It's hard to describe to youngsters just how big video games were in the very early eighties. I can remember my dad taking me to the arcades in 1980 and you had everybody from every walk of life playing these games. It was a magical time for sure.
I started gaming in the 90’s and even tho now, many years later, I look at the old games I used to play and am like wtf did I love this,? I still love the memories and of course, I loved the games , at the time. I remember owning a comaddor 64 and it played games from a cassette tape and you could copy a game, using twin cassette recorder. Games was super cheap. Then sega master system 2 with Alex the kid. Then Super Nintendo with Mario and street fighter 2 and so many more consoles and great games. I actually think that out of all the old games, Street Fighter 2 on Super Nintendo, still looks decent.
Yep I remember the joy of going to the arcades. These days kids have entire arcades available to them with the touch of a finger tip. Game Pass for Xbox is pretty wild - 100s of games available for what $10? Damn lol
Just finding cheats and help having to use a magazine scan quickly put it back lol hoping u didn't get caught unwrapping a mag if it was in the plastic now just pull out ur phone
@@jamiesplinter8758 I'm sure you'll almost that going in the shop to look at the magazine and then running outside to write down what you remembered on a piece of paper was more exciting
@@brianmeen2158 Agreed but there is a world of difference in the overall experience - the Arcades were so cool . The early 80's was prime time - & you still had a smattering of electromechanical games as well .
@@moonchild666 well rik was brilliant as he'd say from Kevin Turvey to Richie Richard and everyone in between that it doesn't surprise me that he did the ad's it just invades me at to why I don't remember seeing them
@Big Daddi As I posted elsewhere, it makes me wonder if, at the age we were, we were so focused on the tech that we just "forgot" it was Rik? The penthouse walk into the window is priceless! 🤣
That advert only mentioned two stores (Plymouth and Poole), both are near me in SW England so presumably it was localised pricing. I suspect they were trying to undercut the price everyone else was selling it at (probably £129.99)
Thank you so much for putting this together. Back when ads were whacky and sold you the product. Reminds me of a time of vintage WWF, Lego, HeroQuest, Gamesmaster and Crystal Maze! 👍🏻
Interesting how virtually every ad is a live action skit with maybe a couple of seconds at most of the actual game. I suppose companies felt that showing the games on their own isn’t enough to sell them with how simple the graphics were.
03:12 - Atari at Debenham's - "The fabulous ET" was such a complete flop that thousands of deadstock cartridges were buried in a landfill to get rid of them. Some people thought this was just an urban legend, until the burial site was found, a few years ago.
Dad got us a Commodore 64, and we mostly used it to play Epyx Jumpman (I got really good at it, killing 3 joysticks in the process) and Frogger. When we got a better computer, the C64 and all its peripherals were carefully packed in a box and stored in the basement. They were sold in the contents sale, before the house was demolished in 2021.
Thanks . I was 12 in 1980 - we Gen X were the vanguard of video gamers - God I loved arcades . Whitley Bay - my home town had a great selection inc SI , Defender , Phoenix , Astro Blaster ( " _Pilots needed in Galaxy Wars. Play Astro Blaster_ " , Scramble , Rally-X , Bomb Jack , Paper Boy , Galaxians etc etc etc . Now , they have been demolished - only 2 remain - full of those ghastly ticket redemption 'games' , coin pushers & fruit machines - dismal !
I probably played on some of the same arcade machines as you. My family are from that area and we used to go up to visit for every Summer holiday. Whitley Bay was my favourite destination - Spanish City was marvellous! 😁
Oooofff. Memories flooding back now ...... I think that toys r us advert for the mega drive with sonic is what convinced my mum to buying us our first games console ..... We had an Amiga but I don't really remember us going and getting it as such...... But I'm sure went to toys r us to get the mega drive deal but got a better one with a few others games aswell......and my love for street's of rage began lol Great video as always Thanks for the content
@@RetroSteveUK fair play if I remember correctly we eventually had lemmings and a blues brothers game for the Amiga that i loved and possibly a R-type game or a game pretending to be R-TYPE game But maybe I'm getting confused with the early pc games....gotta say I have been on some deep binge dives on you content and thanks for the work you do making these compilations and keeping the audio quality better than when they originally played on TV
Oh the memories! Or the adjacent memories they prompt - I've never played _Jungle Hunt_ , but, boy, did that advert make me think of the cannibals in _The Secret of Monkey Island_ series. Ah, the Amiga. I loved all of the educational use I put mine to. Like _Monkey Island_ . I mean, 17th century pirates, the Caribbean, making a deal with Stan for the ship, sword fights - that's history, geography, economics and PE right there, just like school...
What's kind of sad is that this was a golden age of game advertising, especially remembering the Sega and Nintendo ones. Can you imagine a big overseas company like Nintendo going out of their way to specifically create a regional relevant advert just for our market staring Rik Mayall of all people these days? Now you'd get a generic advert for the entire world just dubbed for that specific region.
Me neither, but you have to say that the combination of Morecambe and Wise, plus Atari, plus the washed-out brown colour scheme is a veritable time machine back to the 1980s.
"An amiga can make such a difference to a child´s education"..... "MUUUUM I NEED AN AMIGA FOR SCHOOL!!!1" and guess what happened: I only used it to play games.
7:52 - I got so excited when I seen this as the thumbnail image for this video. I would genuinely and happily spend £126.94 right now to buy a megadrive and a load of games. That's pretty much the price of a retropie anyway!
@@jordskates I have a demo video somewhere in the depths of this channel. I'll just look it up ... Here it is: ruclips.net/video/B26jTFySFw0/видео.html
i miss the off the rails, trippy, psychotic, bonkers aesthetic of 90s broadcasting. nowdays everything is stale in comparison. i want a time machine :( dont care if that makes me a boomer, rather that than now
Bathing in nostalgia ^_^. Remember to triple all these prices for inflation. e.g the Gameboy in the 90's was £70, that's around £200 in current money, the same as a Switch Lite.
The first thing I was pretty much brought up on was the Sega mega drive but I can vaguely remember my brother having the commodore 64. I just remember the numbers slowly moving up to the next one not having a clue what a number it had to stop on by the time the game would come on. I remember I loved watching him play the Dizzy games
Fab ads Steve! 👏👍 shame there werent a Tomb Raider ad. The super nintendo was boss loved it! Then playstation 1 mega boss i lived on Tomb Raider ever since 96 god i was 31 back then 😳 some wud say to old . .not me! I love games still at 57😇😖🤣
Yes my school had 2 of them Acorn computers delivered on a Monday. I left that Friday. Never used a computer for the next 40yrs. Hence I am a complete Techno Phoebe. Unlike the youngsters of today of course.
I remember playing SF2 on the PAL SNES 50hz. Boy was it slow and terrible. During that time I went over to Canada where my cousins had it. Full 60Hz. Simply amazing. We used to stay up all night.
I almost bought a SNES on shop credit when SFII came out. I was at college on a part-time job wage so couldn't really afford it. In hindsight I'm glad I didn't take on the debt, but feel I missed out on the SFII experience.
This video actually, kind of, answered a question I had for a long time. I've seen lots of UK commercials and I always wondered, "When did the UK start using computer brands/models that weren't specifically UK only?" That Packard Bell ad was, I think, the first one specifically I've seen where it wasn't a model that I had to google to learn about it. I had one of the first Game Boys and I'm curious if it was just as much "battery eater" in the UK as it was in the US. You got maybe a day or two of play before the batteries went dead when I used mine.
a day or 2 sounds about the same here in the uk. quickly moved to a dc battery pack when i got a gameboy. AA / AAA batteries get expensive at that rate
I still think I was the only kid that had a Acorn Electron. A huge range of games for it. Not. I had Bullseye and a very strange football game, can’t even remember what it was called.
My best friend at middle school had an Acorn. He had a handful of games. The only one I really remember now is a Donkey Kong clone called Killer Gorilla.
I had one friend who had an Electron, but it never really made it, did it? (Unlike the BBC Micros, which I first used in primary school and were still to be seen in my high school in the late 90s). If anyone's interested in the history of Sinclair, Acorn and the BBC Micro, the BBC's _Micro Men_ film is worth checking out. It comes with most of the caveats of any "based on a true story" sort of drama, but it's very entertaining and hugely nostalgic.
I've seen that. I really enjoyed it. A mate of mine at school had an Electron. It had some nice games, but was ultimately a cheaper, cut-down version of the BBC B.
I miss my Commodore Amiga 600 from 29 years ago. 😩 I had a Packard Bell PC like the one at 10:00. Bought in 2001 but less powerful than the one featured. It replaced a Tiny PC I bought a year earlier which unfortunately got fried in a power surge during lightning. Had to claim off my parents' home contents insurance to replace it.
Did you ever play around with music trackers on your Amiga? I recently discovered a free program that recreates the old Amiga trackers. If you're interested it's called MilkyTracker - easily found with a Google search.
0:58 "Colecovision graphics shown". Lol, let's just show our competitors version, which is visually more impressive. It reminds me of the Commodore C64 days, when you'd pick up a game like Street Fighter 2, the back of the box showed the arcade version. You'd think wow it looks really good and then reality hits like a ton of bricks.
I remember playing the original Gameboy in some Dept store, Debenhams I think. The whole display unit was linked to a TV/Monitor. The Gameboy never had an output. How did that work? Someone should do a tech video explaining that? Just a thought....
@@RetroSteveUK Still would be interesting to see how it was connected, the wiring and all the stuff that goes with it. Just all the technical back end stuff.
I find it crazy that people complain about the prices of games these days - if you compare them to the price / quality of a games cartridge 30-40 years ago you're getting an absolute bargain! We've really come a long way in my lifetime!
Definitely. I remember when games first started getting expensive. I used to buy games for my Speccy for £1.99p to £9.99p (maximum). When I got a Sega Master System I struggled to save for games as they were £25. It was a bit of a culture shock.
Actually there were places that sold them cheap back then. There was a shop in Liverpool called What Everyone Wants where you could buy Sega games for about £16.99 where the usual price was about £34 (this was about 92/93). Just a pity I never knew about this shop at the time as I probably would've bought my games from there instead of forking out nearly 40 quid of my birthday or Xmas money lol.
No you are not "getting a bargain". And this argument absolutely baffles and does my head in. For one thing, the cost of the game back then was mostly down to the fact of the medium they were made on. Cartridges back then cost an absolute fortune to produce, and that doesn't even include the chips used in them, which were equally as expensive for the publishers to use. Whenever games switched over to CD in the 32-bit era, the price of the games dropped like a stone for a few years until publishers got greedy again and ramped the RRP back up to the standard of 4-50 pound. When the N64 released and Nintendo stuck with carts, why do you think its games actually went up to £60-70 when new games on the PS1 cost almost half of that when new? If anything, games were ridiculously expensive then, and actually should have become cheaper as physical media is no longer needed to mass produce them. Its just pure greed that keeps the prices what they are now.
UK Industry Timeline: 1980 - 1982: Atari VCS/2600. 1983 - 1987: Computer boom. 1988 - 1990: Sega Master System. 1991 - 1994: Sonic was EVERYWHERE! 1995 and onwards: PlayStation dominates.
It's hard to describe to youngsters just how big video games were in the very early eighties. I can remember my dad taking me to the arcades in 1980 and you had everybody from every walk of life playing these games. It was a magical time for sure.
I started gaming in the 90’s and even tho now, many years later, I look at the old games I used to play and am like wtf did I love this,? I still love the memories and of course, I loved the games , at the time. I remember owning a comaddor 64 and it played games from a cassette tape and you could copy a game, using twin cassette recorder. Games was super cheap. Then sega master system 2 with Alex the kid. Then Super Nintendo with Mario and street fighter 2 and so many more consoles and great games. I actually think that out of all the old games, Street Fighter 2 on Super Nintendo, still looks decent.
Yep I remember the joy of going to the arcades. These days kids have entire arcades available to them with the touch of a finger tip. Game Pass for Xbox is pretty wild - 100s of games available for what $10? Damn lol
Just finding cheats and help having to use a magazine scan quickly put it back lol hoping u didn't get caught unwrapping a mag if it was in the plastic now just pull out ur phone
@@jamiesplinter8758 I'm sure you'll almost that going in the shop to look at the magazine and then running outside to write down what you remembered on a piece of paper was more exciting
@@brianmeen2158 Agreed but there is a world of difference in the overall experience - the Arcades were so cool . The early 80's was prime time - & you still had a smattering of electromechanical games as well .
I'm 56 and i don't remember Rik Mayall doing any of these adverts especially the fact he did Zelda, that's mind blowing
Same, and I'd consider myself a Rik fan boy. Hard to believe.
@@moonchild666 well rik was brilliant as he'd say from Kevin Turvey to Richie Richard and everyone in between that it doesn't surprise me that he did the ad's it just invades me at to why I don't remember seeing them
@Big Daddi As I posted elsewhere, it makes me wonder if, at the age we were, we were so focused on the tech that we just "forgot" it was Rik? The penthouse walk into the window is priceless! 🤣
I remember them and im 57 😳🤣
@@carolined668 damn one more year and I'd probably remember too 😆
“And the fabulous ET” didn’t age very well 😂
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, that was the golden age of gaming for me
Same for me
Lot of love for the talented and incomparable Rik Mayall in the comments. WOOF!
Can't believe Nintendo got Nigel Mansell for an advert.
Mad eh
He did a game for Gremlin too
Toys R us ad was golden, Bizarre pricing for the mega drive though £126.94.
That advert only mentioned two stores (Plymouth and Poole), both are near me in SW England so presumably it was localised pricing. I suspect they were trying to undercut the price everyone else was selling it at (probably £129.99)
I miss rik mayall he was funny and brilliant R.I.P
man understood the bigger picture of how this world works.
I was a hardcore 80s/90s gamer, this nostalgia is blowing my mind, thanks again squire 👍
Thank you so much for putting this together. Back when ads were whacky and sold you the product. Reminds me of a time of vintage WWF, Lego, HeroQuest, Gamesmaster and Crystal Maze! 👍🏻
The Nigel Mansell World Championship advert is a joy to behold, utterly brilliant.
agreed rik mayal amazing. utter joy to see his take on adverts
I love these classic ads. Always got me so excited for the latest console or game! I now have all the consoles in these adverts. Love it 😍
eBay, amiright? 😉
All mine are on MiSTer!
@@SproutyPottedPlant what's that?
@@adammelvin4753 It's like emulation, but in hardware, using a field programmable gate array.
@@RetroSteveUK oh OK, thank you. Sounds pretty cool. I'm a big fan of emulation but I also love the original hardware and feel of the controllers.
A Superb Completion of a Future Past...
I remember getting my Sega Mega Drive for Christmas in 1992....It was a very big present for someone my age....nine years old....
Think that was the year I got,it came with Altered Beast!
Interesting how virtually every ad is a live action skit with maybe a couple of seconds at most of the actual game. I suppose companies felt that showing the games on their own isn’t enough to sell them with how simple the graphics were.
I was born in 1972 so remember all of this. I do miss Rik Mayall in ads such a cool funny guy.
The bbc basic is a true classic remembered these in school
Grannies Garden
Brilliant , Rik Mayal 😂
So many memories! I had a game called Enduro on the Atari which I never managed to get past the 2nd stage!
I loved my Amiga 500 though!
me too. it was so much ahead of its time
Somehow, Morecambe and Wise and Atari's Missile Command are two things that you just can't compute putting together
Dixons
So youre the one lol
The fabulous ET….
God I miss the bloody 90s
03:12 - Atari at Debenham's - "The fabulous ET" was such a complete flop that thousands of deadstock cartridges were buried in a landfill to get rid of them. Some people thought this was just an urban legend, until the burial site was found, a few years ago.
If I remember correctly, they buried some in the desert in the US.
2.6 million copies were sold, and roughly 700,000 were reportedly sent back.
Dad got us a Commodore 64, and we mostly used it to play Epyx Jumpman (I got really good at it, killing 3 joysticks in the process) and Frogger. When we got a better computer, the C64 and all its peripherals were carefully packed in a box and stored in the basement. They were sold in the contents sale, before the house was demolished in 2021.
Thanks . I was 12 in 1980 - we Gen X were the vanguard of video gamers - God I loved arcades . Whitley Bay - my home town had a great selection inc SI , Defender , Phoenix , Astro Blaster ( " _Pilots needed in Galaxy Wars. Play Astro Blaster_ " , Scramble , Rally-X , Bomb Jack , Paper Boy , Galaxians etc etc etc . Now , they have been demolished - only 2 remain - full of those ghastly ticket redemption 'games' , coin pushers & fruit machines - dismal !
I probably played on some of the same arcade machines as you. My family are from that area and we used to go up to visit for every Summer holiday. Whitley Bay was my favourite destination - Spanish City was marvellous! 😁
I’m so happy that the Amiga 500 mini is back
Oooofff. Memories flooding back now ......
I think that toys r us advert for the mega drive with sonic is what convinced my mum to buying us our first games console .....
We had an Amiga but I don't really remember us going and getting it as such......
But I'm sure went to toys r us to get the mega drive deal but got a better one with a few others games aswell......and my love for street's of rage began lol
Great video as always
Thanks for the content
My Amiga was a Kays catalogue order. Paid for it over two years. £500 was a lot of money at age 16. I had a part time cleaning job at the time.
@@RetroSteveUK fair play if I remember correctly we eventually had lemmings and a blues brothers game for the Amiga that i loved and possibly a R-type game or a game pretending to be R-TYPE game
But maybe I'm getting confused with the early pc games....gotta say I have been on some deep binge dives on you content and thanks for the work you do making these compilations and keeping the audio quality better than when they originally played on TV
@@liamgraer9594 You know, it's good to hear when someone really is getting something out of my stuff. Thanks for that. 😊
Rik Mayall ❤️
Ooooh, that ET Atari game mention...I think we all know how that turned out 😉
Who knew Rick Mayal did so many Nintendo adverts. Also toys are us still slaps.
Nice to see these 👌
Oh the memories! Or the adjacent memories they prompt - I've never played _Jungle Hunt_ , but, boy, did that advert make me think of the cannibals in _The Secret of Monkey Island_ series. Ah, the Amiga. I loved all of the educational use I put mine to. Like _Monkey Island_ . I mean, 17th century pirates, the Caribbean, making a deal with Stan for the ship, sword fights - that's history, geography, economics and PE right there, just like school...
An enormous 64kb memory lol, I remember my Amstrad 464 with a green screen
What's kind of sad is that this was a golden age of game advertising, especially remembering the Sega and Nintendo ones. Can you imagine a big overseas company like Nintendo going out of their way to specifically create a regional relevant advert just for our market staring Rik Mayall of all people these days? Now you'd get a generic advert for the entire world just dubbed for that specific region.
That Toys R Us advert makes me so sad. Kids today have no idea.
I've been getting it here on RUclips lately. That tune takes me back.
It’s back now. Online only but the adverts are back!
Rik Mayall was a comedy genius
I was surprised to see how expensive systems/computers was compared to today's prices ✌️💯
Top job!
None of these games are better than the simple enjoyment of the 70s Binatone TV Pong tennis game!
I'd love to get hold of an old advert for those old Pong machines!
I can’t imagine Morecombe and Wise playing Missile Command somehow!
Yeah, I figured. I'm sure they were paid well though. 🤣
Me neither, but you have to say that the combination of Morecambe and Wise, plus Atari, plus the washed-out brown colour scheme is a veritable time machine back to the 1980s.
"An amiga can make such a difference to a child´s education"..... "MUUUUM I NEED AN AMIGA FOR SCHOOL!!!1"
and guess what happened: I only used it to play games.
Great selection Steve
Pac-Man still the best in my opinion
Crackin times
Fabulous ET......😂😆🤣
7:52 - I got so excited when I seen this as the thumbnail image for this video. I would genuinely and happily spend £126.94 right now to buy a megadrive and a load of games. That's pretty much the price of a retropie anyway!
I have a RetroPie setup hooked to my TV. It's like the ultimate arcade! 😁
@@RetroSteveUK I think I'll have to get a retropie, it will be my christmas present to myself!
@@jordskates I have a demo video somewhere in the depths of this channel. I'll just look it up ...
Here it is: ruclips.net/video/B26jTFySFw0/видео.html
I remember the Amiga 500 advert being on the Batman VHS back in the early 90s, really wanted one but i already had the Commodore 64.
i miss the off the rails, trippy, psychotic, bonkers aesthetic of 90s broadcasting. nowdays everything is stale in comparison. i want a time machine :( dont care if that makes me a boomer, rather that than now
Bathing in nostalgia ^_^. Remember to triple all these prices for inflation. e.g the Gameboy in the 90's was £70, that's around £200 in current money, the same as a Switch Lite.
I remember the "Cyber Razor Cut" Sega ad from back in the day, I was hoping it was going to be on here but sadly not, the toys r us one is a classic
There are multiple volumes of these ads. Your Cyber Razor Cut one is on another video. Check the playlists.
ruclips.net/video/dTJ1Xf_EItA/видео.html
The first thing I was pretty much brought up on was the Sega mega drive but I can vaguely remember my brother having the commodore 64. I just remember the numbers slowly moving up to the next one not having a clue what a number it had to stop on by the time the game would come on. I remember I loved watching him play the Dizzy games
My first was a Spectrum at age 10 in 1983. Good times. 😊
Fab ads Steve! 👏👍 shame there werent a Tomb Raider ad. The super nintendo was boss loved it! Then playstation 1 mega boss i lived on Tomb Raider ever since 96 god i was 31 back then 😳 some wud say to old . .not me! I love games still at 57😇😖🤣
Yeah, I was 22 in 1996. Been a gamer since the age of ten! You're never to old.
"The fabulous ET!" Tell that to the landfill
That sonic mega drive advert voiceover sounds so much like Matt Berry
Yes my school had 2 of them Acorn computers delivered on a Monday. I left that Friday. Never used a computer for the next 40yrs. Hence I am a complete Techno Phoebe. Unlike the youngsters of today of course.
I'm quite the opposite. Been using computers since 1983.
It's enormous 64k memory. Wow.
I really miss the 90s
True classic arcade games top nostalgia here
Commodore Amiga 500+ was *the* best game machine ever invented..
I still have my BBC B from 1984! Still works. The game playing on the Electron was Monsters. Spent too many hours playing Planetoids!
and so much better than the Acorn Electron.
That TV reminds me of the mitsubishi TV we had when I was a kid 😆
I remember playing SF2 on the PAL SNES 50hz. Boy was it slow and terrible. During that time I went over to Canada where my cousins had it. Full 60Hz. Simply amazing. We used to stay up all night.
I almost bought a SNES on shop credit when SFII came out. I was at college on a part-time job wage so couldn't really afford it. In hindsight I'm glad I didn't take on the debt, but feel I missed out on the SFII experience.
@@RetroSteveUK You can still relive it now on SNES emulator. All play at 60Hz. You have to admit 50 Hz was awful.
@@snk7 Definitely. I have a Raspberry Pi setup for most of my old school gaming. You're not wrong! 🙂
I paid £70 for super castlevania 4 on the snes games were so expensive back then when you could get a CPC game for 99p
Yeah, most of my ZX Spectrum games were £1.99 budget titles.
I remember most things from my youth, but not the Rik Mayall adverts. Maybe it’s just me . . .
Back to the future reference on the tv channel number lol
ah yes , a time when they showed ACTUAL gameplay footage !
"Where in the world?" Never bloody PC World!
This video actually, kind of, answered a question I had for a long time. I've seen lots of UK commercials and I always wondered, "When did the UK start using computer brands/models that weren't specifically UK only?" That Packard Bell ad was, I think, the first one specifically I've seen where it wasn't a model that I had to google to learn about it. I had one of the first Game Boys and I'm curious if it was just as much "battery eater" in the UK as it was in the US. You got maybe a day or two of play before the batteries went dead when I used mine.
At the time a big deal was made of the good battery life. I'm guessing that was COMPARED to the Game Gear / Lynx etc..
@@RetroSteveUK I remember them saying that and how far that was from true! :)
a day or 2 sounds about the same here in the uk. quickly moved to a dc battery pack when i got a gameboy. AA / AAA batteries get expensive at that rate
@@pogman15 I got an Atari Lynx on the cheap when they were end of line. I only ever used that on a mains adapter.
The commodor 64 was made in Corby
I still think I was the only kid that had a Acorn Electron. A huge range of games for it. Not. I had Bullseye and a very strange football game, can’t even remember what it was called.
My best friend at middle school had an Acorn. He had a handful of games. The only one I really remember now is a Donkey Kong clone called Killer Gorilla.
This is so cool
thanks dude
Rick mayal legend!
I had one friend who had an Electron, but it never really made it, did it? (Unlike the BBC Micros, which I first used in primary school and were still to be seen in my high school in the late 90s). If anyone's interested in the history of Sinclair, Acorn and the BBC Micro, the BBC's _Micro Men_ film is worth checking out. It comes with most of the caveats of any "based on a true story" sort of drama, but it's very entertaining and hugely nostalgic.
I've seen that. I really enjoyed it. A mate of mine at school had an Electron. It had some nice games, but was ultimately a cheaper, cut-down version of the BBC B.
I miss my Commodore Amiga 600 from 29 years ago. 😩
I had a Packard Bell PC like the one at 10:00. Bought in 2001 but less powerful than the one featured. It replaced a Tiny PC I bought a year earlier which unfortunately got fried in a power surge during lightning. Had to claim off my parents' home contents insurance to replace it.
Did you ever play around with music trackers on your Amiga? I recently discovered a free program that recreates the old Amiga trackers. If you're interested it's called MilkyTracker - easily found with a Google search.
@@RetroSteveUK Oh nothing as creative as that. I just played games on it. 😁
Such memories. And Time Moves to fast.
"The ultra realism of Pole Position" 🤔 Perhaps games makers at that time had immunity from Advertising Standards
I don’t know why but this is all so depressing
"...and the fabulous E.T."
That didn't age well.
0:58 "Colecovision graphics shown". Lol, let's just show our competitors version, which is visually more impressive. It reminds me of the Commodore C64 days, when you'd pick up a game like Street Fighter 2, the back of the box showed the arcade version. You'd think wow it looks really good and then reality hits like a ton of bricks.
Yeah, the screenshots thing was always annoying. Spectrum games ... "Amiga version shown"
@@RetroSteveUK Tell me about it! But like a tool I kept on getting fooled by them lol.
Dearie me, that Luigi's Mansion one isn't much cop
It's not clear what shop they were advertising at 4:12 haha
I only remember the c64 advert because we were under boarder tv so it was all sheep ads
The fabalous E.T
I remember playing the original Gameboy in some Dept store, Debenhams I think. The whole display unit was linked to a TV/Monitor. The Gameboy never had an output. How did that work? Someone should do a tech video explaining that? Just a thought....
I think the display unit might have had a Gameboy chipset inside.
@@RetroSteveUK Still would be interesting to see how it was connected, the wiring and all the stuff that goes with it. Just all the technical back end stuff.
@@snk7 I'm going to have to search RUclips and see if there's a video about it.
This retro TV appears to have a "Flux Capacitor". It's way cooler than my shitty, old Pye TV.
I retrofitted the TV with a time travel device. As you do. 😄
@@RetroSteveUK Ah, I get it, now... I was a little slow with that one. In my defence, it's Sunday morning, and I'm nursing a hangover.
And the LED display shows 88mph too.
@@AtheistOrphan I didn't spot that.
There is more operation systems than basic
Lynx cobol and machine code
wick Mayal, he was the shits
I had A600 ❤️😜
I had A500 then upgraded to an A1200. Best years of my teenage life.
the nintendo Rick Myall ones are kinda weak. I always felt we in the UK lagged behind when it came to Nintendo game adverts.
Who had the first PlayStation?
The average school child hasnt changed much over the years...WHAT ask that now.!!!!!!!!!
Who remembers King Kong?
I find it crazy that people complain about the prices of games these days - if you compare them to the price / quality of a games cartridge 30-40 years ago you're getting an absolute bargain! We've really come a long way in my lifetime!
Definitely. I remember when games first started getting expensive. I used to buy games for my Speccy for £1.99p to £9.99p (maximum). When I got a Sega Master System I struggled to save for games as they were £25. It was a bit of a culture shock.
Cartridges were much more expensive to produce, and most modern games suck compared to the all-time classics we were getting back then.
Actually there were places that sold them cheap back then. There was a shop in Liverpool called What Everyone Wants where you could buy Sega games for about £16.99 where the usual price was about £34 (this was about 92/93). Just a pity I never knew about this shop at the time as I probably would've bought my games from there instead of forking out nearly 40 quid of my birthday or Xmas money lol.
No you are not "getting a bargain". And this argument absolutely baffles and does my head in. For one thing, the cost of the game back then was mostly down to the fact of the medium they were made on. Cartridges back then cost an absolute fortune to produce, and that doesn't even include the chips used in them, which were equally as expensive for the publishers to use. Whenever games switched over to CD in the 32-bit era, the price of the games dropped like a stone for a few years until publishers got greedy again and ramped the RRP back up to the standard of 4-50 pound. When the N64 released and Nintendo stuck with carts, why do you think its games actually went up to £60-70 when new games on the PS1 cost almost half of that when new? If anything, games were ridiculously expensive then, and actually should have become cheaper as physical media is no longer needed to mass produce them. Its just pure greed that keeps the prices what they are now.
@@NoName-dc5df Exactly.
RIP Toys R Us
Atari trying to sell their Jungle Hunt game by using clips from it being played on a Colecovision. LOL
Rick mayall :)
Who had an Atari St with midi ports
Also Bob.
UK Industry Timeline:
1980 - 1982: Atari VCS/2600.
1983 - 1987: Computer boom.
1988 - 1990: Sega Master System.
1991 - 1994: Sonic was EVERYWHERE!
1995 and onwards: PlayStation dominates.
2022 and onwards: The Age of Steam.
I found a Sega mega drive in the loft at my new house 😀
Result! Any games with it?