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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An early 90s commercial by McDonalds featuring a group of young teens who are unable to decide on what movie to rent.
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Domino Rally is a connectible, easily resettable series of parts that creates a domino chain reaction. Various Domino Rally playsets could be connected together to lengthen the chain.
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This commercial features the larger Robotix expansion sets with more interchangeable and motorized parts.
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Saturday mornings in the 1980's were so much more than cartoons - as NBC's "One To Grow On" series displayed. These brief clips were presented three times between the 8AM - 12PM Saturda...
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Saturday mornings in the 1980's were so much more than cartoons - as NBC's "One To Grow On" series displayed. These brief clips were presented three times between the 8AM - 12PM Saturda...
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Saturday mornings in the 1980's were so much more than cartoons - as NBC's "One To Grow On" series displayed. These brief clips were presented three times between the 8AM - 12PM Saturda...
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Saturday mornings in the 1980's were so much more than cartoons - as NBC's "One To Grow On" series displayed. These brief clips were presented three times between the 8AM - 12PM Saturda...
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Saturday mornings in the 1980's were so much more than cartoons - as NBC's "One To Grow On" series displayed. These brief clips were presented three times between the 8AM - 12PM Saturda...
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A really cheesy rock performance starts off this Super Golden Crisp cereal commercial, followed up by a promo for free rock-themed stickers as a box prize.
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Time for Timer public service segments had a lot of airtime in the late 1970s to mid 1980s, and displayed minute-long cartoon segments that taught children lessons about proper eating and exercis...
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This is the commercial for one of the strangest Atari games, which had one of the biggest love/hate relationship with Atari owners for years. Some called it a rushed effort to capitalize on the ...
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The original commercial for "Donkey Kong Jr. cereal," which had crunchy fruit-shaped cereal pieces. It also advertised the Ralston baseball card set promotion.
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An original promotion for ABC's saturday morning animated series, "The Real Ghostbusters."
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The original network bumpers and closing credits of the animated series, "The Biskitts."
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The show opening of the animated series, "Care Bears Family."
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The show opening of the live-action series, "Airwolf."
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Another commercial that was influenced by early 90s hip hop style, it advertised Honeycomb cereal and the limited edition 1992 baseball card set that came with proofs of purchase.
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This extremely short-lived gaming system required the usage of an existing VCR (since it could not play tapes on its own), as well as the actual Actionmax system itself. Sensors had to be set up ...
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Atari introduced this fast-paced shooter as "one of the new games of the century" from 20th Century Fox.
Be sure not to miss the cheesy joke: "Tanks" ... "...
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This football had a built-in whistle that emitted a screeching noise as it flew through the air.
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