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Welcome to Retro-TV, where the past comes alive - in the form of commercials from the 70's and 80's. My love for old school TV commercials springs from a quaint longing for the 80's. It was a golden age, filled with the A-Team and Knight Rider, with Autobots and Decpticons (or GI Joe and Cobra) battling it out on the schoolyard playground. It's true, you cant go home again. But you can put it on a web page for people to download! So kick back and share in the memories. For the less slightly computer literate, right click and select "Save Target As" (or some variant of) and proceed from there. Or just left click, watch and enjoy. Today's Offering: Entertech Ah, the 80's - when kids could still buy cap guns and squirt guns at Toys R Us. Not like today, where playing cops and robbers with 'guns' is 'bad'. Pussies. Previous Offerings: Army Gear It's like playing with the little green (or tan, depending on your aligeance) army men - but with knives and guns and stuff. Ghostbusters Action Figures Since you can never get enough Ghostbusters to go around, here's another commercial from their toy line. Activision - We Put You In The Game Activision - the best of the 3rd party game makers for the Atari 2600. Here's a commercial showcasing their greatest hits. Dig that funky music! Activision - Freeway Ah, nothing says the 80's like a commercial about a man and his love for his chickens. Um . . . Wait - I think I just went places that will scar me for life. Forget I ever said anything, will you? Energizer - Darth Vader vs the Energizer Bunny Ok, this Energizer commercial comes to us from 1993, so it's a bit outside the range of my usual collection. However you'll have to forgive me, it's such a classic I had to post it. Ooopsie-Baby Oh my god, this is quite possibly the most sadistic toy I have ever seen! I remember it as a child, but I tuned it out, being for girls and all - and I'm well outside that demographic. But now as an adult, when I pay attention to such matters - YIKES! The whole point of the toy is for the girl to torment her doll/baby! Geeze - why don’t you make her crawl across broken glass while you're at it. This is your brain on drugs As much as I hate the government's costly and pointless war on drugs - even I have to admit that this commercial is an all time golden classic. It's like "Where's the Beef"! Everybody, even 20 years later, knows this ad. Any questions? Ghostbusters Proton Pack Good lord, 2 movies, more video games than Pac Man, a cartoon show and now. . . toys. Sadly not all of the commercial is there - missing just the first few seconds of the logo, but whatchagonna do? Activision's Star Master Activision was known for their outstanding 2600 games. What they were lesser known for was their trippy-as-hell commercials. This Star Master commercial is another fine example of that strange Activision style. And dig that funky late 70's/Early 80's soft rock the dude listens to! Sega Genesis Again we reach ever so slightly into the 1990's - but this commercial is done in the style of the late night 80's ads, so it's ok. Hell, it even had Mr-Late-Night-Ad Voice, so it's all good. Pity the console sucked. . . . Robocop and the Action Force I've always questioned the wisdom of taking a very graphic, very sardonic R-rated movie and marketing a line of children's toys around it. But conventional wisdom has never been Madison Avenue's strong point, and thus we have Robocop action figures. And - sorry kiddies, the mail in offer for the Glow in the Dark Robocop figure expired in October 30th, 1988. |