1982 7-Up Pac-Man Commercial

[ksteampoo1234]

mario pooooooo sonic is cool

[spiersaz]

@ksteampoo1234 what has sonic and mario to do with a 7up commercial with pacman?!

[sonicteampoo1234]

@ksteampoo1234  poooooo

[sonicteampoo1234]

ksteampoo1234 im cool so me pool

[ksteampoo1234]

@geriko1 poo

[ksteampoo1234]

hey bruv me like cupcakes

[geriko1]

15 years old when this commercial came out. I remember this like it was filmed yesterday. Good times.

[Psycausis]

Don't remember this one either but, I like it a lot! VERY 80's! Also I've never been to an arcade where soda drinks were allowed.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Now that's a RAD AD!

[joey75220]

never saw this before!! SWEET!! I wonder if Ms Pac Man like the way he chomped on her..... :)

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[SuperSonicTailsEas]

In my warm pajamas, in my warm room. I watch this, I get bombarded with goosebumps. Nostalgia, I love you =)

[ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

If people still don't know what the red dot represents, then America should put more money into more Art Education....Sorry I forgot we dont have any money.

[ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

God me and my brothers would trip to this everytime....or Kim Carnes or Debbie Harry, or Suicidal Tendencies....Venice, Cali.

[ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

@ITSFULLOFSTARS1

Oh by the way...Good times.

[stuffz11roblox]

well even ghost monsters need a drink once and a wile wait were did my 7-up go!?!?!? and my power pellet

[tenchimasake]

This is...the best commercial ever made.

[kape1975]

Oh my goid, righ now i just 35 years old, when this commercial came to my country 1982 i just 7 years old this is very special to me i don't know to say i just remeber being a kid againg sorry i 'm very sentimental.

[Psycausis]

@kape1975 , we understand just how you feel. The 80's were a happening time.

[binkyt11]

Whacka Whacka Whacka Whacka Whacka

[binkyt11]

Whacka Whacka Whacka Whacka Whacked

[iamwesker90002]

so does that mean pacman is spot?

[iamwesker90002]

I think pacman is really stoned or at least needs to talk to ben stine about dry eyes

[tEckNoLuV]

how pacman became fatman ^^

[182supermario]

Was this showed in a movie theater, cause it looks like it.

[BRD453]

I just can't get enough of these Betty Davis/7-up ads. I've downloaded a whole montage of them! Something ain't right, in my head, man. I mean, first I make negative comment, then I do this...this...360!

[BRD453]

I think she's rollin' us like we're dice, man. 7-up makes you feel bloated. And, if you drink way too much of it, 7-up makes it hurt after you go to the bathroom. Believe me, if you were stranded in the desert, you would want water, not 7-up.

[BRD453]

@megaben99 Huh? I don't follow. How is one ad more misleading than another?

[BRD453]

Wow. 7-up dose all that? I'm heading to the market right now!

[1happycats]

Why Pac-Man drinking 7-Up? Is this a cheat code or something?

[poepoe69collguy]

why do i want 7-up so bad now

[MrJoshbumstead]

A nice one but why is Pac-Man red?

[MarioandLuigi9991]

Ooooookkkaaaaayyyyyyy......

[WebVMan]

Make 7-Up Yours Pac-Man!!!

[Bradkalproductions]

it makes me feel thirsty but dosent make me think 7 up just I'm thirsty....

[MattTheSaiyan]

Soft drinks.....video games....I'M IN HEAVEN!

[YummyTacoz909]

fail....

[trifulquita12]

I saw this ad in a theater before movie starts... great years, schools sucks, but still great years

[seanmyster6]

It's Pac-Spot!

[HalloKatzeLiebe]

I think Pac-Man is red to represent the cherry in 7up

[wtcvidman]

Holy crap!! I love 7-Up & Pac-Man. Put them together and this is one mind blowing commercial. I was only 4 when this was out, so I don't remember it.

I wonder if Namco (or perhaps Midway since they sold the game in the U.S.) ever made a 7-Up Pac-Man arcade game. Gottlieb made a very rare Mello Yello version of Q*Bert that shows Q*Bert drinking Mello Yello on the title screen.

Thanks for posting this.

[YummyTacoz909]

@wtcvidman i was a sperm in my fathers dick.... lol

[elkinsinbox]

Makes me wanna drink a 7-up

[5150Karlos]

Great I feel in the 80's one more time!!!

[TheOneAndOnly699]

that chugging sound just pissed me off

[MrJoshbumstead]

7up tast like chicken and why is Pac-Man red and not yellow?

[JMein13074]

80/30 Anniversary!

[MTFAMV]

thats not pacman thats cool spot imposter

[lilmisssparra]

i want 7 up now >:(

[wario987]

Drunk Pac-Man!!!

[ILoveScratchBattles]

@wario987 7-up is soda, not alcohol.

[callmehockey]

7up + Pac-Man = the uncola

[weicxiable]

So good LexingtonWells I love this commercia to.

[acapulmiguel]

Fantastico!!!....en mexico comenzaban los viedeos como el pacman y la pelicula de ojos de Betty Davis.. ..comercial famosisimo en mexico...

[krezpho]

buen recuerdo de los fantasticos 80s!!!!!! gracias!!!!

[DarkAngel182]

I remember when I was younger putting a can of 7up on top of the pac man machine at an amusement arcade to see if the graphics changed like in this vid.

They didn't!

[gutchman84]

lol why would they change in real life?

[DarkAngel182]

no they didn;t, I was a very dissapointed 9 year old at the time!

[Iamdarklumina]

Do it!

DRINK IT NOW!!!

[ZiuoxZui]

7 UP's commercials were always the most advanced. Their use of cutting edge graphics and pop cultural references made their ads some of the most memorable. Their use of Bette Davis Eyes is a great example of this.

[Eathams]

that chugging sound makes me thirsty... for 7up!

[tomtheman95]

dang same here

[LexingtonWells]

I love this commercial!!

[TheFundie]

THIS IS SO AWESOME

Last time i saw this commercial was in 1982 in a movie theater!!!

I was just a child hahaha

I love the thirsty little ghosts

[Colortiniz]

Is that all Scanimate?

[HamptonRoadsTVFan]

@Colortiniz Yep, courtesy of the masters of Scanimate; the Robert Abel and Associates group.

[DsJamie]

so like...whys he red...?

[floooky1]

The 7up logo uses a red dot, animated as a mascot called "Cool Spot." Here it is Pacman.

[wtcvidman]

@floooky1

I think that was before they turned the spot in the 7-Up logo into the actual Spot character, right? I don't remember the spot having the sunglasses & becoming Spot until later on in the 80's. So this Pac-Man could have been a pre-cursor to Spot where they used the red spot from the logo & turned it into Pac-Man. Then someone could have gotten an idea to make 7-Up's own anthropomorphic character utilizing the red spot, which is how Spot could have been born. Just a guess.

[jaketoledo]

wow i didn't know they could sell out so badly

[Xenocidal]

Damn... this commercial actually makes me want a 7up, unlike most modern commercials that I just phase out.

[superyoshia]

The maze looks like its from pacman plus

[wtcvidman]

@superyoshia

I thought the same thing. And Pac-Man Plus had a soda can as 1 of those items that Pac-Man can eat. But the soda can looked like a red Coke can with that stripe going down. I really wonder if there's an ultra-rare 7-Up version of Pac-Man Plus. There was a Mello Yello version of Q*Bert (also from 1982), so why not a 7-Up version of Pac-Man (or Pac-Man Plus)? Maybe there was a prototype 7-Up version of Pac-Man that evolved into Pac-Man Plus (like how Crazy Otto became Ms. Pac-Man).

[superyoshia]

wish pacman would drink 7-up just when I'm about to die

[PunkyYoshi11]

Strange enough, I was playing Pacman on Mame, and I drank some 7up after I saw this, and I actually got through 14 levels before dieing on level 15. That's something!

[Leewise1]

best. advert. ever.

[tehcarpet]

totally agree. Better than the crap now.

[BobbyDes]

no game will ever be a big as Pac-Man was then

[Blakee8288]

Why is Pac-Man red?

[spacezombie]

Well, look at the 7-UP label. Think about it... There you go.

[cooldudeintown]

@spacezombie so its coolspot 7up packman

[InsideAVitalSuit]

@Blakee8288 Thats not pacman it's DOT

[182supermario]

@Blakee8288 Because it symbolizes the "Cool Spots".

[SteveC935]

@Blakee8288 The embarassment of being pimped out for soda pop ads?

[axeman721]

LOL, they show pacman drinking 7-up, then the screen gets bigger, and it shows the four ghosts drinking it too lolololol

[hypermegaman13]

OMG, i wanna cry, that was so cool

[Datan0de]

What a fantastic ad!

[qtip215]

this commercial kicked ass

[xam714]

that it did, man

that it did

[zsyed12345678]

Whoa, I wonder how many millions of dollars it cost to make that king of CG commercial. The 80s ruled!!!

[xxdamonxx77]

Now you guys know that the makers of 7up had to have paid the owner's of Pacman a ton of money to make that commercial possible.

[keeltoll3456]

Feel free to make "waka waka waka waka" noises as you drink it.

[axeman721]

lololololololololol

[SuperSonicTailsEas]

I'm drinking a 7 up right now! They have the small bottles you know the ones at the vending machine 20 FL OZ. They are in the sliding door things near the counter where you pay for your stuff. A dollar each! I picked up 5 of em. 3 for me now and 2 for this sleepover I'm going to tonight. 7 UP AND PAC-MAN 4 EVA

[o0gman0o]

yeh i too have the urge to have a 7-up after watching this

[RobotwarsKing]

And me too, strangely enough!

*Runs to the fridge, grabs a bottle of 7up, downs it and eats 4 ghosts, claiming a 1600 point bonus*

[krononomikon]

7-up in booberry cereal? :D!!

[RobotwarsKing]

But hey, 7up cools you down! ^_^

[sega31098]

I have the sudden urge to dring a 7-Up.

[xam714]

subliminal messages?

..nah.

[xxxx7706]

Okay Pac-Man and the ghosts didn't show us their cans!!!

[TheHumanMissile]

what song does the melody come from ?

[CRACKOWL]

It's Kim Carnes's Bette Davis eyes, also a hit from the time period

BTW

check out Kim's video "draw of the cards" for some WTF surrealism

[punkomatic232]

i love that commercial the best ever

[charleskusiak12]

God, I wonder what the boys in the ad department were smoking when they came up with THAT one.

[PunkyYoshi11]

Isn't it obvious that they were smoking a copy of Steven Speilberg's "How to make a godawesome CG 80s advertisment fur dumbies" book

[Destructionmen]

I wanna cry.

[jstewartf4president]

that's a kick ass commercial.

[hallospacegirl1013]

WOW that's pretty neat! i love the ending. wasn't expectin gthat.

[texolot]

Holy Crap! I thought this was long gone!!! Thx for posting a piece of my past!

[blakfloyd]

1. Those ghosts are soooo fired

2. I've been listening to "bette davis eyes" for three days straight and still can't get past the sixth level. This ad distorts the actual relationship between early-80s soft rock and 8-bit gaming performance. I'm going play lawn darts.

[Market42Fan]

Maybe you should try adding the 7Up to listening to said song while playing Pac-Man.

[blakfloyd]

I'm on it

[qwertyclan5000]

aww...no beer

[Bakunkun]

Pac-man's a 7up addict. 5 Bottles in a game!? Jebus Crites!

[Zeix36]

That was the gayest commercial I've ever seen.

And since when have Pac-Man, Inky, Blinky, Winky, and Clyde ever grown arms?

[pokatib]

well zeix36... 1.pac-man and the ghosts had arms since 2000 2. its pinky not winky and 3. its not a gay commercial

[cheapholiday]

Skeptical. Carnes & Bally started feeling 7up at their peak? Where's Punjab?

[dumbtime101]

7 up is sooooooooo good

[tajnarabota]

7-Up. now made with Betty Davis' eyes.

[thomashulk]

Fake.

[TheMadGeener]

Wacky.

[peterproscia]

Cool! So 80s!

[Gossage54]

I agree, the graphics actually don't look anywhere near as bad as I expected! Holds up alright for 25 years old. I'm 35 so 1982 was the height of my video game career. Got my 2600 that year. Always hated Pac-Man, the game was always just a real pain in the ass to me. Still is if I go back and play it again. Pitfall, now that was a cool game (for the time).

[Dengar13]

I liked Pitfall II better than Pitfall.

[givonnet]

I'm only 31 and I really wasn't able to enjoy the 80's like someone in their 40's, but I'm glad I was able to cherish what the 80's had to offer.  Long live the 80's!

[Dengar13]

Hells yeah!

[Destructionmen]

Hang loose brodda!

[brettshears]

That was beautiful, loved it.

[acquiesce1975]

thought i was the only one that remembered this advert!! one of ma favourites of all time..waited about 25 years to see that advert!

[kz1000ps]

Did they get the Tron people to do the computer graphics? For 1982, they still look pretty darn good.

[Tuneman1984]

7-UP: More addictive than Crack! Just ask Pacman!

[copperline78]

Wow thats a fantastic commercial for 1982! I was four and i dont remember it though. What i like about it is its almost like a commercial you might see today trying to be retro. Great find!

[steevzstubs]

Thank you this is awesome footage. I was the king of Pac man in the neighborhood. You were always the coolest guy on the block if you were king. By the way...i got my quarter up for next game.

[tidycat4]

This is interesting to see because 7up must've paid millions to do this ad back in the eighties when computer graphics were sooooo expensive.

[Augiestyle]

That's amazing how they got the rights to use the song Betty Davis Eyes

[retrorocker]

I liked that. The animation was pretty good. I'd have a 7-Up right now, but all I can seem to find in stores is Sprite.

[ashteroth2006]

Wow, pretty good quality for such an old vid.

[spacezombie]

Yeah, I know. I nicked it from another site. I really only put it here to test out uploading a video.

[dreamcastII]

This video is from 1982, I remember it as a child and it is still viable today. The choice of pop single was very astute and Kim Carnes' track lives on with words changed [Betty davis eyes]. I am really pleased this video is here and I salute the person who put it here and recognised its value.