Watching this was an absolute treat. I'm not going to say that I didn't shed a tear watching this. Long gone is the innocence of video gaming, back in the day when it was pure. The memories live on. I wish I could go back and do it all again.
Wow! A good way of observing how these things evolved from the humble Atari, through to the Sega Mega drive and PlayStation. 2040 Advert 3:40 "please sir, what's an office?" WFH anyone?
The humble pong binatone orange and black console tennis, squash and football game was the first of the humble tech. Bop, bop, beep.(I have one but I left the batteries in it for years and it now just looks good but don't work) Atari was the first decent games console I think. It was also fecking expensive .
Amazing compilation, really cool! That Atari song, so embarrassing! And one would think Sega would have had really cool, factual, tech-based ads for the mighty Megadrive, but back then, they didn't realise how naff these ads were! What strikes me is the pricing, wow it really was expensive then. Makes a console now at £450 seem pretty good..
This is great archive material. Strangely enough the only one I vaguely remember is the CD32. I'm pretty sure that's because these ad's never targeted me when I spent all my spare TV time on my computers anyway. Probably broadcast before the "watershed". I totally remember all the really good hilarious adverts like for e.g. Hamlet cigars, Carlsberg, Heineken beers. Also the excellent adverts for Kia Ora and Um Bongo which would get someone a hate crime prison sentence nowadays. The OXO adverts with Lynda Bellingham were pretty memorable too.
Our first was a machiine with three in-built games; pong/badmintonn and football, tink it was made by Grandstand. Then I had a Vic 20, C64, Nes, Megadrive, Amiga 1000, Snes, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Xbox 360 and now a Switch.
Atari thought they were being clever with "Please sir, what's an office?" set in an imaginary 2040, but they may well have been on the mark with their prediction there
kid in 1980: Dad can I have an Atari 400 to learn French? Dad: well... if you can learn foreign languages with that computer, yes kid (to himself): great! countless hours of missile command action!!
Atari 2600 was my very first console. I remember waking up on Christmas morning and being terrified to go into the sitting room as there were some strange lights and what sounded like thunder. As a kid it scared the bejesus out of me. Turned out my parents had left the console set up with missile command playing. Broke some amount of those crappy Atari joysticks back in the day.
@@aaron1182 Yeah, those joysticks. Iconic, but terrible to use. I still have a VCS but I leave the joysticks in the cupboard & use a Megadrive pad instead. These days I have RSI in my hands, & those stiff Atari joysticks absolutely wreck my fingers.
Oh man, this is super nostalgic. I'll always be a sega boy at heart. The master system and mega drive are my two favourite console's, closely followed by the Saturn. I adored my Nintendo game boy too. I did have a commodore and amstrad cpc464 as a kid, but they paled in comparison to the console's.
Fortunately, I did not watch the PlayStation commercial on TV or internet, because then I would have been very sad because no matter what I do or what i insist, my parents would not buy it for me
@@bigboyanimation3799 Same here now. I have a PS4 but most of my gaming is done on a 7 year old laptop. It's sub-mid range, but I get by. Instead of upgrading to a PS5 I'm picking up a decent mid range gaming laptop in the next few weeks. It'll run stuff at 1080p 60fps+, so will do me fine. Will be better for video editing too.
Funny, I was watching the 80s movie War Games yesterday. Looking at that room full of computer equipment I thought, "I bet there's more processing power in my phone than there was in that entire room."
Its unbelievable how expensive computers were. £580 for an Amiga 500. Imagine going back in time with a PS5 and saying to yourself here you can have this for the same price.
I'm 56 so grow up in this era . I remember my gran asked me which i wanted for xmas a Atari 2600 or a Philips Videopac console G 7000 i chose the G7000 still have it and still working
After pong and simon i never saw any of these ads i was out singing in my band playing the first soace invaders abd fiwn the seaside arcades ,i missed out a bit
I feel very privileged to have grown up through this era. Born in the late 70s, my entire 80s and 90s were filled with endless hours of laughs playing games with friends. All crowded around a small 14" CRT telly playing whichever new game had just hit the shelves.
Going out to pick a game with family or friends was a treat itself. Looking at screenshots, reading the manual and deciding if a game was worth the price. Great times.
A great selection of adverts. I bet you didn't know about how the very first advert in your collection inspired a sketch in Andrew Marshall and David Renwick's _End of Part One_ . In a 1980 episode, the Atari advert forms the basis of a spoof advert for _The LWT Comedy Sausage Machine_ . It is in an episode that takes the proverbial about out of _Larry Grayson's Generation Game_ and the race to boost Saturday night viewing figures.
Hey, this video is amazing 😺👍! In fact, i have the Atari 2600 games on my PlayStation 2 in the compilations called ATARI ANTHOLOGY and ACTIVISION ANTHOLOGY. And after i saw the games from Ocean, I admit, that i still own the original Commodore 64 and Amiga computers + games 😺👍🕹️🕹️. And that Amiga commercial is a legendary 😺👍. I even have the Commodore 64 games on the tapes and disks and one module game INTERNATIONAL SOCCER. These old games even inspire me to draw my own comic fan arts 😺👍. And i was born in the summer of 1983. Thanx for showing this awesome video of the old legendary classic games 😺👍. Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.
That commercial set in 2040 turned out to be almost prophetic, especially after the pandemic with a kid saying, "What's an office?" I wonder how many of the Vectrex were sold in the UK or elsewhere. Google tells me it wasn't sold very much in the US because the market crashed for videogames n 1983. I had one of the first GameBoys. It basically was just a way to eat batteries with a little bit of playing time.
I nearly owned a Vectrex. We heard Woolworth were selling them off for £40. Rushed up there and they'd just sold the last one! What made it worse was the next day one of the neighbour's kids was showing off his new Vectrex his dad had got him for £40.
I got a Vectrex for Christmas in the early 80's, and actually still have it along with the original hand written receipt! I only had a few games to begin with, but remember going with my mum to the shop when she heard they were being sold off cheap and got nearly every game released, along with a spare controller and light pen. I still play it now and again.
I am a dinosaur on the gaming scene now but I grew up playing most of these and proud of it. A much simpler time before DLC, season passes and microtransactions.
Who'd have thought back then we'd all be walking about with small devices called mobile phones with unbelievable technology and games etc available with touch of an app ..
Atari games starting at £18 in the late 70's early 80's, weren't no small change. That was pretty expensive by todays standards. I love those videos! I remember my brother typing in the basic programs from Input magazine, not sure if I ever saw any working games though! I remember all my friends wanting a SNES with SF2.
SF2 for the SNES was 199 Gulden (about 150 US dollar) But working at a flower farmer with minimum wage for a week or 2 to afford Street Fighter II was definitely worth it.
Nostalgia smashes me in the face. I remember buying games from the toy store every month together with a friend like it was yesterday. He for his Megadrive and Gameboy. Me for the Super Nintendo and Gameboy. Great times. (wipes away a tear)
I had a ZX Speccy 48k and ,later, the +2.My local youth club and friends had a Toshiba MSX,Amstrad CPC and a C64 between them,great machines. But ,for me anyway, the Speccies were the best.
I started on the 48k Spectrum. Moved up through Speccy +2 / Sega Master System / Amiga 500 / Amiga 1200 over the years before getting my first PC when they started becoming affordable.
@@randy7894 Actually, I kind of agree. The MSX and the Amstrad were both great machines, but they were dragged down by lazy Spectrum ports. In the right hands, those two computers could have given us some amazing gaming experiences back in the 80s.
@@RetroSteveUK Definitely. MSX owners were spoiled by sprite capabilities and a great basic interface. Personally I liked the speccy ports quite a lot. Limitations of the 2 color per charachter gave an artistic look to loading screens and games. Both are great systems if i'm honest :)
Lol Steve I remember the Atari video games console the one I had was the during the early 80s was the Atari 2600 with cartridge games like pacman and Tetris and many more I can’ remember lol 😂
Hell. I'll be that guy in the video museum with the tash waxing on about my home pc in 2040 . Except it wont be an Atari it will be a speccy :P And the bit where the kid asks "sir what's an office" looks like its coming true.
No you've been saying it right. The guy in the advert mucked it up. Reminds me of an old Star Wars toy advert that referred to Darth Vader as "Darth Varder" .. 🤣
It's interesting watching the slow evolution in technology and design of games consoles from the early 80's up to the mid-90's, ending with the PlayStation. People naturally tend to look back with rose- tinted glasses at those times regarding them as the halcyon days, wishing it was still like that today. But it's clear from watching the video the industry felt differently and didn't stop after the releases, for example, of the SNES and Mega Drive, thinking that's good enough for the consumer, and focused instead on other products like televisions and phones. I for one am glad they continued and are still continuing to make advances. If we showed the videogames players of the mid-80's what we have today, they'd be blown away, thinking science fiction became science fact! 😊
@@simonfootie6255 I've kept a couple of old TVs so I can still play on the old consoles, although the consoles can easily be modded now to work with new TVs.
I have a 128k +2 Speccy, but the real iconic one is the 48k rubber key model. I'd like to pick one up at some point to have on display, even if it doesn't work.
@@RetroSteveUK I started with a 48k Rubber key and later added a Plus Keyboard when the membrane went from playing Daley Thompsons Decathlon, but that eventually died. The one in Attic is a Rubber keyboard original I picked up at a Jumble Sale years ago, it did work but has been untouched for 20 years plus 😂
@@gregphillips.1312 Man, I remember begging my parents to upgrade to a Spectrum Plus from a standard 48k. It was a definite no, and in hindsight I'm glad they stopped me. It would have been another £150+ for a solid keyboard and a reset button. 🤣
Amazing how technology has advanced in the numbers. My inexpensive phone has 46,875 times as much RAM as that Spectrum+3! Doesn't of course mean it's 46,875 times better of course!!!!
In 1991 at my work boss’ home office I noticed their latest home computer . he gave a brief demonstration of its capabilities namely a program that allowed you to make it speak which I didn’t completely believe so Nige asked me “ give it something to say Mork “ I immediately tapped the keys the word “ bollocks “ . The computer duly spoke back in a deep tone “ BOO LLXXXSS “ - in spite of being mere skilled manual workers we realised the machine may understand better the phonetic spelling - ‘ B O. LUKs ‘ or ‘ BU LUCKS ‘ & more until cracking its interpretation of our sound by clearly announcing “ BOLLOKS “ nice & clearly. Having grown up through countless tech innovations throughout the 60s 70s & 80s we both felt a huge sense of achievement in meeting or testing & giving a practical application for the capabilities of leading edge office technology . On recounting this event to my son a few years back , he refused to believe such software was available at an affordable price in 1991 but I didn’t imagine this event because the pair of us were hooting like a pair of schoolboys as the computer loudly repeated it’s new knowledge at our command .
Brilliant. I can confirm, in the early 90s, my Commodore Amiga 500 (priced at £499) was able to say any swear words I gave it, just by typing them into a text window. Hours of fun! 🤣
And the rest! Blows my mind to think that my Speccy had 48kB of RAM, and now my laptop has 32 million kB. The hard drive storage capacity alone is 1.6 trillion kB! 🤯
We nearly had one. Reduced to £40 at Woolworths. We rushed up town to get one and they'd sold out! Neighbours managed to get one before us. I was always SO jealous.
F'Me, those things were awesome at the time! My neighbours had one & let me play on it. Magic! Like a little arcade machine at home & those smooth vector graphics were like nothing else.
