Nintendo’s first US commercial might be this 1980 ad
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6NHZE)
Got a broken arm? Just play Toss-Up! | Screenshot: YouTube Nintendo is a gaming juggernaut today, but it wasn't really on anyone's radar in the United States in 1980. And what was possibly the first US commercial for hardware produced by the company - a handheld called Toss-Up, from its Game & Watch" series - certainly didn't help, as a newly-restored copy shows. That's because there's no mention of Nintendo at all, or even Game & Watch.
Game & Watch games were simplistic standalone handheld LCD games not unlike the cheap licensed Tiger Electronics games seemingly every kid had in the 1990s. And in the US, those games were initially licensed to a company called Mego (pronounced mee-go"), and sold as a series called Time-Out" instead, according to The Video Game History Foundation in a blog...