Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?

No [0].

Nintendo was incorporated in 1889 [1].

Here is an 1890 Nintendo commercial [2].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#/media/File:NintendoCar...

toast0 · 2 years ago

We don't usually call printed advertisements commercials. Commercial usual means an advertising in a radio or television setting. Even advertisements in a movie theater don't tend to be called commercials.

kristopolous · 2 years ago

The history of Nintendo as a board and card game company is extremely well known.

Implicit here was English and television.

Retric · 2 years ago

Television or Radio sure, but I didn’t assume English.

butz · 2 years ago

> We’re excited to preserve this best-known copy of this commercial and share it with you!

So, where's the link to archive.org?

therobots927 · 2 years ago

For anyone interested in the history of Nintendo there’s a Business Movers podcast series in progress (new episodes every few days) about Nintendo

ranger_danger · 2 years ago

I think it's hilarious that they link to a youtube video that already has the same commercial.

jwrallie · 2 years ago

They also mention their version is revised, so the version on YouTube is a better candidate for being the “first commercial”.

maxden · 2 years ago

I guess it's living up to Betteridge's law. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

edit: I see its already been mentioned by poochipie.

poochipie · 2 years ago