I just noticed today that the much-sought-after introductory Sega
Genesis commercial ("The Maker") has been posted to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47g3CcDuzSE

The sound quality leaves a bit to be desired, but it's really cool to
finally see this commercial again! It brings back a lot of memories for
me, and is still one of the best commercials for a new system ever produced.

Sega really ought to include these old ads on their Genesis collections
for PS2 and PSP...

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I wasn't real thrilled with this one, for some reason. The quality
sucks, that's for sure...but that's what happens when you take mpeg or
avi files and "flash" them. ;) I really liked the "Burn them!" Sega
commercial where the kid gets either a SCD or 32X and when the people
ask him what they want him to do with the older systems...;)

Are you kidding!? That'd take precious time and effort! ;)

man i wish i could find that old ad "my friends are knocking down my
door cause i got a commodore 64"

Thank you SO much for posting this Greg. this is THE commercial for
Genesis that I had been searching for, for AGES, without success.
after all these years, I see it again.
I haven't seen this since 1989.

You know how many people think that Sonic was the first Genesis game,
that Genesis came out in 1991 or 1990? Some people only remember the
early to mid 90s
"SEGA Scream" commercials.
Or usually at best, the "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" commercials of
1990, are the oldest ones people will remember.

For me, it's the late 1989 ones that I wanted to see the most. your
Golden Axe commercial was one of them, this was one of the others.
thank you again.

Greg Gillis wrote:

2000man@wongfaye.com wrote:

Have you tried:

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/

Bel

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BelPowerslave wrote:

Indeed :) Still, I've heard good things about the Sega Genesis
Collection on PS2, so maybe they're taking a step in the right direction
for a change...

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Greg Gillis

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BelPowerslave wrote:

i found it here but its a postage stamp
http://www.zimmers.net/commie/ads2/C64Commercial.ram

Sprite Scaler wrote:

Glad you enjoyed it! I'm actually kind of surprised how accurate my
memories of this commercial were. I guess it must have had a big impact
on me back in the day.

For the sake of clarity, though, I should point out that it was somebody
else, not me, who posted this video to YouTube. Three cheers for him/her
:) Hopefully a version with better sound will pop up eventually.

--
Greg Gillis

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numerous armadillii...

Visit FORS YARD, A Chronological Retrospective of the Sega Genesis:
http://homepage.mac.com/greggillis

Greg Gillis wrote:

I know, but if you had not mentioned it here, I would not have seen it
today, or perhaps anytime soon :0 hopefully someone will find a
higher-quality version and upload it for download since YouTube
compresses videos severely.

I remember that commercial pretty clearly too. not completely clearly
but the main parts.
I think for '89 it had some impact. Sega's marketing in 1989 and early
1990 totally overwelhmed NEC's marketing for TurboGrafx-16, and Sega
hadn't even started yet.

Greg Gillis wrote:

Heh, I remember the days when it was still socially acceptable
(and proper) for a young person to tuck in his shirt. Now that I've
seen this commercial I remember it too, it was one of the commercials
that made me want to get a Genesis that year. I had a vivid memory of
Thunderblade on the SMS, and seeing it and After Burner on the Genesis
was all I needed to know.