Re:Retro

Video game commercials of the 80s and 90s

by Joel on July 15th, 2008

Sigh. This is something we never had in this little tropical archipelago when every member of my generation was still young.

Oh, sure, we had tons of toy commercials, especially during those weekend cartoon marathons common in the 1980s to early 1990s. But, no, we didn’t have video game commercials—at least, I don’t remember watching them on television. Good thing we had that 7-Up Pac-Man commercial … you know, the one with the theme song derived from Kim Carnes’ Bette Davis’ Eyes.

So it’s only natural for me to surf the web for those old video game commercials … everything that I’ve missed. Here’s the first one I feasted my eyes on:

Wonderful! Street Fighter and Mega Man commercials. Can’t get enough of those.

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