Speak and Spell dissing Americans for nearly 40 years 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I loved being a child in the 80s, cartoons and TV shows were ace, toys were brilliant and the sweets were awesome! That whole Toymation era (were cartoon were essentially 30min toy ads which had you sitting there saying "I want that.") Being a teenager in the 90s was alright with the rise of videogames but the 80s always will hold a place in my heart.

Would go back to these days in a Heartbeat, no Facebook or Instagram and everyone had respect for each other

OMG the memories with family and friends as a child. I honestly believe the toys we had back in this awesome era lasted longer then the rubbish that they make today. Great video fella 😀👍🏼

Thank you for these memories, amazing how simple life was in my childhood. I agree, i would go back to these days in a heartbeat.

Some of them battery games were really expensive. No wonder my parents bought me Connect 4 and Buckaroo 🤣

Speak & Spell was released in 1978 at 39.95. That's 203 UKP in 2022 !! That gives you an idea how expensive these electronic toys were !

Speak & Spell Every American Should Own One .

I love the little dig about American spelling being wrong in the speak and spell advert.

If you were lucky enough to get one of the electronic games on Christmas morning you can be sure the batteries were forgotten about

My friend had Jaws game in the 70s, those water games I remember were more fun than you would think they would be.

From a time where the delivery of the autumn and winter Christmas catalogue was one the the most eagerly anticipated events of the year and also the book you'd read again and again and again and ag....................

Ahhh the good old days 💕thanks for cheering me up!

The music for that Hornby advert at the end would make top charts nowadays!

I can't believe this reminded me of stuff I had, that I forgot I had!!!!

The prices on these, a fortune. Kids have it so good these days

“Ladies with a sketch-o-graph you can make embroidery patterns..” 😂

This brings back so man memories. Thanks Steve. I loved growing up in 70's UK. You also have the best name in the world, too 😋

I loved ‘Guess Who’. I have a vivid memory of eating cheese on toast with brown sauce on it and getting a blob of brown sauce on the box lid that stained it 😂

in 1979 i was in hospital for a eye operation. I was 5 years old. There was a nurse that would play Guess who with me.

Thank you for taking me back to my childhood.

Brilliant !!! Some of these games are still current in my house !! Great bit of film,of far better times,sadly missed. Thanks for posting mate 😆😆👍👍👍👍👍👍

So glad I was born in the 70s..

An awesome collection of adverts there, takes me back to my childhood. I had that perfection game when I was a kid. Scared me to death though when the timer ran out, every time. You concentrate on putting the shapes in the right holes and you'd forget about the timer and then BANG! Made me jump out my skin. I remember most of these games but I don't think I've ever seen the sketch a graph. Though I do remember I had something a bit similar called the spirograph. This was where you could draw on paper various patterns by using different sized plastic discs that had little holes in and a toothed edge. You put the disc inside the main flat plastic circle and went round and round like a cog. They were great fun. The speak and spell was an interesting thing to say the least. I can remember those words 'spell colour' very well. I can only imagine the number of times the Americans heard those dreaded words 'that's wrong'. I assume those things were produced in America.

A lot of those toys seem more expensive than I remember hahah

Never heard of the sketch a graph...but i want one!!

I so wanted Speak and Spell because of E.T, but my parents in their wisdom got me the maths one instead. I was horrified! 37 years later I still hold a slight grudge!! 😂

I was just a kid back in the 80's so I didn't really notice it like I do now with regards to just how expensive everything was back then. Take the speak spell toy in the first clip for example. rrp of £39.99. That would be the equivalent of about £150 today. The board games too. £16 back then would have been around £60 in today's money. I can only guess that moving the manufacturing to China/Asia is wat as brought down the cost of everything and that if it was to come back to the West, the prices would go back to being like they were in the 80's/90's.

I remember getting the 'Jaws' game from a jumble sale, early 1980s. It was great fun.

I've been transported to my childhood.. Thank you Steve

Geez- toys were expensive back in the day!

Stock car smash up ,I loved that

I had all three of those Texas Instruments toys back then, they were great!

The prices for some of these were so expensive. Even by today's standards. They would be a fortune in today's money.

I used to love all the electronic computers they were amazing and helped with my homework’s especially maths ❤️

Speak & Spell: Spell "Colour" Kid: **spells it the American way** Speak & Spell: WRONG Shade thrown XD

I had Stock Car Smash-Up, a very bullet-proof toy!

Subbuteo, bestest game, then, now or ever. Stands the test of time, none of the rest do.

Computer battleship was brilliant ' going on a power trip ' sinking carriers ' quality 😁

Man, I used to have about 5-6 of those Ideal Water Games, I loved them, but by the time I was into them in the late 80s, I think the branding was Tomy. Also, I'll always remember our doctors surgery having one of those Perfection games with about 1/2 the pieces missing. xD

Fantastic collection of memories, I’ve still got my subbuteo set, we had the best games back in the day I feel sorry for kids now days,

I had the first VTech it was both Texas in one and more, man I loved that thing.

Omg all these ads take me back

Amazing compilation thanks very much

That was an amazing collection of adverts

I remember most of these. Whatever happened to Action GT...? I love how they used to tell you the price!!

Ace video. Legit my entire childhood right there

Remember most of these 😌 Great vid sir 👍 really enjoy watching them

In my collection, i have a collection of items from the late 70s and 80s, all in working order. Picked from 2nd hand shops and car boot sales. One of the items being the early eighties item in the box Spirograph.

PURPLE PEOPLE EATER!!!! So many have told me I was making that thing up. lmao!!!

Just look how many of these have versions or rip-offs still in sale today- says everything!

Simpler, more fun times.

The rough conversion of these prices to todays money is 285% based on when I played with Little Professor. No wonder I had crappy toys as a kid, some of these are really expensive.

Excellent compilation @RetroSteveUK. Just subscribed after looking at your past videos 👍

35 quid for a speech synthesised toy, that's amazing, even then!

I remembered about half these toys maybe, but not the other half. However, what was crazy- a few of these adverts just created such a strong association with the time, that I "felt" the same way that I did when buying other toys completely- not in this video. That is mad.

Loved the Hornby Advert big time

I had one of those Big Badge Factory things when I was little! :D

Great memories, had some of those games

Does anyone remember the last day at school before the summer holidays when you could bring in one of these from home?

Who remembers Boris the spider. I've been trying to find it to show my family what I used to play with.

I see in the TV ad for the 'Connect' game the boy beats the girl. That wouldn't happen now. Girl beats boy every time

I used to have that Little Professor ! If you got a calculation wrong, it said "EEEEEEEE !" , the implication being he was laughing at you !

Subbuteo 1,000s of games with me and my friends, the arguments, the shouting. It was like being at a real match!

£45 for the micro electronics game??!!! Wow!!!

Demon driver, I forgot about that game, brillant game, if only we had rechargable batteries back then.

I’d play with Perfection now if I could!! Loved that game.

Some of these toys games were really expensive for their time

Speak and spell.my cousins just used it to spell out swear words Lol!

Demon driver I had one of those 😍

Not heard of any of these except the last two.😁 No sign of Bernard Cribbins - bring on the 70s!

so many memories

I love that subtle dig on American English in that first clip

Is anyone else going straight to eBay after watching these videos?

Still got my Palitoy Blip game! (‘No TV set needed’)

I remember these TV add from my childhood.

Simpler times. We seemed to have more time - remember many afternoons in playing connect4 not all this rushing about like today.

I miss my Split Second game, it was so simple, but it was still fun.

Some of the electronic games weren't cheap at the time!

Used to hate the 'batteries not included' notification lol - I had computer battles ships - such a fab game! and Simon, Merlin, Subbuteo etc!

The Hurican Higgins Cue Ball game was brilliant because it also came with a bottle of vodka and a few lines of cocaine.

youtube should have an option to watch all old videos in a wooden telly.

killing myself laughing looking back at my childhood memories

I think my ambition is to own everything in these ads, I've just bought Merlin, but worry it may be awful

Had battle ship 😍

I loved my Little Professor, I think that’s why I’m good at mental arithmetic today. Does anyone remember Bond tests at school (circa 1980s)

You will never see a girl loose and a boy win these day.

some of these were not electronic, just pop up mechanical games, but was fun to watch

Looking at that Hornby ad at the end I think I discovered where they got the idea for the toy train sequence in The Wrong Trousers (Wallace and Gromit)

I like the Hornby Train Sets ad. The green engine reminds me of Henry from Thomas the Tank Engine.

I now times move on etc, but I think the beauty of these toys is in their unsophistication and the fact that they involve children playing together.

The 80’s ‘electronic’ Hornby ad is a bit pants compared with the classic Bernard Cribbins ‘Look! I’m Hornby size again!’

Loved the badge makeong kit.i never asked for it,so i didnt get it.There was a whole catalogue of toys. I loved what i got. Never cared about what i didnt get.

I remember desperately wanted the “harrier jump jet” game where you launched it of a carrier, flew up a wire and you flew it back. I got it one Christmas, it was complete rubbish! Never forgot the let down!

I had at least half of these toys as a kid in the 70s.

Then we had connect 4, now they have metaverse, I'd prefer connect 4 any day 😂

Haha I just saw mr pop by ideal in a toy shop today and had to buy it

Battleship we never played this. I was too young to understand it.

Here's a quasi-interesting tidbit for everyone outside the US watching this video. Texas Instruments had to make a different label for most of the rest of the world than it did for the US because Americans don't say "Maths".

That guy with the deep, bass American voice must have made a shed load off TV voice over commercials...see also Denim fragrances, Solvite wallpaper paste and Brentford Nylons.