The decade of excess, the "Me" decade: no matter what you called it, the 80s was a peculiar decade packed with flavor and originality. Cranking out more icons and memories than you can shake a stick at, revisit the 80s here with tons of 80s TV commercials and show intros, from a time when imagination had no limits.
The decade that introduced a whole new generation of slackers and lazy Gen-X'ers: the 90s had attitude; breaking free from New Wave to embrace grunge, hip-hop and techno. See the progression of pop culture and values in the many commercials and TV shows displayed in this section.
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The ending credits of the animated series, "Dinosaucers."
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Hi-C had a multitude of 1950's do-wop themed commercials for their drink box line - this was one of them. Look closely, as one of the child actors appears to be Alyssa Milano.
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One of the many popular buildable playsets that require the assembly of many connecting rods and parts. Construx vehicles typically had several glow-in-the-dark domes and pieces.
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The show opening of the animated series, "Challenge of the Go-Bots."
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The ending credits for the animated series, "Go-Bots."
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A group of youths chase Mr. X through the streets of London, advertising this mystery-themed board game.
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"The army of hidden forces" from Kenner features these retractable toy jets, tanks and other futuristic military vehicles - each with their own spring loaded missles.
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These buildable robotic motorized toys from Tomy closely resembled the monsters of Godzilla and various Japanese shows such as Dynaman. Various parts of each creature could move after assembly, a...
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Powertrons were vehicle toys that "popped up" into robots when hitting a wall...undoubtedly taking advantage of the Transformer craze that had begun in 1984.
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A commercial and jingle that undoubtedly sounds familiar if you've watched Saturday morning programming. The commercial was for a "Win $1000" mail-out mystery contest for Pebbles cereal...
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One of many "Does A Body Good" commercial spots for Milk. This one features a kid explaining milk's benefits, while special effects illustrate his point.
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One of the earliest Nintendo commercials...this one pondered what was in store for the future of the Nintendo Entertainment system, and used a popular cyberpunk theme to get the excitement levels...
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This commercial was released during one of Nintendo's prime years, as the R.O.B. and the Zapper were packaged along with the system and two games.
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This wildly popular series of commercials featured a kid named Jack who brought the creativity of Lego to school. It featured the popular tagline "Jack...he's a Lego Maniac."
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A typical kid relies on the help of the Joes to navigate his way through the kitchen while avoiding Cobra troopers for this crunchy star-shaped GI Joe cereal.
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