Over the past week we've shared a few Mario Kart 8 30-second commercial that have been doing the rounds, incorporating some fun live-action sequences with game footage.
Nintendo's now uploaded a couple more examples, covering the Piranha Plant — an excellent new item in this entry — and showing a "crazy plunge" that's tackled using the anti-gravity wheels. As before they have a fun, cartoony humour and will no doubt be doing the rounds on various TV stations.
Check them out below and let us know what you think.
Comments (18)
Totally knew what was gonna happen in the Piranha Plant test. XD
They used Petey Piranha voice samples for it. Interesting.
Did anyone think of Little Shop of Horrors when they saw that Piranha Plant test
Is that Eggman's Voice Actor song these commercials?
Since they started these commercials I wondered if they were gonna test the Piranha plant, but I doubted.
Seems they did it instead and it was a succesful test too XD
@Wolfgabe Yup! He's equally as sneaky, conniving... and hungry as Audrey 2!
Reminds me of little shop of horrors lol
Good to see Nintendo give more than one ad for their games, the high marketing campaign seems to be evident in NA as well.
I like these ads, they're fun and hit on a very key point that the "hardcore gamers" are always worried about...game balance issues. They assure us it's been tested and approved for flippin' fun
Got to try out a lot of these new items today at the demo at GameStop. I am really loving the new ones, especially the boomerang. The courses are beautiful (at leat the 8 I got to play during the demo) character choices are good, and the game itself plays great. Very happy with it.
@Wolfgabe YES
These commercials are flippin' hilarious! I especially crack up over Super Horn, and the scientists' laugh! The next 13 days can't pass quickly enough. Oh, I keep waiting on piranha plant to say, "feed me."
Having ads like this beg the question: "Where were these awesome commercials to point out the positives of the Wii U in a flippin' fun way when it came out, and the year and a half since?" If they had something like these, Wii U may not be on pace to be the worst-selling of all Nintendo consoles by millions of units.
Looks like I'll have something to do after smash bros server is shut down
I can't wait much longer...
These are great adverts, shame they are not being aired in the UK. To date I have not seen one MK8 advert on TV and with less than 15 days to go.
Nintendo UK are letting themselves down yet again
Hopefully they put some ads in prime time!
I played Mario Kart 8 today at the Gamestop Test Drive pre-launch play event.
The game is AWESOME. I played as Shyguy, and tried the waterpark level, Cloudtop Cruise, and Electrodome. I love the way the characters handle in this game. For Shyguy with the standard default cart, there's a slight delay when drifting- I had to learn to start the drift a little before the turn to compensate for the delay. It was very skill-based, and I loved it!
The bumpers in anti-gravity give you a nice little spin boost, as does colliding with other characters. I used a collision at the last second to propel myself into first lol...
And the graphics, well, nobody's gonna be complaining about Mario Kart 8 visuals, THAT much is certain. What a great game, now I wish it was out so I could play it more!!!
I've not seen any of these adds on Uk tv yet.
That piraña plant commercial waa hilarious
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