Born in the 90's here and i was three years old in 1996 but I still remember two things: Nintendo and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I loved the 80's animated series, still do. In my mind, my grandmother is still alive, me and my uncle are still on speaking terms and I'm still going to grandma's house for Tomb Raider and NES. RIP to my childhood. and to those we lost, may we see you again in paradise.
back about 15 years ago I sent a video tape with to a guy with a lot of these commercials on it and he sent me a video tape with some i didn't have but kinda cool to see people putting them on youtube and sharing them.
As someone that was in the computer industry back in the 70's and 80's I really enjoyed the video commercials. I worked with Atari. My brother worked for Radio Shack. A friend of ours bought a Commodre 64 in the 80's and asked me what they could do with it.
The VHS tracking and warping just adds to the nostalgia trip for me. It’s like I’m watching a taped cartoons or some other kids show and this is just a ridiculously long comercial break. AND NOW BACK TO SPIDEY AND FRIENDS.
I still have a DVD/VHS combo and I buy VHS movies when I come across them. I showed my son Batman 89 on VHS and he asked why is there all this white fuzzy stuff on the screen. I couldn't help but laugh and tell him that's just the way it was back then.
@Dave Freeman- Thx for this man. No idea how long this would take. But you got my respect. Here, have a like and a jingle. Oh, falcon from gameranx brought me here. "I didn't wanna grow up, I was a young eighties kid. There wasn't any hype back then, like the crap we deal with. Where games were games, no bans for your name. Companies proud of what they did." "I didn't ever grow up, because if I did. I wouldn't be able to pwn my own kids."
I played it as a kid, and it was bad back then. You have to collect phone pieces in order to get back on the spaceship, and that was it. Not a great game. “Pac-Man” was one example of a bad 2600 game, and it was fun to play.
I love these kinds of commercials, they show both gaming and home computers in their early stages of reaching the main stream. I've never lived in a time without home computers or the internet for that matter, so the idea of these machines touting having a word programs included is pretty funny. And all of the odd console peripherals, it's just something you don't see these days!
Not a super new video, but I got this link from Gameranx today. By a fun coincidence, I was feeling nostalgic and was literally planning on typing in 'old video game commercials' after I finished watching that particular video, but then they referred to this video, and I'm like, "Heck yeah! Happenstance!" Thanks for the compilation!
This is a great video, thank you very much to all involved to getting it to a place we can see it. There are so many great machines listed here, it's amazing that you could have all of them emulated on your phone now. Not a gripe, but are silly observation the Commodore 64 in the other section? That had William Shatner advertising it 😜 Seriously though it's great being able to look at these videos most I didn't see at the time so it's great to be able to get the chance to see them. Thank you. Now I can simulate the experience, watch the videos on RUclips, and then play the games on emulators on my laptop. The closest to having all the computers which for me wouldn't be practically possible. P.S. Nice Ending 😂
I had both the 2600 and later, the 5200, and I still preferred going to the arcade because of the better graphics... When the Nintendo Gaming System came out in 1986, then it was a different story...
I remember playing Atari when I was a kid at friends. I never once wanted an Atari system even though I liked it a lot. When the Nes came out I remember wanting that but got a Sega Master System instead.
Holy shit i didnt know atari put so much marketing material. My father bought me an atati when i was like 7 from a storage auction or something, it was not even new but it introduce me into video games. Good times it is probably around there somewhere
Yea they were masters at marketing. Partly why the videogame bust happened. It all looked amazing on the boxart and commercials, however 8/10 times the games were complete garbage. Thank God Nintendo and Sega hit the reset button.
This was back in the day where majority of people had like 6 channels on their tv & the video gamw market was really small & geared towards kids. I grew up in the 80's...I don't know who watched all those commercials. I has no cable & like 4-6 channels. So a lot of things I didn't get to see like so many.
“Amidar” was based on a fairly successful arcade game. Imo, Amidar for the Atari 2600 was decent. The game that ushered in the crash, overwhelming, was Pac-Man. To be honest though, the crash was eventually going to happen, regardless. Everyone bought into the 2600 - but, it was antiquated by 1981.
Your ADAM is now planning to take over the world. It plans to do this by using a dial up connection to steal enough money to buy every other ADAM available on EBay. Once accomplished, all the ADAMS will join together to form a supercomputer....kind of like an early smartphone.
I never realized the kids in the et Christmas commercial were the two kids from the movie, so in another timeline et came back to Elliot on Christmas with a game he built himself
1980's: Atari creates ET and nearly sinks the entire gaming industry. Ends up in a landfill. Late 2010's: EA gets the license to Star Wars games, Bioware creates Anthem, and Bethesda creates Fallout 76. All of them make ET seem like a work of art. Cannot put these games in a landfill due to how toxic landfills would become. I wish companies would remember that garbage games do sink ships. Because if ET deserved a landfill, EA deserves to be the Titanic!!!!
But you had to be pretty talented, as I think a lot of early games were written in assembly. Perhaps some developers used cross compilers, so you could write in C, and produce 6502 code on a computer that was not a 6502. Be interesting if anyone saved old assembler code from these old games. Of course it's possible in some cases people didn't even have assemblers, I can't imagine how much work it would be to hand code machine language.
that pitfall 2 commercial is what made me bug my mom to get it for my birthday man that game was fun, well actually I still play it kinda lame but still fun for me after all these years :).
Videogames have really advanced since the 80's. Now these look like simple blips that couldn't possibly interest us. So....does that mean video games just keep on advancing until they become indistinguishable to real life? And if so, does that mean we are IN a video game right now?
@@randoarchive It's okay. Almost all the people are just NPCs (Sims) generated by the Matrix. They are programmed to ignore any proof that we are in a Matrix. It's called 'blinding' and it keeps them calm.
Born in the 90's here and i was three years old in 1996 but I still remember two things:
Nintendo and
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I loved the 80's animated series, still do.
In my mind, my grandmother is still alive, me and my uncle are still on speaking terms and I'm still going to grandma's house for Tomb Raider and NES.
RIP to my childhood. and to those we lost, may we see you again in paradise.
back about 15 years ago I sent a video tape with to a guy with a lot of these commercials on it and he sent me a video tape with some i didn't have but kinda cool to see people putting them on youtube and sharing them.
As someone that was in the computer industry back in the 70's and 80's I really enjoyed the video commercials. I worked with Atari. My brother worked for Radio Shack. A friend of ours bought a Commodre 64 in the 80's and asked me what they could do with it.
Good old radio shack...
Just got an email notification from Atari pop up on my screen just as I was reading this comment!
The VHS tracking and warping just adds to the nostalgia trip for me. It’s like I’m watching a taped cartoons or some other kids show and this is just a ridiculously long comercial break.
AND NOW BACK TO SPIDEY AND FRIENDS.
Yes it was. I missed the days of VHS tapes. The tracking and damaging parts are part of the “Creepypasta” phenomenon.
I still have a DVD/VHS combo and I buy VHS movies when I come across them. I showed my son Batman 89 on VHS and he asked why is there all this white fuzzy stuff on the screen. I couldn't help but laugh and tell him that's just the way it was back then.
Love the toys r us commercials, brings back so many memories, grew up in the Nintendo era though
Go to 7:51 with captions you are going to see something great :)
+Monica Del Rio Now that is freaking hilarious!!!
Penis, hilarious.
LMAO
The golden age of video game advertising. Great upload.
This was awesome to look back on and relive parts of my childhood. Thank you very much for uploading this.
Toys-R-Us.. RIP childhood.. ;.;
Still here in Canada never changed
You have no idea how jealous I am.
Their planning to make a comeback in the U.S. Google it
Nintendo:
Established 1886...
Re-established 2017.
TheRetroDudeAbides it’s going to make a comeback in the next year or so!
12:16 - Phil Hartman! I remember this commercial but didn't know he was in it.
Oh so it is!!! Nice Find!
Until his wife shot and killed him.
41:40 Kevin. call your mother!
Gamerynx brought me here
I see your a man of culture
Kid kancer 655 Yes indeed
Timber04 The best same 😂
tivolidream I see your a man of culture as well
Kid kancer 655 I see you don't know how to spell.
This is beautiful! What a wonderful time capsule!
3:09 That for now really hit different when you know what happens 2 years later lmao
@Dave Freeman- Thx for this man. No idea how long this would take. But you got my respect. Here, have a like and a jingle. Oh, falcon from gameranx brought me here.
"I didn't wanna grow up, I was a young eighties kid.
There wasn't any hype back then, like the crap we deal with.
Where games were games, no bans for your name.
Companies proud of what they did."
"I didn't ever grow up, because if I did.
I wouldn't be able to pwn my own kids."
80s Boy: YOU CAN SHOT IN 4-DIRECTIONS!!!!
other 80s boy: THE WALL THE WALL!!!!
0:39 Atari 2600
24:31 Atari 5200
29:16 Atari 7800
30:21 Atari 8-Bit Family
35:07 Intellivision
40:17 ColecoVision
50:26 Odyssey 2
51:32 Other systems
I actually owned E.T. and I had a blast playing it.
👌👍
Great Commercial, im sure they made Millions
Wow
I played it as a kid, and it was bad back then. You have to collect phone pieces in order to get back on the spaceship, and that was it. Not a great game. “Pac-Man” was one example of a bad 2600 game, and it was fun to play.
Not even close to the worst game ever made. So tired of that line. It’s a very in depth game for it’s time.
"which means when you play it on an Atari Home Video Game system, you'll get amazing graphics"
ah yes, a time when those were graphics
the good old days. love the 80s
I love these kinds of commercials, they show both gaming and home computers in their early stages of reaching the main stream. I've never lived in a time without home computers or the internet for that matter, so the idea of these machines touting having a word programs included is pretty funny. And all of the odd console peripherals, it's just something you don't see these days!
Not a super new video, but I got this link from Gameranx today. By a fun coincidence, I was feeling nostalgic and was literally planning on typing in 'old video game commercials' after I finished watching that particular video, but then they referred to this video, and I'm like, "Heck yeah! Happenstance!" Thanks for the compilation!
the world is going to shit so this video makes me happy. reminds me of a happier time
wow this was brilliant to watch now at 45 years old
I might show this to my 50 year old mom then!
thanks for sharing Dave Freeman
2:41 My Favourite bit
That was great!!! Still have most of those systems and computers
4:16 The Yar / Asteroid commercial is a distillate of the 'Fear of Acting Like a Douche Bag Around Girls' fear.
thanks for the video.thanks for the video, it brings back fond memories.
Thanks for sending us back into time!
dude.. i diddnt know i needed this. but i did
This is a great video, thank you very much to all involved to getting it to a place we can see it. There are so many great machines listed here, it's amazing that you could have all of them emulated on your phone now.
Not a gripe, but are silly observation the Commodore 64 in the other section? That had William Shatner advertising it 😜
Seriously though it's great being able to look at these videos most I didn't see at the time so it's great to be able to get the chance to see them. Thank you.
Now I can simulate the experience, watch the videos on RUclips, and then play the games on emulators on my laptop.
The closest to having all the computers which for me wouldn't be practically possible.
P.S. Nice Ending 😂
Anyone else notice the boy from E.T. at 37:11?
It's pretty interesting especially Intellivision how they directly bashed the competition that doesn't seem to be a thing any more
Alan Alda selling computers?!? 33:00 Loved Atari. Those were the days.
Very nice video!
This is the best hour of my life
If i had a time machine I would travel back to the golden years of video games and relive
by playing the games and consoles that I missed out on.
The delerion will be pulling into your driveway anytime now
You can do that now by buying old consoles with original games. Or play roms on a PC or ever drive.
Atari 2600 remains my favorite game system, it has been ever since Christmas 1978!
Lol thats awesome dude. Wish my dad never sold his. He sold it for cheap in the local paper like 25yrs ago. Lol
#TheBannonoosguyRebelX
also I wish I never sold my gameboy it would be cool to show my kids some day
Great thing about these old consoles is they still work 40 years later.
Mario Bros Atari ad just predicted Mario is Missing (the game)
:( miss the 80's so much...
Yeah I keep hearing it was a simpler time.
I loved chopper command and river raid lol
I had both the 2600 and later, the 5200, and I still preferred going to the arcade because of the better graphics... When the Nintendo Gaming System came out in 1986, then it was a different story...
I remember playing Atari when I was a kid at friends. I never once wanted an Atari system even though I liked it a lot. When the Nes came out I remember wanting that but got a Sega Master System instead.
“Here’s Pac-Man on Colecovision”.....hilarious! Atari insulted their own game!
The 80s were the golden days of video games
Hunter Lane your stupid to think that
Paxton Rollag no
not sure, since rockstar is not yet there,
DukeSchnauzer yes because they were just arcade game golden age was probably the PS3/360 gen
Paxton Rollag nope
Holy shit i didnt know atari put so much marketing material. My father bought me an atati when i was like 7 from a storage auction or something, it was not even new but it introduce me into video games. Good times it is probably around there somewhere
Yea they were masters at marketing. Partly why the videogame bust happened. It all looked amazing on the boxart and commercials, however 8/10 times the games were complete garbage. Thank God Nintendo and Sega hit the reset button.
This was back in the day where majority of people had like 6 channels on their tv & the video gamw market was really small & geared towards kids. I grew up in the 80's...I don't know who watched all those commercials. I has no cable & like 4-6 channels. So a lot of things I didn't get to see like so many.
Without a doubt the most repeated word in this compilation is ARCADE.
You can really see that 80s game collapse a game where you play rounds as a gorilla and a paint roller
“Amidar” was based on a fairly successful arcade game.
Imo, Amidar for the Atari 2600 was decent. The game that ushered in the crash, overwhelming, was Pac-Man. To be honest though, the crash was eventually going to happen, regardless. Everyone bought into the 2600 - but, it was antiquated by 1981.
The coleco Adam was our family’s first pc, sigh, what a memorable paperweight.!😅
Your ADAM is now planning to take over the world. It plans to do this by using a dial up connection to steal enough money to buy every other ADAM available on EBay. Once accomplished, all the ADAMS will join together to form a supercomputer....kind of like an early smartphone.
I don't know why the Pac-Man 2600 got so much hate. I loved playing it. It helped me ace the arcade version.
I wanna go back in time and show the people from these commercials a new gen game lol on the switch and see their reaction
Finally commcerials that I like to see!!xD
This is awesome, thanks for the memories!!
I never realized the kids in the et Christmas commercial were the two kids from the movie, so in another timeline et came back to Elliot on Christmas with a game he built himself
Ah Missle Command. In the late 70s/early 80s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was so high that it even seeped into gaming at the time.
Friend of mine had voice add on for intellivision. Intellivision had some fun games as I recall, for the time.
When 90% of the game processing power was your imagination. Thank god I'm 40 now and we have what we have now
This was 3 years ago & the PS5 isn't out yet..Now it's out along with the Xbox Series X.
Gameranx brought me here and to be honest, falcon knows the good stuff
"High Quality"
You won't be able to find better. The quality is pretty impressive on most of these. Not like they had HD digital recording back then.
This is literally as good as it gets.
Lol the chopper command commercial was good
I was that kid who got ET for Christmas… And I was like WTF LOL
Thanks falcon
1980's: Atari creates ET and nearly sinks the entire gaming industry. Ends up in a landfill.
Late 2010's: EA gets the license to Star Wars games, Bioware creates Anthem, and Bethesda creates Fallout 76. All of them make ET seem like a work of art. Cannot put these games in a landfill due to how toxic landfills would become.
I wish companies would remember that garbage games do sink ships. Because if ET deserved a landfill, EA deserves to be the Titanic!!!!
If I had access to the original source video, I could straighten right up with my Magnavox DVD recorder.
Love the early days of video games, it takes only a couple of months and one programmer to make a game.
But you had to be pretty talented, as I think a lot of early games were written in assembly. Perhaps some developers used cross compilers, so you could write in C, and produce 6502 code on a computer that was not a 6502. Be interesting if anyone saved old assembler code from these old games. Of course it's possible in some cases people didn't even have assemblers, I can't imagine how much work it would be to hand code machine language.
that pitfall 2 commercial is what made me bug my mom to get it for my birthday man that game was fun, well actually I still play it kinda lame but still fun for me after all these years :).
Im still trying to figure out how they fit all 5 kbs on that Atari Game Chip.
Imagine Christmas time you open your gift and get a Atari 2600 while every other kid on your block was getting Nintendos and Sega Master systems.
Yeah that would suck of that had happened to me. Luckily I got a Sega Master system.
9:59 O NO NO NONOOOO OO!
That Vangaurd commercial tho 😂😂
Awsome video :D
25:05 Did Atari just roast itself?
Is the narrator at 6:17 the voice of F.L.U.D.D from Super Mario Sunshine.
Back when games didn't require microtransactions, dlc, and season passes.
You could be talking the PS2 era when you say back in the day.
9:14 This was the game that destroyed Atari.
One of many garbage games that sealed their fate.
Videogames have really advanced since the 80's. Now these look like simple blips that couldn't possibly interest us. So....does that mean video games just keep on advancing until they become indistinguishable to real life? And if so, does that mean we are IN a video game right now?
Please delete this comment. They're not supposed to know that.
@@randoarchive It's okay. Almost all the people are just NPCs (Sims) generated by the Matrix. They are programmed to ignore any proof that we are in a Matrix. It's called 'blinding' and it keeps them calm.
Wow Yars Revenge was the fucking best commercial I have ever seen
ty
buy coleco vision and make "two kids happy". the girl gets a cabbage patch kid and the boy gets the coleco vision. what a marketing strategy.
0:44
Start of video
I love River Raid game
Kinect advert at 5:00 ahead of the time lol
Star Trek kid at 23:01 looks so much like Will Byers!
26:10. Makes me laugh for some reason.
Listen I know I’m not from the 70s 80s or 90s but I really like how it was back then I don’t know I just really like the 80s style
Yeah theres just something about it thats just so fascinating to watch
The E.T. Atari commercial is cool 😍
I thought I had seen nearly every 2600 commercial until I watched this
FUCKING LOVE THE 2600. Great times,great games. Never see the like of those days again.
Remember Activision's Plaque Attack, keystone Kapers and Frostbite??
Yeah you are right. You won't see those days again. Now you have a lot more options.
What happened to the advertised 2600 “voice module “?
I would kill for one weekend in 1989 with cable TV and a Blockbuster card.
There is a Reese Peanut Butter Cup commercial is not a video game commercial since I saw this mistake.
That Joust commercial is better than the game.
Aww the keyboard attachment isn't available till 1981? I hate waiting☹️
Welcome to the first episode of *where quarantine has brought us today*
So, is this an hour-long special episode, or is it a standard 45 minute episode with 15 minute commercial intervals? :D
The Reese peanut butter cups is not the video game commercial, in case you do not understand.
Maaaaaario where aaare you?!
1982 i was 3 years old (october 4 years old)
39:48
Burger Time
Where Are [CLOSED] NOW!!