"At Home For The Holidays" Sunsoft infomercial (1993)
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- This 5-minute clip is an installment of "At Home For The Holidays," promoting Sunsoft's 1993 video game lineup.
Although we don't have much information about it, "At Home For The Holidays" appears to be an informercial program that advertised various sponsored products for the holiday season. In this case, the products are four video games by Sunsoft: Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions, Aero the Acrobat, Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Quest, and its counterpart game Roar of the Beast.
This infomercial came right on the heels of the video game moral panic of the 90s, so the presenters put a lot of emphasis on the idea that games like Aero the Acrobat “don’t have to be excessively violent to be fun.” They also mention that video games are useful for “assimilating […] children into the modern age,” which is a weird way to put it, but it shows how much the industry was trying to push the positive benefits of video games at this time.
they truly were like "yeah...this logo drop is so good we're gonna need a solid chunk of the video to show it off"
and it's just a knock off of the home improvement logo
“This version is more puzzle oriented” as Belle gets owned by a bird Ninja Gaiden style
You have no idea how important it is to me that this was deinterlaced
THIRTY SECONDS for an animation that just has the phrase "AT HOME"?! What did they pay for that back then?! 🙂
I like that had real Home Improvement vibes.
3D graphics were serious business back then
It was an age of surplus and excess
That's when you run and grab a snack before the real show starts
@@ColdPie I feel like they were going for an HBO Saturday Night Movie intro vibe. When they really, really didn’t need to.
"Oh son, we know you asked for Mortal Kombat, but it's simply too violent to be enjoyable! Here, we got you Road Runner's Death Valley Rally instead."
@redroversk The Genesis version was a lot more violent than the SNES one, as the SNES version did away with the blood altogether, and censored some of the fatalities. The Genesis version had the blood enabled when a code (ABACABB) was entered at the title screen.
I love this as a look at the controversies surrounding video game violence in the ‘90s. With games like Mortal Kombat having released in the early ‘90s and an integral senate hearing being called about the lack of regulation in the games industry, it’s interesting to see the lack of violence being such a selling point for some video games.
There was a training video Nintendo did for their holiday demonstration program that same year that also highlighted that controversy.
As was difficulty. "Your kids won't beat this game in 45 minutes".
This is a good find. What's funny is that you get a much better idea of what the games are actually like by showing a lot of gameplay. Interesting that two of those Beauty of the Beast games were made to try appealing to boys and girls separately already.
I need more.
This is actually pretty comfy
yay, Gastin
That angry martian line scared me.
I like the way she used the word "quartet".
I'd thought I would check this channel out after rounding my purchase at limited run with a donation and I'm convinced everyone needs too.
This is so incredible, I'm dying at the cheesy, awkward freeze-frame they leave the ad ending at 😄
Radical!
0:25 - That logo is giving me some Home Improvement vibes. If Sunsoft developed a video game based on Home Improvement, do you think it would have been better or worse than Power Tool Pursuit, the SNES game developed by Absolute Entertainment and Engineering?
Worse, this was SNES era-Sunsoft.
In 1993, I was 9 years old. I would have MAYBE wanted Aero as a rental from Hollywood Video but not much more, LOL! Sunsoft had a market, it just wasn't anyone in my house.
Sunsoft has a ton of quality stuff from the 8 and 16 bit generations. You should research it a little. I bet you find something you would like.
@@agarza91516-bit Sunsoft has nothing, lol. Most of their decent staff were gone at that point.
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16 bit not so much.
8 bit, yes.
Not a big fan of the first one, but Aero The Acrobat 2 is a really awesome game
And yes, Sunsoft made a lot of great 16 bits games
This is great!
I'm sorry, *how* did you pronounce "Gaston", ma'am
I suffered minor physikick damage each time she said it.
Yeah, it’s even in 60FPS.
To me Sunsoft was a Japanese company that made some amazing NES games that I grew up with and I still truly appreciate. So weird to see this mega cheesy infomercial from the 16 bit era.
I don't know if this is a controversial opinion, but I liked Sunsoft's Taz-Mania game on SNES. I still remember it fondly for its creative and entertaining use of Mode 7 and for some of the music.
By contrast, I owned Death Valley Rally as a kid and can confirm that it wasn't very memorable outside of some nice-looking graphics.
Also...did Sunsoft really try to double dip by selling two separate versions of Beauty and the Beast on Genesis instead of offering both scenarios in one cart? Wow. I didn't know that.
This was the weird era of Sunsoft when they made subpar games.
Very much the most i enjoyed from sunsoft in the 90's was waku waku 7.
Subpar? Most of these are good games
@@roadkill_52 Yeah man but 1980s Sunsoft was a whole nother beast!
Home Improvement could have sued with that logo
Does that SUNSOFT phone number still work?
Sorry ma'am, I already got all of my intense Sunsoft Genesis cassette and Super NES Game Pak release information from the Sunsoft Times newsletter! ;)
As weird as this might sound, it would honestly be cool to replay both Sunsoft Beauty and the Beast games for Sega Genesis on modern consoles similar to the Aladdin/Lion King/Jungle Book collection
Ah yes, familiarity with video technology is why I'm here today
Because Andrew Stevens means quality...
...okay, but how many of them were ACTUALLY developed by Sunsoft? This isn't the NES, and I know Software Creations did the Beauty and the Beast games for the Sega Genesis. (By the way, play Belle's Quest. Really. It's surprisingly more playable than Roar of the Beast.)
Kinda makes me wish they brought Shonen Ninja Sasuke overseas.
Also, how could they mispronounce "Gaston" like that? He literally has a whole song.
I guess none. Aero is by Iguana.
This was when sunsoft was crap, a bit earlier the games were 🔥
When that Daffy Duck game came out, I was playing Taz in Escape From Mars on my Genesis. Infinitely better game.
Cool. I played that as a kid much. Never managed to beat it. Got stuck on a boss. It was a lab, frankenstein vibes, two tubes, electricity? Cant remember really.
Moonhard
Dare you to look at that logo and NOT hear Tim the Toolman Taylor grunt!
Also, that man's acting is so bad, even though that was the contemporary style.
None of the games were actually made by Sunsoft XD.
Publisher is different to developing
A wasteful, uncomfortable advertising segment? How fitting for dark ages-era Sunsoft.