80's Commercials Vol. 1085
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- These commercials aired on KPIX on September 30th, 1989
1. Citibank Visa
2. Hope Rehabilitation Services
3. Promo for "A Current Affair"
4. "American Gladiators" Intro
5. Nintendo Commercial Bumper
6. Dragon Warrior for NES (Known as Dragon Quest in Japan, this North American localization was not successful, prompting Nintendo to give away the thousands of unsold copies to Nintendo Power subscribers along with a players guide. This not only attracted scores of new subscribers to the magazine, but many cite it as catalyst for future console JRPG's to have success in North America as many gamers were first introduced to the genre via that promotion)
7. Nerf Turbo Football
8. Sears Brand Central (From my understanding this was a "store within a store" essentially a fancy name for their electronics department)
9. Coast Guard PSA (RIP Louis Gossett Jr.)
10. Colonial Penn Life Insurance (With Ed McMahon. So is the little version of him on the envelope like his twin or something?)
11. California Party Line (Nice hairdo, lady!)
12. Rideshare PSA (With Cher's mother Georgia Holt...nice hairdo, lady! She lived to age 96 and died only recently in late 2022, RIP)
13. Fleet Week 1989 Host A Sailor PSA
14. Life Savers
15. Carefree Sugarless Bubble Gum
16. Super Mario Land for Game Boy
17. Bubble Yum Bubble Gum
18. Promo for "Love Connection"
19. Heart Disease PSA
20. Sports Illustrated (Featuring Sports Bloopers VHS tape)
21. California Party Line (Sorry for dupe, but it demonstrates how prevalent these ads were at the time)
22. Sunny Hills Grape Festival (9:16 Getting to pose with one of the original C-3PO costumes is worth the price of admission alone! Larkspur is in Marin county close to Skywalker Ranch where Lucasfilm is headquartered)
23. School Volunteers PSA
24. The Money Store (With Phil Rizzuto)
25. AIDS Spanish Language Hotline
26. Party Line Dating (For reference $2 in 1989 is now about $5.00 when adjusted for inflation)
27. Wild California at the California Academy of Sciences
28. Haight Ashbury Family Shelter
29. Nintendo Game Boy
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I remember renting Dragon Warrior when it hit in the Summer of 89. I didn’t really have the patience for it, so didn’t get into it. It wouldn’t be until 5 years later in the Summer of 94 when I would get into RPGs thanks to Lunar: The Silver Star on Sega CD and Secret of Mana for the Super Nintendo. I spent that whole Summer with my friend Jeff (whom I am still friends with today), playing through those quests. We still love to catch up on gaming and anime memories when we get together for dinner with our respective wives.
I would go back and play the Dragon Quest series in later years, and definitely appreciate it more now than I did back then. I also own the original four NES Dragon Warrior titles Complete in Box. I found a seller on eBay who was offering all four with all the original manuals, maps and posters for one price.
I was born in the late 80s and lived just an hour east of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, I was way too young to see a taping of American Gladiators. If I was old enough, I would have begged my dad to take me see American Gladiators filmed live.
Seeing those Nintendo commercials, along with Dragon Warrior, makes me happy & has brightened my Saturday 😊
Besides the hairdo, the lady also has nice legs in that California Party Line commercial ❤
Perfect timing since Fleet Week is upon us in The Bay!
I subscribed to Nintendo Power because of the Dragon Warrior giveaway. My first issue was Volume 10 from January 1990 with Batman on the cover.
American Gladiators!!!!!! I loved this show. It was on Saturday afternoons on WNYW channel 5! I never saw the first season until USA did the reruns in the mid 90s!
It was the mini guide that I got in my first issue of Nintendo Power Nov/Dec 1989 that made me go out and get Dragon Warrior!
01:26 Ah yes Dragon Warrior! Not only did we Americans not know it was really called Dragon Quest but most of us didn’t even know how huge this game series was and still is in Japan! So much so it got its own holiday!
And as cheesy as this Westernized commercial promoting it is, it has a real charm to it; reminding you of the D&D sword and sorcery boom of the 80’s!
SNL back in the day made fun of those “talking head” Citibank ads like the one at the beginning. It was for a bank that specializes in change.
That one was great, and so was the direct parody with Roseanne. th-cam.com/video/O0w2R2JvZ7U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uIw3y1Clwc8HiSt5
I remember the Sears "Brand Central" at my local store. Even as a teenager, I thought it was weird wording, because it WAS just their electronics department. I guess it was a marketing tactic to "educate" the people that only associated Sears with their in-house brands (Craftsman, etc.) that the store had big-name electronics, too.
6:12 Boy, I miss Hawaiian Punch Bubble Yum!
Also, I think that might be Vincent Kartheiser (sp?).
Vincent Kartheiser was only 10 in 1989 and to my knowledge was not a child actor yet.
I remember not being impressed with the Game Boy when I first played it. My best friend at the time, Tim, had gotten one for Christmas of 89, along with a Sega Genesis. I was much more interested in his Genesis. I found Super Mario Land weird, and Tetris didn’t sound like fun to me. In the Summer of 1990, he would let me borrow his for a week, with Tetris and Gargoyle’s Quest. I became hooked that week, and found it hard to give back. I would have to wait until Christmas that year to get one of my own, along with Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan with it.
Lots of memories of lying beside our backyard pool or in a lawn chair, playing that thing in the summer, and baking under the heat of the lamp by the couch when the weather wasn’t agreeable.
Super Mario Land is *definitely* a weird game. Even weirder than the US version of Super Mario Bros 2, which started life as a non-Mario themed game.
Wow, this commercial lineup came out on my 7th Birthday. Sweetdom, can't go wrong with Nerf and Game Boy. Great video
7:48 That's one of my favorite videos, picked up at Goodwill in the summer of 2001.
1989…Turned 12 that year. Mainly remember starting 6th grade and Middle School, which was not fun, and going to a ton of movies like Tim Burton’s Batman, UHF, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2 (my dad took me), and Little Mermaid.
10:09 - Right now, that guy is thinking, “Yeah, wish I had that option before I married you…”
If only Dragon Warrior had become popular sooner here, we'd have more Dragon Quest games now. But we got some good ones.
I miss the gameboy
7:49 A blooper tape. This sort of thing is kinda what youtube is meant for.
Is that Jonathan Taylor Thomas in the lifesavers ad?
No, it is a child actor named Adam Wylie. He is best known for appearing in the show "Picket Fences" and the Disney Channel TV movie "Under Wraps"
www.imdb.com/name/nm0943766/