Growing up I always wished that I had the Maple Town toys, I sometimes wish they would bring them back so my niece would have something retro to play with.
Lucky always got pwned by those who desired his charms. Plus, the magic tricks inside Cheerios around this time were better. Those Joke Machines were awesome! I had a few. RIP Sherwood Schwartz! C.O.P.S was great show! Atari was sunk the minute they rejected Nintendo's offer to license the Famicom to America -- history was made, and no 2600 Jr or 7800 could fix it! But Solaris was easily the best game made in that time period. THE BANSHEE officially freaked out THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC!
2:13--An interesting take on the classic "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids" slogan. 3:56--Wow; we get that catchy Fruity Marshmallow Krispies jingle again! I don't think that cereal was around for very long, but it must have been big in 1988. 6:09--What ever happened to Suncheros? Probably another casualty of the corporate merger that Keebler was a part of. 8:17--The best Frosted Flakes jingle ever, IMHO! 8:48--When Atari was marketing the (then redesigned) 2600 as a "budget" gaming system after more sophisticated systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System and Atari's own short-lived 7800 hit the market.
I Remember watching cops every day before going to school when I was in kindergarten! It aired on my area about 6 am. And I believe the "autobots classics" where only sold at k mart.
The Hot Wheels booster set reminds me of a toy I had that was based on Knight Rider which we would use to launch Kitt over ramps and trough lego walls. Though the Hot Wheels version looks much better. Wonder who made that Knight Rider toy?
That Trix rabbit has to be one of the most oppressed figures in all of history...not only does he not deserve Trix due to being a rabbit, he's not even worthy of having a name?
For half the commercial I thought Explorers was D.A.R.Y.L. Atari 2600, back in the days wen a consoel could stay on the market for 15 years. Groove Tube; you bought it for your cat.
I watched a lot of TV during this time period and remember most of these, but not the Atari 2600 commercial. By this point, the NES was by far the most popular game system; Atari tried to compete with Nintendo by making the 7800, XE and Lynx but all their products failed. I guess this was part of their last gasp of that era.
@rnb123451 This may sound kind of weird, but I grew up watching you. You were a regular sight on one of the tapes I recorded of The Real Ghostbusters...which I watched religiously throughout my childhood. I hope you're still out there eating Snickers and playing ball.
imagine, a dancer eating a Snickers! or a mom keeping them in a drawer in the house can you even still get unfrosted Pop Tarts? Explorers-River Phoenix before addiction and overdose. Sad. did kids just wanna watch a show w/ the same title as one for adults? (COPS?) Fairy Tales-birds...w/ hair? or hairy tale feathers? anyway, that's another trippy ad. why are those always the "girl" toys? Groove Tubes-seems like one of those things you'd get tired of in 5 minutes
explorers was a good movie but the end always bothered me, was their suppose to be a sequel that they never got around to making? the larger circuit board at the end titles. the ship reappearing in the class room, the cop that also had the dreams as a child and the girlfriend at the end. (puzzled) I don't think I knew anybody that ate pop-tarts hot, they were always eaten straight out of the box, plus you got two.
@noizefloor The story goes they were on their way to do it at the 1983 CES but then when they got there they saw that Coleco had Donkey Kong on their ADAM computer (which Atari had the home computer rights to, Coleco only had console rights) and they thought Nintendo double crossed them so they did not go through with the licensing deal and Nintendo went out on their own. BONEHEADED move!
Explorers Was my shit RIP RIVER PHOENIX & AMANDA PETERSEN I used to have the Yankees mini helmet. Suncheros was killing Doritos for a min. C.O.P.S I had all of those Bulletproof was that toy.
This is around the time the G1 Transformers line was starting to lose steam. The cartoon had been cancelled the prior year, and the Pretenders were starting to appear. Japan still had an animated series (Super-God Masterforce), but its accompanying toyline was mostly repaints or rehashes of toys from the 1988 American line-up. The next year, the American line became desperate, clearly running out of ideas, as they turned to more and more desperate measures to maintain profits. They resorted to releasing even more Pretenders, and also introducing the Micromasters, basically transforming Micro Machines, and the forerunner to the Mini-Cons of the Unicron Trilogy. And in 1990, the Pretenders disappeared. In their place were the Action Masters, non-transforming action figures that were utter blasphemy. Add to that even MORE Micromasters with admittedly-cool bases and gimmicks, and the Transformers G1 line's doom was sealed in the American market. Several additional sub-lines were released in Japan through 1992, and Europe underwent a transitional period, releasing toys with new gimmicks and re-releasing the older toys from 1984-86 in gold packaging. The Transformers returned to American shores in 1993 as Generation 2. Most of the toys for that year were just redecoes of G1 toys, as well as imports of the transitional-period European toys. The next two years saw even more desperate gimmicks, commercials with very, very bad rap, and a cartoon that consisted of nothing but G1 episodes repackaged with distracting CG effects. In 1995, Hasbro pulled the plug on G2, and the next year, Beast Wars was born. And the rest is history...
+BNSF1995 To be honest, I love the Pretender and Powermaster stuff and Japan actually used it quite well in Masterforce..shame that the US never tried Pretenders again.
BNSF1995 I agree with you sadly the ending in the 1991 comic was awsome. I have a 1990 tape with ads and while tmnt had a 50 second long ad transformers had a 10 second lighting fast ad. You can see who they thought deserved more ad time.
Thanks for the great posts . As long as they dont block more content i can relive my youth thru UA-cam
This brings me bac in 80s when I was a kid :)
Growing up I always wished that I had the Maple Town toys, I sometimes wish they would bring them back so my niece would have something retro to play with.
I work in a supermarket, and yes there are still unfrosted Pop-Tarts, but just in strawberry.
Lucky always got pwned by those who desired his charms. Plus, the magic tricks inside Cheerios around this time were better.
Those Joke Machines were awesome! I had a few.
RIP Sherwood Schwartz!
C.O.P.S was great show!
Atari was sunk the minute they rejected Nintendo's offer to license the Famicom to America -- history was made, and no 2600 Jr or 7800 could fix it! But Solaris was easily the best game made in that time period.
THE BANSHEE officially freaked out THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC!
2:13--An interesting take on the classic "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids" slogan.
3:56--Wow; we get that catchy Fruity Marshmallow Krispies jingle again! I don't think that cereal was around for very long, but it must have been big in 1988.
6:09--What ever happened to Suncheros? Probably another casualty of the corporate merger that Keebler was a part of.
8:17--The best Frosted Flakes jingle ever, IMHO!
8:48--When Atari was marketing the (then redesigned) 2600 as a "budget" gaming system after more sophisticated systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System and Atari's own short-lived 7800 hit the market.
That Tyco commercial is amazing
I Remember watching cops every day before going to school when I was in kindergarten! It aired on my area about 6 am. And I believe the "autobots classics" where only sold at k mart.
happy days
8:51 They still sold the 2600 in 1988?
I remember DIC! lolol
I want a snickers now
I can just get a mental image of that "all kitten baseball league" (sorry, I'm nuts about kitties! Either that or I'm just nuts. Take your pick).
@rnb123451 Are you saying you're the dude in the commercial? If so I am in awe.
The Hot Wheels booster set reminds me of a toy I had that was based on Knight Rider which we would use to launch Kitt over ramps and trough lego walls. Though the Hot Wheels version looks much better. Wonder who made that Knight Rider toy?
That Trix rabbit has to be one of the most oppressed figures in all of history...not only does he not deserve Trix due to being a rabbit, he's not even worthy of having a name?
For half the commercial I thought Explorers was D.A.R.Y.L.
Atari 2600, back in the days wen a consoel could stay on the market for 15 years.
Groove Tube; you bought it for your cat.
I watched a lot of TV during this time period and remember most of these, but not the Atari 2600 commercial. By this point, the NES was by far the most popular game system; Atari tried to compete with Nintendo by making the 7800, XE and Lynx but all their products failed. I guess this was part of their last gasp of that era.
@rnb123451 This may sound kind of weird, but I grew up watching you. You were a regular sight on one of the tapes I recorded of The Real Ghostbusters...which I watched religiously throughout my childhood. I hope you're still out there eating Snickers and playing ball.
cops was my fav back then
imagine, a dancer eating a Snickers! or a mom keeping them in a drawer in the house
can you even still get unfrosted Pop Tarts?
Explorers-River Phoenix before addiction and overdose. Sad.
did kids just wanna watch a show w/ the same title as one for adults? (COPS?)
Fairy Tales-birds...w/ hair? or hairy tale feathers? anyway, that's another trippy ad. why are those always the "girl" toys?
Groove Tubes-seems like one of those things you'd get tired of in 5 minutes
explorers was a good movie but the end always bothered me, was their suppose to be a sequel that they never got around to making? the larger circuit board at the end titles. the ship reappearing in the class room, the cop that also had the dreams as a child and the girlfriend at the end. (puzzled)
I don't think I knew anybody that ate pop-tarts hot, they were always eaten straight out of the box, plus you got two.
The 2600 Atari second edition.
@noizefloor The story goes they were on their way to do it at the 1983 CES but then when they got there they saw that Coleco had Donkey Kong on their ADAM computer (which Atari had the home computer rights to, Coleco only had console rights) and they thought Nintendo double crossed them so they did not go through with the licensing deal and Nintendo went out on their own. BONEHEADED move!
And the rest was history
Long Live the NES.
Explorers Was my shit RIP RIVER PHOENIX & AMANDA PETERSEN
I used to have the Yankees mini helmet.
Suncheros was killing Doritos for a min.
C.O.P.S I had all of those Bulletproof was that toy.
@blugreen123 "COPS" the animated series predates the reality TV show.
what the hell were they smoking when they made that god-forsaken Kool-aid commercial?
This is around the time the G1 Transformers line was starting to lose steam. The cartoon had been cancelled the prior year, and the Pretenders were starting to appear. Japan still had an animated series (Super-God Masterforce), but its accompanying toyline was mostly repaints or rehashes of toys from the 1988 American line-up.
The next year, the American line became desperate, clearly running out of ideas, as they turned to more and more desperate measures to maintain profits. They resorted to releasing even more Pretenders, and also introducing the Micromasters, basically transforming Micro Machines, and the forerunner to the Mini-Cons of the Unicron Trilogy. And in 1990, the Pretenders disappeared. In their place were the Action Masters, non-transforming action figures that were utter blasphemy. Add to that even MORE Micromasters with admittedly-cool bases and gimmicks, and the Transformers G1 line's doom was sealed in the American market. Several additional sub-lines were released in Japan through 1992, and Europe underwent a transitional period, releasing toys with new gimmicks and re-releasing the older toys from 1984-86 in gold packaging.
The Transformers returned to American shores in 1993 as Generation 2. Most of the toys for that year were just redecoes of G1 toys, as well as imports of the transitional-period European toys. The next two years saw even more desperate gimmicks, commercials with very, very bad rap, and a cartoon that consisted of nothing but G1 episodes repackaged with distracting CG effects. In 1995, Hasbro pulled the plug on G2, and the next year, Beast Wars was born. And the rest is history...
+BNSF1995 To be honest, I love the Pretender and Powermaster stuff and Japan actually used it quite well in Masterforce..shame that the US never tried Pretenders again.
BNSF1995 I agree with you sadly the ending in the 1991 comic was awsome. I have a 1990 tape with ads and while tmnt had a 50 second long ad transformers had a 10 second lighting fast ad. You can see who they thought deserved more ad time.
Not all of The G2 Were retreads G2 introduced us to Megatron the tank.
Mapletown Toys looks like the worst idea ever. And who is that poor boy stuck playing wedding caterer anyway?