[poochipie]

:)

No [0].

Nintendo was incorporated in 1889 [1].

Here is an 1890 Nintendo commercial [2].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#/media/File:NintendoCar...

[toast0]

We don't usually call printed advertisements commercials. Commercial usual means an advertising in a radio or television setting. Even advertisements in a movie theater don't tend to be called commercials.

[kristopolous]

The history of Nintendo as a board and card game company is extremely well known.

Implicit here was English and television.

[Retric]

Television or Radio sure, but I didn’t assume English.

[0xcde4c3db]

There is a Color TV-Game commercial supposedly from 1977 (not totally clear whether this is the year of the ad itself or the year of the product launch) [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmwNej8noQ

[kristopolous]

I think a good argument can be made for 1977 or 1978

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV-Game

They came out with a 3rd machine in June of 1978.

The commercial features the first two machines. There's many plausible reasons for this including, most prominently, that the third might not have been released yet.

Certainly not definitive but likely