Early MTV 1982 with commercials and Fast Times Tralier

[progrocker69]

Defender for the 2600 sucked. It was barely better than the train wreck which was Pac-Man. Stargate wasn't that bad though.

[andrewlincolntv]

They should have used Haircut 100's song Boy meets Girl for that ID...lol.

[Xezlec]

The music changes, MTV decays into goo, video games go from pixely blips to insanely realistic war simulators, nations rise and fall, but we can cling safely to that one constant in our lives: the Big Red anthem will always be the same.

[andrespereyda]

the ball in the hole means a tasty bowl (though not organic)

[MichelleMassecre]

A-A-APPLE!

J-J-JACKS!

[siskavard]

I just nostalgia'd all over my keyboard

[Dj4you33]

mtv lol ...more like Shit tv

martha quin was hot ....lol

[Dj4you33]

mtv lol ...more like Shit tv

[MrJacMac1986]

at :51 . a young Bill Gates

[MrJacMac1986]

the 80's were my high school years .Class of 1986

[joebulls1]

these where commercials when they actually were sellin thier product with their adds when u knew what they where sellin by watchin it the first time not like today god u see it 20 times what the hell r they talkin about i don't even pay attention to them they are some borin & stupid

[crocodile2006]

Great commercials.... but the singing in them.... was terrible.

[sonickchri]

the year i was born into. awesome.

[wendileona]

3:50 Now they don't dare mention the word "pimple"!

[whitepoeticwarrior]

The Only real era of MTV was the '80s whether you want to admit it or not.  Not even the '90s were that good. This is what MTV was about. "Like totally ..."

[ledzep76]

Ann @:20!

[beckigreen]

I miss this MTV. I remember coming home from school and flipping on MTV and doing homework,or coming home from the skating rink on a Friday night and watching MTV actually play videos and falling asleep watching videos.

[jpx08]

This was a time when not just MTV but cable TV was great and was always something to look forward to. Now cable has become total crap! Just endless, mind-numbing reality shows. Even the "education" channels are crap now! Not worth the money they make you pay. As for MTV now....they might as well call it EMPTY TV!

[FarangBalls]

DEFENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

@FarangBalls STARGATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FarangBalls]

@anthraxmikeydoolin i dont get it. theres no stargate reference in this video..

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

@FarangBalls I thought this might happen...

Stargate is Defender II with a different name.

[FarangBalls]

@anthraxmikeydoolin ahh. very cool! thanks for explaining!

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

@FarangBalls

I've noticed you like 80's music... you might like my channel.

[HeathenDeluxe]

holy shit i remember that big red commercial.. how long did they play that? I'm only 33.

[RikaRulez]

2:28 wtf?

[boyrick84]

THE BEST OF TIMES!!!

[MelanieLouM]

See....Fast Times at Ridgemont High...soon....before Phoebe Cates loses her sex appeal!!! ^_^

[SamWaterstonFanatic]

THIS is back when MTV actually WAS MTV....the crap they show today is AWFUL-- they shouldn't even be allowed to CALL it MTV anymore....!!!

[NyteScrybe]

MTV began a couple of weeks after I graduated high school and I clearly remember what a momentous occasion that was in my 18-year-old mind. I was obsessed with it. I clearly remember the Moon Man, the controversy of the Michael Jackson video being played that broke the early race barrier on MTV, and the best part...it was VIDEOS.

I'm 47 now and I I sound like an old fogey but kids today...the MTV you know BLOWS. You missed out on a GREAT era to be alive. MTV should have a retro channel.

[apadilla014]

@NyteScrybe I remember MTV i was only 9 a couple a years after it came out. i had to watch UHF channels that played videos 24/7 no VJ's. In 86 I got MTV I remember the rock blocks. MTV would show flashbacks from when it started. There were no rap videos ,rand b just pop,rock and some rap on YO MTV raps. A retro channel would be nice.

[saq428]

Sean Penn is still as brain dead today!

[Retrofanatic10]

Oh I so would of loved to have lived back in the early 80's! I'm making a tape full of 80's videos from VH1 Classic, The videos will be arranged by year from 1980 to 1989 , so it's like my own little time capsule.

[pazzensutra]

I don't know anybody who thinks MTV is worth watching now. You think they'd get a clue. MTV sucks!

[unfortunatebeam]

Holy Pissbottles! It's napaleon dynamite! Cuz iM T>N>T

"smash hit video games that just keep on coming" haha you said it, and coming and coming and coming until...CRASH!! HAHA!

[LegShowMagazine]

R.I.P. J.J. Jackson. You'll always be part of my 80s' memories.

[bergcycles1]

i dont remember commercials being this bad. Crazy. Good post!!!

[DeLapjeskat]

"don't play games with your pimples... OXY10"

:')

[tommy1138]

Mtv is a pathetic joke now. A channel that still thinks it's cool and relevant when it hasn't been since the early 90's. In Arizona we get a free digital channel called Cool Tv which actually plays current and retro music videos all day long. They even run the 80's classic stuff. Just saw INXS "The One Thing" and Billy Joel's "She's Right On Time" last night. Cool Tv reminds me of the early Mtv days. Have you played Atari today?

[Aggedor1959]

delosla you RULE THE UNIVERSE! This post takes me RIGHT back to the 80s.

I agre with torstn. MTV should just launch another cable channel just running the old 80s stuff. It'd be EPIC!

[torstn]

we need more classic mtv from the 80s here.

damn when i see this i so miss the 80s

[Zooroonies]

i always wondered why most atari commercials have nerds in them hehehehehe.

[thethoma]

"The ball in the hole, means a tasty bowl" WTF!?

[daytripperarrabal]

Hawaian Punch?? WTF was that?

[imachildofthe80s8089]

They STILL have Hawaiian punch. I think the ? is where the WTF have you been?

[level242]

gosh I remember every single one of these commercials

[imachildofthe80s8089]

I def remember the big red commercials...and all the other chewing gum commercials. They get stuck in your brain like mj's thriller album

[Mercurachrome]

Stuck? Is that a pun? Lol.

[imachildofthe80s8089]

yeah I just meant their so catchy that you can't get it out of your head, almost hypnotic and kinda scary actually, I know my teacher didn't like it when I sang the Brady bunch theme coz then she'd remember it the rest of the day and she didn't want that lol

[Mercurachrome]

Just kiddin I know what you meant

[skingerskanger]

GOD that Pat Benatar..soooo hot..(melts)

[2thinkabout]

1982 what a year

[xabat77]

There needs to be an MTV3 that will just show music videos, VJs, and commercials from the 1980s.

[jdog34505]

id sign a petition for that anyday!

[imachildofthe80s8089]

Amen!

[luvsthose8230s]

@xabat77

I agree!

[utubearenazis]

@xabat77 which will become another mtv channel after 2 years...

[joecrewdog]

JJ Jackson. R.I.P. my friend...

Miss you and your voice here in SoCal.

You are not forgotten.

[level242]

We miss him here on the East Coast too.Loved him on Mtv in the 80's loved him on the Beatle Years in the 90's Miss him in whatever we call this decade.

[Gerkinstock]

The Naughts. The Twwnty-Naughts.

[dmainfla]

I turned 16 that summer and it was one of the more unique times on music. Thanks for posting!

[traininvain80]

the ad for fast times, the cheerleaders in the ad,

[missxsx]

haha love 0:39,

the geek is playin a 1980's video game.

i'm a 90''s kid but it really cool 2 see that.

[imachildofthe80s8089]

Atari started sometime in the late 70's...until it was replaced by Nintendo in 1985. Sega Genesis would be the new thing in '91 or 92, now there's wwii, MP3 there's so much. Atari is what started it all. miss the arcade days/

[smileythegnome]

The Genesis came out in '89. That's when I got mine. It was $189.99.

[Gerkinstock]

I think Magnavox Odyssey was probably the first, in 1972. I was really surprised to find out aracade games and home video games debuted around the same time. As a kid I figured arcade games had been around since the 1950's and home video consoles came along much later on.

[cheesecats1]

I Miss The 80s It Was So Much Fun Love Fast Times Great Movie!!!

[MitziDeMarco]

Yeah, these were the glory days before Viacrap bought out MTV and ruined it.

[theworldostuff]

2:27 is the best of all time, what a reaction to.. nothing! LMAO

[6jamesbrown]

mtv sucks now! they play no music videos how can u have vmas without music videos dumb asses

[FnlPrblm]

They do, but you have to watch carefully at 3am or change the channel and watch the Fuse network to see them. ;)

[133Daddy]

Interesting to not that ATARI was marketing to girls for video games back then

[linuxjosef]

The ATARI commercial at 0:38 is just hillarious!

[PaulSchissel]

MTV Today is Shit!!!, They don't play any music at all, I couldn't even tell you what they show or how this station stays on the air anymore!, They need to take the "M" out of music TV and replace it with a "S" SHIT TV!!

[mollykate777]

@PaulSchissel i agree with you 100%!!!! it used to be about the music... wtf happened???

[MrJacMac1986]

@PaulSchissel I havent watched MTV at all since 2007.I dont even know what they show anymore.When they had tila tequlia on that was the end for me.I hear they are bringing back Beavis and Butthead which i somewhat liked.But i dont even know when it will be on because i dont watch that channel anymore

[rodtorkelson]

Mark Goodman looks like Clare Danes

[Revelation181]

The Atari Defender guy's girlfriend is a serious spaz...

[theworldostuff]

some great ads here and 2:27 is the best ever. what was that all about?

[comedylover88]

I remember those old Big Red jingles from when I was little.

Sounds like Maurice LaMarche doing the voiceover in that Oxy 10 commercial.

[megawatt11]

MTV, Atari, Fast Times, Apple Jacks, Hawaiian Punch, Big Red, Oxy 10 (space invaders style) --awesome ...totally awesome!!

[jmsdnstn]

Aaw man! These commercials make me want to invent a fuckin time machine and go back to the good old 80's!

[Yakantheterek]

And when you do, take me with you!

[gootenslog]

Those VJ's really looked fruity.

[earlymtv]

actually mtvs best years were 1981-1983. by 84 videos started to look like big production movies...

[gocav76]

You are so right!

[jaworskij]

2:32 ... the VJ looks like John Travolta but isn't.

[marzipan260]

geez they shoulda called it CTV 24 hour commercials.

[marzipan260]

defender looks like a geek but defender got a hot bitch.

[ThundaLippz]

omg...feel so fuckin old now,and im juz 34 lol. i remember lotta of this.has anyone watched mtv lately? theyre "really"no longer a music station at all.its juz another channel like spike,or tlc for teens.

[therexCo]

If you don't chew big red then f**k you.

[l2p]

Apple Jacks pinball.... sweet.

[AlmaCherry]

so dance a lil longer...hold tight a lil longer..hahah..aww before a shot at love with tila tequila..NICE..i love this vintage MTV

[braziliano77]

Theses times are so true, and today all is liked trash. and fake.

[butnut11]

Holy crap. Just had a major flashback.

[Danilo3246]

What is the name of that second song that plays in the first of this propaganda video?

I would be grateful for the help

[brw9284]

hall & oates, kiss on my list.

[Danilo3246]

Brw9284 Thank you! :D

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[MeAndMyRC]

Man! I loved these days!

[vixxen99]

LOL....MY GOODNESS SO OLD LOVE IT

[Danilo3246]

Who is the song that says "We've Got to meets"?

Thank you for your help :)

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[randallangela1]

Hahahahahaha.....that film with Sean Penn! Laughed my ass off than passed out. Low sperm count or what???

[tommy1138]

Mtv was great back then. I was 13 and Mtv was like a private clubhouse. It was a channel that few people watched, but those that did were usually pretty cool. It just seemed really intimate and they actually played music videos. Remeber those?

[randallangela1]

These adds are making me crack up! Did no one laugh out in the 80's whilst watching those? And that old game was funny. The way the girl was hiding behind that boy...

I would be tempted to make some new adds like these ones, just for a laugh.

[pekoe]

this looks ancient compared to now I'm 38 an feel like anything pre 9/11 looks dated---- dam toke in it up--

[80stimeagain]

I had the Atari system and a pinball machine in the 80s. =)

[pekoe]

&&&&&&&&&OMG******)*)* I love the Hawiian punch one-- I am having a hard flashback..1 was 12 an sincelry though ohh I wanna make out on that boat

[JMein13074]

Does anyone know any good drink combinations with Hawaiian Punch?

[pekoe]

LIl WAYNE-- is on here mixing coseine cough syrup with it...Its wild...search an see

[Diskoboy1974]

Ah, May 1982 - the day our cable system got MTV. It was our first channel beyond 13, so we also got our first box. Nickelodeon and CNN also came with it. And HBO was still free with your cable subscription.

It was a woodgrain box with a plastic disc with numbers written on top to signify the channel, and a smaller 'fine tuning' knob on the side. MTV was channel 15. My folks had it blocked in 1990, around the time I stopped caring.

This video is proof Viacom destroys everything it touches.

[toddbillingsleyguitr]

yes brother

[BigRC83]

How times changed.

[cllamont]

Truly - you wouldnt think there were any black people in American looking at this. Now that is all you see if you turn on MTV.

[aftershock71]

I remember these times. Love em!!

[mikper7]

Ahhh, and the Saturday Concert (.38 Special, Rush, Ozzy, Duran Duran, Journey, Quarterflash, Loverboy, the list is endless) and the Sunday Special. Fuckin A, memories.

[mikper7]

Fucking fantastic. Anyone else remember when MTV played random, silent, weird ass black and white clips from the 30's every hour (on the hour I believe) just to, I dunno, kill time and stay within budget?

[mightydagon]

ARRRGGGHHHHH!!! Anything to go back!! Somebody please find a way to invent a fucking time machine!!

[fluffydolly]

the real deal , many tried non succeded!too bad they screwed it up!

[948carlos]

there goes what used to be fun. mtv and the music.. nothing like the good ol freaking 80's mtv now everything is crap, there's nothing new anymore. you have to go back in time to hear good music. that's horrible, new musicians have to copy what used to be good because nothing from now days is good. that's sad

[pseudolover]

i mean i was born in 82 but it seems like pop culture was so neanderthal

[JayKay62969]

I used to watch MTV for hours on end, every time my Mom would try to turn off the t.v.(parents did that back then) I would beg for one more video! Everything sucks now, music, movies, t.v. Everything has been diluted and dumbed down. Mediocrity rules! You can thank the Corporate America for that! It's been their plan all along to make America stupid, fat and lazy, no opposition then! Just hand them another bag of fast food and sit them in front of a "reality show", they won't notice a thing!

[rojman123]

The big red commercial is almost the same as today

[Rangerman9091]

I had the Atari and the defender game. I loved it.

[dexterriley]

mark goodman always reminded me of the keyboard player form the tv show FAME, anyone else?

[mefault]

Back when they played music!! I miss the old MTV days...

[goonies31]

totally awesome

[storrs19]

Wow! Mark Goodman and J.J. Jackson. This brings back so many memories when MTV was Music Television. God tv sucks now! There are NO good channels any more. I have digital cable with 200 channels and watch about 6 of them (all on the digital tier of course). Sad.

[jay973129]

Too bad MTV sucks now.........

[delosla]

Anyone remember listening to MTV in stereo before most TV sets were even equipped with MTS stereo? Our cable company used to pipe MTV's stereo signal on an un-used FM frequency. We had to split the cable line, hook it up to the receivers antenna connection and tune in the frequency for FM quality stereo sound. I remember HBO had a frequency also. Too bad Youtube no longer allows stereo uploads.

[flotifa69]

Yeah delosla, I remember...But we only had one of them big 'ol console tvs with a 13 inch screen (or close to it), and one tiny speaker. And my mom would have kicked my arse if I had messed with any of the wires. Probably because I was drunk through that entire decade. It was me, mtv, and Michelob. whew!!

[RockStarSoul]

Oh yeah, I did that in 82. Hearing stereo tv at the time was fascinating. However our particular cable company...there was some kind of interference that messed with the MTV audio frequency, probably the scrambling for the movie channels. You could hear the music and hear that it was in stereo. But the noise just made it more annoying than it was worth. Most cable systems probably had a strong signal and no interference. Just, ours sucked like that. Gawd I miss the old MTV ty for this vid

[Diskoboy1974]

@delosla - IIRC, some cable systems still use FM simulcasts in rural areas. And we had our MTV hooked up to stereo back in the early days. Most component recievers back then had an antenna jack that was a coaxial connection (most modern high-end recievers do, as well). The cable provider would bring what is called an FM tapoff, and run the audio signal into your FM tuner antenna jack, and the video and mono signal into the TV. We used that tapoff until we got our first stereo TV in 1986.

[SARATT69]

Every Saturday night in the early days of MTV, 1981, 1982, and 1983, MTV showed concerts on Saturday nights. I remember some concerts being: OZZY, REO, 38 Special, Billy Squier, Quarterflash, Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Journey, The GO GO's, and others.

[SARATT69]

Growing up as a teenager in the 1980's I would say that the 80's had the most changes in fashions, style, music, and attitude. The 80's was a fun decade.

[baddog7676]

I love watching this, even though it's upsetting to see.

I can't believe how cool MTV was back in the day, and how SHITTY it is today.

Really pisses me off.

Look at those graphics on Defender for The Atari 2600 LOL! I had that when I was a kid.

[bds1167]

I know the red haired kid in the Apple Jacks commercial. We graduated high school in '86. His name is JD Roth and has hosted a number of kids gameshows over the last 20 years.

[doubleohagent]

JJ Jackson RIP. RIP also goes to creativity in pop culture. Now it's dead and buried along with MTV as a worthwhile network. I gotta say that getting old really sucks. It wouldn't be so bad if there was cool new stuff to enjoy. Sadly it's harder and harder to find great music. The 80's were a special time for sure.

[hallnoats4ever]

I just purmed my hair, wash my 1982 camaro, snort some coke, and watch this, and it is like I am back in 1982. man I am a loser

[andyjay729]

They mentioned MTV's birthday special-was this broadcast July 30, 1982? 'Cause that was a day after I was born! And they're still using the same basic jingle for Big Red today...

[AlanMetal33]

even the commercials were better in the 80's,lets just admit that were living in a very lazy generation :( 80's were better

[baddog7676]

The 1980's were the best for sure.

[krushsister]

Girl gamer! Sean Penn doing the dude thing! The dry wit and curly hair of Mark Goodman! Big Red "stay close a little longer" commercial!  The Go-Go's! Now that's what I call totally awesome!

[earlymtv]

man i miss 82

[doubleohagent]

What is it with 1982? I swear that the greatest music and films came out that year. Most of my favorites are from 1982. I could really throw a pigskin back then too. Just kidding with the last one. ; )

[guigal2]

In one way it's actually back, though--the economy is just as awful right now as it was then. Coming soon--vintage '82 unemployment rates!

[JoeSmoeX]

This is chock full of wholesome 80s goodness. You have your music videos, your video games, your pinball, your cereal, your Fast Times, your Hawaiian Punch, your chewing gum, your acne medicine. I mean, when you have those things, you pretty much have it all...

[jeffisdede]

Wow. Defender's commercial is insane.

[jeffisdede]

Wow. Defender's commercial is insane.