I was once punched by a kid who said I was staring at him. I was actually staring at the colecovision he had under his arm.

I feel very privileged to have grown up through this era. Born in the late 70s, my entire 80s and 90s were filled with endless hours of laughs playing games with friends. All crowded around a small 14" CRT telly playing whichever new game had just hit the shelves.

Its unbelievable how expensive computers were. £580 for an Amiga 500. Imagine going back in time with a PS5 and saying to yourself here you can have this for the same price.

Great days mate. Wish I could go back,

Many an hour spent waiting for the Spectrum games to load!

My God I feel old watching this !

I'm 61. Great times. I had several of these computers. The ads really take you back. Graphics came second to gameplay. Cheers.

Wow, that Atari computer advert at 3:45 is strangely prophetic, what with the shift to working from home and all that.

I remember getting my Atari 2600 and a Big Trak for XMas 1981. Best presents ever.

Wow! A good way of observing how these things evolved from the humble Atari, through to the Sega Mega drive and PlayStation. 2040 Advert 3:40 "please sir, what's an office?" WFH anyone?

Watching this was an absolute treat. I'm not going to say that I didn't shed a tear watching this. Long gone is the innocence of video gaming, back in the day when it was pure. The memories live on. I wish I could go back and do it all again.

Made my weekend steve another year older today took me straight back to 80s

"The Degenatron...I'LL NEVER GO TO SCHOOL AGAIN!!!"

The Amiga cartoon classics advert always puts a lump in my throat 😎😍

Quality, I never knew Morecambe and Wise were pushing Atari. A lot of these adverts were when I was too young but classic to see

I'm 56 so grow up in this era . I remember my gran asked me which i wanted for xmas a Atari 2600 or a Philips Videopac console G 7000 i chose the G7000 still have it and still working

True video game classics from days gone by excellent thanks for uploading 👍

Nostalgia smashes me in the face. I remember buying games from the toy store every month together with a friend like it was yesterday. He for his Megadrive and Gameboy. Me for the Super Nintendo and Gameboy. Great times. (wipes away a tear)

I am a dinosaur on the gaming scene now but I grew up playing most of these and proud of it. A much simpler time before DLC, season passes and microtransactions.

Brilliant mate.

A great selection of adverts. I bet you didn't know about how the very first advert in your collection inspired a sketch in Andrew Marshall and David Renwick's _End of Part One_ . In a 1980 episode, the Atari advert forms the basis of a spoof advert for _The LWT Comedy Sausage Machine_ . It is in an episode that takes the proverbial about out of _Larry Grayson's Generation Game_ and the race to boost Saturday night viewing figures.

As an American born in 1977 this is so cool to see. Thanks a bunch!

Great compilation

Hey, this video is amazing 😺👍! In fact, i have the Atari 2600 games on my PlayStation 2 in the compilations called ATARI ANTHOLOGY and ACTIVISION ANTHOLOGY. And after i saw the games from Ocean, I admit, that i still own the original Commodore 64 and Amiga computers + games 😺👍🕹️🕹️. And that Amiga commercial is a legendary 😺👍. I even have the Commodore 64 games on the tapes and disks and one module game INTERNATIONAL SOCCER. These old games even inspire me to draw my own comic fan arts 😺👍. And i was born in the summer of 1983. Thanx for showing this awesome video of the old legendary classic games 😺👍. Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

PlayStation ads were amazing back in the 90s

Oh my god - I remember the Home Computer Course, I wonder if my Dad still has them, somewhere?

Man the past is great for nostalgia, and makes the future seem scary, but it also shows the promise of what wonders may come.

From the Master System advert onwards, I remember all of them.

Atari games starting at £18 in the late 70's early 80's, weren't no small change. That was pretty expensive by todays standards. I love those videos! I remember my brother typing in the basic programs from Input magazine, not sure if I ever saw any working games though! I remember all my friends wanting a SNES with SF2.

Who'd have thought back then we'd all be walking about with small devices called mobile phones with unbelievable technology and games etc available with touch of an app ..

Atari Baby. Cheers for the upload, mate👍. Takes me back.

Morecambe & Wise advertising video games... 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

I remember the Cyber Razor Cut ad, wanted a mega drive after seeing it!

Ahhhh sweet Steve nice one gonna share this with my gaming crowd for sure thanks buddy personal fave too oldskool consoles and pc's

Your doing amazing work Steve, sooo glad I found your channel 👍

Ahh, memories! :')

It's interesting watching the slow evolution in technology and design of games consoles from the early 80's up to the mid-90's, ending with the PlayStation. People naturally tend to look back with rose- tinted glasses at those times regarding them as the halcyon days, wishing it was still like that today. But it's clear from watching the video the industry felt differently and didn't stop after the releases, for example, of the SNES and Mega Drive, thinking that's good enough for the consumer, and focused instead on other products like televisions and phones. I for one am glad they continued and are still continuing to make advances. If we showed the videogames players of the mid-80's what we have today, they'd be blown away, thinking science fiction became science fact! 😊

Love what you did here niiiiiice 💯♥️

Fsntastic compilation superbly done,fantastic

5:19 I used to love Hunchback! In fact most Ocean games were gems back then on the ZX spectrum along with Ultimate.

I started with the Atari 2600, jumping to the Commodore 64 blew my mind! Getting those game tapes free with magazines, then reading the mag while watching the rainbow colored loading screen. Load, ready, run. And commercials like these were entertainment alone!

3:34 - "what's an office?" - that is almost prophetic!

In 1991 at my work boss’ home office I noticed their latest home computer . he gave a brief demonstration of its capabilities namely a program that allowed you to make it speak which I didn’t completely believe so Nige asked me “ give it something to say Mork “ I immediately tapped the keys the word “ bollocks “ . The computer duly spoke back in a deep tone “ BOO LLXXXSS “ - in spite of being mere skilled manual workers we realised the machine may understand better the phonetic spelling - ‘ B O. LUKs ‘ or ‘ BU LUCKS ‘ & more until cracking its interpretation of our sound by clearly announcing “ BOLLOKS “ nice & clearly. Having grown up through countless tech innovations throughout the 60s 70s & 80s we both felt a huge sense of achievement in meeting or testing & giving a practical application for the capabilities of leading edge office technology . On recounting this event to my son a few years back , he refused to believe such software was available at an affordable price in 1991 but I didn’t imagine this event because the pair of us were hooting like a pair of schoolboys as the computer loudly repeated it’s new knowledge at our command .

The kids next door had a Vectrex when I was a kid, they were excellent.

Thanks for this video, I had a Atari as a kid brought back some happy memories

Funny, I don't remember Charles Lawton jumping knights, swinging over fiery pits, outfoxing fireballs and dodging arrows to rescue Esmeralda!

Hell. I'll be that guy in the video museum with the tash waxing on about my home pc in 2040 . Except it wont be an Atari it will be a speccy :P And the bit where the kid asks "sir what's an office" looks like its coming true.

Sunshine on a rainy day 🎶

Amazing compilation, really cool! That Atari song, so embarrassing! And one would think Sega would have had really cool, factual, tech-based ads for the mighty Megadrive, but back then, they didn't realise how naff these ads were! What strikes me is the pricing, wow it really was expensive then. Makes a console now at £450 seem pretty good..

That commercial set in 2040 turned out to be almost prophetic, especially after the pandemic with a kid saying, "What's an office?" I wonder how many of the Vectrex were sold in the UK or elsewhere. Google tells me it wasn't sold very much in the US because the market crashed for videogames n 1983. I had one of the first GameBoys. It basically was just a way to eat batteries with a little bit of playing time.

My childhood 😎

I still call the/any playstation the bagel toaster. OLD SKOOL.

Wow that was crazy consoles I e never heard of before

All my friends had Atari 2600s, I had a Phillips Videopac. It was crap. I later upgraded to an MB Electronics Vectrex, which was marginally better.

Love it great video

This is great archive material. Strangely enough the only one I vaguely remember is the CD32. I'm pretty sure that's because these ad's never targeted me when I spent all my spare TV time on my computers anyway. Probably broadcast before the "watershed". I totally remember all the really good hilarious adverts like for e.g. Hamlet cigars, Carlsberg, Heineken beers. Also the excellent adverts for Kia Ora and Um Bongo which would get someone a hate crime prison sentence nowadays. The OXO adverts with Lynda Bellingham were pretty memorable too.

I love how some of these ads say the price is 'around' or 'about!'

I had a ZX Speccy 48k and ,later, the +2.My local youth club and friends had a Toshiba MSX,Amstrad CPC and a C64 between them,great machines. But ,for me anyway, the Speccies were the best.

Great vide! Have just subscribed to your channel...

I remember Sega releasing a really long 3 minute version of the mega cd pirate tv ad back in 1994

Sega always had strange ads

The ad men were right, a lot of that kit did end up in museums.

and I thought my IBM Aptiva desk tower with 8 gigs of memory was so fantastic in '95

Our first was a machiine with three in-built games; pong/badmintonn and football, tink it was made by Grandstand. Then I had a Vic 20, C64, Nes, Megadrive, Amiga 1000, Snes, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Xbox 360 and now a Switch.

Brilliant x

I think I have a whole load of "Inputs" somewhere. HAIL VECTREX!

Lol Steve I remember the Atari video games console the one I had was the during the early 80s was the Atari 2600 with cartridge games like pacman and Tetris and many more I can’ remember lol 😂

Atari thought they were being clever with "Please sir, what's an office?" set in an imaginary 2040, but they may well have been on the mark with their prediction there

Did Commodore ever make a TV advert that *wasn't* cheesy AF?

"Please sir..what's an office?" how prophetic!!

Missile Command - a true classic. Infuriating, but a classic.

Catches Ad ever Hello Tosh got a Toshiba.

I watched a lot of tv back in these days and I don't remember commodore and amiga commercials. I know I would have wanted one. lol

Love it. Nostalgia is good but to own many old computers and consoles and electronic games like I do numbs the pain. Still play em. My pride n joys are my Speccies and C64s. I have also an aldi c64g also 3 5.25 floppy disc drives with some 3000 games and various programmes. Thanks for sharing.

Morecambe and Wise did an ad for Atari?? Wow.

Oh man, this is super nostalgic. I'll always be a sega boy at heart. The master system and mega drive are my two favourite console's, closely followed by the Saturn. I adored my Nintendo game boy too. I did have a commodore and amstrad cpc464 as a kid, but they paled in comparison to the console's.

those ataris where very expensive but 40 yrs later omg lok at the differance but omg the price

I had a Commodore 16😅! Used to take half hour to load a game(cassette)😬🙄

Now I do like the SNEs street fighter 2 one

The Amiga, best game machine *ever*

Compared to games today you can see why we was always out doing something else 😆

The Sega cyber razor cut advert blew my mind as a kid. So good.

Never even heard of the Vectrex system. On eBay now for £500

Once the amiga came out and with the floppy disc Solved alot of the tape loading errors of the zx sprectrum and commodore 64

3:42 fortelling WFH :D

I still have a 48k Spectrum and an Acorn Electron in the Attic 😂

3:41 >What's an office This throwaway joke is becoming reality it's scary

Had the ZX Spectrum and collected The Home Computer course Mags

I think that’s Ed Helms from The Hangover at the end for PlayStation

64kb of ram. It's hard to explain to anyone younger the fun I could get out of those on my old Commodore 64

kid in 1980: Dad can I have an Atari 400 to learn French? Dad: well... if you can learn foreign languages with that computer, yes kid (to himself): great! countless hours of missile command action!!

Eric Morcambe would get nowhere on missle command holding the joystick like that

I love how the TV is actually a car

Don't forget, all these were DOS games, well before a Windows OP system.

Wanted an atari back in 1980 Never got one Years later saw one at a car boot for a couple of quid 😅

As like today I guess. PlayStation camp or X box. Back then it was Spectrum camp or Commodore 64.

That commercial about PlayStation makes it sound as though the PlayStation one is deadly to people lmao

"Bonge yer?". Not quite. "Bonjour." Why you little...

Who remembers space invaders?

I was a Sega boy, but I do remember looking enviously at the SNES when Street Fighter II came out as it was such a good port. Only having eight characters and it costing £70 at launch helped ameliorate that, though. (No idea to this day how I persuaded my parents to buy me the in-most-ways superior Street Fighter II SCE for the Mega Drive, which was about the same price. Both "bargains", of course, compared to Super Street Fighter II on the SNES , which was £90, I'm sure.)