My friend Bill and I were pretty much cereal junkies growing up. Well, his mother bought any crazy new cereal he wanted, and my parents got the store brand of Cheerios (“Tastee-O’s”, anyone?). From Smurfberry Crunch to even Strawberry Shortcake Cereal, we tried them all out. Surprisingly, Donkey Kong Cereal (from the fine folks who brought you Purina Dog Chow) was pretty damn good. It had a rich Cap’n Crunch taste was mighty fine. The commercial is pretty funny, considering the unknown legacy of Kong and Mario yet to come. What were some of your favorite “blink and you’ll miss them” cereals that were only on the store shelf a short amount of time?
Donkey Kong Cereal Commercial
July 21st, 2010 
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Freakies Cereal…primarily for the toys inside
Freakies were not bad. I think the original Holy Grail of failed cereal campaigns has to be Quisp and Quake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E70QI7m5uqI
They were heavily promoted via Jay-Ward Studios (Hoppity Hooper, Bullwinkle, Super-Chicken, George Of The Jungle, et al), and were seemingly primed for multi-level licensing saturation. Wonder why they never took off? The cereal itself was okay – just your typical sweetened corn puffs, similar to Trix.
Monopoly cereal…it was essentially Cinnamon Toast Crunch with marshmallows. It was wondermous!
What year is this commercial? Must have been tough times for Lord Vader
if he was voicing commercials.
Donkey Kong cereal is the only cereal I ever won a sweepstakes prize from. I won Donkey Kong shoe laces which sounds weak but I still had to wait a month to get them via USPS.
I do not agree with the review of DK cereal. I thought it was horrible and tasted like animal food. There was no flavor of milk that could mask the after taste that shipped with DK.
I am not sure if it is still around but I was a big fan of Kaboom in college.
I preferred Donkey Kong Jr. Cereal. But the cereal that I missed the most after blinking was Ice Cream Cones cereal. “My name is Ice Cream Jones… And I’m bringing you… my ice cream cones!”
Quisp truly rocked the casbah. Space dude with a propeller on his head. How about Kaboom, kind of like fruit loops with marshmallows (and when Fruit Loops really did put in marshmallows, it became one of the top 10 cereals of all time). Kaboom had I think a clown on the box.