One of the best collections of all your videos..... Ernie Anderson FTW, and yes he can make ANYTHING COOL!!! It's sad that Atari needed to show their *7800* version of Joust on that ad, as well as fall back to their 10 year old Space Invaders in a desperate attempt to pull the then-established NES demographic..... Loved the Bionic Six promo too!!!!!
"Yo dawg, I heard you like Transformers, so I put a Transformer in your Transformer, so that way you can play with a Transformer while you play with Transformers!"
I love it it how it goes from the TF w/ giant head robot for its head to SEGA Master System w/ mind blowing Alex Kidd-Rocky! WOW!!! And then followed by the 2600 Ad!!! BAD ASS!!!! INDEED!
OMG I soooo got Monster Lab that Xmas!!! I woke up extra early and was able to open one present before everyone else woke up. LOL, I only used it once, never knew what happend to it.
Dude all i saw when i played this video was those blocks and beams and before the commercial even had a chance i said in an enthusiastic voice 'CONSTRUX!'
ahhh my brother had a boy version of cricket (not my buddy, a different doll) talk about nightmares....... and the atari 2600 jingle is just amazing haha
I gotta laugh at all the talking dolls, I remember that was the big thing right around that time. Then Child's Play came along and that market seemed to disappear lol.
The Construx song is like really bad 80's pop (think Dirk Digler in, "Boogie Nights") mixed with industrial music lol That sucks that Jones had to do commercials by 1987. Wasn't "Citizens on Patrol" out by then? I remember thinking the Mad Scientist toys were the greatest thing in the world. As an adult I realize the "monster flesh" is essentially Alka-Seltzer. Is that Ashley from "Fresh Prince" in the Cabbage Patch Kid ad? Kick ass vid!
The E.T. game was blamed for the Video Game Crash of 1983. I still have an E.T. cartridge in storage. What were they thinking when they made that game? Oh yeah, money.
That Sega announcer is none other than Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson, who used to do the ABC promos also...remember "The LUUUUUV Boat"...after leaving Channel 8 in Cleveland; the movie jack-of-all-trades Paul Thomas Anderson is his son. As for Torvill & Dean, there weren't a lot of choices for skating champs back in those days; if you wanted to join an ice show, you had to skate with the kiddie cartoon characters...more sophisticated adult shows like Stars on Ice were just getting off the ground.
I almost bought into the $50 bucks hype and told my parents to get me one...fortunately I had friends who talked me into the NES! Hey I was only 5, I was impressionable!
I busted out laughing when the cabbage patch doll said, "ohhh m'gosh!" XD Didn't stop for 15 minutes. I just know I'm going to be in some meeting at work, and that will inevitably pop into my head...
Zack the Lego manic- I remember that like it was yesterday. Wonder how long they ran those? Holy shit, that Cricket doll! I thought it was just my overactive imagination making me THINK her eyes were moving...the fact that they MAKE the eyes move like that makes me wonder if they work for the American Psychiatric Association or something. That doll would have cost me 10 years of therapy.
@Retrofanatic10 Rich Uncle Moneybags was given that name in 1933...fourteen years before Scrooge McDuck was created by Carl Barks. I'm not sure when the three nephew characters were created, but he was always *someone's* rich uncle. If anything, Duck Tales (and the comic books it was based on) are way too much like the characters from Monopoly.
Bionic Six had one of the best opening themes ever. - When was the 2600 OFFICIALLY discontinued? - The Mad Scientist Monster Lab would keep be busy for days as a young 'un - Never was a big fan of the Master System.
Was that Tatiyanna Alli from Fresh Prince Of Bellaire in that Cabbage Patch Kids commercial? I think I saw her in frame 7:30 to frame 7:39 but I'm not sure if it's her.
When these were originally aired, did the creepy Cabbage Patch Kids rip-off commercial follow the creepy real Cabbage Patch commercial? I remember Zack the Lego Maniac being older--or did the kid just make commercials into the early 90s? I get why the Atari commercial didn't want to bring up E.T., but I am surprised they showed their almost-as-disastrous Pac-Man. And no more wood paneling by 1987?
I remember I wanted that Cricket doll SO BADLY, but she was way too expensive. Now that I watch the commercial, the doll seems way creepy. I also remember renting the Cricket cartoon video a lot from the local videostore. I wonder if I can find it here on TH-cam...
The Furskin narrator is like a hillbilly version of Doug Henning. And the little girl making her bear hop up and down spastically is the real selling point for this ad.
Help me out here... Is not the voice in the ERTL commercial that of the late great Hal Smith? (Best know for playing 'Otis' on the Andy Grifith Show.) Also... not 100%, but I think that the singer in the Zack ad did a bunch of those old School House Rock shorts!
its cricket, the original bride of chucky! and does anyone else find it ironic that the kid from the mad scientist lab commercial went on to star in "Return of the Living Dead part 2? oh and does twister ever get old? lol.
@danielledrules Lots of things in the Eighties were. There was this talking doll that they sold in the late Eighties, I don't remember it's name. It was scary. Looked too real.
I still have my family's old 2600, which we got in 1983. However, I haven't figured out how to hook it up to a modern digital TV set. There is a little "TV/GAME" switch box with 2 prongs that attached to the screws on the rabbit ears on older sets. New sets have nothing to screw those prongs into but have numerous jacks on the back. I've tried bypassing the switch box and plugging the game into literally every jack that was not in use, with no success. Anybody know the trick?
Ah, monopoly...back when folks still knew what a hand-iron and paper money was... :P Yikes. I still have a working Atari 5200...when did I get old? And dear, dear gods, I forgot about that Monster Lab! My brother got one for Christmas that year and we had so much fun you wouldn't believe.
I was kind of surprised that the 5200 wasn't more successful because it had one of the highest resolutions of all video game systems at the time, and it also had an optional adapter that would play all 2600 games.
@@timothysprengeler4071 As the Angry Video Game Nerd pointed out in his review of the 5200, the dysfunctional controller is the reason why the console failed.
Fortess Maximus was the tallest Transformer at 22 inches, until he was dethroned by Generations Metroplex in 2012, who beat him by two inches. The upcoming Titans Return Fortress Maximus may just retake his title.
Do you have many others from that particular November or December (' 87)? I'm looking for a very out of the way Christmas one from that year.The problem is, it was a SYNDICATED kind of commercial, and most of the Christmas ones I find on TH-cam are from the big network specials.
Imagination was that stone-age invention they had until the time of the invention of "collection" and the great ritual of bugging the parents for more money so they can "catch 'em all."
oh gee... Bionic six! I forgot that existed. These are awesome. Thanks for posting these.
Oh, wow...that Atari 2600 commercial has been an earworm in my head for literally DECADES. Wow.
There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
OMG, the Bionic Six. I ADORE the Bionic Six. I bet if I dug around, I could still find that VHS tape with episodes on it...
One of the best collections of all your videos..... Ernie Anderson FTW, and yes he can make ANYTHING COOL!!!
It's sad that Atari needed to show their *7800* version of Joust on that ad, as well as fall back to their 10 year old Space Invaders in a desperate attempt to pull the then-established NES demographic.....
Loved the Bionic Six promo too!!!!!
I had a gym bag full of Construx. Those things were awesome.
It's been 21 years, but I still had that Atari Commercial memorized word for word.
I remember KBHK 44 in the Bay Area when I was a little kid in the 80's.
@Gilbs2211 I had the mad scientist set for making slime. If I remember right the slime glowed in the dark. Ah 80's toys
Wow I had Construx...played with that stuff all the time. Even made the Starship Enterprise with Construx.
Man, Torvill and Dean must have really needed the money to skate in the Ice Capades with Teddy Ruxpin.
Ah'! The good 'ol days!
"Yo dawg, I heard you like Transformers, so I put a Transformer in your Transformer, so that way you can play with a Transformer while you play with Transformers!"
I love it it how it goes from the TF w/ giant head robot for its head to SEGA Master System w/ mind blowing Alex Kidd-Rocky! WOW!!! And then followed by the 2600 Ad!!! BAD ASS!!!! INDEED!
I used to love watching KBHK 44.
the Atari 2600 rap was old school. Makes me wanna pop a fresh and dope dance on some cardboard...YAY!
They look *exactly* like the Blacktron legos that came out the same year. Down to the transparent neon green/black color scheme and everything.
OMG I soooo got Monster Lab that Xmas!!! I woke up extra early and was able to open one present before everyone else woke up. LOL, I only used it once, never knew what happend to it.
Dude all i saw when i played this video was those blocks and beams and before the commercial even had a chance i said in an enthusiastic voice 'CONSTRUX!'
12. Reminds me of "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl".
I never Bionic 6 as a kid, but I loved that theme song!
If you're talking about the NES commercial in Vol. 23, no, they aren't the same announcer.
ahhh my brother had a boy version of cricket (not my buddy, a different doll) talk about nightmares.......
and the atari 2600 jingle is just amazing haha
Ooh! The Bionic Six!!!
It's a large part of why my username is "BionicDance"; LOVE that show! :)
I gotta laugh at all the talking dolls, I remember that was the big thing right around that time. Then Child's Play came along and that market seemed to disappear lol.
The Construx song is like really bad 80's pop (think Dirk Digler in, "Boogie Nights") mixed with industrial music lol
That sucks that Jones had to do commercials by 1987. Wasn't "Citizens on Patrol" out by then?
I remember thinking the Mad Scientist toys were the greatest thing in the world. As an adult I realize the "monster flesh" is essentially Alka-Seltzer.
Is that Ashley from "Fresh Prince" in the Cabbage Patch Kid ad?
Kick ass vid!
The E.T. game was blamed for the Video Game Crash of 1983. I still have an E.T.
cartridge in storage. What were they
thinking when they made that game? Oh
yeah, money.
I actually kind of liked that game, but my opinion seems to be in the minority.
That Sega announcer is none other than Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson, who used to do the ABC promos also...remember "The LUUUUUV Boat"...after leaving Channel 8 in Cleveland; the movie jack-of-all-trades Paul Thomas Anderson is his son. As for Torvill & Dean, there weren't a lot of choices for skating champs back in those days; if you wanted to join an ice show, you had to skate with the kiddie cartoon characters...more sophisticated adult shows like Stars on Ice were just getting off the ground.
I almost bought into the $50 bucks hype and told my parents to get me one...fortunately I had friends who talked me into the NES! Hey I was only 5, I was impressionable!
I busted out laughing when the cabbage patch doll said, "ohhh m'gosh!" XD Didn't stop for 15 minutes.
I just know I'm going to be in some meeting at work, and that will inevitably pop into my head...
Zack, the Lego maniac, would be almost 40 years old today If not over. And whats with trying to eat cheerios in space while wearing a helmet? Lol.
Yea I was thinking the same thing. It might be actually.
Yes? Cartoons commonly air in the afternoon.
Zack the Lego manic- I remember that like it was yesterday. Wonder how long they ran those?
Holy shit, that Cricket doll! I thought it was just my overactive imagination making me THINK her eyes were moving...the fact that they MAKE the eyes move like that makes me wonder if they work for the American Psychiatric Association or something. That doll would have cost me 10 years of therapy.
Construx, hell yes.
sms was awesome back then fun times
@Retrofanatic10 Rich Uncle Moneybags was given that name in 1933...fourteen years before Scrooge McDuck was created by Carl Barks. I'm not sure when the three nephew characters were created, but he was always *someone's* rich uncle. If anything, Duck Tales (and the comic books it was based on) are way too much like the characters from Monopoly.
I kept thinking they were saying Foreskins, not Furskins!!! lol...Where was my mind?!?!
Bionic Six had one of the best opening themes ever.
- When was the 2600 OFFICIALLY discontinued?
- The Mad Scientist Monster Lab would keep be busy for days as a young 'un
- Never was a big fan of the Master System.
January 1st, 1992, along with the 7800 and the Atari 8-bit computers.
lol i still have my sega and atari 7800 didnt have the 2600
Allen
It totally was!
Was that Tatiyanna Alli from Fresh Prince Of Bellaire in that Cabbage Patch Kids commercial? I think I saw her in frame 7:30 to frame 7:39 but I'm not sure if it's her.
We're being chased by a monster but lets stop for breakfast anyway.
MONOPOLY! omg I cant WAIT! :D
When these were originally aired, did the creepy Cabbage Patch Kids rip-off commercial follow the creepy real Cabbage Patch commercial?
I remember Zack the Lego Maniac being older--or did the kid just make commercials into the early 90s?
I get why the Atari commercial didn't want to bring up E.T., but I am surprised they showed their almost-as-disastrous Pac-Man. And no more wood paneling by 1987?
Hey I have got the "The Fun is Back" commercial on VHS!
I remember I wanted that Cricket doll SO BADLY, but she was way too expensive. Now that I watch the commercial, the doll seems way creepy.
I also remember renting the Cricket cartoon video a lot from the local videostore. I wonder if I can find it here on TH-cam...
..." And coming soon monopoly." Shit.just.got.real
The Furskin narrator is like a hillbilly version of Doug Henning. And the little girl making her bear hop up and down spastically is the real selling point for this ad.
Cricket sees into my soul!! :-I
Teddy Ruxpin @ 5:28 !!!!
How creepy is Cricket! OMG O.O
Zack the Lego Maniac was rad.
I think it was more like they were trying to capitalize on the limited success of Robotix rather than Legos.
I can't help it. i know the doll was creepy and gave my friends nightmares - but I loved my Cricket doll!
Help me out here... Is not the voice in the ERTL commercial that of the late great Hal Smith? (Best know for playing 'Otis' on the Andy Grifith Show.)
Also... not 100%, but I think that the singer in the Zack ad did a bunch of those old School House Rock shorts!
Construx where AWESOME!
I DEFINITELY remember that announcer for KBHK! He was on for a LONG time. Who is he, anyway?
i went to school with someone named cricket
(no joke)
and i'll be damned if that girl didn't look like that doll....shifty eyes and all
:-O
its cricket, the original bride of chucky! and does anyone else find it ironic that the kid from the mad scientist lab commercial went on to star in "Return of the Living Dead part 2? oh and does twister ever get old? lol.
@danielledrules Lots of things in the Eighties were. There was this talking doll that they sold in the late Eighties, I don't remember it's name. It was scary. Looked too real.
WOW! That's Tatyana Ali from fresh Prince of Bel Air @ 7:30
I forgot Atari tried to capitalize again after the game crash in the early 80's
I still have my family's old 2600, which we got in 1983. However, I haven't figured out how to hook it up to a modern digital TV set. There is a little "TV/GAME" switch box with 2 prongs that attached to the screws on the rabbit ears on older sets. New sets have nothing to screw those prongs into but have numerous jacks on the back. I've tried bypassing the switch box and plugging the game into literally every jack that was not in use, with no success. Anybody know the trick?
@jadedntupelo I used to have an atari 7800 which could play the old 2600 games. I remember toys R us had the 2600 games dirt cheap.
HEY ZACK, COME BAAAAaaaaaack...
The rasin bran one is the best of all of them.
Construx? Lego's are BEST!!!!
Ah, monopoly...back when folks still knew what a hand-iron and paper money was... :P
Yikes. I still have a working Atari 5200...when did I get old?
And dear, dear gods, I forgot about that Monster Lab! My brother got one for Christmas that year and we had so much fun you wouldn't believe.
I loathed the commercial at 6:44. People called me Zach the Lego Maniac all the time back in the day. Thanks a lot, Lego.
I had one of those cabbage patch talking kids.
LMAO what the hell?! XD Thanks for the laugh
13. TOO FUNNY!
Is that Ernie Anderson voicing the Sega commercial?
Those Furskins are going for $15.00 on ebay.
Someday I hope to own a Sega Master System and an Atari 2600.
Shame Atari Killed themselves with such failures as the 5200 and the Jaguar.
I was kind of surprised that the 5200 wasn't more successful because it had one of the highest resolutions of all video game systems at the time, and it also had an optional adapter that would play all 2600 games.
@@timothysprengeler4071 As the Angry Video Game Nerd pointed out in his review of the 5200, the dysfunctional controller is the reason why the console failed.
New Fortress Maximus figure coming out soon!
Is that a flat screen at 2:25? Oo
Fortess Maximus was the tallest Transformer at 22 inches, until he was dethroned by Generations Metroplex in 2012, who beat him by two inches. The upcoming Titans Return Fortress Maximus may just retake his title.
what did you like then Nintendo[Nes] or Amiga,Commodore?
I was in 7th grade when these commercials were shown. Can you buy an Atari 2600 for under $50 today?
oh ma gosh!
i bet mike mozart has all these toys.
Is just me , or the Monopoly commercial feels way too much like Ducktales? A rich famous uncle with 3 nephews.
Do you have many others from that particular November or December (' 87)?
I'm looking for a very out of the way Christmas one from that year.The problem is, it was a SYNDICATED kind of commercial, and most of the Christmas ones I find on TH-cam are from the big network specials.
@Tornado1994 Dude, I was totally poor growing up in the 80's and the 2600 was all my parents could afford. Don't be hatin on the underpriviledged :)
@80sCommercialVault Wow , I didn't know that.
The person who didnt like this was born in 1990
lol. WOW
What's this imagination thing all these commercials are suggesting the kids already have, and is available to tap into when playing with said toys?
Imagination was that stone-age invention they had until the time of the invention of "collection" and the great ritual of bugging the parents for more money so they can "catch 'em all."
I want to college in Gangstertown, it's not a bad place. Good waterfront property
Of course, give the black kid the black doll
@FdotsgtCIIR FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
LOL! Coming Soon...Monopoly!
So what happens when your microchips are *in* whack?
That is scary as shit!!!! 7:29
@crocetti1984= Yeah, that's the one.
The cricket doll has creepy eyes and why is it calles cricket anyway?
LOL,
nope I don't