No matter how cool my adult life gets there’s no feeling that compares to being a little kid on Christmas eve and 100% believing Santa Claus was out there and on his way,my family was essentially poor but we always got everything we wanted for Christmas which further convinced me something magical happened. In reality my parents must’ve been in a lot of debt every year😂
But.... if you could go back and view it through your adult eyes, would you still think the 80s was the best? Was it the 80s or the fact that you were a child with no responsibility.
Yes the '80s is an unbelievable leader I love the 80s I was in the '80s I was a teenager in the 90s and I was a child in the 80s and 89 I was 15 years old and I love poopy head and p**** hat 🌏❤️
I can feel the magic and warmth of those happy times, back when people weren't glued to their phones. Actually talked to each other, lived in the moment not posting pictures immediately after taking them, and then starring at the screen reading their 800 "friends" comments, all the while missing a moment in time. The world will sadly never be "simple" again. Nothing wrong with social media, but it has become out of control. Miss these days...love to reminisce, dream of these days. Bitter sweet.
+Ami Quinton There are obvious examples of how things are better today- technology, etc that makes our lives easier.. but I'd still rather go back to these times of my youth and have things the way they were. Much simpler time, the world didnt seem nearly as dangerous, we actually interacted with people in person, we used our imaginations to the fullest, we played outside, got hurt, etc. I'm so thankful i grew up in the 80s, and not the new millennium.
Commercials were SUCH a huge part of the Christmas season when I was a kid. Like the m&m's one here, coke-a-cola, hallmark, Folger's coffee, even McDonald's. These all bring back such wonderful memories!! :)
The Christmas commercials, the Christmas cartoon specials and who can forget Toys R Us toy catalog that came in mail. And we would circle off the toys we wanted. I miss you 80’s
I would happily trade in my smartphone, wi-fi, internet and ipods, etc. just to return to this time. I was 5 and only cared about playing with my Star Wars and He-Man toys. There is just something more wholesome and folksy about these times that is lacking today, or I should say non-existent these days.
+would26 I think 24 hour cable news destroyed the civility, folksy charm and happiness we used to take for granted, because it made Americans hate each other.
i miss the 80s we would always have fun and got along with everybody and played with toys and play outside with other kids todays you don't feel that magic anymore -_-
No one got offended back then. No social media. No internet. No cell phones or Ipads. 80's were awesome as a kid!! People developed pictures, talked to each other on a land line, kids played games outside, and school didn't make me take so many damn tests!
people did get offended. there were cell phones therer were even a few digital cameras around too. Some people today have rose tinted spex and short memories.
I still remember that Christmas morning when my brother and I opened up Atari. I became the master of Space Invaders in our house. Those were the good old days when life was fun and simple.
I'm a techie. I love the advancements in technology. Like the ability to watch all these commercials on my phone. But as technology has advanced everything else has degraded. 77 baby here, and I miss the 80's.
This is pure comfort to me. I hate the world now. Things back then were meaningful, and cherished. It breaks my heart watching these because this world will never be like it was in the 80s
***** Wasnt that the system where you slid those plastic sheets into the controllers for each individual game? I cant believe the variety of gaming systems there were from the 1970s even through the 1990s. Now its very limited - Xbox, PS, Nintendo and PC. At least back in the day there was much more variety- granted you were taking your chances that the system may have sucked
The world was so different back then than it is now. Jobs especially in retail were actually good to have. Same with grocery stores. Things were made better then too. Such an awesome time the 80's.
I don't know if I'd give ANYTHING (if I were living in the 80's again, I'd be alot further away from heaven, and I'm far enough away as it is). But yea, the 80's were the best
I met the love of my life in 1982. We were the 80's. All these great things were our back drop. I see nothing promising about the crap brought to us by tech. They dont even want us as labor cause tech can do that too.
i miss everything back then so much you can feel my pain how much i cry to see this stuff again im 33 going on 34 at the end of jan and i wann go back the way the 80s was so peaceful
This was my time, a MUCH MUCH better time in many ways and it will never be this way again ... everything was appreciated, we waited for everything and when we got it we were grateful.
The 80's were a great time to be a kid, we had freedoms then that kids do not have anymore. Ads back in the 80's had good taste (for the most part) and connected to the people in a personal way. I can still remember waking up very early on Saturday morning to catch the first cartoons of the morning and would watch them until 11am or later, something kids do not have now unless you have cable or satellite TV which most do, but even then something with the new ones has been lost. I can still remember waiting for X-mas every year for the x-mas shows to come on, Frosty the Snowman, Charlie Brown X-mas, and more, I have not seen them on anymore. The 80's were the golden years of TV for sure, some of the best shows were on then, MacGyver, Riptide, A-Team, Airwolf, Street Hawk, etc... and even with those shows, ABC, NBC, CBS still showed movies at night, now filled with nothing sitcoms, most of which are stupid. Things now days have to be political, and our ways are under attack. Christmas vacation is in a lot of places had to be changed to Winter Break, stores have had to change the way do things because someone may get offended, we did not have these problems back in the 80's. I am sure that kids today will think the same way I do now, that they had so many freedoms and the early 2000's were the best, and just like us kids of the 80's, our parents said the same thing, that the 50's were a great time, and I am sure each generation will always think their time was the best time to be a kid. What is all comes down to is, were you happy as a child? and if so that is all that matters, getting to be a kid, for when you become an adult, things really change and you really find out how crappy the real world is, but it is what people have made it. Thanks for the flashback of the 80's..
***** OMG, man! I thought my sister and I were the only two who always remembered the Charlie Brown CBS Special logo and then a Dolly Madison commercial almost every break!!! Awesome!
Tommy Clark They were great. Each character had their own flavor pie too. I remember not liking the Charlie Brown one because it was filled with Chocolate pudding- I preferred fruit filling.
Ahh the 80s. All of my close relatives are still alive, MTV played music videos, no reality TV, sports wasn’t all about money, Hollywood put out a ton of good original movies, and the closest thing we had to Amazon was the Sears catalog.
like some here have said, wish there was a time machine to take us back. 1982 I would run so fast to my old house when I still had family, and see them all on Christmas, as if they were just waiting for me to return home....can't write no more
Monkeyland03 ET Cereal tasted almost identical to what Reeses Peanut Butter Puffs taste like now. It had a peanut butter taste to it. Man I miss this time.
Wait...where are all the commercials from lawyers or law firms trying to get people to sign up for class action suits or pharmaceutical company commercials? These were so much better times. I was 5 and the world was perfect and all I needed was my crayola caddy and Star Wars toys.
Christmas of '82 actually was magical for me...at 2 years old, all i knew was joy and wonder. My family was together and the New England landscape was the Platonic Form of what Christmas is supposed to be. I echo some of the sentiments here...a time machine needs to be invented...
Things were so much more happy.simple!!I wish my 2 young boys had the chance to enjoy such wonderful simpleness!!I was 10 years old in 1982..Whenever "adulting " gets to me or I just want a blast from the past..I just watch these sweet memories!! :)
i know how you feel everything was so simple and i miss that about the 80s and im glad i don't have kids i wouldnt them growing up in todays world its fucking sick i hate it i want the 80s back
I was born in the summer of 83, so I just missed this. It's amazing to see the commercials for the video games, though. I wonder if anyone could have imagined that the video game crash was mere months away. That ET commercial is freaking AMAZING. I've never seen such an elaborate commercial for something so infamously bad. I like to imagine that the game in Elliot's gift is Yar's Revenge. At least the poor kid could have something fun to play. My husband found me an Odyssey 2 for Christmas last year, 32 years after these commercials would have aired. The box is pure undiluted late 70s beauty. That McDonald's commercial gets me misty eyed every time, especially now. They aired this well into my elementary school years, and it always makes me think of Christmas, of my dad being so excited and my mom being so happy. I can almost smell the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls he used to make during the winter...
If you were 9 then, you will love the page I made this year 'American Christmas 1982' where I post all the tv specials that aired on the exact days. here is the link for you! Merry Christmas facebook.com/AmericanChristmas1982
To everyone waxing nostalgia over the 1980s: I agree. I mean I was born in 1990 and yet I still get nostalgic feelings from practically everything that came out of the 1980s. The decade even made some of my favorite films, such as Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In fact one of the very few things I actually like about the 21st century is the fact that we can sorta relive the 1980s (and 1990s) via sites such as RUclips.
I want to go back and do it all over ....The 70’s and 80’s were my decades and they were the best years of my life. America was absolutely a different place back then. It was still a treat then to get 30 cents from mom and walk uptown to the gas station to get a Coca-Cola or Pepsi or to the ice cream shop and get a CMP ice cream. We truly did not lock our doors and stayed out till after dark with our bikes and on Halloween we all went trick-or-treating without our parents at night in the cold and it was great fun.. In the summer we played outside all day and all night, The only way my mom got us home to eat was a big brass bell she had outside the sliding glass doors that she would ring to get out attention to come home for dinner. I remember wonderful 4th of July celebrations when mom took us to the ball park and we laid on blankets to watch the fireworks. And of course Christmas and even though it was tuff for my mom raising us she always made sure we had a great holiday . Even Easter was special in America back then... as we get older we started to go see the movies and we really did have the best movies. ( Jaws, Close Encounters, , Raiders of the lost Ark, James bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, planet of the apes, E.T, The terminator, The goonies, Friday the 13th, Batman, Back to the future . ...To name a few.....The TV show line up on the networks were fabulous ( this was before you get 500 channels like you do today and still nothing on is good) we had Dallas, knots Landing, Falcon crest. And every night of the week a network would compete and have for example, Monday night at the movies! Tuesday night at the movies ! and they would show a major movie release. we had real holidays were we all got together and enjoyed each other’s company. We had great stores that are all but gone now in 2020 and great movie theaters and of course the MALLS! It was not the 80’s without a Mall. My very first few jobs were at the mall. First Macdonald’s and then The Gap!. Yes sir those days were GREAT! and I am very lucky to have lived them .... today I don’t even see kids outside and everyone is in fear for saftey from crazy people.... God Bless us all ! (If you can even say that anymore)
It's sort of sad that when my kids grow up, they probably won't remember too many commercials because we usually 'skip through' them all. Loved seeing these! Forgot about the Kodak Disc.lol
The E.T. Atari was great in this commercial, great in the store, great in the box, great wrapped up under the tree. But by New Year's day I was bored with it, as I was with all my Atari games. I still have a working Atari. I should use it as a punishment for my teenage son when he gets grounded.
Such an innocent and wholesome time. No internet and cell phone zombies. We all communicated and interacted with each other. Wishing someone Merry Christmas now has been outlawed by so many and referred to as offensive term. Yes...take me back to 1982.
I was an 80s kid also....loved the barbie commercials and I remember that pretty in pink barbie! Have a lot of happy memories from 85 and 86, when I was like 7 and 8 yrs. of age.
That M&M ad!!! 🥰🥰🥰 Also, Atari clearly spent more on the ET ad than they did on the game. My dad borrowed the game from a friend and surprised me and my brother one day. We were overjoyed and then severely disappointed in a matter of seconds. 😂
This was the year I was born. Boy with all this technolgy and fast lifestyles, the world just isnt the same. I was born too late. I would have loved to lived in the 50's,60's,70's. I cant stand the world today. I love the simplier times and miss them. Commercials like this make me cry so much, as I hate the world today.
***** In a way, I do feel that if you were born in the 80s, you kinda missed out on a lot of cool and interesting tv shows, commercials, music, clothes, concerts, experiences, etc. The world is a lot more sophisticated and more knowledgeable today than it was in 82 however, I think we are sadly a weaker middle class today than in 82.
***** Life is too short, but there's nothing saying nostalgia can't be part of your life. And just because something is "new" and "today" doesn't automatically mean it deserves more attention or praise. Quite the opposite. "Today" hasn't past the test of time yet.
I just paused in the 3rd commercial, I just have to say...😭😭😭😭 15 minutes of nostalgia at Christmas time. Nostalgia is hard af this year. These commercials made the season magical.
In the 80’s McDonald’s was a leader in fast food. Centered around families with good food. Their quality has gone down today. My favorite commercial “Little Sister” was a favorite of mine and to this day I can still remember the background song word for word!!
Ahh, the good 'ol days, when tv commercials were meaningful. The Christmas of '82 was one of my favorites. Television now could learn a lot from these past commercials.
Thank you for this. Right now I fall into the "In Danger Group" for this damn virus. I have emphysema AND heart disease. This reminded me of a simpler time. A time of joy and fun. Not worrying about some crazy virus that can kill possibly millions of people. I PRAY FOR ALL THOSE OUT THERE TO BE SAFE. For those like me PLEASE BE CAREFUL. Life is so precious. Be safe and HELP EACH OTHER. PLEASE!
In 1982, I got a Castle Greyskull, a He-Man, a Skeletor, a Twin Pod Cloud Car, a Rubik's Cube, and my first wristwatch, among other things. Never again would I have a Christmas so freaking awesome. Mom and Dad, I love you forever. Rest in heavenly peace.
In 1982 I was 8 years old and I came to the United States from Columbia Bogota I lived in the orphanage for 7 years till I was adopted and I came to us when I was 8..❤️☝️🙏🌏
lolz, dat et game. they made 2 comerceils from wat i can tell, and dat was worth more den da game itself 100 times over. yes they selled alot, but they also returned all of dem 2 da company. dats how bad it sucked. den da company dumped dem in a hole sumwhere in da navada desert.
THE 80'S WERE INDEED THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH, WATCHING THESE CHRISTMAS COMMERCIALS AT 21 WITH HEAD FULL OF HAIR, SLENDER & YOUTHFUL, NOW BALD,WEARING GLASSES ENJOYING PEACH BRANDY !!
Worked at the Sears photo shipping and development center in Connecticut. That place was awesome during the holidays. Our busy season started just before Holloween and slowed down just before New Years. It was great to see all the families who got their pictures done at the portrait studios. Overtime was plentiful and they had a party for for each holiday. Once Sears closed, that was it.
I miss the 80s. back when little boys were still encouraged to fight back when being bullied. and you and the bully were face to face on the playground not on a computer screen.
Brings back so many memories I remember seeing all the great Christmas movies and shows families in my opinion were closer back then and these were truly the last of the good ol days
Because I was 20 and in college in ‘82, I’m deeply nostalgic for that era but it has a lot more to do with my stage of life at the time than the state of the world. It’s the friends & family members who have passed that I miss most. I also miss MTV, and I miss having the energy to go out at ten pm instead of going to bed. Sheesh. The threats were true...I’ve become my parents.
Aww I was 9 yrs old and loved watching the Xmas specials on the telly. Frosty and Rudolph. My mum would say the same thing every Xmas " Its going to be slim pickings this year". There were 9 of us so we didnt get much in the way of prezzies but I would trade all the money I have now to go back to that time.
VENTURE!!! OMG my mother used to take us to Venture almost every day, and while her and my sisters were off shopping, I would just roam the store as a 12 year old child playing with all the toys and stuff. When she was ready to leave, my mom would always page me over the speakers, "Tommy, your mother is waiting for you at the fruunt desk!" HAHA! Thanks for sharing these commercials.
+Tommy Clark haha Venture, yess!! do you remember Zayre? my mom always let me get fresh hot popcorn and a cherry Slurpee at Venture...do you remember smelling fresh popcorn as soon as you walked in? the whole front of the store smelled like hot buttery popcorn, what a great winter memory that is :)
I'll never forget that Christmas Saturday, 1982. I was a young security guard watching a closed warehouse, CFS Food Services right by Ohare airport. I had to do 3 twelve hour shifts in a row because I never had a relief scheduled.
as a child of the 80s and a native chicagoan, i too love these old commercials and the nostalgia--especially around the holiday season. things seemed more innocent and simple, but they really weren't...it just seemed so because most of us were kids, so our entire lives were simpler and more innocent. i'm sure kids born in 2015 will look back at the "teens" (2013-2019) as simpler, more innocent times in the year 2045...still, i miss lots about the 1980s and wish all the time i could take "time vacations" back to the early-mid 80s....even just for one day. favorite things about the 1980s: original Shamrock Shakes, the Muppets, fat-bulb outdoor christmas lights, holiday commercials, much less school paranoia and bureaucracy, ugly holiday sweaters, Joe Montana, the good chocolate and cocoa and mint and pine smells at the Harlem-Irving Plaza during the holidays, the horse statue outside Madigan's at the HIP, no computers and internet bringing all the crazies into our lives, much less sensitivity and PC bullshit making everyone either a victim or a perpetrator, moon boots, those winter gloves that changed colors when you went outside in the cold, Dungeons & Dragons, the Real Ghostbusters, Jack Tripper shorts on girls, the Cosby Show, Mystery Funhouse. least favorite things about the 1980s: lousy VHS and cassette tapes, no power windows or locks on cars, shoveling snow by hand, waiting in line forever with my parents at the bank, metal dental fillings, no recordable TV, haircuts that made you look like Danny from The Shining, chenille sweaters, wearing short-short gym shorts at school (Jack Tripper shorts...), Zips shoes, green corduroy pants, mustaches, Jaws 4, no GPS, the marginalization of women and ethnic groups. favorite things about today: LED christmas lights, holiday commercials, GPS, the good chocolate and cocoa and mint and pine smells at Woodfield Mall, computers and internet giving easy access to information and other services, debit cards, sensitivity and PC bullshit helping under-represented people gain equality. least favorite things about today: the Westboro Baptist Church, Facebook, utterly god-awful movies and TV, cell phone obsession, Obamacare, beards, for-profit education, over-medication, the marginalization of women and ethnic groups.
Just sitting here and trying to find something on television to watch, anyway watching this RUclips commercial, kind of reminds me of being a young kid and sometime in the 1980s too. I remember back as being a kid and we use to get those Christmas catalogs through the mail. It didn't matter if it was by Macy's, Toys r Us, Sears, KB toy store or even Kmart back then. A few of us kids use to sit out there on the porch in the freezing cold just to wait for the mailman to bring us those Christmas catalogs. so this wat we can mark them up and circle them and let our parents know which present we wanted Santa Claus to bring us.
Born in 1994 I never experienced this but I had a hint of it... I still remember some of my older siblings stuff being passed down to me & them explaining how cool it was back in the day.
Watching mom and dad play with the toys in the Aisle as they shop for Christmas presents for their kids. I often joked to my oldest child that we didn't buy these gifts for the children we bought them for us LOL
Aww the yr my lil bro was born I was just hmm10 I still consider myself a 80s child my bestest yrs were in the 80s I wished commercials were more heartfelt today
Atari was a great present for me at that Christmas. I loved playing PAC-MAN but the joy stick KILLED THE HAND. The characters went too slow. “Snoopy-snow-cone machine” was a wish on my list but never got one. Don’t see the add for them featured. Smurfs (the non computerized CGI format) was so much fun to watch every Saturday morning. Scooby-doo mysteries was also a favorite of mine. Strawberry Shortcake dolls and yarn-haired Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Jelly glitter-water bracelets, roller skates and mongoose bikes. All a part of my childhood.
But the Atari "Venture" game kicked ass (as opposed to the ET game, which sucked ass). It was the first adventure video game ever, and it had a hidden Easter Egg too--another first!
Full disclosure, I was off the Atari by 1982, and was spared the trauma of the ET game. I did, however, get the Intellivision Dungeons & Dragons game that Christmas, which was one of the all time greats. Many comments on here are dissing the ET commercial with words of disbelief--but as I recall, that was a highly anticipated game that season and promoted heavily! Hence the high degree of disappointment in it when it was actually played! Had it been a regular run of the mill release, it would have possibly been spared it's reputation of infamy.
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Being a child growing in the 80’s especially at Christmas was beyond memorable. I would give anything to do it again.
Me too
I totally agree. The world was a better place back then. Christmas was also more magical.
No matter how cool my adult life gets there’s no feeling that compares to being a little kid on Christmas eve and 100% believing Santa Claus was out there and on his way,my family was essentially poor but we always got everything we wanted for Christmas which further convinced me something magical happened. In reality my parents must’ve been in a lot of debt every year😂
The 80's were the best! there'll never be another decade like it.
i agree with you my 80's bro it was a golden era in that time i super miss it
NO no truer words It wasnt that long ago and this vanished fast!
But.... if you could go back and view it through your adult eyes, would you still think the 80s was the best? Was it the 80s or the fact that you were a child with no responsibility.
Yes the '80s is an unbelievable leader I love the 80s I was in the '80s I was a teenager in the 90s and I was a child in the 80s and 89 I was 15 years old and I love poopy head and p**** hat 🌏❤️
No, the 2080’s will be here before we know it!
Back when Christmas was a special time of the year. It's was good times in the 80's. A better time indeed.
80s christmas had that magic feeling to it i miss it so much
Yes, it's totally about how much Chinese junk we can buy and nothing to do with the season nor any anticipation or respect for it.
Noticed though that they were already creeping in their "Happy Holidays" greetings as to not offend the atheists.
I can feel the magic and warmth of those happy times, back when people weren't glued to their phones. Actually talked to each other, lived in the moment not posting pictures immediately after taking them, and then starring at the screen reading their 800 "friends" comments, all the while missing a moment in time. The world will sadly never be "simple" again. Nothing wrong with social media, but it has become out of control. Miss these days...love to reminisce, dream of these days. Bitter sweet.
agree with you 110%
+PersephoneRising81 yup
i still feel that magic when i watch the 80s stuff but todays world i cant feel that magic at all -_-
Aren’t making this comment from your iPhone? 🤔
Everything about the 80s screams home to me. I hate the world today.
We all do, sure technology is better, but I wish for a time when we were all happy.
+Ami Quinton There are obvious examples of how things are better today- technology, etc that makes our lives easier.. but I'd still rather go back to these times of my youth and have things the way they were. Much simpler time, the world didnt seem nearly as dangerous, we actually interacted with people in person, we used our imaginations to the fullest, we played outside, got hurt, etc. I'm so thankful i grew up in the 80s, and not the new millennium.
+caesar349 seemed less dangerous
bravo
I fell the same way but mine is 70's and 80's life was,so much better back then
Commercials were SUCH a huge part of the Christmas season when I was a kid. Like the m&m's one here, coke-a-cola, hallmark, Folger's coffee, even McDonald's. These all bring back such wonderful memories!! :)
they all seemed to be a happy holidays message from the companies. Maybe now it's the same shit but it comes across as repetitive "BUY THIS, IDiOT"
The 70s we're pure heven the 80s we're pure plastic, fake boobs, big hair, and kick metal 😎😎
The Christmas commercials, the Christmas cartoon specials and who can forget Toys R Us toy catalog that came in mail. And we would circle off the toys we wanted. I miss you 80’s
I would happily trade in my smartphone, wi-fi, internet and ipods, etc. just to return to this time. I was 5 and only cared about playing with my Star Wars and He-Man toys. There is just something more wholesome and folksy about these times that is lacking today, or I should say non-existent these days.
+would26 I was in high school in 82 and felt the same way about the 70's. As did my parents about the 50's. Its not the time but your age in anytime.
+would26 I think 24 hour cable news destroyed the civility, folksy charm and happiness we used to take for granted, because it made Americans hate each other.
i miss the 80s we would always have fun and got along with everybody and played with toys and play outside with other kids todays you don't feel that magic anymore -_-
Christopher Hogan I think the internet made everyone hate each other.
Watch the new Netflix docuseries "Toys That Made Us" ... there are episodes about star wars, he-man, and gi joe.
No one got offended back then. No social media. No internet.
No cell phones or Ipads.
80's were awesome as a kid!!
People developed pictures, talked to each other on a land line, kids played games outside, and school didn't make me take so many damn tests!
Being born in the 90s, I would have loved to have lived in the 80s
people did get offended.
there were cell phones
therer were even a few digital cameras around too.
Some people today have rose tinted spex and short memories.
The SJW movement had not yet arrived though. Pretending to be loving while they bash everyone.
you are an idiot
you are just too stupid to think for yourself.
I still remember that Christmas morning when my brother and I opened up Atari. I became the master of Space Invaders in our house. Those were the good old days when life was fun and simple.
New Jack Swing 😀😀
Man.... video games with family/friends was 80% of my childhood :(
That game was so nerve racking.
I'm a techie. I love the advancements in technology. Like the ability to watch all these commercials on my phone. But as technology has advanced everything else has degraded. 77 baby here, and I miss the 80's.
This is pure comfort to me. I hate the world now. Things back then were meaningful, and cherished. It breaks my heart watching these because this world will never be like it was in the 80s
Agreed,Agreed!!
in a way, Thank God, are you forgetting about the cold war? and being a kid and wondering everyday if the world honestly was going to end that day
Noel Corriveau that was a small worry from what we have today .
This is why I love watching my old vhs tapes and DVD of shows tapes in the 70" s and 80" s. It make me forget how bad the worlds is today
i just wann be in a room full of 80s stuff and forget 2017 existed
The E.T. Game.. just in time for Christmas... Oh boy, Atari.. are you in for a rude awakening.
Little did those kids know how much they would hate ET afterwards xD
***** Wasnt that the system where you slid those plastic sheets into the controllers for each individual game? I cant believe the variety of gaming systems there were from the 1970s even through the 1990s. Now its very limited - Xbox, PS, Nintendo and PC. At least back in the day there was much more variety- granted you were taking your chances that the system may have sucked
Almost ended the video game consoles ever! fucking glitch bullshit game lol
caesar349 That was intellevision that had the slips. We owned one as kids and played boxing until our thumbs were sore
And now people are insanely interested in it again.
These commercials had a class about them that we no longer have.
The world was so different back then than it is now. Jobs especially in retail were actually good to have. Same with grocery stores. Things were made better then too. Such an awesome time the 80's.
I'd give anything to live the 80's again.... sigh.
Yes me too
The cocaine was PURE
I don't know if I'd give ANYTHING (if I were living in the 80's again, I'd be alot further away from heaven, and I'm far enough away as it is). But yea, the 80's were the best
I met the love of my life in 1982. We were the 80's. All these great things were our back drop. I see nothing promising about the crap brought to us by tech. They dont even want us as labor cause tech can do that too.
I miss those years so bad it hurts.
You said it! I hate 2016 and just want to go back.
i know i want that 80s magic back so much
vicious0111 exactly!😥
@@briangeary395 Spoiler from four years in the future: It didn't get better.
These were the last Christmas commercials my father saw. He died in 1983 when I was 19. I'd love to go back to this Christmas and hug him tight!
better commercials, better shows, better cartoons, better games, we need to move backwards and get back to the good life
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I wish we could move backwards. There are people I miss as much as the life we used to have back then.
+Christopher Dyess
Are you saying, we are DEVO?
i miss everything back then so much you can feel my pain how much i cry to see this stuff again im 33 going on 34 at the end of jan and i wann go back the way the 80s was so peaceful
really, show we lol
I was 6 at the time.
Now, as a 38 year old(!), I can't help but wonder where all the time went.
Shotz Brewery me too
It’s mind boggling and upsetting when you can remember the years like it was yesterday but can’t understand where all the time in between went
This was my time, a MUCH MUCH better time in many ways and it will never be this way again ... everything was appreciated, we waited for everything and when we got it we were grateful.
The 80's were a great time to be a kid, we had freedoms then that kids do not have anymore. Ads back in the 80's had good taste (for the most part) and connected to the people in a personal way. I can still remember waking up very early on Saturday morning to catch the first cartoons of the morning and would watch them until 11am or later, something kids do not have now unless you have cable or satellite TV which most do, but even then something with the new ones has been lost. I can still remember waiting for X-mas every year for the x-mas shows to come on, Frosty the Snowman, Charlie Brown X-mas, and more, I have not seen them on anymore. The 80's were the golden years of TV for sure, some of the best shows were on then, MacGyver, Riptide, A-Team, Airwolf, Street Hawk, etc... and even with those shows, ABC, NBC, CBS still showed movies at night, now filled with nothing sitcoms, most of which are stupid.
Things now days have to be political, and our ways are under attack. Christmas vacation is in a lot of places had to be changed to Winter Break, stores have had to change the way do things because someone may get offended, we did not have these problems back in the 80's. I am sure that kids today will think the same way I do now, that they had so many freedoms and the early 2000's were the best, and just like us kids of the 80's, our parents said the same thing, that the 50's were a great time, and I am sure each generation will always think their time was the best time to be a kid. What is all comes down to is, were you happy as a child? and if so that is all that matters, getting to be a kid, for when you become an adult, things really change and you really find out how crappy the real world is, but it is what people have made it. Thanks for the flashback of the 80's..
I hear ya. And how about the Dolly Madison snack cake commercials that accompanied the Charlie Brown specials? Ah the memories.
***** OMG, man! I thought my sister and I were the only two who always remembered the Charlie Brown CBS Special logo and then a Dolly Madison commercial almost every break!!! Awesome!
Tommy Clark They were great. Each character had their own flavor pie too. I remember not liking the Charlie Brown one because it was filled with Chocolate pudding- I preferred fruit filling.
its because we have too many channels and commercials that only talk about phones,HDTV,websites,other stuff thats trying to rip off our childhood
I remember that ice skating McDonald's commercial so well.
I was thinkin the same thing. A grown man dressed as a clown interacting with a child in that way would not fly today.
Ahh the 80s. All of my close relatives are still alive, MTV played music videos, no reality TV, sports wasn’t all about money, Hollywood put out a ton of good original movies, and the closest thing we had to Amazon was the Sears catalog.
like some here have said, wish there was a time machine to take us back. 1982 I would run so fast to my old house when I still had family, and see them all on Christmas, as if they were just waiting for me to return home....can't write no more
I hear you. Now the holiday is just a annoying blip on the calendar.
Bob Billings Did you actually see this Atari commercial on TV back then?
Monkeyland03 We were inundated with ET stuff back then. Toys, games and cereals.
***** Didn't know they had ET cereal also!
Monkeyland03 ET Cereal tasted almost identical to what Reeses Peanut Butter Puffs taste like now. It had a peanut butter taste to it. Man I miss this time.
wow I really miss those days in 1982 I was 9 years old there was so much more morals back then everything was so comfortable even the music LOL
We have weird sjw people who are white calling racemixers racist and gay people homophobic if you don't follow some commie narrative
Nothing says Christmas like the arrest of the Tylenol extortion suspect.
Wait...where are all the commercials from lawyers or law firms trying to get people to sign up for class action suits or pharmaceutical company commercials? These were so much better times. I was 5 and the world was perfect and all I needed was my crayola caddy and Star Wars toys.
I was 9 and I'm so glad I got to experience "real life and happiness ".
Dam; that's a good point!
I miss the 80s so many great memory's so many people have passed on since the 80s
I wish I was a kid in the 80s it seems much better than now
We had a blast
It was a great time defiantly .. I miss the 80's a lot.
It was a beautiful time to grow up. It was a far more innocent time.
It was a great time to br a kid in the 80"s
Best cartoons ever! Loved my Saturday mornings with my favorite ceral and a blanket on the couch I was so content.
Wow! Shelley Long doing the lamp commercial. Cool! But damn, I miss the 80s. We didn't know what a good thing we had when we had it.
Christmas of '82 actually was magical for me...at 2 years old, all i knew was joy and wonder. My family was together and the New England landscape was the Platonic Form of what Christmas is supposed to be. I echo some of the sentiments here...a time machine needs to be invented...
@Bobby Brady thank you. I was thinking the same thing.
Nobody remembers being two years old.
@Bobby Brady
Yep. I tend to agree. I can basically remember only to about 6 myself.
Happy Thanksgiving.
the 80's were last of the good decades.. im glad i lived in them
Oh my goodness!!just watching gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.Takes me back briefly to a much happier time watching this!!
it does bring back a strange feeling, but pleasant. A simpler and happier time, no doubt.
same here everytime i watch these old commercials i feel that peaceful magic all over my body again
Things were so much more happy.simple!!I wish my 2 young boys had the chance to enjoy such wonderful simpleness!!I was 10 years old in 1982..Whenever "adulting " gets to me or I just want a blast from the past..I just watch these sweet memories!! :)
i know how you feel everything was so simple and i miss that about the 80s and im glad i don't have kids i wouldnt them growing up in todays world its fucking sick i hate it i want the 80s back
I hate having my boys grow up in this day and time!But dont have much choice..
I was born in the summer of 83, so I just missed this. It's amazing to see the commercials for the video games, though. I wonder if anyone could have imagined that the video game crash was mere months away.
That ET commercial is freaking AMAZING. I've never seen such an elaborate commercial for something so infamously bad. I like to imagine that the game in Elliot's gift is Yar's Revenge. At least the poor kid could have something fun to play.
My husband found me an Odyssey 2 for Christmas last year, 32 years after these commercials would have aired. The box is pure undiluted late 70s beauty.
That McDonald's commercial gets me misty eyed every time, especially now. They aired this well into my elementary school years, and it always makes me think of Christmas, of my dad being so excited and my mom being so happy. I can almost smell the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls he used to make during the winter...
I was 9 years old when these aired. The 80s was such a great decade to be a child!
If you were 9 then, you will love the page I made this year 'American Christmas 1982' where I post all the tv specials that aired on the exact days. here is the link for you! Merry Christmas
facebook.com/AmericanChristmas1982
Matthew Laker Thanks a lot, I'll check it out.
I really want a kodak for christmas now lol jk
Out side or inside hot wheels track mind blowing
I bought my mom the check book calculator that Christmas! lol
All those ad's and not one of them advertising a web address..... Yes, those were the days.
Aus80sRockRadio and people left their houses to buy things
Imagine having to do that?!!
Or a prescription drug with 50 side effects.
Yelp those was the days .
And people actually used Landline phones and played outside
To everyone waxing nostalgia over the 1980s: I agree. I mean I was born in 1990 and yet I still get nostalgic feelings from practically everything that came out of the 1980s. The decade even made some of my favorite films, such as Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
In fact one of the very few things I actually like about the 21st century is the fact that we can sorta relive the 1980s (and 1990s) via sites such as RUclips.
I want to go back and do it all over ....The 70’s and 80’s were my decades and they were the best years of my life. America was absolutely a different place back then. It was still a treat then to get 30 cents from mom and walk uptown to the gas station to get a Coca-Cola or Pepsi or to the ice cream shop and get a CMP ice cream. We truly did not lock our doors and stayed out till after dark with our bikes and on Halloween we all went trick-or-treating without our parents at night in the cold and it was great fun.. In the summer we played outside all day and all night, The only way my mom got us home to eat was a big brass bell she had outside the sliding glass doors that she would ring to get out attention to come home for dinner. I remember wonderful 4th of July celebrations when mom took us to the ball park and we laid on blankets to watch the fireworks. And of course Christmas and even though it was tuff for my mom raising us she always made sure we had a great holiday . Even Easter was special in America back then... as we get older we started to go see the movies and we really did have the best movies. ( Jaws, Close Encounters, , Raiders of the lost Ark, James bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, planet of the apes, E.T, The terminator, The goonies, Friday the 13th, Batman, Back to the future . ...To name a few.....The TV show line up on the networks were fabulous ( this was before you get 500 channels like you do today and still nothing on is good) we had Dallas, knots Landing, Falcon crest. And every night of the week a network would compete and have for example, Monday night at the movies! Tuesday night at the movies ! and they would show a major movie release. we had real holidays were we all got together and enjoyed each other’s company. We had great stores that are all but gone now in 2020 and great movie theaters and of course the MALLS! It was not the 80’s without a Mall. My very first few jobs were at the mall. First Macdonald’s and then The Gap!. Yes sir those days were GREAT! and I am very lucky to have lived them .... today I don’t even see kids outside and everyone is in fear for saftey from crazy people.... God Bless us all ! (If you can even say that anymore)
That was all very well said!
It's sort of sad that when my kids grow up, they probably won't remember too many commercials because we usually 'skip through' them all. Loved seeing these! Forgot about the Kodak Disc.lol
Only from Atari: The videogame that single-handedly brought the home videogame industry to a a grinding halt. It's ET, the video game.
Actually that is a myth. Should check out the documentary Atari: Game Over. Was a fun watch.
The E.T. Atari was great in this commercial, great in the store, great in the box, great wrapped up under the tree. But by New Year's day I was bored with it, as I was with all my Atari games. I still have a working Atari. I should use it as a punishment for my teenage son when he gets grounded.
Yes you should.. hahaha
McDonald's always had the best commercials.
The 70's commercial was good too
old commercials are the best
Such an innocent and wholesome time. No internet and cell phone zombies. We all communicated and interacted with each other. Wishing someone Merry Christmas now has been outlawed by so many and referred to as offensive term. Yes...take me back to 1982.
I was an 80s kid also....loved the barbie commercials and I remember that pretty in pink barbie! Have a lot of happy memories from 85 and 86, when I was like 7 and 8 yrs. of age.
That M&M ad!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Also, Atari clearly spent more on the ET ad than they did on the game. My dad borrowed the game from a friend and surprised me and my brother one day. We were overjoyed and then severely disappointed in a matter of seconds. 😂
I remember the ET game frustrating the daylights out of me.
This was the year I was born. Boy with all this technolgy and fast lifestyles, the world just isnt the same. I was born too late. I would have loved to lived in the 50's,60's,70's. I cant stand the world today. I love the simplier times and miss them. Commercials like this make me cry so much, as I hate the world today.
Thanks, I am guilty of being to nostalgic. But I sometimes feel I live in the wrong generation.
***** In a way, I do feel that if you were born in the 80s, you kinda missed out on a lot of cool and interesting tv shows, commercials, music, clothes, concerts, experiences, etc. The world is a lot more sophisticated and more knowledgeable today than it was in 82 however, I think we are sadly a weaker middle class today than in 82.
***** Life is too short, but there's nothing saying nostalgia can't be part of your life. And just because something is "new" and "today" doesn't automatically mean it deserves more attention or praise. Quite the opposite. "Today" hasn't past the test of time yet.
turntableone I would argue the opposite, we have lost a lot of the sophisticated we used to have.
i miss the old days so much i hate the world we live in todays too all that magic we had is just gone
I just paused in the 3rd commercial, I just have to say...😭😭😭😭 15 minutes of nostalgia at Christmas time. Nostalgia is hard af this year.
These commercials made the season magical.
In the 80’s McDonald’s was a leader in fast food. Centered around families with good food. Their quality has gone down today. My favorite commercial “Little Sister” was a favorite of mine and to this day I can still remember the background song word for word!!
Ahh, the good 'ol days, when tv commercials were meaningful. The Christmas of '82 was one of my favorites. Television now could learn a lot from these past commercials.
Thank you for this. Right now I fall into the "In Danger Group" for this damn virus. I have emphysema AND heart disease. This reminded me of a simpler time. A time of joy and fun. Not worrying about some crazy virus that can kill possibly millions of people.
I PRAY FOR ALL THOSE OUT THERE TO BE SAFE. For those like me PLEASE BE CAREFUL. Life is so precious. Be safe and HELP EACH OTHER. PLEASE!
Goodbye to another cherished Christmas season that went by too fast. Bring on the blues. Ugh. See you in 11 months, 80s lovers!
I want my childhood back, damn it. Except with more money and a better home life this time around
Me too!
blackphoenix77 me too❤️
In 1982, I got a Castle Greyskull, a He-Man, a Skeletor, a Twin Pod Cloud Car, a Rubik's Cube, and my first wristwatch, among other things. Never again would I have a Christmas so freaking awesome. Mom and Dad, I love you forever. Rest in heavenly peace.
Notice how many times you hear the phrase "MERRY CHRISTMAS "?
A lot!
In 1982 I was 8 years old and I came to the United States from Columbia Bogota I lived in the orphanage for 7 years till I was adopted and I came to us when I was 8..❤️☝️🙏🌏
My childhood right here. And incidentally also one of my most favorite Christmas’s ever.
Wow! Mink commercials and Prayer reminders from the beef industry? Half of these commercials would probably piss someone off now.
The 60's, 70's and 80's the besth decades.
More money went into making the commercial for the ET game than into the game itself
lolz, dat et game. they made 2 comerceils from wat i can tell, and dat was worth more den da game itself 100 times over. yes they selled alot, but they also returned all of dem 2 da company. dats how bad it sucked. den da company dumped dem in a hole sumwhere in da navada desert.
@@taffypoodle7548
Hope u stay in school, because u can't spell for shit.
THE 80'S WERE INDEED THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH, WATCHING THESE CHRISTMAS COMMERCIALS AT 21 WITH HEAD FULL OF HAIR, SLENDER & YOUTHFUL, NOW BALD,WEARING GLASSES ENJOYING PEACH BRANDY !!
Back then when I was a kid in the 80s this was the coolest commercial ever
80s were the best for kids cartoons and kids commercials.youll never see anything like the 80s ever again!!!!
13:50
McDonald's said "Merry Christmas" in 1982...and no one's feelings got hurt??
Who knew??
According to my inflation calculation app, that mink would cost EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS today!!
I'll take two - lol
Back then it would buy a nice brand new 🚗car.
Thanks for the memoirs, was born in 73, it's christmas eve, just put the presents out and reliving old memories. Thanks again
I miss the 80s I want to go back in time. 😭
i miss the 80s ,
i miss the 80s too so much i want that magic feeling back again
Worked at the Sears photo shipping and development center in Connecticut. That place was awesome during the holidays. Our busy season started just before Holloween and slowed down just before New Years. It was great to see all the families who got their pictures done at the portrait studios. Overtime was plentiful and they had a party for for each holiday. Once Sears closed, that was it.
I miss the 80s. back when little boys were still encouraged to fight back when being bullied. and you and the bully were face to face on the playground not on a computer screen.
1982 my Grandparents were still around and my aunt and uncle .. I wish I could travel back in time just for Christmas ❤️
It was great you could actually say MERRY CHRISTMAS in commercials!
That E.T. commercial, and a legend is born.
I have to ween myself off the Christmas commercials for now and come back after Thanksgiving! Thanks, these commercials are priceless!
Brings back so many memories I remember seeing all the great Christmas movies and shows families in my opinion were closer back then and these were truly the last of the good ol days
Because I was 20 and in college in ‘82, I’m deeply nostalgic for that era but it has a lot more to do with my stage of life at the time than the state of the world. It’s the friends & family members who have passed that I miss most. I also miss MTV, and I miss having the energy to go out at ten pm instead of going to bed. Sheesh. The threats were true...I’ve become my parents.
I miss these times. I was in 1st grade. I remember almost all of these commercials.
I was in the 2nd grade. It feels like eons ago, doesn't it?
ha sometimes yes, and sometimes it feels like yesterday.
Vic Morrow Chick I was even older...I was headed into middle school /jr. high. Sigh.
Aww I was 9 yrs old and loved watching the Xmas specials on the telly. Frosty and Rudolph. My mum would say the same thing every Xmas " Its going to be slim pickings this year". There were 9 of us so we didnt get much in the way of prezzies but I would trade all the money I have now to go back to that time.
Loved the 80's, wouldn't trade growing up in that decade for nothing! Man i wish we could go back.
Those Were The Days of Television!!!
I am so thankful that many of these retro commercial videos are from Chicago tv!
Being 43 years old is good and at the same time sucks, especially when watching all these old commercials.
thank you for whoever put this I feel like a kid again this was the era all about being with family for the holidays. :)
VENTURE!!! OMG my mother used to take us to Venture almost every day, and while her and my sisters were off shopping, I would just roam the store as a 12 year old child playing with all the toys and stuff. When she was ready to leave, my mom would always page me over the speakers, "Tommy, your mother is waiting for you at the fruunt desk!" HAHA! Thanks for sharing these commercials.
+Tommy Clark haha Venture, yess!! do you remember Zayre? my mom always let me get fresh hot popcorn and a cherry Slurpee at Venture...do you remember smelling fresh popcorn as soon as you walked in? the whole front of the store smelled like hot buttery popcorn, what a great winter memory that is :)
It's sad that I would rather watch commercials from the 70s and 8-s than television shows of today.
I'll never forget that Christmas Saturday, 1982. I was a young security guard watching a closed warehouse, CFS Food Services right by Ohare airport. I had to do 3 twelve hour shifts in a row because I never had a relief scheduled.
5:53 Want to know why all of the comments are saying why 80’s America was better than the trash we have now?
Amen!
Amen!🙌🏽
I was 12. This hit me right smack in my croc-brain. I delivered so many papers for the Atari 2600. I still game to this day :)
as a child of the 80s and a native chicagoan, i too love these old commercials and the nostalgia--especially around the holiday season. things seemed more innocent and simple, but they really weren't...it just seemed so because most of us were kids, so our entire lives were simpler and more innocent. i'm sure kids born in 2015 will look back at the "teens" (2013-2019) as simpler, more innocent times in the year 2045...still, i miss lots about the 1980s and wish all the time i could take "time vacations" back to the early-mid 80s....even just for one day.
favorite things about the 1980s: original Shamrock Shakes, the Muppets, fat-bulb outdoor christmas lights, holiday commercials, much less school paranoia and bureaucracy, ugly holiday sweaters, Joe Montana, the good chocolate and cocoa and mint and pine smells at the Harlem-Irving Plaza during the holidays, the horse statue outside Madigan's at the HIP, no computers and internet bringing all the crazies into our lives, much less sensitivity and PC bullshit making everyone either a victim or a perpetrator, moon boots, those winter gloves that changed colors when you went outside in the cold, Dungeons & Dragons, the Real Ghostbusters, Jack Tripper shorts on girls, the Cosby Show, Mystery Funhouse.
least favorite things about the 1980s: lousy VHS and cassette tapes, no power windows or locks on cars, shoveling snow by hand, waiting in line forever with my parents at the bank, metal dental fillings, no recordable TV, haircuts that made you look like Danny from The Shining, chenille sweaters, wearing short-short gym shorts at school (Jack Tripper shorts...), Zips shoes, green corduroy pants, mustaches, Jaws 4, no GPS, the marginalization of women and ethnic groups.
favorite things about today: LED christmas lights, holiday commercials, GPS, the good chocolate and cocoa and mint and pine smells at Woodfield Mall, computers and internet giving easy access to information and other services, debit cards, sensitivity and PC bullshit helping under-represented people gain equality.
least favorite things about today: the Westboro Baptist Church, Facebook, utterly god-awful movies and TV, cell phone obsession, Obamacare, beards, for-profit education, over-medication, the marginalization of women and ethnic groups.
Just sitting here and trying to find something on television to watch,
anyway watching this RUclips commercial, kind of reminds me of being a young kid and sometime in the 1980s too.
I remember back as being a kid and we use to get those Christmas catalogs through the mail. It didn't matter if it was by Macy's, Toys r Us, Sears, KB toy store or even Kmart back then. A few of us kids use to sit out there on the porch in the freezing cold just to wait for the mailman to bring us those Christmas catalogs. so this wat we can mark them up and circle them and let our parents know which present we wanted Santa Claus to bring us.
It's hard to believe I was just 11 years old at this time and thought I couldn't wait to get grown LOL.
I was 5yrs old when these commercials aired, Which goes to show that children can remember more than we think.
Commercials in the 80s had a certain flair and for those of us who lived through those times, it's very nostalgic now.
Born in 1994 I never experienced this but I had a hint of it... I still remember some of my older siblings stuff being passed down to me & them explaining how cool it was back in the day.
Hahahahahaha that was AWESOME!!! Playing lunar lander on the Commador!!! I still have my 64!!!
Watching mom and dad play with the toys in the Aisle as they shop for Christmas presents for their kids. I often joked to my oldest child that we didn't buy these gifts for the children we bought them for us LOL
Aww the yr my lil bro was born I was just hmm10 I still consider myself a 80s child my bestest yrs were in the 80s I wished commercials were more heartfelt today
Atari was a great present for me at that Christmas. I loved playing PAC-MAN but the joy stick KILLED THE HAND. The characters went too slow. “Snoopy-snow-cone machine” was a wish on my list but never got one. Don’t see the add for them featured. Smurfs (the non computerized CGI format) was so much fun to watch every Saturday morning. Scooby-doo mysteries was also a favorite of mine. Strawberry Shortcake dolls and yarn-haired Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Jelly glitter-water bracelets, roller skates and mongoose bikes. All a part of my childhood.
I love the 80's the greatest decade ever ❤️
Oh the memories, the 80s was the best, I wish there were a time machine we could use to go back to the best times ever.
Great old commercials I had the old atari game E.T
Venture is now gone . I love the 80's
classiccommercial I feel bad for you owning E.T. the game lol
But the Atari "Venture" game kicked ass (as opposed to the ET game, which sucked ass). It was the first adventure video game ever, and it had a hidden Easter Egg too--another first!
Eastwood Unforgiven i loved the game it was a real challenge to beat it . I take E.T over PAC man any day
Full disclosure, I was off the Atari by 1982, and was spared the trauma of the ET game. I did, however, get the Intellivision Dungeons & Dragons game that Christmas, which was one of the all time greats. Many comments on here are dissing the ET commercial with words of disbelief--but as I recall, that was a highly anticipated game that season and promoted heavily! Hence the high degree of disappointment in it when it was actually played! Had it been a regular run of the mill release, it would have possibly been spared it's reputation of infamy.
What a great video. This was the last Christmas my whole family was together b4 the divorce. Nice to see things that bring me back to that period.