The Nintendo cereal system


It's amazing what a cultural phenomenon the NES game system [not just the games, but the entire console and brand name] was in the late 80's to early 90's. Movies, cartoons, various merchandising. Does anyone recall the 'Nintendo Cereal system'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpiQnnp6p8

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/nes/23.php

Even the Atari 2600 never reached this level of cultural saturation. Anyway, I know I ate a few boxes but I can't recall if it was any good. I know it had a similar concept to Nerds cereal in that there were two separate bags of cereal inside [a late 80's gimmick]; Super Mario & Zelda. Does anyone remember if it was tasty? How different were the two cereals? I seem to recall liking Zelda a bit more, but I don't think they were all that different.

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I believe I had the cereal, but I don't recall what Mario or Zelda tasted like.

I also had Bill and Ted and Ghostbusters cereal. I don't remember how those tasted either.


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They claim cereal is making kids fat these days but in the 80s me and everyone that I knew were junkies for these gimmicky cereals and we ate them all day everyday. And the sugar content of franchise based kids cereal from the 80s puts any modern day cereal to absolute shame. It was just pure concentrated sugar chunks, fortified with sugar & dipped in sugar and then mixed with a pile of marshmallows. For some of us it wasn't sugary enough so we dumped a few spoonfuls of sugar on it and poured Vitamin D (alias used to make milk straight from the cow sound healthy) milk over it all. Nintendo, Ghostbusters and TMNT cereal were our three square meals in those days. None of us turned out fat either. Because when we got our sugar fix we ran around outside for five hours straight. We played NES when we were coming down from the sugar. These days rotating your wrist using a Wii-mote is universally accepted as exercise.

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They claim cereal is making kids fat these days but in the 80s me and everyone that I knew were junkies for these gimmicky cereals and we ate them all day everyday. And the sugar content of franchise based kids cereal from the 80s puts any modern day cereal to absolute shame. It was just pure concentrated sugar chunks, fortified with sugar & dipped in sugar and then mixed with a pile of marshmallows. For some of us it wasn't sugary enough so we dumped a few spoonfuls of sugar on it and poured Vitamin D (alias used to make milk straight from the cow sound healthy) milk over it all. Nintendo, Ghostbusters and TMNT cereal were our three square meals in those days. None of us turned out fat either. Because when we got our sugar fix we ran around outside for five hours straight. We played NES when we were coming down from the sugar. These days rotating your wrist using a Wii-mote is universally accepted as exercise.


Classic.

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I remember they had that trippy commerical for it with the weird music and the kids jumping around in Mario's world with TVs on their heads for no apparent reason....

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Here ya go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpiQnnp6p8

It may have been promoting a sugary breakfast cereal, but it did have an educational component. It taught kids about syllables "Nin-ten-do!"

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Totally agree henry_the_horse. We ate likes pigs growing up (I'm 30) and then went outside playing street hockey 'til the sun went down and we were all in shape (my friends anyway).

Now parents give their kids Special K and sit them in front on Netflix and wonder why they are fat lol.

"I'm not so sure this is, structurally speaking, such a good time for your, uh, buddies to drop in."

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i remember it and it was good!!

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Does anyone know if there is a modern equivalent? Something that tastes similar. Old tie-in cereals never die, they just become attached to the next fad .

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Beats me, but I know Hi-C Ecto Cooler is now Orange Lavaburst.


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I don't know if u can find a cereal that sugary anymore...it was delicious!!!

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Yeah, the cereal was awesome! The 80s were the best!

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Yeah, the cereal was awesome! The 80s were the best!


QFT .

I just wanted to say I'm still interested in knowing if there's a modern cereal out there that tastes like "TNCS" or any of the following defunct 80's cereals...

Ice Cream Cones [Specifically vanilla]
Strawberry Shortcake
Yummy Mummy
Fruit Brute
C-3POs


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I remember this cereal, but don't remember how it tasted. Oddly enough, I remember the Donkey Kong cereal, and DO remember what it tasted like. It was basically Cap'n Crunch.

What I DO remember was the Super Mario Bros. Ice Cream sandwiches. I remember fondly because they were probably the most delicious ice creams I've ever had. It was, like, vanilla center, and the wafers had a sort of slight lemony flavor to them. Damn, they were GOOOOOD!

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I remember this cereal, but don't remember how it tasted. Oddly enough, I remember the Donkey Kong cereal, and DO remember what it tasted like. It was basically Cap'n Crunch.


Yeah I think you're right. It seems %70 of the tie-cereals of that type were basically generic Cap'n Crunch; "G.I. Joe" and "Batman [1989]" to name two off the top of my head.

What I DO remember was the Super Mario Bros. Ice Cream sandwiches. I remember fondly because they were probably the most delicious ice creams I've ever had. It was, like, vanilla center, and the wafers had a sort of slight lemony flavor to them. Damn, they were GOOOOOD!


Oh, man I'm sorry I missed those .

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I remember how the cereal tasted it was virtually inedible.

Originality needs a reboot.

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Dude I'm from the Atari generation but when the NES came out I was 14 by the time I got mine in 87 and was totally blown away. It was a giant phenomenon, it was so big I remember all the kids were talking about it all the time in school. We'd talk about the games and the tricks we had to do to beat certain levels. Because of the NES I'm still gaming today, it is the reason gaming took off and is what it is now. As far as the cereal I remember having it and thought it was pretty good but it never stuck me as I love it so much type of a cereal. My all time favorite cereal was C3PO's, I can remember what that tasted like but not so much the Nintendo cereal.

The 2600 never reached that level of saturation because it was lame in comparison. The games were very cool at the time but compare a 2600 game to a NES game and the NES game makes the 2600 game look like the red headed step child. If you take Metroid, Zelda, Castlevania, Contra, Final Fantasy, Faxanadu, Shadowgate, Ninja Gaiden & the 4 Dragon Warrior games and put them up against all the Atari games ever made I don't know any person who would say the Atari was better. Lol

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True dat. I also got mine in '87 (I was 13) and it just took gaming at home to a whole 'nother level. I have great memories of trading games with guys at school and the excitement of coming home to find the latest issue of Nintendo Power. I love the internet (obviously) but there is something to be said for the delayed gratification back in the day. Today we're like flies at a pop culture picnic; landing, nibbling for a second and then flying off to something else.

Probably sounds funny to your average millennial, but the games of the NES felt so immersive. I loved my 2600, but it never felt like there were stakes. That all changed with the NES. I sat there white-knuckled in those 8-bit worlds and felt like the weight of them was on my scrawny shoulders.

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Yep, the NES had something magical about it, it really was a game changer. Remember when the SNES came out and all the parents didn't understand why a new console was coming out? It was before everybody understood how tech gets improved upon after a certain amounts of years. I remember so many couldn't understand it until I pointed out how the improvements in the home computers of the past few years have got better. Once they realized that they finally understood.

My friends and I used to exchange games too. I remember things stated taking off and people were running rental stores out of their homes. Some were advertising trades. I remember getting screwed over by a couple who took a few of the games I wanted to get rid of and gave me the ones I wanted except for one they said they had but couldn't find it. They told me to call them later to come pick it up once they found it but they never answered their phone and when I went back over there they had moved. Lol *beep*

I agree, they were very immersive. Those Dragon Warrior games had me into them for months, I always like how the value of an RPG felt like you got your money's worth more since it took so much longer to beat. Certain games like fighting games or a game like Pro Wrestling would leave me with blisters on my fingers. I still have my NES and it still works great. The only system I had that I got rid of that I regret was my Vectrex. Dumb decision on my part.

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