Nintendomania was greatest gaming show you never watched which aired weekly from March 1995 to July 2000 in Mexico and also other countries in Latin America while the rest of the world was stuck with primitive cheesy gaming shows here we had a program that pretty much resembles more what modern youtube gaming is and treating it more than just a kids thing like gaming shows in the 90s. The show started as a pitch to Nintendo to advertise its products, they thought instead of using some of the marketing budget for ads they had the idea of doing a show. They found the new network TV Azteca that was willing to put the other half of the cost but eventually when the network didn’t want to continue the show was cancelled, they let them do whatever they wanted pretty much,
The show could give you tips, secret codes, tricks or even a complete walkthrough of a game and it didn’t matter if it was NES, SNES or N64, it was all fair game. Some episodes included full retrospective of games and their history because of a future title on that series was coming out or just because they wanted to educate you on many aspects of gaming, from the people who made the games, the creators, how the games were made among many other more technical aspects.. They had themed episodes like a show about animated cartoons based on video games and cartoons that had video games or a special on the latest video game movie. Between commercials you had “Minimanias” which were cool bonus vignettes that could be either a small tip, preview or news.
They would bring people to discuss games for example a pilot for a pilotwings review so he could tell the audience what the game got right. They were fan friendly asking questions to them and showing their responses, reading their letters and showing their artwork.If you sent a VHS tape with something cool that you did or record they would likely play it in the air and encouraged fans to send them in, They would send cool stuff to the fans with small contests every show that was random nintendo merchandise from caps, to shirts or keychains.
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