Promotional Consideration: Dragon Quest IV commercials were weird

Posted by Mister-X on May 26th, 2008 at 12:30am

Filed under: Video, Promotional Consideration

With the Dragon Quest IV DS remake announced for the US and Europe this week, we thought it’d be good a time to dig up Enix’s commercials for the original Famicom game’s release in Japan. They’re completely different from the retro ads used last November when the DS remake shipped.

As with Squaresoft’s chocobo commercials for Final Fantasy IV on the Super Famicom (launching a little over a year after Dragon Quest IV), these ads were just plain odd! They show hardly any in-game video, relying on logos and recognizable theme music instead. Gather your party and meet us in the fifth chapter, past the post break, for the commercials.

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