Topic: Castlevania commercial ads.

[BelmontClan64]

remember these ads?  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waAsGYKptqI
Have you watch any one of them before? Any ideas?

[darkwzrd4]

I have never seen any of those before and I have always watched "too much" tv.  The first one about CV4 showed completely different level designs.  I guess that was the "beta" design.

[uzo]

I still can't get over how much CV4 changed from that video to its release. It's like a whole other game.

[DingusBelmondo]

Damn.. i LOVE that Japanese ad.

[PFG9000]

Ah, yes...Through a ROOM!

[VGuyver]

if you are wondering about some differences shown, then you should be aware of the strange fact that the Japanese and Western versions of some castlevania games were graphicly retooled. Take CV3 for example, despite the Japanese version coming out first before the american version, it's graphics were superior (while on the same console) in both detail and texture... why the later American version looked so poor is beyond me.

[shelverton.]

It's kinda weird that they even made a SuperCV4 commercial when the game was nowhere near finished... Or maybe they just decided to scrap some things at the very last minute. Like, the graphics don't look finished, and the Simon sprite is really different. In the beginning you can hear "Bloody tears" playing, but it sounds really shitty, lol. Maybe this commercial never even aired in Japan?
Well, SuperCV4 turned out awesome, regardless.

[uzo]

It's kinda weird that they even made a SuperCV4 commercial when the game was nowhere near finished...

It's definitely an early version of the game. If you notice at the end he says "for super sales!" Its obviously a merchant commercial to get stores to buy, not a consumer commercial. These days we just have E3 and press conferences, but back in the day there was a great need for retail advertising. It was predominant in the arcade department.

[Eric Roman]

:\  ...and I still haven't seen the CastleVania III commercial more than once since the spring of '91.  C'mon, 'Tube!

[crisis]

I remember this one.

Killer outfit. Too bad the night life sucks.

[BelmontClan64]

Damn.. i LOVE that Japanese ad.

yes, that japanese SuperCV4 ad. rocks especially coming with that song.  

[BelmontClan64]

It's definitely an early version of the game.

No matter it's an early ver. SuperCV4 commmercial, it has played an important role in advertising the title in that period to those interested buyers. And one more thing,,,I like the narrator too.