   New Super Mario Commercial
  I saw this on TV, ">here it is from YouTybe (the only difference from the version I saw was mine included the price of the DS Lite at the end).Some thoughts:With the exception of about 2 seconds at the start and 2 seconds at the end, this entire commercial is gameplay. No fast cuts, no CGI scenes. It's just a collection of 2-4 second clips of different parts of the game.Despite not using any commercial tricks, this is a very effective commercial. The power of recognition the Mario platform games carries is amazing - of course Mario platformers occupy 4 out of the top 8 best selling console games of all time.Browsing YouTube I also found the ">Japanese commercial - same idea, but even more extreme. This time there is no "old to new" intro and the ending is much shorter. It's just 30 seconds of Super Mario being played. And I think it's even better because of it (especially after the ending bit where it shows the 1ups).So what do you think, in an age where most commercials are either clips of the games CGI sequences quickly intercut, or completely CGI movies that don't even appear in the game ("does not represent actual gameplay"), are there any other games/series that could get away just showing unedited clips of actual gameplay? (Sonic is probably one, even if Sonic can't sell systems the way Mario can)   
  awesome.  They mentioned and showed a clip of it at E3... i love the oldschool side scrollers.   ;  halo 3   ;Quote:Original post by MichalsonSo what do you think, in an age where most commercials are either clips of the games CGI sequences quickly intercut, or completely CGI movies that don't even appear in the game ("does not represent actual gameplay"), are there any other games/series that could get away just showing unedited clips of actual gameplay? (Sonic is probably one, even if Sonic can't sell systems the way Mario can)Resident Evil 4 could have worked well with actual gameplay footage (I've already linked to that video in my journal, but since most people don't read the journals, here it is again) - though there are some brief cut scenes in the beginning and it also looks like that video is slightly edited. The resulting commercial would probably be too violent to get any airplay - but I think it'd be effective (that video is what got me to buy the game - and i'm damn happy with it).   ;  Wow, a game like this makes me want to buy a DS. I wish they had some way of playing DS games on the Wii, if there were I'd snatch this up in a second. The best part, not including the music is that they've relativly kept all the original sounds. Amazing.   ;  Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, just about every current game on the PS3.   