Get down, Zelda

December 8, 2005 9:24 AM

Zelda wants you to get out of your seats and jump around jump around.
posted by XQUZYPHYR (22 comments total)

Jump around? When Zelda wants me to to get high, so high then we can talk.
posted by three blind mice at 9:32 AM on December 8, 2005

Dupe. No digg.

Crap, wrong site. Sorry.
posted by JeffK at 9:44 AM on December 8, 2005

Who knew that if I was ever exposed to 80's Japanese video game mash-up rap, that I'd like it? Kinda got a Micheal Jackson "Thriller" vibe, no?
posted by Keith Talent at 9:56 AM on December 8, 2005

Old Japanese TV commercial?
posted by mrgrimm at 10:07 AM on December 8, 2005

Please Hammer don't hurt em!
posted by Saucy Intruder at 10:14 AM on December 8, 2005

I always wonder "what were the dancers thinking?"

Did they get into it? Were they rolling their eyes every second off-camera? Did they have any clue what it was about? And did they tell anyone about it afterwards?
posted by GuyZero at 10:14 AM on December 8, 2005

Whoa! I never played Zelda and now I wish I had. It looks like piraty goodness.
posted by OmieWise at 10:29 AM on December 8, 2005

Needs more Ditka.
posted by brain_drain at 10:32 AM on December 8, 2005

Its hard to imagine this commercial being from the 80's, you know, with the game being from the 90's and all. From this page it seems the Japanese version was realeased in 1991 and the US version in 1992. Nitpicky, I know.
posted by hellphish at 10:35 AM on December 8, 2005

Link is hot.
posted by Busithoth at 10:44 AM on December 8, 2005

So, Japan gets hot dancing Link, and we get nerdy guys rapping pathetically about Zelda? So not fair.
posted by Durhey at 11:08 AM on December 8, 2005

I love that they beat Ganon with the power of dance at the end. It's like Space Channel 5 meets Zelda.
posted by terpsichoria at 11:44 AM on December 8, 2005

I was thinking Captain Eo meets Zelda.
posted by Fontbone at 12:01 PM on December 8, 2005

I was thinking disaster meets embarassment.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 12:09 PM on December 8, 2005

I was thinking disaster meets embarassment.

Don't be so harsh. It just needs some more cowbell.
posted by gsteff at 1:56 PM on December 8, 2005

Durhey : "we get nerdy guys rapping pathetically about Zelda?"

Wow. They don't even try to pretend that cool kids played Nintendo. Damn. Way to cut to the bone.
posted by graventy at 2:11 PM on December 8, 2005

When do we get them dancing to the "My Humps" song?
posted by fungible at 2:55 PM on December 8, 2005

Zelda was from the 80's for sure. I'm positive. I think youre talking about the sequel, Zelda:link to the past, Hellphish. Who can forget that gold cartridge?
posted by elemenopee at 3:15 PM on December 8, 2005

I think it was a commercial for zelda 2. The horsehead guy with the mace is the boss for the first dungeon and the guy dancing behind link's left shoulder (our right) is clearly Error.
posted by kookywon at 3:24 PM on December 8, 2005

Nah, it says 'Super Famicom' at the start of the video - it's for A Link to the Past, which was 90s, definitely.

I ask - no, demand - that the Revolution controller allow me to recreate this video in the comfort of my own home. Give me that, Nintendo, and you've got me forever.

Aw hell, you had me at Touch Kirby's Magical Paintbrush.
posted by terpsichoria at 3:57 PM on December 8, 2005

The least they could have done is give Link and Zelda wigs so their hair colors were reasonably close to "reality".
posted by nightchrome at 4:52 PM on December 8, 2005

I feel like everyone should have fallen over dead at the end of that dance, a la Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.
posted by danb at 9:15 PM on December 8, 2005