In Emulators / NES ROMs

Hey I noticed something whilst playing a NES ROM for Mike Tyson's Punchout. When I went to battle, I think, Soda Popinski, all the adVice I could get from Doc was JOIN THE NINTENDO FANCLUB TODAY!!!!! Anyhoo, I was just wondering if this actually happened on the game at any point. If It's only on this one NES ROM, then has anyone else seen it?

nah, i've seen that while playing my cart.

That's just a advertisement. Ask OSG..

There isn't really any adVice needed for Soda. He's easy.

And... que the muffinman. O-kay, so... right I guess I wasn't the only one, just seeing things, or on an LSD trip. Well, I guess Nintendo founded subliminal advertising.

Child1(walking down the street): Hey, y'know, if Doc said it, we'd better listen!

Child2: Yeah! Thanks, Doc.

Child1(walking down the street): Hey, y'know, if Doc said it, we'd better listen!

Child2: Yeah! Thanks, Doc.

and that's basically what happened

Yep, it's certainly on the cart. I don't know if I find it funny, or annoying. I dislike paying for a game and having it plastered with ads. unless of course it's a racing game, where ads just make the track look like a real track.

Actually it's "Nintendo Fun Club". Most games released by 1987 came with subscription forms for it. It's what you joined way back in the early Nintendo days when you were "cool".
There was a small monthly magazine by Nintendo called the "". It provided tips, codes, strategies, and previews of NES Games (one issue covered 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out'). Eventually that publication grew into something much bigger and was the precurser to what we now know as "Nintendo POWer" magazine.

Sadly no, you cannot join the in the actual game.

It's a classic tip, for sure. If I was playing hockey, and we were down 10-0, and my coach said, "Jesus, you guys should really subscribe to the hockey news," I would probably stab him with my skate.