercial for the Xbox. It's still badass though. X) **We ran from them, they followed... we thought they'd never find us...... we were wrong...**

@Rednax35 6 жыл бұрын

When I hear "90's commercials", I think of the Virtual Boy Commercials. They were... well. You probably know.

@Dongled 6 жыл бұрын

Wow. What a heavy piece of nostalgia this was for me! In 1994, I was 11 years old, and it always threw me for a loop how in your face commercials were back then. Some of these I don't remember, like the Sonic ones (probably because I was a huge Nintendo fanboy back then, and would change the channel anytime Sonic showed up,) but yeah, those ads for those other consoles were ALWAYS trying to piss on their competitors. This was great, I'd love to see you do another one of these! Also, what's up with the HEAVY thematic use of grumpy/assertive old men and black and white commercials? Most of these commercials had some sort of combo with these two things. Weird.

@DeaDPooL-XforceX 6 жыл бұрын

Mortal Kombat II One of the best commercial ever, it gave me goosebumps when I first saw it I was 14..ahh love the 90's best year ever for videogames.

@tron999 6 жыл бұрын

RIP Peter Steele. Loved seeing that clip from headbanger's ball. you going to release all of those, too??

@bmbeis 6 жыл бұрын

i second that

@KindaCool 6 жыл бұрын

Didn't Peter Steele do the Jerry Springer show around this time (or a little bit after)? Some episode like 'Girls Who Only Date Metal Stars' or cheesily similar? Off to search for that now I suppose!

@Bjorick 6 жыл бұрын

wouldn't he get flagged for copyright with the music parts? I don't remember the show, but seems like it would get the vid flagged

@agonleed3841 6 жыл бұрын

tron999 R.I.P. Lexington Steele as well

@tolust 6 жыл бұрын

YES !!!!!!!!!! PLEASE do a regular series of these Commercials !

@otakujhp 6 жыл бұрын

Unrelated to games, but the clip of Peter Steele at the beginning hit me right in the feels.

@LonSeidman 6 жыл бұрын

Loved the 3DO! Bought one in the fall of '94 when they dropped the price to $399.

@MarioDS64 6 жыл бұрын

Always love new uploads from My Life in Gaming :D

@beefcurtainz69 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for preserving these

@DadLadsGaming 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. Brought back lots of great memories. Thanks.

@fireindigital 6 жыл бұрын

What an amazing video, took my back to being 10 in 94 again. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!!

@anactualmotherbear 6 жыл бұрын

I remember kids at school always doing an impression of that line "size TWENty-TWO" from the Shaq Fu commercial

@neoWhite 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me relive some of my childhood!

@BaconMcShig 6 жыл бұрын

I vividly remember begging my mom to take me by Media Play after school numerous times, where I'd sit on the 3DO demo kiosk playing Gex and Road Rash for way too long.