Nintendo uploaded both commercials to YouTube on April 21, providing a wonderful side-by-side look at how differently video games are marketed in the 2020s compared to the 1990s, as well as how ageless Rudd continues to be even as he nears 60 years old. The two videos have since accrued nearly two million combined views.
“You know guys, it’s nice playing with power,” Rudd says to cap things off, referencing his turn in the Super Nintendo spot, “but this is better because now we’re playing together… super together!” Lo Truglio then breaks the fourth wall by making fun of Rudd’s advertisement voice, a very modern and meta strategy to distract us from the fact we’re just watching another commercial for a console with an arguably huge price tag. Cute!
