Intellivision® Animated Newscast Commercial

[ApacheMan2K]

Was this commercial made using an Intellivision?

[WebVMan]

2 people played Atari today.

[DemaV7]

Bobby: I Have an idea.

Luke: What?

Bobby: Lets Promote the Worst Games Made for our Video Computing System.

Luke: That is a Terrable Idea.

Bobby: Too late. ^^

Luke: Fuck you.

[WebVMan]

It's sad this ad made the Intellivision look horrible.

[chrisdaco22]

Yeah this commercial only ran in theaters before the show started. I've wanted to see it again since '82. Love youtube! Thanks for posting it!

[MattTheSaiyan]

I will soon be getting my Intellivision back in working order....can't wait to play it some more!

[eyeh8nbc]

I have a 35mm copy of this, found it in a drawer at a movie theater I worked at. How did you get this transferred? I have a bunch of other stuff on 35mm I'd love to get transferred to video in decent quality.

[Nedaj00]

@eyeh8nbc You have to look it up, I would love to see that in high quality.

[carnivalofsouls2047]

Did this really happen?

[quaxk]

by the look of it, they rotoscoped real actors for this and animated on computer, pretty cool for the time

[Kitsuneranger]

That ad was incredible even by today's standards :3

[memphiselle]

1:36, "Aparrently saved from total destruction today." If I was that newscaster I would be like, "HOLY CRAP WE'RE SAVED!!! WE'RE ALIVE!!!! OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!".

[andree1991]

and after the break,

E3 2010!!! featuring gears of war and metal gear

[kascnef82]

Is the guy who does He-Man in it? He sounds just like John Irwin....one year before that he-man show (another product of Mattel)!!!

[ramster0]

is this what things look like when you're on crack

[DarkOmegaMK2]

u mean... things look 8-bit and u play shitty games?

[Koolkitties]

I want one.

[Skylinesandsunsets]

That was a great commercial! Rather long, but I liked it. BTW, why did the anchorlady give the weather report?

[daystar]

Very cool!

[PoPoNellie]

Interesting commercial. I don't believe I ever saw this in a movie theater or on television.

[autoamerican79]

one of the best nostalgic video game commercials ever!! Intellivision Lives!!

[skylark68]

I remember seeing this commercial at the theater when i was a kid. I just can't remember what movie was playing. It might have been Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it could have been Tron.

[ApacheMan2K]

i'm starting to wonder if this whole animation was done on an Intellivision...

[memphiselle]

Awesome!!! I love Space Battle!!

[Retrodude1985]

That sound like it came from the movie theater and it's also the same year that the TRON movie was released that year(1982).

[ApacheMan2K]

that would have been an interesting attraction to accompany Tron, indeed.

[GunPoor]

this is amazing. immediate favorite

[DevSodDribble]

Why does it seem like black/african american news anchors back then were always covering sports and nothing else?? Is it just me?

[howelldrake]

I can't believe this--that's rotoscope animation circa 1982. Am I wrong?

[gguru1]

Rotoscoping actually goes back to the earliest days of animation if I'm not mistaken.

[quaxk]

@howelldrake rotoscoping is an old technique, but to do it to then animate on computer was certainly innovative at that point in time

[nostyleja]

just... wow! Never seen this. seems that a lot of game footage would be from early builds? Like the Night Stalker character wasn't red, among other things.

[newfounddeath]

lol. I love my Intellivision.

[gamer4567]

cool