80's Commercials Vol. 57

[MattTheSaiyan]

I've played that "Star Trek" game on 2600. Not great, but not bad, though it has little to do with Star Trek. The 2600 port of "Galaxian" is great though. The 5200 port is shown. While the 5200 is known for generally good arcade ports (with occasionally questionable controls), the port of "Galaxian" for the console is considered to be something of a turkey.

[nelson4568]

damn times have changed since then

[NoctemOUT]

Did that Twix commercial seriously put "a mix of ingredients" as the selling point? Don't most candy bars have at least that many elements to them or more? Also, the only way drinking coffee calms you down is if you're addicted to caffeine- hardly a good thing. Same thing with cigarettes.

[MeInTX]

With the coffee ad, I just can't help but think "I'm so excited! I'm so excited I'm so...scared!"

What music connoisseur is going to buy "beach music", Hall & Oates, and The Alarm? That's an awfully random collection of record ads.

It's been years since I've seen it, but I recall "Deal of the Century" being pretty awful. You can probably make a pretty good satire about an amoral arms dealer. You probably shouldn't hire Chevy Chase to play him.

[badgersrule01]

I think the girl in the Coty Musk ad is Jill Schoelen from the original Stepfather , Cutting Class and Popcorn.

[VenusInFurs]

@badgersrule01 You're right, it's her.

[douglascatti]

That wild musk commercial i probably saw dozens of times. all the time i was watching MTV in those days....total Nostalgia

[8835855]

I remember the Coty Wild Musk commercial used to scare my younger brother for some odd reason...lol that and the Candies Shoe commercial called "Comission" or something like that.

[IluvDonnieandJordan]

I was only 14 months when these commercial air on tv.

[gleeb0278]

The coffee generation???Ha haaaaaaaaaa! That may be the single most amazing thing I've seen in almost 60 volumes...

[TNTITAN]

Wow, I didn't recall that there were basicly Ax body spray ads in the 80s.

[clevelandsteemer]

LOL @ the Coty Wild Musk commercial at 1:36

[kari00ws6]

Wow I was only 9 months old when these aired.

[theschoolofchuck]

I don't know what it is about these commercials. They are both interesting and painful all at the same time.

[kiminokami]

The coffee ad sounds like they are selling drugs.

[DanZero77]

Ernie Anderson would also later do ads for the Sega Master System! Never get tired of him!

SAYGUHHHHHH....

[danielledrules]

when I saw the coffee commercial, I thought it was a joke.

[loltard]

Coffee: The drink that gives you ~serenity~

That Spock kid is kinda creepy.

[warriorsorochiman]

@loltard The Spock kid that looks creepy is none other than John Franklin, who played Issac from the Children of the Corn franchise. And his role is more creepy than this commercial. lol

[RoxyAlexander]

Because of these commercials, I would squeeze every piece of hubba bubba before I ate it. Weird!

Oh, man, that Coty musk ad- was that like an SNL skit or WHAT?? Too funny!

[DJVIXTAH]

1:08 OMG LOL!!!! That just BLEW my MIND!!

[mikeynike81]

holy shit children of the corn

[mst3k4evr]

0:31 - 1:01

"It's the 80s. Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan."

[athleticsgirl23]

Does the wild musk commercial make anyone else think of the Black Panther cologne in "Anchorman?"

It's so funny that I remember music commercials selling record and tapes...

[DJVIXTAH]

Soooo right!! But this one's legal. :-P

[rockergirl83]

I was 4 months old when this aired.....

[91Robi]

I cringed at the Coty perfume advert

[sugarrrsmack]

I can't seem to believe that coffee generation ad neither.

[Gravidtron]

Years ago I described my then-girlfriend's shampoo as smelling like 'watermelon Hubba Bubba'. She laughed for about five minutes and said she would remember that one; it seemed like an odd comment.

Then I realized she didn't know that Hubba Bubba had, at once point, been a real brand of gum-- she thought I was making it up. I only wish I were that clever.

[bettychuck]

My Mom had Rock and Soul on Cassette and... I think that was the only tape she had. It's definitely engraved in my head for eternity. She may still have it. ***Intervention!***

[Fairia]

I almost assumed Coffee PSA would be an anti-caffeine or anti-coffee ad or something

[ratanx]

Awesome Kurt Vonnegut cameo in the coffee PSA.

[holbrooke7]

I heard the line "You can be a coffee achiever" in the Weird Al song "Dare To Be Stupid." Now I get it.

[kc86er]

Was this taped on a hi-fi VCR? I think those were brand new back in 1983.

[agltbialik]

I love these pre 1985 commercials the most.

[ekkostar]

MTV always showed the best video game commercials. The coffee commercial is also hilarious. :)

[Lilligirl07]

coty wild musk: 60% of the time, it works everytime!

[Muggle423]

I miss the Cookies and Cream Twix candy bar. I don't know why they had to get rid of it. It was gooood.

[alramone1]

that star trek game looks really lame, even for atari.

[80sCommercialVault]

I don't know about the quality of that game, but the main reason behind the video game crash of '83 and '84 had to do with a flood of crappy licensed movie cash-in games that nobody bought.

[tumest]

The irony being that we're now in a similar situation with boatloads of crappy licensed and lazily made cash in games that are somehow bolstering the gaming economy.

[80sCommercialVault]

It's because at that point the video game market simply wasn't big enough to support an avalanche of crappy product.

There are enough idiots buying video games these days to support a system where quality is the exception and not the rule. Someone needs to hit the reset button.

[DanZero77]

@80sCommercialVault HEAR HEAR!

[tabooman]

I believe the coffee PSA. I also believe that you can leap onto horses like in that Hubba Bubba commercial.

By thae way, I liked Rock n Soul Part I. I think it's a great CD.

Now I have to check out The Alarm.

[Boogeyman80]

O.o

The Murray bike commercial is awesome! Do kids even ride bikes anymore? We lived on our bikes as kids. Even ate while riding them. Least I didn't have to wear a helmet. Traumatic head injuries were just part of growing up.

[troodon311]

That Coty commercial makes me feel so uncomfortable.

It's weird that the commercial for that Space Invaders-type game is told from the alien perspective.

[jwgreek8606]

Coffee is overrated anyway!

[101Frenchkisses7]

The Coffee PSA... WTF!!!

[Zreserve]

That's the same thing I thought about that Twix ad. They were surely new at this filming technique because the chocolate that was poured that the far end of the candy bar had spread further than necessary around it by the time they had the wanted shot of poured chocolate covering the near end. :3

[TheGamingGuitarist]

Twix: My favorite candy bar when I was a little kid, and still is today.

[DDRpwnerer]

You can't seriously tell me they were promoting caffeine intake. WTF?

[80sCommercialVault]

If it weren't for the "sponsored by the national coffee association" caption at the end, I'd think that it was some ironic PSA that MTV aired for laughs.

"Because coffee helps you calm yourself down..."

What.

[OzzieAstaroth]

So THAT'S where that one lyric in Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" comes from. When he says "You can be a coffee achiever." I always wondered. lol

[Boogeyman80]

Well is WAS the cocaine decade

[Dauthor]

I think that's John Franklin playing the Vulcan in the Star Trek game commercial.

[PowerGlove79]

I thought that was him as soon I saw him I was like "Holy Crap, thats Issac from Children Of The Corn"

[averagejustin]

the chocolate twix tastes so good

[AnnacondaVice]

Chocolate Twix? As opposed to...?

[averagejustin]

Well what I meant to say is the Twix Peanut butter ones taste good but the regular twix is fine too

[kerberos623]

mm, but when I was a kid here in Sweden it's name was Raider.

Much better name in my not so humble opinion.