Have You Ever Heard About 'Nintendo Cereal System'?

[LANZZ]

Nintendo Cereal System

The Nintendo Cereal System was a breakfast cereal produced by a company called Ralston Cereals in 1988. It was trying to capitalize on the popularity of the Nintendo Entertainment System, and promoted two of the most popular games on the NES at that time, Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda.

The box of the cereal was divided into two sections, one for each game. One side, called Super Mario Bros Action Series, had fruity-flavoured Marios, Super Mushrooms, Goombas, Koopa Troopas, and Bowsers, and the other, called Zelda Adventure Series, had berry-flavored Links, hearts, boomerangs, keys, and shields.

The cereal has great kid pull by itself, but upped the ante by always including stickers of a Nintendo character and Nintendo "Power Cards" (a set of 12 trading cards) on the back panel. It also had offers to win NES Power Pads or a Super Mario cereal bowl. Oddly enough a box of this cereal can be found on ebay for around $200. Nothing says good morning like a bowl of 22 year old cereal! Yum!!

I wish this cereal still existed! Looks yummy!

- Commercial Video:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpiQnnp6p8
- Sources:
- http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/top-nine-most-ridiculous-video-game-products/1407517
- http://www.nesplayer.com/features/cereal/index.htm

 

[Valexi]

Why can't cereal be this cool anymore?
It's such a shame.
I remember even in my time we had awesome toys in cereal.
Now there's hardly anything.
But, yeah, We actually have almost all of these boxes in our household, because my mom kept them when they came out
They're locked away in a nice, dry, safe place.

 

[LANZZ]

Why can't cereal be this cool anymore?
It's such a shame.

I remember even in my time we had awesome toys in cereal.
Now there's hardly anything.

But, yeah, We actually have almost all of these boxes in our household, because my mom kept them when they came out
They're locked away in a nice, dry, safe place.

Can you upload the pictures of all collectible Power Cards. i want to collect it...

 

[Ember Incubus]

I wonder if they would ever make TWW/PH/ST trading cards. This seems interesting. Mm, old cereal. XD

 

[13foxes]

Nintendo, it's for breakfast now.
Nintendo, it's a cereal, wow!
Nintendo, Super Mario jumps,
Nintendo, in a fruit flavored crunch!

Nintendo, here's Zelda too!
Nintendo, it's very good news!
Nintendo, mmmm, you just can't lose!
Nintendo, two cereals in one, wow!​

I lol'd. This song makes me wanna try Nintendo cereals. Mario and Zelda must be yummy :xd: And the trading cards looks awesome.
Too bad they don't make it anymore... :<

 

[nano5896]

I saw the commercial on Youtube a year or two ago.

There was also a Donkey Kong cereal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ja70QXfkr0

 

[Valexi]

Can you upload the pictures of all collectible Power Cards. i want to collect it...

I'll see if I can convince my parents to bust them out of the attic for scanning
I imagine it'll require some digging, but they're protected in a good box.

 

[LANZZ]

I'll see if I can convince my parents to bust them out of the attic for scanning
I imagine it'll require some digging, but they're protected in a good box.

Thanks...

Here is one of Nintendo Cereal System 'collector card' that i found...

Piranha Flower [ パックン フラワー, Pakkun Furawā, Pakkun Flower]

 

[PureLocke]

Apparently you can still get these things on ebay sometimes, I wouldn't eat whatever is in the box now though.

 

[Moldorm]

I actually ate this cereal when I was a kid. Needless to say, it was absolutely delicious. And as far as cereal box reading goes, ...it's a Nintendo themed cereal box.

Get me a time machine. I'm going back for one last bowl.

 

[VembersWind]

I WANT SOME ZELDA CEREAL!!! ;( must've been yummy, why'd i have to be born in 1995?

 

[Beeker]

Wow, that must be the most amazing cereal known to man. I'd love to have a bowl of that stuff, not to mention collect the cards.

;( must've been yummy, why'd i have to be born in 1995?

I feel your pain.

 

[Tony]

I wish i had a DeLorean so I could go into the past to get some!

 

[athenian200]

Not that specific cereal, but I have heard of Nintendo cereal before. I think it was Pokemon Cereal. I was born in 1988, incidentally. So any box of that cereal would be about my age.

It's interesting to see that Nintendo had tried the trading card/character card idea out before releasing the Pokemon trading card game.

I wonder if there's any chance of getting Nintendo to release another cereal? Perhaps if you really want it, you can start a petition.

 

[LANZZ]

I really want that cards. I hope someone can scan and upload it here.....