Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Commercial (USA)
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The American commercial for Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, a GBA port of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island involves Yoshi laying an egg in front of a child and her mom and throwing it at one of the vehicles in front of them.
Why It's Not the Big One
- Weird and bizarre premise. Yoshi is also a Karma Houdini, as he doesn't get arrested for throwing his egg at one of the vehicles on the street or have to pay for the damage. And he only seems to just notice that.
- Yoshi's costume is poorly made for Nintendo standards, as the head looks like it's about to fall off and performer is wearing gloves (thus causing their hands to be shown) compared to Super Smash Bros. 64 USA commercial.
- It feels a bit inappropriate since the game is mostly targeted towards a younger crowd, and since this commercial is targeted towards teenagers, it comes off as ill-suited and depressing; many people back then would've been so repulsed by this advert that they might've never brought the game to their GBA library, despite strong sales numbers.
- Despite being an ad for the GBA port of Yoshi's Island, the female narrator doesn't say much about the game; by the way, this is rather weak advertising and a bad way of trying to market a video game to consumers, which could've badly affected sales for the title (but it didn't, thankfully).
- Bad camerawork.
Redeeming Qualities
- The narrator does a fairly decent job highlighting the game's high points, which wasn't common for American commercials for Nintendo products before the mid-2000s.
- At least this commercials is an improvement to the infamous 1995 commercials.
Trivia
- Yoshi is never shown sitting in the commercial when he lays an egg as this deforms the suit, causing him to appear more bloated than intended.
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