The future is here in 1997 - Retro Commercials Vol 393
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#retrocommercials #akira #1990s
TETSUO!!!
K A N E D A ! ! !
KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Gotta say for the time period 10 bucks shipped for an anime movie as major as Akira is a damn good price! With that said I believe I do own a VHS copy of the movie as well as a Blu-ray version.
KANEDA!!!!!
I miss Sci Fi channel's saturday anime. I wish they would bring it back, it would give me a reason to wake up on a Saturday morning.
Watching these old commercials made me wanna cry, I was a teenager back then those were the good old times.
Bro, I did cry, lol. These were such happier, simpler and innocent times.
Yes.
It's hard to watch these videos but I can't stop. I miss the 90s so much it hurts!
Same
me too
Same
Ah yes, nothing like the smell of body glitter from Claire's 😂😂😂😩🤧 I would give anything to be back in the 90s
JW what were u listening to in the 90s? 🎶
The Sci-Fi Channel was So Much Cooler Back in The 1990’s!❤️📺
Agreed, but the early to mid 00's where not bad either when they did good original programming like FarScape, Battlestar Galactica, LEXX, and the Dune mini series. Nowadays this network makes me want to vomit.
@@CommodoreFan64 true and the shitty scifi horror movies was cool too.
@@CommodoreFan64 From 1992 to 1998 is the Scifi Channel Golden Age (1998 was the last year they did Anime film festivals). From March, 1999 (the premier of Farscape) to March, 2009 (the finale of Battlestar Galactica), is the Scifi Channel Silver Age. In July, 2009, Scifi Channel becomes Syfy and enters the Dark Age...
Yes.
A lot of the original channels used to be better back then. Now they just play crap half the time.
1997 Sci-Fi Channel is far superior to 2020 "SyFy" Channel. Hell, even the commercials and bumpers were better than the crap on there now
Akira is one of the most intense animes and they got an old happy guy pitching it on a "As seen on TV" ad. God the 90's were amazing hahaha.
Akira is for sure an awesome Anime, I have it on 2 disc imported VCD with the original English dub I got around 99, the Special Edition DVD where they cleaned up the picture, and gave it a new English dub closer to the original Japanese script, and the last Blu-Ray release. I also have a t-shirt in my closet, along with a cloth wall scroll of the poster. I love the original Japanese dialog with subs best, but I have a nostalgic soft spot for the OG English dub on VCD, and that's the one I rewatch the most on my Philips Blu-Ray player that does a very nice upscale, and correct aspect zoom so I'm not left with a tiny picture on my 55 in TV.
@@CommodoreFan64 Nice
The animation in that is beautiful as hell! I’m wondering if Aeon Flux was a sifi or MTV thing or not I can’t remember. But that was a western cartoon that looked pretty cool.
@@cassandrajenkins9095 Aeon Flux was indeed an MTV thing, it first was a short on their really awesome Liquid Television series for short experimental animations, and was also the birthplace for Beavis & Butthead, and Aeon Flux eventually got it's own short lived series, which was eventually going to spawn a full animated movie, and a canceled PS1 game based on the cartoon, but that sadly never happened, and we got saddled with the live action movie, and PS2/Xbox game based on it which where both giant piles of SHIT!!!
I had it on VHS and used to try to get my friends into it when we were ... Not sober... No one ever show the genius of it and rarely ever made it 20 min into it. Looking back, I get it, wrong audience, wrong time, but back then I would get do annoyed at how basic my friends were. Such unrefined little potheads. I was so cultured and thought deep thoughts, they were popular but I was more than that...I was cool. I was... An idiot lol omg so stupid, so young. Lol
But I digress, Akira and doom generation were my go to movies or and natural born killers because I had the biggest crush on Juliet Lewis, still do.... Who doesn't .
Before the Sci-Fi Channel became the SyFy Channel.
Back in the good days when they showed real Sci-Fi, and even full length Japanese Anime movies on the weekends.
Was thinking the same thing. Back when they spelled it correctly.
I miss the old Sci-Fi channel :(
Back when they didn't totally suck (and had cooler logos)
It kills me to think that someone over at "SyFy" got a raise for that.
Ah Columbia House. I used to buy CDs from them all through the 90s. My brother was collecting the Star Trek tapes back then too. He had the original series, and Next Generation completed and was working on Deep Space 9 when DVDs became popular making VHS obsolete. He had a hell of a time unloading those tapes.
Awww that trailer tried to make Speed 2 seem more epic than it really is. How adorable XD
Yes.
Twisted metal and crash bandicoot radio shack take me back 😭 again you brought us another banger cheers mane.
LOVEEE THIS , having been born in the 90’s i never imagined even in my dreams that I’d rewatch some of these commercials ❤️ n to think I doubted my own ability to even recall 😭😭😭🤩 #ThanksDave
3:58 kissed his infant son and left in 1997, then greeted back around 2020 by his son in his twenties, poor bastard
Lmaoo
Then he tells him that mom had since passed away.
What 😳.
I just did the inflation in that Dell computer, its kreepin on $4k..... LMAO!!!!!!
It should be a red flag to a consumer when a company offers 24 hour tech support. 👀
@@GarrEFeLix lmao!!!!! 3gig drive son!!!!
@@Understeerking I can remember in the late 90's when I got my first 20GB HDD, I thought I was the shit man, I had a balls to the wall AMD K6-2 550Mhz build with a voodoo 2 card.
@@CommodoreFan64 My dad had that same setup, he was soooo pumped up LOL!!! "Son come check this out, its so quick."
@@Understeerking Yeah difference was I was in high school working my first job, and it took me all summer, and then some to pay for it saving all my spare change, and looking online at school for the best prices from places like MCM Electronics, and going to CompUSA, etc..
oh man, saturdays on sci-fi channel that's where I officially got my start in anime back in the 90s! think my first ever was 'venus wars' when they were airing it one night! some of these other ads were pretty great too like the early PSX stuff!
Same! I remember seeing the original Vampire Hunter D on Sci-Fi, well before Toonami
Wow.
that MST3K bumper hit me right in the feels
Same here, and in the mid 00's I use to watch a channel on the old Shoutcast TV that had nearly every episode including most of the local season 0 on repeat with the bumpers, sadly it's no longer, but thankfully we still have Pluto.TV with an OG MST3K channel.
Yes.
0:32 i forgot how cool and intense 90s anime commercials were back than. This video felt like a breath of fresh air.
Crashbandicoot for the win and a year for radio shack and blockbuster, and even the intros for scifi are cool. Another win, Dave!
Corona hasn't changed their commercials in 25 years
Those Sci-Fi title screens look unbelievably vintage. It almost makes my heart hurt to see how much networks have changed in the past 20 years.
Man, I was almost settled on 1993 being the greatest year of the 90's (due to Fox Kids being at the height of it's awesomeness, and going to see Jurassic Park in theaters, and the 90's comic books I was into at that time, and playing on my Super Nintendo, and the discovery of anime and beginning to collect that on VHS, and just being in High School)....but now you have reminded me of the greatness of 1997, how awesome the Sci-Fi channel was that year, and going to see "Contact" in theaters, and the PS1/Nintendo 64 era, and being in college (and this was the year Toonami premiered)....Man, this is tough, which year was the best?
Hah, I love this comment, I could have written this myself, though I'm a fair bit younger, 3rd grade when JP came out, middle school for ps1 n64 era. Loved it all the same.
@@jeremysart I probably had more in common with the younger crowd. I took a year off inbetween graduating high school and starting college. I still read comics and watched cartoons and played video games throughout college. Graduated college in 2001. In retrospect, I didn't really "grow up" until after 2005....
Yes.
The 90s were awesome.
Damn that Akira commercial was throwin shade “Critics say it makes Blade Runner look like Disneyworld” lmao
I remember the Radio Shack and ps1 commercials also remembered drinking Powerade growing up.
Same till I leaned how bad Powerade was for you will all the fake chemicals.
I still drink Powerade lol
Alright.
CRASH BANDICOOT! I miss 1997! I was in 1st grade and that was when Erykah Badu came out.
I can remember cell phones coming in bags!
I wish they fucking stayed there. Goddamn cell phones robbing the face to face excitement of being forced to speak with strangers.
Thank you Dave, that PlayStation add was great! That is the only system I got from PlayStation and still have it, works just fine:)
Dave is the man!
WHAT?! YOU HAD WICKED CITY??! This is my first time watching Japanese anime being advertised on American tv [I am not American but I enjoy watching old commercials]
Think of the amazing things you could store with a 3.2 GB hard drive
Yeah like you could even have_*one*_ PC game and some music on there!
Think of the possibilities! XD
Yes.
My first year out of High School. My best friend was a Senior in High School, his friends from school were Juniors and the youngest was a Sophomore. I was in Community College but I felt like I was still in High School at this point.
My step dad actually ordered that Best of Anime for me lol. Good times!
😰😰😰😰😰 even Wicked City?! But wait, it must had been edited
Yes.
From 1992 to 1998 is the Scifi Channel Golden Age (1998 was the last year they did Anime film festivals). From March, 1999 (the premier of Farscape) to March, 2009 (the finale of Battlestar Galactica), is the Scifi Channel Silver Age. In July, 2009, Scifi Channel becomes Syfy and enters the Dark Age...
Now that Electriphone , THATS true innovation , the iPhone 12 of the time 💎
That Electra Phone seems older than 97.
MAKES BLADE RUNNER LOOK LIKE DISNEY WORLD
I use to love the Sci Fi channel back in the day, they had reruns of Xena and Lexx
"Makes Blade Runner look like Disney World" was burned into my brain in college when this aired. I found Akira at a rental store and have been an anime fan ever since.
Contact was such a good movie :)
Man, it hit me right from the start. The Sci-Fi channel ident. was always one of my faves.
When cell phones looked like phones and computers used Megabytes😂...that’s so quaint! That Dell pc is of the devil tho...my sister got one with all that crap shown....I spent what feels like years of my life, trying to get it to work bc it was total junk, and she tried to help it by deleting all kinds of files.🤦🏼♀️ Dell-we’ll be the death of you...😂😂
Agreed, and back in the late 90's in high school I took a computer network technologies class, and part of our class work was fixing computers for the school system, and 95% of our troubles where with the DELL computers, we rarely had trouble with the Gateway machines, unless a teacher did something royally stupid like spill their coffee on it, or try to play computer tech without knowing what they where doing.
and modems screeched in kilobits, until someone picked up the phone if you lacked a second line and then you got no more kilobits and had to redial.
Oooooh.
I was always terrified of the Sci-Fi Channel growing up.
Oh interesting, why so?
I though the Sci-Fi channel along with Monster Vision on TNT and later on with Joe Bob Briggs was the shit!!!
I loved it!!!!!
Yes.
I'm sure Akira has been available way before 1997. "Akira makes Blade Runner look like Disney World."
omG! That first damn commercial. Do you have any idea how LONG I've searched for that commercial? By the gods... thank you sai, thank you big big!
from the director of speed and twister : speed 2 cruise control (Willem Dafoe )closer- how do you like your vacation so far?? RATED PG 13 LOL
Radio and a telephone? What will they think of next? I just checked Amazon...couldn't find it. Searched for it with my 4.7 GHZ / 64 GB ram / 5TB ssd jankie computer that fits in the palm of my hand (well, more or less). How the frack did we get anything done with a single core 200 MHZ Pentium with 32MB of ram? I can think of nothing that would currently run on that. My mind, it boggles.
I saw that anime commercial when I was a little kid, too little, and it gave me nightmares for weeks. Now I can't stop trying to find old school brutal anime, the more f-d up the better. I think that commercial may done some damage. Can't believe I finally found it. Thanks Dave, never thought I would get the chance to relive that trauma. lol
Dude, you're gettin a Dell
2:03 I have more processing power and space in my watch than that PC lol
$2500 for what is now an unbelievably slow computer ... mind-blowing in retrospect
Man the anime commercial brought back so much memories. The beginning of my anime obsession! I loved being a 90’s kid. I wonder if anyone still owns an Electra Phone in the attic.
I actually miss radio shack
when she said the fear of water, i freaking lost it LMAOO, my sides omg
“Akira makes Blade Runner look like Disney World”
*lmao*
It makes me feel like I'm actually in the 90s.
Wow, I remember wanting the Infiniti QX4 so bad, I dreamed about it, in that green color too!(watching this in the screen of my Tesla Model 3)
Everyone had those little cd boom boxes...
They were still glamorizing 1-800 numbers in the age of new dot coms .🤔
Omg Electra-Phone is awesome!
Good.
Those Anime home video ads reminded me of something: anyone remember Network One (N1)? Also showed anime movies as well.
11:13-11:18 inadvertent and accurate political commentary.
Man that psychic commercial is just as stupid as I remember it when I was 13, I still can't believe people believed that B.S.
>Akira for $5
Maaaan, I paid like $40 for that on VHS back in the day. Anime sure wasn't cheap in the 90s and early 2000s.
Right!?
Got that right, me, and one of my cousins in the late 90's would hit the local mall on a weekly basis, after I had gotten my first DVD player an APEX model that cost me $230 in 99, and that was the lowerend cheap one, and Sam Goody was one of the few stores that stocked Anime DVD, and they would regularly go for $30+, when a lot of normal movies could be had for under $20, which is why I've held onto my Anime DVD collection from that time period having paid so much for them, and I was working my first job in high school to do it.
@@DavesArchives go on dave.
2:03 holy shit! $2499 for that ? wow
I watched Contact at the drive in...
Ads from 1997 (the future is here in 1997).
Wow.
RETRO COMMERCIALS 393RD VOLUME 7 TO GO FROM MY 400TH VOLUME
RETRO COMMERCIALS 393RD VOLUME 7 TO GO FROM MY 400TH VOLUME
Nice.
MST3K!!!!
I missed the original Sci Fi Channel from the 90s (not the dumbed down SyFy crap). Used the watch MST 3K and Saturday Morning Anime which showed all those movies in the ad. That was the first time I've seen Akira and got into proper anime...though I recommend the BluRay version with a much better dub.
All thats changed the last 23 years and the price of video games has stayed exactly the same.
Kaneda!!
18005tshark is now a adult chat hotline
I don't really understand how you could lose from a free ten minute consultation, since it's not like you can be billed on the eleventh minute onwards on a 1-800 number.
I lost it at the Clinton and MST3K part, absolute genius
I agree. It was brilliant! 🤣
Yes.
Akira commercial 0:33
Is that james Gandolfini at 10:28?
I love the old scifi commercals. Before syfi crap came a long.
I wonder if that Psychic Reader's Network number still works?...lol
I dare ya to call it in one of your next videos! :D ..that would be so awesome
Daves Archives I'll have to go get a burner phone...lol
It NEVER worked.
SergeTheBlerge lol...well the "psychic" stuff is a scam for sure. I was just wondering if the phone number still goes to that business or even gets answered by someone.
@@DavesArchives not so dave, the network went bankrupt yesteryear in 1998.
2:56 What is that commercial?
I'm going to call some of these old phone numbers and try to order these products
You're going to get either "number no longer in service" messages, or connect to businesses or people who have since acquired the numbers. Lol
Of course.
1997, the digital age is on the way... Ads for websites! CGI animated cell phones! I checked out www.scifi.com on the Internet Archive. It's everything you'd hope and expect a 90s site would be. Even has a message board with nerds drooling over 7 of 9. XD
Frick. I can't stop reading the comments here and feeling so old! I was one of those nerds drooling over 7...
Yes.
ayy that's the year I was born, nice
Get out of here child! Oh... wait.. where did time go!? Lol
Okay.
That phone/radio seems a bit dated for 97
Yup - it’s bonus material
Daves Archives filler, just like a cheap burger :)
@@DavesArchives cool 😎 👌 👍♥ 😌 😄.
This shitty computer was 2500 fucking dollars
10 and 26
@11:17 Ahh! AH What the fuck!?
$2399 I think not
So this is the bullshit they fed me when I was a kid? No wonder I amounted to be nothing 😞
Was this 1987 or 1997?
~12:26
Whoops, wrong decade I think!
1997 dude.
10:14 Sean Harris' doppelganger (actor, Google him)
233mhz
Damn computers have gotten cheap lol
I have a R 3600 msi 1660ti far lower then 2k 😆
Killary Clinton 11:16
AKIRA