It is pretty cool than the once-obscure/forgotten TurboGrafx-16 is finally starting to gain attention now that many of the consoles games are on the Virtual Console.
I have a tape of the evening news from a month or two before the earthquake. It's eerie to go back and watch, knowing what we didn't know was gonna happen then.
The Bay area quake was one of those things like 9-11... You remember where you were at when it happened. I wasn't watching the World Series like many people. I was a maintenance worker cleaning toilets at a Ryder Truck Rental hub that day. Man, how times have changed.
@RevolutionOfCG I lived in Texas then. I was lying on my grandpa's couch, not really paying attention to the World Series, but it was on the TV. I think I was home sick from school that day. I was 11, almost 12. I focused in and paid more attention when they said there'd been an earthquake. It seemed like for about 20 minutes, nothing was going on because nobody knew what to do. The TV camera man seemed like he was just filming random things to fill up time until they could get it together.
I used to live in northern California and Loma Prieta was the first earthquake I ever experienced. Sucky way to join the earthquake club. Also, that Prodigy commercial brought back memories as that was the ISP I had on my first computer in 1991.
00:47 The deaf do not use teletype phones anymore! Now they use the special video thingy and they sign to an interpreter who tells someone else, and that person tells the person the deaf person is trying to tell!
Wow, I thought that Channel 7 news music was exclusive to here in Detroit! Guess not. Some of those national commercials bring back lots of wonderful memories.
I got a TurboGrapX for Christmas '89. I spent what felt like a good chunk of the next two years playing Keith Courage and the other games I got. The only other ones I remember having were a baseball game and one starring a caveman-(consults Wikipedia)-Bonk's Adventure. I think it's somewhere in the attic at my parents' house these days.
2:18 you just know they told us the opposite of what is being shown us. So that means the 15 year old on pots brain waves were almost off the chart where the 15 year old not on pot was comma toast.
My Grandpa was a building inspector in San Francisco throughout the 80's, and after the earthquake he got to meet a bunch of celebritys when he inspected their houses.
Three days ago marked the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake. I know earthquakes are horrible and destructive...but it's actually a great memory, as the damage was pretty minimal here. We camped on our lawn for a few days eating bacon off of the Coleman stove. And everybody my age that I've talked to in my town has virtually the same memory.
I'm glad I have this tape to remember that time by, as pretty much all of my memories of the quake are associated with the contents of this tape.
For those that don't know, there was actually a video game for the NES staring the noid, called "YO! NOID". It was a localized version of the famicom game "Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru".
Not only the Noid hostage thing but now there's a video floating around of two Domino's empoyees "tampering" with the food...never. eat. there. again.
The Noid was dropped after an incident at the Domino's Headquarters. It seems that a guy (whose name WAS actually Mr. Noid) Got sick & tired of everyone in the WORLD going 'Hey! Avoid the Noid! Avoid the Noid!' everytime he walked into the room that he actually started calling & begging Dominos to drop the campaign! When they told him to get lost, he went to the corp office and (TOOK HOSTAGES) until they agreed to drop the mascot! Now I can't confirm this, but its a great story!
turbo graphix 16 was pretty hot. it probably wasn't a true 16 bit system but it was pretty nice. that old noise from the video tape i remember those days.
Mervyn's and now Gottschalks, another California based department store, has gone under as well. The once thriving mall I grew up with is like a ghost town. :*(
I was 6 years old and watching cartoons when the quake hit. I got grabbed up by my mom and put under the dining room table. We were lucky and had no damage. I lived in Half Moon Bay at the time. About 20 miles from SF.
-That Turbographx-16 ad was awesome! Why did they rename Street Fighter "Fighting Street", anyway?
-Pete Wilson, you are missed.
-First rule of Splash Mountain: never discuss the movie it's based on! lol
-Ah, Prodigy; many fond memories of playing games and doing other random stuff on it using my family's old black & white laptop. To be honest, I was a little disappointed when we all had to move onto the world wide web in the mid-'90s. Damn you, progress! haha
Street Fighter was the name of the original 1989 arcade game; it was rebranded Fighting Street for the T16 version. Sometimes comsole-ported arcade games were given slightly different names, for example Kung-Fu for the NES was called Kung-Fu Master in the arcade version.
I wish I could have lived through the 80's. I was born in 1994. Why aren't commercials today fun like the way they were 20 years ago? Even the 90's commercials that I saw when I was 4 were entertaining!
Not sure about what the McRib's actual time period was, but they started selling them again where I live, even though I heard it was discontinued in the early 90's.
Exactly, L.G. I miss that cheese! LOL!!! When I turn on the T.V., I don't wanna feel like I turned on the radio. That's why there's less memorable ads nowadays.
I also hate all these 3-D effects in commercials now. They're not even needed! :( I blame Adobe. :P Like the other day I saw a commercial for some shoes, it showed this person running on these 3-D pillars coming out of nowhere. Is that necessary to advertise a shoe? Or anything for that matter?
LOL!!! I know exactly what you mean. They did that crap 4 a basketball ad. 3-D ads make me wanna barf! LOL!!! And yes, hun. You can blame it on Adobe. ;-)
Being from the West Coast, and now being stuck in Missouri, this is by far the one that makes me really miss the good ole days back home. :(
That earthquake was bad. I remember being upset because it stopped the World Series. I was 7 and, still to this day, a hard core A's fan. I was afraid Jose Canseco was injured. Now I wish something would've taken him out!!! HAHAHAHA
Wow athleticsgirl23 Have you felt the 2008 5.2 New Madrid Quake. I was 3 years old and Loma Prieta was my first childhood Memory. I lived in South San Francisco at the time now I live in Solano and we are waiting for the Hayward fault to go off.
Yes monarchofvideos a paper painting, something you draw on a paper (old fashioned) compared to the high tech video games of today that look as if the person in the video game was real, nowadays most or all video games look so close to real life.
Perhaps I'm biased, but I'd rather play a good looking (and great playing) 2D sidescroller than some of the 3D crap made today. Gameplay is king, but there will always be a special place in my heart for well made sprite graphics, and I'm glad that some companies still produce games this way.
Wow! I turned 4 the day these commercials were aired and remember most of them. I also was in the bay area when the Loma Prieta earthquake took place, though I don't remember any of it.
i love splash mountain
california647 1 day ago
people in the 80s are so kind they repair quake damaged glasses
TheRetroLper 1 week ago
I wish I was in the 80s. Fuck I hate being 17 in 2011, sucks.
RADDTrash 2 months ago
Ah the good memories. :) So many things kids want know today. (unless they watch these videos lol)
DarkMoonGeneral 5 months ago
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Yea, those glasses are the reason why I didn't wear mine as a child. Splash Mountain finally opened...but Disneyland has it closed a lot for repairs
laichi16 10 months ago
Yea, those glasses are the reason why I didn't wear mine as a child. Splash Mountain finally opened...but Disneyland has it closed a lot for repares.
laichi16 10 months ago
Thanks so much for posting these!
StudebakerBronson 1 year ago
ha i use to have prodigy.
Sinsdevice 1 year ago
It is pretty cool than the once-obscure/forgotten TurboGrafx-16 is finally starting to gain attention now that many of the consoles games are on the Virtual Console.
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
the McRib will never die.. good marketing for a food item that looks microwaveable
nicetryjason 1 year ago
Those glasses are terrible.
mst3kanita 1 year ago 2
"Fighting Street"? What a totally original sounding name for a fighting game....
Hethrin 1 year ago
@Hethrin i dont know if you know this but in case you did not that is actually the original street fighter. =)
Sinsdevice 1 year ago
I have a tape of the evening news from a month or two before the earthquake. It's eerie to go back and watch, knowing what we didn't know was gonna happen then.
kettoshii 1 year ago
LOL... Mack-Rib at Mac-Donalds CHOMP!
RevolutionOfCG 1 year ago
RIP Peter Graves. I loved watching your re-runs during late-night TV.
RevolutionOfCG 1 year ago
The Bay area quake was one of those things like 9-11... You remember where you were at when it happened. I wasn't watching the World Series like many people. I was a maintenance worker cleaning toilets at a Ryder Truck Rental hub that day. Man, how times have changed.
RevolutionOfCG 1 year ago
@RevolutionOfCG I lived in Texas then. I was lying on my grandpa's couch, not really paying attention to the World Series, but it was on the TV. I think I was home sick from school that day. I was 11, almost 12. I focused in and paid more attention when they said there'd been an earthquake. It seemed like for about 20 minutes, nothing was going on because nobody knew what to do. The TV camera man seemed like he was just filming random things to fill up time until they could get it together.
rickyfan3956 1 year ago
Wow...Prodigy...to think we've come this far in just 20 years...staggers the imagination
JepMasta 1 year ago
I used to live in northern California and Loma Prieta was the first earthquake I ever experienced. Sucky way to join the earthquake club. Also, that Prodigy commercial brought back memories as that was the ISP I had on my first computer in 1991.
NoctemOUT 1 year ago
00:47 The deaf do not use teletype phones anymore! Now they use the special video thingy and they sign to an interpreter who tells someone else, and that person tells the person the deaf person is trying to tell!
Uniqueindividual91 1 year ago
Is that Richie Havens singing for the Bounty coconut bar commercial? Nice!
thisperson2 1 year ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Turbo-Grafx was an extremely underrated console, and that Prodigy commercial still weirds me out.
INTERWEBS IN THE '80S!
mason000 1 year ago
@mason000
Prodigy was basically the first ISP... but that didn't come until 1994.
RevolutionOfCG 1 year ago
Wow, I thought that Channel 7 news music was exclusive to here in Detroit! Guess not. Some of those national commercials bring back lots of wonderful memories.
tyendor 1 year ago
glasses? those are some goggles bitch, bwhahahahha
st4ngeI2 1 year ago
You're right, that peach bowl looks disgusting. I ate Gerber prunes all the way until I was 5 years old. They sure kept me regular! :P lol
rockergirl83 1 year ago
I'm diggin' that last Mervyn's commercial.
seattlesfinestwrx 1 year ago
Man I love mc ribs
MechaCERBERUS 1 year ago
I was born in 82 and I've never heard of TurboGrafx 16.
kari00ws6 1 year ago
@kari00ws6 you missin' out bro - great console
BONK
st4ngeI2 1 year ago
I got a TurboGrapX for Christmas '89. I spent what felt like a good chunk of the next two years playing Keith Courage and the other games I got. The only other ones I remember having were a baseball game and one starring a caveman-(consults Wikipedia)-Bonk's Adventure. I think it's somewhere in the attic at my parents' house these days.
MeInTX 1 year ago
Splash Mountain is an amazing ride!
Sailormoongrl412 1 year ago
OMG this brings back memories times have changed alot since then!
minlee1 1 year ago
They still make Bounty bars! My nearest mall has them, and they're delicious!
colleen4ever 2 years ago
That Prodigy commercial STILL weirds me out no matter how many times I see it. The Internet's come a long way.
mason000 2 years ago
So, I'm curious.....did you just record commercials knowing they'd be nostalgic sometime down the line?
crocetti1984 2 years ago 2
No. These commercials are all from tapes with TV shows/movies recorded on them.
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago 12
I'm glad you did it. I've been having a blast watching all these for three days!
crocetti1984 2 years ago 5
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Where's TurboGrafx now, huh? AHAHAHAHAHAHA
ShyRobot 2 years ago
Selling a ton of awesome games on Wii's virtual console?
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago 7
THANK you. TG-16 was a severely underrated console.
mason000 2 years ago 2
bring back the noid!!! turbo grafx was pretty cool but disappeared almost as fast as vetrex.
AvEryBadApPLe 2 years ago
2:18 you just know they told us the opposite of what is being shown us. So that means the 15 year old on pots brain waves were almost off the chart where the 15 year old not on pot was comma toast.
Zoroasterrrr 2 years ago
My Grandpa was a building inspector in San Francisco throughout the 80's, and after the earthquake he got to meet a bunch of celebritys when he inspected their houses.
xContaminatedx 2 years ago
I love that Tony Joe White voice over at the end!!
Poke Salad Annie Lives on !!
iltommyd 2 years ago
Three days ago marked the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake. I know earthquakes are horrible and destructive...but it's actually a great memory, as the damage was pretty minimal here. We camped on our lawn for a few days eating bacon off of the Coleman stove. And everybody my age that I've talked to in my town has virtually the same memory.
I'm glad I have this tape to remember that time by, as pretty much all of my memories of the quake are associated with the contents of this tape.
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago 12
wow!!!!!!!!!!
mrcutlass911 2 years ago
The Lucky Supermarket lady is like a member of my family, I swear! I actually miss her!
ANd gees- the glasses that the lady buys in the Lenscrafters commercial look like welder's safety goggles or something!
RoxyAlexander 2 years ago 3
Prodigy was pretty much like AOL
randyjbeck 2 years ago 3
oh ya
drumfreek31 2 years ago
For those that don't know, there was actually a video game for the NES staring the noid, called "YO! NOID". It was a localized version of the famicom game "Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru".
alienshinobi84 2 years ago 2
She's getting headaches because those darn glasses are about 20 lbs on her face. OMG!
Maisy5 2 years ago 3
Not only the Noid hostage thing but now there's a video floating around of two Domino's empoyees "tampering" with the food...never. eat. there. again.
garbagelasagna 2 years ago 2
The Noid was dropped after an incident at the Domino's Headquarters. It seems that a guy (whose name WAS actually Mr. Noid) Got sick & tired of everyone in the WORLD going 'Hey! Avoid the Noid! Avoid the Noid!' everytime he walked into the room that he actually started calling & begging Dominos to drop the campaign! When they told him to get lost, he went to the corp office and (TOOK HOSTAGES) until they agreed to drop the mascot! Now I can't confirm this, but its a great story!
dukes0916 2 years ago
just looked it up and the guy went into a domino's restaurant and the ads were pulled cus' the creator wanted more money for them
Gymnasticslover3oh3 2 years ago
His name was Kenneth Lamar Noid
tonyvfx 2 years ago
lmao at lens crafters BIG ASS GLASSES
lowrider323 2 years ago 3
did that all commercial run on close encounters or something man that is tripped out
ukendcx2000 2 years ago
those mervyn's commercials seem ahead of their time.
ukendcx2000 2 years ago
turbo graphix 16 was pretty hot. it probably wasn't a true 16 bit system but it was pretty nice. that old noise from the video tape i remember those days.
ukendcx2000 2 years ago
The Prodigy commercial is pretty historic. That was essentially the beginnings of the first limited form of what became the internet.
wallynford 2 years ago 5
RIP Mervyn's. I will always miss your commercials. BUT TENNIS SHOES FOR $39!?!?!?!?!?
rockergirl83 2 years ago 2
Hahah C Size Batteries...
SrentienStrahl 2 years ago
Mervyn's is now gone out of business, hasn't it? Thanks for posting. :-)
1980sbaby 2 years ago
Mervyn's and now Gottschalks, another California based department store, has gone under as well. The once thriving mall I grew up with is like a ghost town. :*(
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago
I remember that earthquake, that was horrible. Wowee!
happycat2010 2 years ago
I was 6 years old and watching cartoons when the quake hit. I got grabbed up by my mom and put under the dining room table. We were lucky and had no damage. I lived in Half Moon Bay at the time. About 20 miles from SF.
sjsmr2 2 years ago
Wow. Those glasses looked sick..This commercial makes me feel old being born in 1989!
Twanlee89 2 years ago
LOL! You feel old? Try 1972 LOL! :0D All of this does seem like yesterday, doesn't it?
happycat2010 2 years ago 2
-That Turbographx-16 ad was awesome! Why did they rename Street Fighter "Fighting Street", anyway?
-Pete Wilson, you are missed.
-First rule of Splash Mountain: never discuss the movie it's based on! lol
-Ah, Prodigy; many fond memories of playing games and doing other random stuff on it using my family's old black & white laptop. To be honest, I was a little disappointed when we all had to move onto the world wide web in the mid-'90s. Damn you, progress! haha
monarchofvideos 2 years ago 3
There's nothing in the world wrong with "Song of the South"
troodon311 2 years ago
I watched it the other day. It's not about southern slavery since it's based on the time period after the Civil War.
humhunny 2 years ago
Street Fighter was the name of the original 1989 arcade game; it was rebranded Fighting Street for the T16 version. Sometimes comsole-ported arcade games were given slightly different names, for example Kung-Fu for the NES was called Kung-Fu Master in the arcade version.
TR47 2 years ago
I wish I could have lived through the 80's. I was born in 1994. Why aren't commercials today fun like the way they were 20 years ago? Even the 90's commercials that I saw when I was 4 were entertaining!
TheGamingGuitarist 2 years ago 2
damnu cant een get one pizza for 8.88
kristyhammonds 2 years ago
ahahah....her glasses :)
xLuky 2 years ago
You use Prodigy!
DanteForever20XX 2 years ago
hahaha .. damn dude whats up with that lady's Lenscrafter's glasses .. straight up prescription safety glasses
celerytime 2 years ago
The Noid!
noah1970 2 years ago 3
ho shit! .. totally forgot about the Noid!!
celerytime 2 years ago
I road splash mountain at disneyland when i was 10yr old and i cryed like a bitch!!!!
lowerthedynamite 2 years ago
Not sure about what the McRib's actual time period was, but they started selling them again where I live, even though I heard it was discontinued in the early 90's.
The Noid = greatest mascot ever.
seattlesfinestwrx 2 years ago
holy cow, I used to have that Pumpkin Kutter! and the scoop that was shaped like the pumpkin! good lord! the memories!
solitarydraggon 3 years ago 2
Holy crap. October 29, 1989...that's the day my little sister was born(my youngest sister)!.
The Pumpkin Kutter commercial is older than 1989. i remember seeing that same one around mid-80s(maybe 84).
MagnaderAlpha 3 years ago 4
Prodigy. I love this early Internet ad. If only those software engineers could see what has happened now.
freddyfan62 3 years ago 3
The Prodigy ad gave me the goosebumps, if they only knew back then what the Internet is becoming .
Despierto 3 years ago 3
JUMPMAN EHHH? XD
stickguy703 3 years ago 2
They rarely make memorable ads like these now. Most of them steal songs instead of coming with original jingles. Ticks me off!
blacklannmuzik1 3 years ago 3
I know! :D What happened to the ah-mazing, yet cheesy jingles that used to be in commercials?
LisaGrimsley 2 years ago 4
Exactly, L.G. I miss that cheese! LOL!!! When I turn on the T.V., I don't wanna feel like I turned on the radio. That's why there's less memorable ads nowadays.
blacklannmuzik1 2 years ago 2
I also hate all these 3-D effects in commercials now. They're not even needed! :( I blame Adobe. :P Like the other day I saw a commercial for some shoes, it showed this person running on these 3-D pillars coming out of nowhere. Is that necessary to advertise a shoe? Or anything for that matter?
LisaGrimsley 2 years ago 3
LOL!!! I know exactly what you mean. They did that crap 4 a basketball ad. 3-D ads make me wanna barf! LOL!!! And yes, hun. You can blame it on Adobe. ;-)
blacklannmuzik1 2 years ago 2
The brand "Dole" always remine me of bob dole.
FoximusPrime1 3 years ago 2
Less than nine bucks for two pizzas. Damn I wish it was still like that!
xaviervonrottie 3 years ago 15
My parents got the Pumpkin Kutter after I told them about this same commercial. True Story.
38MGA 3 years ago 4
man, those are ugly glasses
PowerGlove79 3 years ago 12
Being from the West Coast, and now being stuck in Missouri, this is by far the one that makes me really miss the good ole days back home. :(
That earthquake was bad. I remember being upset because it stopped the World Series. I was 7 and, still to this day, a hard core A's fan. I was afraid Jose Canseco was injured. Now I wish something would've taken him out!!! HAHAHAHA
athleticsgirl23 3 years ago 3
Wow athleticsgirl23 Have you felt the 2008 5.2 New Madrid Quake. I was 3 years old and Loma Prieta was my first childhood Memory. I lived in South San Francisco at the time now I live in Solano and we are waiting for the Hayward fault to go off.
dinfg6 2 years ago
yeah the pumpkin kutter was fail...all my jack-o-lanterns looked like shit...
mcsushi79 3 years ago
Turbo Graphix 16 looked like a paper painting compared to the graphics quality of today's video games.
halcaannen 3 years ago
A "paper painting"?
monarchofvideos 2 years ago
Yes monarchofvideos a paper painting, something you draw on a paper (old fashioned) compared to the high tech video games of today that look as if the person in the video game was real, nowadays most or all video games look so close to real life.
halcaannen 2 years ago
Perhaps I'm biased, but I'd rather play a good looking (and great playing) 2D sidescroller than some of the 3D crap made today. Gameplay is king, but there will always be a special place in my heart for well made sprite graphics, and I'm glad that some companies still produce games this way.
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago
80sCommercialVault I agree with you, I was just pointing uot the progress of technology.
halcaannen 2 years ago
Was that Marlie Matlin?
CelesteK 3 years ago
In the Citibank Visa Card commercial?
CelesteK 3 years ago
@CelesteK
Marlie Matlin was one hot deaf chick.
RevolutionOfCG 1 year ago
wow I haven't seen the lucky lady in ages. Blast from the past there.
remingtonh 3 years ago 2
Triple-action All! It'll zap your kids!
omigoshwayde 3 years ago 3
Wow...those commercials are almost just like today!
dustz33 3 years ago
TurbroGrapfhx16! Haha! lolol
YankeeDeBiggie 3 years ago 3
wow...my family had prodigy...i feel really old now!
arawk 3 years ago 3
Love the Citibank one...ahahaha
MegaLiz25 3 years ago
lenscrafter is funny
biggoffi 3 years ago
Do they make Bounty candy bars anymore?? I never see them anywhere. I never liked them... cocoanut~yuck.
jtaforJesus 3 years ago
When I was a kid I had a thing for the Lucky lady, Stephanie Edwards.
FATMIME 3 years ago 2
Jeez, those glasses are huge! She looks like the owl from the old Tootsie Pop commercial!
meanydb 3 years ago 7
Peter Graves is an incredibly awesome man.
CaramelAnt 3 years ago 4
I wonder what speed Prodigy internet was? 28.8?
hardtechnoboy 3 years ago 3
Probably more like 2.88, if even that fast.
Ovalshine 3 years ago 4
I remember that Domino's character. I believe they called him "The Noid."
WastedPo 3 years ago 6
Wow! I turned 4 the day these commercials were aired and remember most of them. I also was in the bay area when the Loma Prieta earthquake took place, though I don't remember any of it.
HiemsCLC 3 years ago 4
Street Fighter was called Fighting Street then
jwgreek8606 3 years ago 3
I always carry bags of coffee around.
bostonbrawla 3 years ago 4
I think Citybank cares about your money just a little more.
bostonbrawla 3 years ago 7