Well done, Nintendo. If you hoped this fourth wall-shattering commercial for Wario Land: Shake It! would make the blog rounds, then you succeeded. We don't usually post about media of games that are already on store shelves, but this was just too good to pass on. We can't really say much more for fear of spoiling the surprise involved, so click here and get watching. But come back, please. Gets lonely here, y'know.
[Via 4cr, thanks JR!]
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9-23-2008 @ 12:45PM
Scotty said...
Great piece of viral work. I think it really shows the versatility of a platform like YouTube as a way to cleverly yet effectively communicate a message.
Well played, Nintendo. Well played.
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9-23-2008 @ 1:05PM
Orion said...
That was amazing! I've never seen the background of a youtube vid be affected like that. I'm actually interested in the title lol, i was going to pass this up!
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9-23-2008 @ 1:12PM
Raytia said...
that was awesome! really thinking about getting the game now too.
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9-23-2008 @ 1:15PM
Mr Khan said...
Nintendo's always done great non-traditional advertising, imo
Makes up for the lack of traditional advertising they do, at least.
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9-23-2008 @ 2:31PM
meist3r said...
If you don't care about massive spoilers, check out this guy:
http://www.veoh.com/users/HUELEN10
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9-23-2008 @ 2:52PM
Cyber-Tyrant said...
I hope this happens more often.
This was awesome!
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9-23-2008 @ 3:19PM
Drizzt said...
Scotty, Orion, it's not youtube at all!!!! :-D
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9-23-2008 @ 3:29PM
Parker said...
Great gimmick, that was a fun surprise. As for the game, it reminds me of old-school Sonic. And that is a very, very good thing.
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9-23-2008 @ 7:31PM
TJF588 said...
The video stopped loading around the submarine part (though it seemed to kick in a bit right around/after I hit refresh, little wanker). the tag has "experiencewii's channel" on it, but the vid was posted by "MinusLand", and furthermore wasn't on a channel, so I was a bit confused. Sad that I can't favorite it, but whatever. Neat that YouTube's hosting this thing (which it's gotta be, Drzzt, since the URL and use of my login information, despite the comments section saying to login, woud have to have come from YouTube's database... or some jargon like that).
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9-23-2008 @ 8:00PM
77 said...
if you drag the boxes on the page at the end you can throw them around.
pretty good.
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9-24-2008 @ 7:14AM
anonymous said...
if for you, like me, the video on the page wouldn't load...
...kinda gives away the surprise, but most of the posts here give it away anyway.
http://facebook.gspsf.com/~wii/gadget_files_092208/main.swf
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9-24-2008 @ 11:24AM
Timerider said...
This makes me interested in the game.
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10-16-2008 @ 10:55PM
In A World (XBL) said...
<b>This is NOT a bold statement.</b> Nope, not at all...
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10-16-2008 @ 10:57PM
In A World (XBL) said...
\This isn't a bold statement either.\ Not even close...
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