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Paul Rudd cosplays 1991 Paul Rudd in throwback Switch 2 commercial

As all Ruddheads know, actor Paul Rudd made his acting debut in an iconic 1991 Super Nintendo commercial as a radical-looking 22-year-old playing games like F-Zero and a then-unnamed The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on a gigantic, drive-in movie theater screen. And now, almost 35 years later, Rudd is back to promote the Switch 2 wearing the exact same outfit. Nintendo uploaded both commercials to YouTube on April 21, providing a wonderful side-by-side look at how differently video games are marketed in the 2020s compared to the 1990s, as well as how ageless Rudd continues to be even as he nears 60 years old. The two videos have since accrued nearly two million combined views. The new Switch 2 ad doesnt show much we havent seen already. It focuses mostly on the C buttons GameChat functionality and the consoles official camera as fellow actors Joe Lo Truglio (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Superbad) and Jordan Carlos (The Colbert Report, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore) join Rudd and ...
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