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Banjo-Kazooie Promotional VHS Tape

This is one of those things where I'm actually surprised to find that I have a very vivid memory of this. I typically bring up this VHS tape whenever I talk about Banjo-Kazooie or the N64 in general because I honestly find it interesting. And especially considering there were many of its kind, I must have only gotten a small taste of it.



I remember just continuously putting the tape in the VHS player and watching it over and over again, and I think what was so fascinating about it was you were seeing gameplay from another source that you weren't doing yourself. And I have always sort of been fascinating with watching other people play games as much as I enjoy it myself. It's always interesting to see what kinds of tricks and turns other people can take when playing games, either older or newer. But we're focusing on the older. I also think this is one of the first times I'd ever seen anything akin to a video game trailer. And one that actually shows a decent amount of the gameplay. Gets you a pretty good idea of what it's about. Though I guess the term promotional is there for that exact reason.

Honestly, I must have watched this particular tape more than 1000 times because my memory of this is so vivid that it's almost as if I watched it just yesterday. Thank god for Youtube because otherwise I never would have found it again and now I can enjoy reliving the nostalgia over and over again.