Comments on: Sundry Sunday: Commercial for Atari Mario Bros. https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-commercial-for-atari-mario-bros/ The Flipside of Gaming Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: rodneylives https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-commercial-for-atari-mario-bros/#comment-1164 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:11:46 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=3697#comment-1164 You have an Animal Crossing New Horizons island? I’m still playing after all this time too, and I’ve never been there! We should do a visit!

]]> By: xot https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-commercial-for-atari-mario-bros/#comment-1163 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:01:24 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=3697#comment-1163 This Mario Bros. commercial is one of my favorite videogame ads ever made. It seems remarkable that so much was put into it because Atari, Inc. was in its death spiral at this point in history, but Atari had always excelled at marketing.

I played so much of the Atari 5200 version, hacked to run on Atari 8-bit computers. Those fond memories are 100% why Crabtown, my ACNH island, has a Sidestepper as a mascot. Thinking back, this might be the first “ROM hack” I’d ever played … at least when not counting normal cracks. It’s a good adaptation that skillfully manages the Atari’s relatively meager capabilities.

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