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Does anyone else remember the real-life Smash Bros battle (using the same costumes) that Nintendo live-streamed to promote the game? (Yep! a live stream in '99!) I've never heard anyone else mention it and I can find zero evidence of it ever existing online.

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Supper Mario Broth

@MarioBrothBlog

May 11, 2020

Group photo of the actors and costume designers of the North American commercial for Super Smash Bros., taken immediately after finishing filming.

5:35 PM · May 11, 2020

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A few additional details: I'm 99% sure it was streamed via RealPlayer (or at least that's how I accessed it) and I think it may have been from Vegas?

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Did it use Real Player?

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It did! I was actually going to include that in my tweet haha

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Thought it was just a commercial?

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Nope! They had a full livestreamed event too

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Did Nintendo Power ever make any mention of it possibly? That could be quite the wild goose chase though

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I don't think they did

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A livestream in 99??? Bet that worked flawlessly

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It took me the entire time just to get it working and I missed the entire thing except for the ending :( The quality was also grabage at 56k haha

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So, maybe this? I've always wondered what this was in reference to!

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Oh wow are those yours?

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Me

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Omg!! Yes! I would love to chat with you some time about it if you're up for it?

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this still might be my favorite rendition of Donkey Kong to date

limedeo ♡ bahiyyih #WADADA

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This sounds like a job for The Lost Media Wiki!

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I remember the commercial, but that’s it.

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youtu.be/xFSnBs0ZgE0 there’s a bit of it here at 2:38

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@nothingmuch999

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This will become one of the biggest lost media searches in the next few days, mark my words.

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I feel like.... I recall hearing about this a few years back.

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Hmm that's definitely similar! But I think they were in a proper ring (with floor). And I'm pretty sure DK and Pikachu were there, like in the Smash commercial. Good find though!

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maybe its time to get the Lost Media wikia on this lol.

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A livestream?

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Submit this to Lost Media Wiki

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Damn I wanna see this

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Yoshi with hammer

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I remember the commercial

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Guy by the name of Fireball Tim might know more, I believe his wife was involved with the creation of the costumes for KCL

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lost media video?

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Harrison Pounds

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I remember the commercial where they are skipping through a field and then one of them trips another and all hell breaks loose. Ha

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You should check out Devinsupertramp's videos on YouTube. He made some regarding Nintendo properties.

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Get lost media on it

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That's a nice photo

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What site and what month did they use?

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hey found some mention of it! the search has only begun!

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z64central.tripod.com/specials/smash

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I didn’t know there was more than just the trailer

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I wonder if it hurt in this costumes when they fought

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