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1986 Nintendo – Vintage 80′s TV Commercial

Vintage 80′s TV Commercials – 1986 Nintendo – Entertainment System – ‘The Legend Of Zelda’ Video Rating: 4 / 5

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2010 10 16 RETRO COMMERCIALS Comments (25)

Retro Games instore Promo circa 1986 (PART 3)

Here’s part 3, with more dodgy accents and also rans. Note the voiceover artist seems to have a moment of clarity and just give up halfway through the promo for ‘Elite’. Games featured : Strikeforce Harrier (Mirrorsoft) Zyto (Rabbit) Highrise Horror (Rabbit) Scarabaeus (Ariolasoft) Scalextric (Leisure Genius) Doriath (Rabbit) The Great Fire of London (Rabbit) [...]

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2010 08 27 RETRO COMMERCIALS Comments (7)

Retro Games instore Promo circa 1986 (PART 2)

Another re-upload from my previous nuked account, although this is a *much* better quality encode from the original. The second installation of bits from a promo tape from a UK computer gaming store circa 1986. Now with even more dodgy accents and dated, expensive software. Yes, ‘Fleet Street’ sure does look like something you’d pay [...]

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2010 08 23 RETRO COMMERCIALS Comments (3)

Retro Games instore Promo circa 1986 (PART 1)

I originally encoded these from the VHS tapes, so the bits and pieces floating around the web are from my copies. Here’s a selection from a tape of video games promos from 1986, replete with accents and impersonations that have to be heard to be believed! The Young Ones clip is jaw-droppingly awful. These tapes [...]

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2010 08 18 RETRO COMMERCIALS Comments (3)