The innocense of the 1980's, when women were women and men wore leather jackets with dozens of zippers. In this gem, a young Michael Jackson protege bumps into the Master himself. But wait a minute you say, you recognize the little dancing bad boy? That's right, it's ...
Ahhh, New Coke. A series of commercials for the new product featured 80's icon Max Headroom. In this one, cyber-host Headroom interviews a rather boring Pepsi can and asks us to Catch the Wave. Too bad nobody listened. There's an interesting side note to the whole New Coke ...
What do you favorite super-heroes wear under their super-outfits? Why, Underoos of course. He-Man, Optimus Prime and the dude from M.A.S.K. make appearances.
I'm noticing a bit of a theme among some of the early video game commercials, they like to feature one nerdy kid and one kinda-cool-yet-still-approachable kid. Anyway, this spot is for Coleco's Head-To-Head Football game. These must look like ancient relics to todays teens.
For your viewing pleasure, someone has put together 5 minutes of TV production company animated logos. Includes such favorites as Ubu the Dog, Guy Throwing Paper from Typewriter and the DIC Star. It's amazing how ingrained some of the tiny jingles are.
I had this hovercraft and it was completely awesome with all it's little moving parts. It was pretty huge too, which was also cool.
This commercial is made up of bits of film from the cantina scene and was made in 1979. It was part of a series of PSA's that year. Friend's don't let friend's drive their spacecraft drunk.
The first commercial for Nintendo's Legend of Zelda game featuring a wickedly cheesy rap and one uber nerd.
The whole family will enjoy this new fangled toy. Worried that your Intellevision will obsolete like yesterday's Pong? Worry not, the Intellivision is: "The only system designed to keep pace with tomorrow."
This is a pretty cool commercial featuring Pac Man and Speedy, Pokey, Shadow and Bashful. I guess even Pac Man gets thirsty.
