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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A series of these unusually drawn commercials were seen in the mid 1980s. All of them featured some sort of rivalry or tension between Count Chocula and Frankenberry.
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Arguably one of the most popular video games for the Sega Master System home console, this ninja/action series was a side-scroller featuring an array of attacks and levels.
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This game involved coiling a long plastic tube around your body, and required you to move a marble through the tube with your body motions, to get it into the container at the bottom of the tube....
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This 'talking' teddy bear made strange electronic buzzing noises when you hugged it.
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These miniature Transformers, reminiscent of "Micro Machines," made their way into stores well after the Transformers movie.
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This Inhumanoids action figure placed captives in his hinged ribcage, and was known to turn humans into living zombies [in its cartoon series, featured during Super Sunday].
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This Pee-Wee Herman doll talked when you pulled its string, and said various signature phrases.
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This commercial for the revitalized "Power Master Optimus Prime" brought back the late Autobot hero as a more powerful version of his former self, with a nebulon engine.
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This commercial introduced the "Ultra Magnus" Transformer, who changed from robot to car carrier. The action figure itself almost appeared to be an exact replica of Optimus Prime, but i...
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This limited time promotion from 1985 advertised a free can of slime with the purchase of two Masters of the Universe action figures. Slime was always the ultimate accessory for any action figure...
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Army Gear was a series of toy weapons that either 'transformed' into action figure bases, or had a dual purpose. The commercial almost seems to be subliminal advertising for the Army!
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A commercial for Talking Viewmaster's "Voltron" and "Rainbow Brite" reels.
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The introduction of the animated series, "Robocop."
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The closing title sequence for "Marvel Action Universe," a short-lived rotation series that showed two of four cartoons each week: Spiderman, Dino-Riders, Robocop, and Pryde of the X-Me...
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The show opening of the animated series, "B.A.D: Bureau of Alien Detectors." This show was syndicated along with episodes of "Exo Squad" in most areas.
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The show opening of the Hanna-Barbera animated series, "HBTV." HBTV was a short-lived series that played in between weekday afternoon cartoons, premiering on "The Funtastic World ...
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Flex was a gimmick battery-operated truck whose "power tires" would expand to accommodate different kinds of terrain, then retract back down to their standard mode for flat surfaces. Th...
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This animated commercial series featured a toothpaste superhero who prevented cavities from getting to children.
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This battery-operated truck rendition of the real life monster truck "Warlord" was part of the "Muscle Machines" collection, made popular by the monster truck "Bigfoot.&q...
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This show opening appeared during the earlier seasons of the animated series, "Mister T." It also includes the original NBC bumper for the show, from its original airing.
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